"WE PUT OUR HANDS ON THE TRIGGER WITH HIM": GUILT AND PERPETRATION IN SPEC OPS: THE LINE.

The article offers information on the video game Spec Ops: The Line developed by Yager Development. It states that Spec Ops, the player is dropped into an atrocity-producing situation par excellence in which the only way they can interact with the game world is through atrocious acts of violence. It...

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Published in:Criticism Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 201 - 222
Main Author: Smethurst, Tobi
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Published: Wayne State University Press Spring2017
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