State Of Art In Vidya Games Exhibit 1 Spec Ops The Line This looks like a nice person! One of the most painful things about stepping away from blogging was the really cool games that came out in my absence that I never got the chance to pick apart. I mean, the Are Video Games Art? argument is stupid, right? Of course theyre art. Just usually crappy art. Art is helped by careful criticism. So I want to go over a bunch of games and pick them apart. (Standard Spoiler Warning: There will be spoilers. So what? Were trying to have Real Talk about art here, which means looking at the whole thing. So put on your grown-up pants, come along, and dont freak out.) The first game I wanted to talk about was Spec Ops: The Line, a game that looked like a totally bog-standard Call Of Duty clone, suffered for it sales-wise, and became a cult classic by being something infinitely more cool and weird. How On Earth Did This Thing Get Green-Lit? Spec Ops: The Line is an enjoyable, competently made Call of D...
