trusteft: Spec Ops The Line is a great single player game (PS3 version anyway)
SpecOps: The Line is a great single player _experience_, with great story, good voiceovers, bland music(i felt many times that good and fitting background music could have enhanced the experience - not counting the rare licensed tunes), average sound and graphical effects(with "limited texture memory on consoles" bad looking parts), pretty and diverse scenery(as a sand filled city can get), and horrible chest high walls cover shooting mechanics, brainded ai, and some incorrectly placed checkpoints. Also the chopper section, oh my that was frustrating.
As a TPS cover shooter, it falls on its face very hard.
As Heart of Apocalypse: The Game, it succeeds in questioning the whole xenophobic Modern Military Dudebro Shooter setup we have in the game industry right now.
carnival73: I'm one of the few here who didn't take the hint and keep insisting that I can get a lot of these games to run without buying a 360 to dodge a massively pricey computer upgrade if only the developers would switch on SSE1 recognition.
As far as i know last processor that was lacking SSE2 instructions was the AMD Sempron line(based on last years Athlon XP) in early 2004, and those were not meant to run games, they were aimed at budget office PC-s.
I played SpecOps on a 4 year old PC with graphics maxed, and i found that Core 2 Duo+HD4850 is able to handle practically any game i threw at it over the years at 1280x1024 resolution. Also of note is that machines current second hand value, which is the price of a used X360 console..
carnival73: At the speed it's taking to get a better PC, I might be all 360 next year too.
Just in time to see its EOL. :(
Either that, or the average PC ports will look absolutely rubbish next to the few PC exclusives in 2014.