For me, the surprise 2012

More or less because of boredom I got the demo of Spec Ops The Line played and was equal pleasantly surprised! At first I thought it would be a first person shooter and was very pleased that it is third-person.
The graph I find very good, as the sound and the dialogues are lippensyncron (except for a few tiny exceptions). The latter is even today, unfortunately, still not standard (see eg Gears of War 3).
The game is during the first missions a conventional action fireworks, but begins with increasing progress in the game the game a more and more to captivate. While most titles of this genre in the category "play and forget" fall, one ponders after the credits for a long time on SO after.
Clear win the game no Gameplay Innovation Prize, but here the story that makes the difference.
It begins as a rescue mission in which was devastated by a sandstorm Dubai and then goes over the human abyss of time up to an upsetting though zwiespältigem end. The decisions encountered during his mission, an effect not only on the game progresses, but also on the player itself. Rarely have I regretted my decisions so and regrets as here. Not even the magnificent Mass Effect 1 & 2 went me so deeply under the skin.
As I said, in a playful side is nothing new on the action horizon. Simples coverage & Shoot, occasionally broken up by rail shooter passages. However, the team-oriented combat system is a joke. Distance shot, flashbang and attack intended targets, more is not in it (at least I have not accomplished). The game physics is it quite well managed. One can (assuming heavy weapons) pulverize the cover the enemy, blow up explosive objects or bury the opponents under tons of sand.
There are supposed to be four different end, two of which I got so far in front of face. This and that one always has two variants, as one chooses, invites you to play several times a game.
The multiplayer I have not tried because I am not so the online players. Therefore my judgment falls off it.
Well, I think that SO has no online success. Finally once again a game in which you fully get his 1000 points! I hope it stays that way!
The only criticisms are the tubular level system that sometimes unhappy chosen distribution of storage points and the artificial lengthening of the season through hordes of enemies to me. Still, I had such difficulty in two days on suicide by.
My conclusion: Special Ops The Line I can only recommend. However, I fear that it goes between Batman / MoH / BF and its clones, which I think is very unfortunate. Yager deliver as a German development team from a title to hide by no time need be ahead of the competition and of story and depth ago is almost every other a nose ahead.
Finally, I want to say that it is very I am surprised that this game should have come to 100% Uncut by the USK. The executions and some cutscenes are then but already very violent and crass!