One of the most controversial and unique video games of the past decade is Spec Ops: The Line. The game arrived out of nowhere; Yager were an unproved developer without an accomplished title in their back catalogue. But when the video game publisher 2k Games approached them to make a more mature and serious game they accepted the challenge, and succeeded.

Spec Ops: The Line is a game about a group of American soldiers going into a war torn Dubai to rescue a lost squad. The game’s story and structure is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s seminal ‘Heart of Darkness’ and the subsequent classic film ‘Apocalypse Now.’ The game presents the players with several extremely challenging and upsetting scenarios to make decisions in. The game challenges players to think about their actions in games, rather than just blindly pulling the trigger because the game tells you to. The game has gone on to become a cult classic.