Spec Ops: The Line PC demo arrives June 19
by Alice O'Connor, May 23, 2012 6:00am PDTWhen a demonstrative slice of sandy shooter Spec Ops: The Line drifted onto consoles ealier in the month, publisher 2K promised that a PC demo would follow in June. And indeed it will, on June 19, 2K has now said, along with revealing the PC system requirements and its use of Steamworks as DRM.
The demo offer snippets of two early campaign chapters from Yager's third-person shooter, which sends you into a Dubai ravaged by sandstorms to track down a missing US military unit. Only, it's all gone a bit Heart of Darkness.
All the doodads were detailed in a blog post. Here are the specs:
Minimum:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Equivalent
- RAM: 2GB
- Video card: Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS/ ATI Radeon HD 2600XT
- Video memory: 256MB
- Hard drive: 6GB free
- OS: Windows XP SP3
Recommended:
- Processor: 2.4GHz quad core processor
- RAM: 3GB
- Video card: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX/ATI Radeon HD 4850
- Hard drive: 10GB free
- OS: Windows Vista/7
Developed by Yager, The Line is coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on June 26.
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2K has dated the PC demo of Spec Ops: The Line for June 19. The publisher has also revealed the system requirements, and confirmed that it'll use Steamworks as DRM.
2K has dated the PC demo of Spec Ops: The Line for June 19. The publisher has also revealed the system requirements, and confirmed that it'll use Steamworks as DRM. : Shacknews
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The storyline could have been interesting but when the opening scene has you mini-gunning 12 helicopters out of the sky my suspension of disbelief was somewhat lost.
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