10 Video Games That Judge You For Playing

2. Spec Ops: The Line

Pretty much everybody expected Spec Ops: The Line to be another generic military shooter, but the end result was something far more surprising and cerebral.

As the war game drags on, it increasingly judges the player for deciding to keep meting out violence, given that they are "just following orders" (aka objectives) in much the same way that protagonist Captain Walker is.

This is most horrifically realised during the game's nauseating sequence where Walker and co. use white phosphorus to decimate an entire village of innocents.

The game's loading screens later on literally ask the player, "Do you feel like a hero yet?" while also blaming you for the senseless violence that has transpired.

While it's arguably a failing of Spec Ops that it doesn't allow players to avoid the white phosphorus incident altogether - because that would be true choice - developers Yager deserve credit for actually trying to say something socially conscious and responsible about the military shooter genre.