The modern world is a hot bed of political and military intrigue, with the large scale wars of the past replaced by smaller, More covert situations requiring specialized forces to handle whatever danger pops up. At least, that's what tom Clancy and his ilk would have us believe. In that vein comes Spec Ops II: Omega Squad, the sequel to Spec Ops: US Army Rangers. Spec Ops II seeks to throw players into the realism of modern military crises via the first-person shooter genre.