Question:
What is the actual story in Spec Ops: The Line?
Adam
2013-03-23 12:20:05 UTC
Im so confused. Ive just completed the game (xbox 360) and done all endings, but still dont get it? How could it have been all in his head when he went with his men? What was going on?! Was he the actual problem of it the whole time? Someone tell me what the deal is with the story please because this is doing my head in!!! What really happened?!!
Four answers:
Codex Admin
2013-03-24 06:25:18 UTC
I sympathize with you. The story can be a little short on clear details, but it all generally fits together once you step back a bit. It's also worth noting that much of the story is left open to interpretation.



With that said, here's the best description of what happened: Walker lost his mind after the white phosphorus strike. Everything that happened before that was real (to my knowledge), but after that point Walker's mind began to alter events as an attempt to cope with what happened. As a result, he is bewildered by his team's increasingly extreme reactions to his actions until the end of the game.



Colonel Konrad, as a hallucination resulting from Walker's deteriorating mental state, correctly claimed that Walker was making himself out to be a hero, when in fact he had committed various immoral acts. Walker was losing touch with reality, and used Konrad as a figurehead for his guilt to avoid accepting his own moral weakness. However, he was not, as you put it, "the actual problem of it" - rather, he simply influenced Dubai's further descent into chaos through his misguided attempts at heroism.



What Walker does in the game actually happens - the big twist is that Walker is perceiving what happens differently from everyone else. For instance, he didn't realize that the radio was broken, or that the bodies hanging from the overpass were already dead - his mind had shut out anything implicating him as having lost his sanity. He also wasn't capable of realizing the brutal nature of his team's devastation of the Radioman's tower, or of various soldiers' deaths, because he subconsciously couldn't acknowledge his guilty conscience.



If you need any more details, please contact me. I'll do what I can to help, though what I've said is about as straight-forward of an answer as you can find.
chanthaumlsa
2016-12-18 19:33:42 UTC
Spec Ops The Line Explained
2016-09-28 05:04:54 UTC
Spec Ops The Line Endings
2013-03-25 16:15:13 UTC
It's not that hard to get actually. Basically, The soldier you are (Didn't play in a long time, forgot the name.) has made up the guy on the radio (Conrad) to blame him for the evil things that war makes him do. So instead of thinking 'Oh no, I killed all these people, it's all my fault. I can't live with what I have done.' he thinks 'It's all Conrand's fault, I did it because of him and he is going to pay.' so he doesn't have to bare the guilt. The video with the brocken radio at the end and how he just hears voices from it is to make you realise how he wasn't real, he was dead and only lived in the soldier's mind.



Hope that helps :D


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