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There are dozens of deals to be found across multiple retailers this weekend, but the most eye-opening deal is Spec Ops: The Line going for absolutely free on the Humble Store until the end of the day on Friday.
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Dead Island 2's development is apparently still not going the way publisher Deep Silver has hoped, so developer Yager has been taken off the project.
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"We wanted to see if we could make a game where the moment-to-moment violence was meaningful," Williams said of Spec Ops: The Line. "If violence was going to be meaningful, we needed to plant a seed of doubt."
While Yager's decision to take 2K's Spec Ops series into psychological territory was commendable, there's one feature that irked many gamers the wrong way: achievements.
Sure, Spec Ops: The Line may look like your ordinary third-person cover-based shooter. But 2K Games wants you to think it's more than that. In fact, the latest trailer claims that the sand-based gameplay offered in The Line is a "gamechanger."
I was ready to write off Spec Ops: The Line. But after two hours of hands-on time, I walked away impressed, eager to play more.
