Spec Ops: The Line beta invites out

By Robert Purchese Published 23 July, 2010

For "small number" of Xbox 360 owners.

2K Games has sent Spec Ops: The Line beta invites to "a small number of applicants" on Xbox 360.

Joystiq confirmed this with the publisher, which added: "We'll be adding more people into the private beta in the coming weeks."

We're trying to find out about a PC and PS3 beta now.

Spec Ops: The Line was announced in December 2009. It's made by Germany studio Yager and revolves around a US mission to Dubai to recover a rogue soldier. It's going to be "provocative", apparently.

There's no release date yet.

Dubai or not Dubai?

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Comments (12) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • justice-ste #1 2 years ago

    Got one of these last week :)

    Edit: ;)
    Edited by justice-ste at 23/07/10 @ 15:07

  • Fatbobbybob #2 2 years ago

    are you sure your allowed to comment on the beta?

  • FourS33N #3 2 years ago

    i hope i get mine only shooter im really interested in this year. :(

  • nuanimal #4 2 years ago

    Worst. Trailer. Music. Ever.

  • Harmonica #5 2 years ago

    Spec Ops, everyones' favourite hide-behind-a-tree simulator.

  • dingo75 #6 2 years ago

    are you sure your allowed to comment on the beta?

    Probably not due to NDA but what should they do?
    Ban the guy named "justice-ste"? :p
    Unless this is his Xbox gamer tag I see little chance to do this.
    Edited by dingo75 at 23/07/10 @ 18:14

  • LazyNinjaUk #7 2 years ago

    Not the most exciting of information, considering it doesn't even explain how you would qualify for the beta.

    It's a bit like saying: "The government is offering limited places on the last spaceship off the planet before it explodes." Nice to know but not particularly interesting or helpful, to the general population.
    Edited by LazyNinjaUk at 23/07/10 @ 18:44

  • Gnort #8 2 years ago

    I'm actually quite interested in this game, because of the sand mechanic and the fact that it's a modern retelling of Heart of Darkness, but I'm wondering why they even bother with a multiplayer beta (I'm assuming this is a multiplayer beta, people don't do single player betas, do they?).

    For maybe a month after the game is released, there will be a few curious people trying the multiplayer, but after that they'll probably go back to Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield or Left 4 Dead. If you're just offering adversarial multiplayer, is there even much point trying to compete with the big names? Take Bioshock 2 - they added a bespoke multiplayer component to what would otherwise have been a story-focused shooter, but you don't really hear about people playing the multiplayer anymore. It never seems to be on Major Nelson's top LIVE activity chart anymore. Was the effort put into multiplayer really worth it for them, or should they just have concentrated on the single player?

  • tachometer #9 2 years ago

    Should have gone to specsavers

  • metallicorphan #10 2 years ago

    oh well,looks like i didn't get my beta invite,hopefully it will happen as this does look quite good and i haven't played a Spec Ops game before

  • AHiFi #11 2 years ago

    Ooh, one of my fav songs. Doesn't really interest me though.

  • BillMurray #12 2 years ago

    Hmm, i applied but no mail :(