Hey don't read this if you don't want Spec Ops: The Line to be spoiled.
Seriously stop reading.
“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.”
That is a line from Brendan Keogh's analysis on Spec Ops: The Line.
Listen to an interview the author did with Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek:
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/this-guy-wrote-a-whole-book-on-spec-ops-the-line/1600-446/
Buy the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Harmless-Critical-Reading-Spec-ebook/dp/B00B9P2WP6
A few excerpts:
Just started reading this. Pretty freaking great.
Seriously stop reading.
“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.”
That is a line from Brendan Keogh's analysis on Spec Ops: The Line.
Listen to an interview the author did with Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek:
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/this-guy-wrote-a-whole-book-on-spec-ops-the-line/1600-446/
Buy the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Harmless-Critical-Reading-Spec-ebook/dp/B00B9P2WP6
A few excerpts:
"Walker can choose suicide, but I can only choose murder."
"Critic Tom Bissell, in his fabulous Grantland essay, notes that The Line is about Nathan Drake going insane. By this, Bissell is alluding to the voice actor that Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, The Line’s Captain Walker, and countless other videogame characters share in Nolan North. Bissell is suggesting that The Line is about watching the playable everyman character go insane. I would alter this slightly, however: The Line isn’t about Nathan Drake going insane; it is about how Nathan Drake was always insane to begin with."
"In a sense, the Radioman’s role in The Line is to ridicule the player for playing the game. Well, not for playing the game so much as for wanting to play the game. What? You expected to actually achieve something in a game where you knew you were going to shoot hundreds of men? You expected to not feel utterly uncomfortable about it? Maybe you deserve to be laughed it."
"As the player, I feel helpless. This isn’t what I came here for. I came here to help people, Walker. You came here to help people."
"Critic Tom Bissell, in his fabulous Grantland essay, notes that The Line is about Nathan Drake going insane. By this, Bissell is alluding to the voice actor that Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, The Line’s Captain Walker, and countless other videogame characters share in Nolan North. Bissell is suggesting that The Line is about watching the playable everyman character go insane. I would alter this slightly, however: The Line isn’t about Nathan Drake going insane; it is about how Nathan Drake was always insane to begin with."
"In a sense, the Radioman’s role in The Line is to ridicule the player for playing the game. Well, not for playing the game so much as for wanting to play the game. What? You expected to actually achieve something in a game where you knew you were going to shoot hundreds of men? You expected to not feel utterly uncomfortable about it? Maybe you deserve to be laughed it."
"As the player, I feel helpless. This isn’t what I came here for. I came here to help people, Walker. You came here to help people."
Just started reading this. Pretty freaking great.
