Spec Ops: The Line is set in Dubai and yet there are zero Arab characters aside from nameless insurgents, angry mobs & massacred civilians.
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If Spec Ops: The Line set out to try and critique racist American imperialism (which I really don’t think it is) it fails miserably.
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Spec Ops: The Line is also not a critique of the US military as an institution since the 33rd is safely designated as having “gone rogue”.
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@radicalbytes Not exactly. The CIA is there on orders to let the city die in order to cover up the 33rd's actions1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@arthur_affect Since Dubai is cut off, CIA are also presented as rogue, making decisions outside of official chain of command after arrival.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@arthur_affect Remember that the CIA's original and "official" mission was only to look for survivors. Same as the player’s mission.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@arthur_affect My point is Spec Ops opts for a Lord of the Flies approach and carefully avoids implicating military institutions as a whole.5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@radicalbytes It's interesting that Half Life 1 is way more "radical" in that sense
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