Defying Expectations

Abstract

Games like many other art forms have dealt with topics that go against the grain, but that is not the case for the well-funded AAA game market. Spec Ops: The Line is such a game. It differs from the Modern Military Shooters like Call of Duty by being the same on the outset and then defying the expectations so established. Spec Ops is not a fun game to play the same way watching an anti-war film like Casualties of War is not, yet it is engaging as only a computer game can be. All the while shining a light on what gamers take for granted in this genre morally.