10 Gutsy Video Games That Tackle Polarising Subject Matter

Spec Ops: The Line is a game that could have very easily came out and been re-titled as "PTSD Simulator: There is no Right Option" and it wouldn't have even come close to describing how this game operates.

A game that initially represents itself as a formulaic 3rd person shooter Spec Ops immediately invalidates your expectations and takes the player though hell on earth.

In a very realistic and rather daunting view of the harshness of war Spec Ops pulls no punches and every choice bears a weight most other video games couldn't even imagine. Unlike in most games Spec Ops has no morality meter, no colour coordinated red and blue options telling them they made the Paragon or Renegade choice.

Instead it's all up to intuition and no matter what you do your intuition is wrong. The game breaks down the protagonist Martin Walker until there is nothing left, revealing left and right the atrocities of war and just how many of them he - and by extension the player - has performed on their mission.

The game is a far cry from certain other war games that think rewriting the Gulf war for the sake of a video game passes as commentary.