Martin Walker

Captain Martin Walker is the main character of the video game Spec Ops: The Line. Walker is a member of Delta Force sent along with a squad of two others into Dubai, which was cut off from the rest of the world by presistant sandstorm, after getting a distress signal from Colonel John Konrad of the 33rd Infantry Battalion. Walker enters Dubai and is forced to engage in combat with both the civilian militias and the 33rd, who have effectively gone rogue, taking control of the city.

Throughout his travels through ruined city, Walker both witnesses and, in some cases, inadvertantly commits atrocities, most notably the use of white phosphorous incendiary shells against a 33rd Infantry base that was also housed hundreds of civilian refugees. Walker would also lose both of his comrades in the operation in Dubai. As the mission progresses, Walker’s mental state deteriorates greatly, eventually reaching the point he starts seeing hallucinations, including being attacked by reanimated bodies scorched by white phosphorous or by his dead comrades.

The ending depends on the player’s actions, but Walker may be driven to suicide, be killed when he attempts to attack the retrieval team, end up living in the ruined city of Dubai, or return to the US alive, albeit suffering from severe PTSD.

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