Spec Ops the line is a horror game? I thought it was more so about the atrocities of war and blindly following orders. A great horror game out there (or demo I should say) if you are a horror lover is a game known as PT. It is a demo for the next silent hill game, and boy is it freaking creepy. I don't know where to find the download but its free.
http://www.ign.com/wikis/silent-hills/P.T._Demo_Walkthrough if you want to take a peak.
Disclaimer - If you don't like creepy horror themed things, then just avoid the link. It's not bad but still screenshots of a horror game.
Firstly I am not a fan of "scary puzzle" games that many survival horror games tend to be(hated the tank like controls and the fact that such games, truely, were puzzle games in disguise and almost always are). But I was more focused on the overall atrocities of war and that war indeed is not a thing to take casually. It tends to horrify the player with things that can and do sometimes happen in war. Indeed I can certainly see the deconstruction of modern military shooters in it.
But a game doesn't have to be a puzzle game to scare the crap out of you. Try playing FEAR sometime. Enemies jumping out or things unexpected happening that give you a sense of dread is scary, but solving puzzles and then beginning to feel that the entire thing is a puzzle just kills it for me. Note my opinion of dead money and why I hated that DLC so much, not cause it was hard, but because it was nothing but a "scary puzzle".
no that game wasa game that was made to tell people who bought it that they were horrible for playing video games. one of those stupid 'deconstruction of the genera' pieces of nonsense.....errr in my opinion - i am thankful i didnt buy it.
It's not focused on just video games in general, more the jingoistic pro-war modern military shooter. Those games it's always americans saving the day from either russia or middle east or some other area in the world where jingoists tend to be scared of. Games that treat war as a very, very casual thing that it really shouldn't be treated that way, especially when those same games try to be serious but fail.
It doesn't target any other genre, just the pro-war modern military shooter that acts like war is nothing but an action game where the good guy ALWAYS wins.
Edit: Will say that I do enjoy non MMS games a lot. Serious sam, duke nukem 3d(not it's MMS sequal which IS an MMS), shadow warrior.