There's really three different Konrads.The subject of how sympathetic Walker is as a character is one of no small amount of debate - is he a Well-Intentioned Extremist who becomes a Fallen Hero out of a misguided desire to save the people of Dubai, or a pathetic, selfish Heroic Wannabe who only cares about improving his own stature, regardless of the consequences? (The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.) How much of Walker represents the player, and how complicit is the player in what Walker's done? Are Konrad and the 33rd really doing the right thing by staying in Dubai, or are they just as misguided as Walker himself? Was Riggs right to destroy the city's water supply? Etcetera.

Alternative Character Interpretation: Most of the major characters in the game.When The Line came out, Spec Ops was just a licensed IP of a Franchise Zombie. Adaptation Displacement: Spec Ops games were a line of obscure budget military shooters riding the coattails of Delta Force with its Playstation versions surprisingly featuring squad-based gameplay predating SOCOMUS Navy Seals.It's easy to find the game directly criticizing the player for engaging with it as being a bit sanctimonious, so many prefer to ignore this angle and view the story as more a self-contained character-driven tragedy rather than a metatextual condemning of the genre itself.

And the biggest miscommunication happened at the very beginning, when he and his group were fired upon by other US soldiers believing that Delta Squad was working with the CIA.

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