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Sex & Nudity
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- None.
Violence & Gore
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- EXTREME!! - This is one of the most visceral and intensely graphic third-person shooters on Xbox 360.
- Though the game is very violent it represents war in a negative light, showing the horrors of war instead of glorifying it.
- Unrelentingly brutal, intense, and bloody.
- This game is an extremely violent military shooter. Players take on the role of Walker, the leader of a military squadron sent on a mission to evacuate a nearly-decimated Dubai. As the game is set in an apocalyptic environment, many of the sights that the player will be exposed to are very disturbing. Players shouldn't expect a happy story from this game.
- Players use machine guns, shotguns, rocket launchers, and grenades to kill enemy soldiers in frenetic combat.
- Battles are highlighted by realistic gunfire, screams of pain, and slow-motion effects (during headshots); injured characters emit blood splashes when hit, and continue to incur damage when killed.
- Players can also execute or incapacitate enemies at close range (e.g., punching soldiers in the face or snapping their necks).
- Some weapons cause injuries such as dismembered limbs, scattered body parts or complete obliteration; a handful of sequences depict severely burned or mutilated corpses.
- During the course of the game, players have the ability to shoot unarmed civilians or open fire on angry mobs.
- Cutscenes also include intense instances of violence: bloodied characters getting interrogated and/or executed; soldiers getting shot in the head at point-blank range and men burning alive.
- Bloody injuries are shown to result from bullet and grenade impacts and there is occasional sight of head shots and bloodspurts.
- The game also includes moments in which the player is able to make choices about whether to help others or let them die, in one case allowing a person to suffer an agonising death.
- Players can kill unarmed civilians and will encounter heaps of corpses -- some terribly burnt -- of people already dead.
- Whenever an enemy is shot, blood will splatter and sometimes stain the environment. Hits from more-powerful weapons will often result in dismembered limbs or decapitated enemies.
- Melee executions can be used to kill enemies up-close, such as stabbing them with a knife or slicing their throats. These range from being mild to very bloody and violent.
- Enemies can also be killed with grenades or RPGs, which may result in large displays of blood and/or gore.
- The entire setting of the game is rife with disturbing imagery. Players will come across many deceased and/or severely mutilated civilians, large blood stains on the environment etc.
- The game makes players struggle to justify their actions by placing them in situations that will evoke a strong sense of guilt. The fact that the player has to carry out these horrifying acts through the element of interactivity makes it very hard to endure.
- However, the graphic content sensor added in a recent patch makes blood a rare sight, ex. only in certain cutscenes, and its never as over-the-top as in gameplay.
Profanity
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- One soldier calls another a ¨moody c*nt¨ near the start of Chapter 12
- EXTREME!! - Pervasive uses of "f-k", "s-t", and "ass".
- The beginning of the game has limited profanity, but the characters begin to curse more and more often as the story progresses. Words like "Fuck", "Shit" and "Ass" are very common, as well as some religious blasphemies and milder words.
- However, the language is justified by context, as the characters are battle-hardened soldiers that are faced with increasingly horrifying sights and situations, making their frustration believable.
- Name calling (asshole, motherfucker and bastard.)
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Early on in the game, a man is seen drinking a glass of scotch.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- EXTREME!! - Spec Ops: The Line, despite being loaded with extreme horror violence, torture, and gore, is surprisingly extremely mature and down-to-earth with its portrayal of violence, as it is crucial to a complex commentary that focuses on the nature and potential atrocities of morally grey conflicts and how they affect everyone involved.
- Rated R for pervasive prolonged realistically brutal sequences of extreme graphic war violence and carnage, unsettling disturbing images, psychological horror, mature thematic elements, strong language throughout and emotional moments.
- One of the most terrifying and brutally violent video games ever.
- This game initially starts off as a standard military Third-Person-Shooter with glorified "run-and-gun" violence, but it then turns into an extremely though-provoking psychological horror-thriller. The main theme of the game is heavily influenced by the novel Heart of Darkness. It dwells heavily on moral ambiguity, guilt and the horrors of war, with players having to singlehandedly face the traumatizing outcomes of their actions.
- The main character, Walker struggles with PTSD and has very disturbing hallucinations. Because the story is told through his point-of-view as he descends into madness, it engages the player in a frightening way as it hits them emotionally and mentally.
- The game evokes a strong emotional impact in the player by requiring them to carry out morally ambiguous actions that often have devastating consequences.
- Halfway through the game, the game becomes a psychological thriller and will start to question the player's actions as well as provide intense challenges by repeating levels for earlier parts of the game and changing the loading screen tips to messages like "How many soldiers have you killed today?".
- Overall, this game is extremely depressing and difficult to play, and it has an incredibly nihilistic tone.
- Spec Ops: The Line is a violent and dark story surrounded by themes of moral ambiguity, Post-traumatic-stress-disorder, and guilt. The emotional response that this game creates can make it very difficult to continue playing at times.
- Parents should consider the fact that the game does not glorify its violence; the game deconstructs the glorification and portrayal of warfare in video games by tackling difficult questions about war and depicting it in a very harsh and thought-provoking manner. As such, the player is supposed to learn a worthwhile lesson while playing the game.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Halfway through the story, the characters use White Phosphorus Gas to kill a large camp of enemies. Afterwards, they walk through the destruction as they are exposed to many dying, burning and suffering soldiers in a lot of agony. A soldier then reveals to the characters that they were actually protecting civilians and merely fighting for their lives, all before the player is exposed to the grisly aftermath of their actions. This entire scene is extremely graphic, disturbing, emotionally intense and very hard to watch.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- There is one particular point in the game that is especially painful to stomach. Halfway through the story, the characters (and thus the player) use White Phosphorus Gas (a real-life chemical weapon that literally burns victims alive) to kill a large camp of enemies. Afterwards, they must walk through the destruction as they are exposed to dying/burning/suffering soldiers begging for death, clearly in a lot of agony. Then, in a sobering tone, the characters are told by a languishing soldier that they were actually protecting civilians and merely fighting for their lives. The player is then exposed to the dead bodies of 47 innocent people, including children, whose deaths were the result of the players actions. This entire scene is extremely graphic/disturbing and difficult to watch. If it doesn't simply make the players feel guilty, it is bound to make them tear up or cry.
