30 Games That Made Me Who I Am: 2012

Remember when I talked about games often saying something, even if the creator doesn’t mean to? Well, Spec Ops: The Line is not an example of that. The team that put this game together wanted to say something, and Jesus did they ever say it. On the surface, The Line presents itself as your run of the mill modern military shooter, but it’s not. It’s a complete upending of expectations, an indictment of the genre, and it twists every trope that goes with it. Not being much of a fan of that genre in the first place, I can’t say