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A tumultuous development period for the next game in the long-running Spec Ops series has meant a number of delays and at least one reboot for the title, but developer Yager and publisher 2K Games are now finally ready to release Spec Ops: The Line in late June 2012 across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Well ahead of the game’s release, El33tonline was given the opportunity to take an extended look at this third-person action shooter and to see for ourselves how Yager has managed to present its version of Dubai - a city ravaged by vicious sandstorms and currently entrenched in a bloody, politically-charged warzone.
Continue reading El33tonline’s hands-on preview of Spec Ops: The Line.
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Although there aren’t too many sparkling gems in this week’s PlayStation Store content drop, there are a couple of great specials being run for price-conscious PSN users. There’s currently a massive PixelJunk sale underway that sees some of PSN’s best titles selling for just $1! Even better, if you’re interested in exploring Uncharted 2’s multiplayer modes you’ll be pleased to know that five UC2 add-ons including the Siege Expansion Pack are now absolutely free. Thank you Naughty Dog!
2K Games has generously bestowed a sample of Spec Ops: The Line upon Xbox 360 players more than a month before the game ships. A demo for this tense third-person tactical shooter is now available on Xbox LIVE for Gold members and will be unlocked for all XBL users on May 15th.
“Dubai is running out of time, gentlemen. Let’s move.”
If spoken in real life and applied to a real world circumstance today, there would be a number of very worried faces indeed here at El33tonline, but luckily it’s all part of the fiction of 2K Games and Yager’s upcoming third-person shooter, Spec Ops: The Line.
War in any form is a dreadful event and its toll is always horrific and more far-reaching than we can imagine.
In this latest trailer for Spec Ops: The Line from 2K Games, the repercussions of a recent and on-going conflict are shoved up in our faces so we’re made painfully aware of the lives that have been lost… and how they were taken.
2K Games and developer Yager have just announced a June release date for the pair’s intriguing third-person ‘sand-based’ action shooter, Spec Ops: The Line, with pre-order incentive details arriving alongside the reveal in the form of an exciting trailer… and text, obviously.
Spec Ops: The Line was recently re-unveiled by 2K Games and Yager, giving us but a teasing taste of what we can expect from this third-person shooter when it arrives in 2012.
Now, the publisher/developer pair have unleashed a thrilling gameplay trailer to prepare us for the chaotic, white-knuckle action they’re aiming to include in the game with quick cuts of devastating sandstorms, gunfire and aerial combat - one to look out for in 2012!
The latest trailer and screenshots have just been released for 2K Games’ Spec Ops: The Line, acting as a re-unveiling for the publisher’s unique action shooter.
“Take a journey through Dubai and witness the aftermath of the most destructive sandstorm to hit civilization ever,” says the teaser text, so get your first exciting looks at Spec Ops: The Line (again) below:
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