Action-Packed Spec Ops: The Line Trailer is No Day At the Beach

Spec Ops: The Line

Written Thursday, December 22, 2011 By Richard Walker

If you needed any further evidence that Spec Ops: The Line looks like the bee's knees, then this new gameplay trailer - featuring hero John Walker fighting through a ruined Dubai that's falling apart around him - ought to help in convincing you.

Showing off the game's sandy physics and unpredictable environments, the video is action-packed, with sand pouring into every area, whether it's through shattered glass or whether it's dropping our from beneath Walker's feet, leaving him precariously dangling from a precipice.

In short, Spec Ops: The Line is looking in pretty good shape ahead of its tentative spring 2012 release window, but if you want to know more about 2K and Yager's third-person shooter with tough moral choices at its core, then Dan's hands-on preview is the way to go. Check out the trailer first though!

User Comments

Forum Posts: 620	Comment #1 by Riphade 1 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 07:03:16 AM	(0)
	Looks like its starting to shape up from that atrocious beta.

Forum Posts: 57	Comment #2 by Black Arrow Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 07:13:55 AM	(0)
	Looks like its turning out to be a great game. That was an excellent trailer.

Forum Posts: 231	Comment #3 by Infomouse Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 07:14:35 AM	(0)
	Hopefully less linear than the title gives off.

Forum Posts: 1313	Comment #4 by Grey Delta Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 07:14:51 AM	(0)
	@1 I couldn't even get a game, sat looking at lobby screens for hours before i gave up. Hopefully it will be good.

Forum Posts: 620	Comment #5 by Riphade 1 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 07:31:06 AM	(0)
	@4. I know all too well. I only got to play a few matches when the beta first came out. After that, I NEVER found more than 1 a day.

Forum Posts: 126	Comment #6 by Earth Djinn Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 08:08:47 AM	(0)
	That was a great trailer. I'm still cautiously optimistic for this. I hope it lives up to its potential.

Forum Posts: 1722	Comment #7 by cheevo360 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 08:09:53 AM	(0)
	Look well and improve a bit since earlier trailer released. Cannot wait for this game.

Forum Posts: 1135	Comment #8 by H0p3sfalL Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 08:12:57 AM	(1)
	As I said befor..... I hope this game doesn't become another Homefront.

Forum Posts: 0	Comment #9 by MrDelorme1990 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 09:18:42 AM	(0)
	Well in my opinion I had no problem with finding a match in the beta and my only problem with it was the matches kinda dragged on other than that I had a great experience with it.

Forum Posts: 9501	Comment #10 by Carmona25 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 09:40:55 AM	(0)
	Beta was horrible....but this is starting to look interesting.

Forum Posts: 533	Comment #11 by Tonic24k Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 10:02:25 AM	(0)
	It looks like it could be a great campaign. I'm not sure about the versus multiplayer, though. Does anyone know if this will have any co-op features?

Forum Posts: 256	Comment #12 by xPsYcHoSaWYeR Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 10:03:19 AM	(0)
	the beta was sooooooo bad hopefully its done way diffrent

Forum Posts: 0	Comment #13 by ixislayer Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 10:09:26 AM	(0)
	looks fun as hell i hope it is! but then 2k isnt known for games like this!

Forum Posts: 918	Comment #14 by I mak3 big boom Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 11:31:01 AM	(0)
	Jesus christ that is beautiful

Forum Posts: 199	Comment #15 by ViNyLek Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 11:42:23 AM	(0)
	Might turn out to be pretty decent. Will keep my eyes peeled=)

Forum Posts: 2	Comment #16 by MIKE11.6 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 12:23:16 PM	(0)
	I have had my eyes on this for a while now, but still unsure about it.

Forum Posts: 239	Comment #17 by atomic viking54 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 12:39:19 PM	(0)
	Looks like uncharted with a little more cover shooting than exploration.

Forum Posts: 105	Comment #18 by ChosenOne Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 01:30:43 PM	(0)
	Just saying, but the beta was terrible IMO.

Forum Posts: 0	Comment #19 by asilent boom Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 02:20:55 PM	(1)
	@4 @5 I think you guys missed the message they sent to everyone in the beta. They told everyone who was in the beta to play at the times the developers were playing if you wanted full games. If you were playing at that time you would have found full games. Don't blame the beta because you failed to understand what the developers were doing. I thought the beta was really good minus the normal beta problems, looking forward to this.

Forum Posts: 620	Comment #20 by Riphade 1 Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 08:32:23 PM	(0)
	19. What YOU fail to realize is there WAS NO SUCH THING SAID. Maybe those dipstick "developers" should allow those who are invited to the very private beta, to play it whenever they wish. (Even though there was NO SUCH specified times table. Which is just an absurd idea anyway.) Hell, even those limited players who accessed both the Black Ops and MW3 betas were allowed to play AT ANY TIME of the day. So keep your BS elsewhere.

Forum Posts: 0	Comment #21 by asilent boom Thursday, December 22, 2011 @ 10:37:33 PM	(1)
	@20 Sorry, that's not BS, what's BS is when you get a person who blames everything on someone else when they fail to realize what was actually going on. That person thinks the other people are "dipsticks" because you can't understand what they were trying to do. When you were playing the beta did you ever read any of the messages that appeared on the bottom of the screen in the title menu? No? If you would have you would have seen that message saying when they played. I'm sorry you feel that developers have to do things exactly like you want but this is their game and they know what they are doing. The developers wanted to try somethings out and get some feed back on it, not demo the game like you seem to think it was. Evidently you can't comprehend this.

Forum Posts: 185	Comment #22 by Corpse87 Friday, December 23, 2011 @ 09:47:37 AM	(0)
	BF3 was a horrible beta and look how it turned out,ok bad example since that game sucks! But hope this turns out to be fun unlike BF3

Forum Posts: 10	Comment #23 by TheSilvermaster Thursday, March 01, 2012 @ 08:51:34 PM	(0)
	Damn straight 22 you got it so right. I don't think Battlefield 3 is everything Its cracked up and neither are the graphics to be but I respect the work they put into it unlike COD and their thing minimal effort in development maximum profits. And as for this going to be epic the action and story look pretty solid plus with Nolan North voicing the main character can it get any better? Well I mainly like the idea behind this game making you feel what real soldiers must feel like COD and Battlefield always make war look like fun and its anything but in reality. And this game takes a very realistic approach to soldiering can't wait gonna be epic!

Forum Posts: 10	Comment #24 by TheSilvermaster Thursday, March 01, 2012 @ 08:53:27 PM	(0)
	My bad I mean to say "I don't think BF is everything its Cracked up to be".

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Game Info

Developer:
Yager Development

Publisher:
2K Games

Genre
Shooter

Release:
US: June 26, 2012
Europe: June 29, 2012

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