It's a shooter. Room after room after room of guys to shoot and collect bullets and new weapons from. No better or worse than anything current in that regards, it uses all the shooter standards like flashing red screens when you take a bullet, but everything heals if you don't get hit for a few moments.
So really you would have to rate Spec Ops by the story, which is told through the cutscenes between these kill rooms.
You are the leader of a squad, I think you were sent to either investigate what was going on - or communicate with some lost troop in Dubai, which was hit by the mother-of-all sandstorms. The city is devastated, much of it buried under a mountain of sand.
As you are discovering what happened to the city - you are placed in increasing uncomfortable choice situations, like allowing civilians to be killed in order to save someone you are trying to rescue. This is reinforced by your squadmates who occasionally bitch you out about the choices you make. They even force you to burn a whole troop of enemies by raining mortar fire, and then show the charred civilians they made you blow up.
The connected people in Dubai knew of the impending doom of the storm, and kept it secret from the public - evacuating themselves. A hardcore general and his faithful legions stayed to help evacuate, but got stuck and the place went all Lord of the Flies.
You fight your way through his legions and desperate bands of survivors - but when you make it to him, he is already a desiccated corpse - so presumably this all has been your descent into madness. You invented a dark nemesis to excuse your actions, thinking back to early memories where reality flickers back and forth between what you saw. ... "The horror! The horror!"
This game tricked me into thinking I was going to play as a soldier, not a Marlow in some downer art project. I never got a sense I was going crazy - I thought my buddies were losing it, and I was getting pissed off at the stuff they were making us do. I tried and died so many times to do the right thing in this game, they force you to push terrible buttons and then guilt trip you for doing it.
If it wasn't so forced, it really could have been epic though. Have your choices affect which of the three of you go completely nuts would have made me play this multiple times.
In the effort to make the game more approachable, the game has been dumbed down way too much. Instead of having to learn where items are to craft them, or making it one of a few crafting tables - you have the ability to combine anything at any time, even autoselecting the craft pattern for you. Plus you are given a locker at a number of different safe houses where you can create with no resources any weapon you've previously crafted. It got to a point I wouldn't really bother creating anything but the most recent collected blueprint so I would have the template and then use these safe-houses for my overpowered combo weapons. The same can be said for the craftable vehicles - there is no challenge to create them, you can't even be interrupted while constructing. If your vehicle blows up from overuse or crashing - there are simple vehicles all over the road to jump in and drive, but I would only drive to my car ports and load up on my next zombie crusher.
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This is a mind-twist/horror game with a clunky point-click interface and unintuitive puzzles. I'm going to assume that most people are playing with some sort of guide because very little of what I've done makes any sense outside of the recipes they spelled out carefully some books. Many times I fell to clickity-clicking everything in the environment with a new inventory item I picked up. 
I've played enough of this one to call myself "done". This is a fan-made installment, and it plays like it. But not in that cool, "wow I can't believe they were able to take it there!" way -- moreso in a "hey, I recognize that game asset" way. I only played the first couple levels - which are repetitive enemies spawning in areas with panel doors that open after you've killed X waves.
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FTL is a game that has you fleeing across multiple galaxies with important intelligence information, hounded by an overpowered "Rebel Fleet". You move stop to stop across the randomly generated system, each planet a randomly generated event - fighting pirates, rescuing research stations, escaping asteroid fields and purchasing upgrades. You want to touch as many locations on a map before the fleet catches up to your exit point and you can warp to the neighboring galaxy.
Scrap is your currency from combat and events, spent on upgrades for you ship - hiring crew members, purchasing weapons and upgrading systems. Not only do enhanced ship systems help you directly in combat, but adding devices like a crew transporter might be important for certain scripted events (for example if you encounter a space station being overrun, you might be given an additional option to rescue a crew member).
