re: For those that played Spec Ops: The Line, just how intense was it? I never played it...

There’s a reason that mission is famous, even for people who never played the game.

The entire game is a meta commentary on violent video games. That mission plays a role in that, but it’s otherwise an outlier.

It’s a game well worth playing, even though having grenades thrown at you through cover that you can’t throw back is really fricking annoying. And that’s saying something.