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sadness

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

should have been called- battlefield vietnam totally sucks so bad and was rushed to market with no quatlity control that you can not even sort the server by ping...? Did they even test this game? You know you are having fun when your screen freezes every three seconds, for three seconds. The weapon balance was well thought out though (just kidding). anyhow, go play the Unreal 2004 demo which is way better than this (or buy that game if you like) until the patch(es) comes out (maybe that will help).

The game is full of bugs.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just installed Battlefield Vietnam and spent about two hours playing it. I really enjoyed 1942, but Vietnam is a huge disappointment. It has some very annoying bugs that make the game play extremely poor, like invisible walls that you cannot move or shoot through and usually gets you stuck and/or killed. Floating medical cabinets that you can't get to. Flags that remains white because the timer is stuck (even with no enemies around).

If you really want this game, at least wait till the price comes down and definitely wait till they have a couple of patches out before buying the game.

The flight of the valkries

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, Battlefied Vietnam is here yay. This is a fun and addicting game. Even though the american are far more powerful than the poor vietnamees. Yes that is right I am talking about the (M60). Beside that the game turned out pretty good. Between far cry and BF vietnam... I would choose Bf vietnam. It is an all around fun game. The most funest thing to do is get in to a chopper and play the song on my title. Im so good at this game it is funny. (-:

Just the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have reviwed many products and EA games never ceases to amaze me. This game is amazing, you get really cool guns and get to ride in cool vehicles. The graphics are tremendously better, I would reccomend an avid war gamer to BUY THIS NOW! A couple months ago i was playin Bf1942 and I was thinking man, they need a veitnam game like this! I mean the have veitnam games like "Veitcong" thats ok if you want to move through a green tunnel! it offers no freedom you jut walk on the guided path with green walls on the side of you... quiet pointless, but then BFV was announced and i was so exited and i bought it and it was like i expected GREAT! Buy this now or you crazy

Special note for SP players.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't add much to the reviews already written, most written for multi-player gamers. I picked up BF:VN with thinking to play it casually in single-player, but the experience is disappointing - revealing just how solidly and exclusively BF:VN is a MP game.

FOR THOSE WHO MISSED BF:1942 - BF:VN puts you in any of the militaries of the US and either North or South Vietnam. Very much a team game, the game engine allows you to start out as a soldier, yet being able to hop into drivable vehicles - from jeeps and tank to helicopters and fighter jets. Unhappy with your gear? Just pick up stuff left by a fallen soldier (of any side) and don't feel too guilty because many first time players will doubtlessly be the first to go. Battles are immersive - staging dynamic and complex confrontations in varied settings. More than jungles, BF:VN drops you in rivers, villages and even cities. Terrain varies between flat and hilly. Rather than randomly arranged settings, map design appears designed around specific locations (villages, hills, an island, a temple). Combat is more than a notch above typical 1st person shooter type games - health points disappear quickly, and enemies are typically much harder to find than be hit by. Your weapons don't often go where you aim them, and be sure to watch your ammo because reloading is too cumbersome and time-consuming to start while in the middle of a firefight.

"Saigon. I was back in Saigon."
Besides its immersive maps, the game engine spices things up with a great soundtrack certain to be at least as evocative as any of the "accepted" Hollywood movies. The game starts off with "Fortunate Son" by Credence, while the main-menu brilliantly chooses an artfully looped instrumental version of "White Rabbit". (The Rotten Review finds "Rabbit" an especially apt choice because its mix of martial drums and otherworldly guitar licks hints at the culture war exploding back in the US.) Music aside, both menus and in-game action contain great sound effects - radio calls from friendlies, the droll delivery of "Hanoi Hannah", the deceptive confidence of LBJ, various voices which may hint at Adrian Cronauer - guaranteed to keep your attention w/I the 4 corners of your screen.

"Hell is the impossibility of reason."
So why isn't BF:VN a great SP game? Perhaps it's too much a game for one player - there's always action going on somewhere, too much for a single player to handle himself. (I played the "Khe Sanh" level three times in a single night, with three different endings.) Vehicle control is tricky - especially for aircraft. There's something unabashedly cool about a game where you can troll around a base and just hop into any Hueycobra, MiG or Phantom you can find - but once inside, the hard realities erode the coolness. Aircraft are hard to control, and finding targets inside a comparatively small battlefield while zipping along at jet speeds makes flight frustrating. (That said, between great level design and challenging, if unrealistic flight physics, helicopter flying can be fun without the combat involved.) If gameplay is complicated, the underlying strategies are disproportionately simple: you fight by locating and overrunning the enemy's strategic locations while trying to keep the enemy from doing the same with your own. These checkpoints may change hands repeatedly during battle. Depending on the specific battle, one side may have slightly different aims (hold the strat-locs until the enemy has lost enough damage points), but the actual fighting never gets far beyond being "Capture the Flag" with M-16's. Find the locations on the map and kill as many of the enemy as possible without getting killed first. (Losing a checkpoint means losing any spawn-grounds nearby - locations in which your character gets re-born after dying, which happens often; keeping the point means a shorter walk back, after you're reborn, to the place where you last got killed, or something...) The action gets repetitive, and new players will spend more time walking over (the admittedly gorgeous) scenery than in a firefight.

"I thought they had given me the wrong dossier."
Despite gorgeous graphics and sound, BF:VN won't likely overtax your system - most MP games have to compromise in that respect in order to remain playable by the large number of PC owners who don't replace or overhaul their machines every 18 months. I enjoyed smooth gameplay on a Dell P4 w/2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, and Intel's so-called "Extreme" graphics chip-set, with no AGP card. In short, for MP gamers, it's "Apocalypse Now"; for everybody else, it's closer to "Green Berets".

BATTLEFIELD= fun + war + vietnam + jungle + guns + america

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best war game. I'd ever played. You don't have to trust me on this one. I didn't get through the whole game. I see that this game is really fun. The sound is really tight. Every bullet I ever fired on this game was like pure magic. The sound of the jeeps, birds. Everything. Incredible. Left me breathless. Though the strongpoint of the game weren't on the graphics and it didn't really have cut-scenes. Kind of took the sense of adventure away from me. Anyways, this is probably the best war game I played. The historical levels were actually pretty historically accurate. This is the best of the Battlefield games and no one should hold back on getting a copy of their own.

Not a bad game at all

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is better with the new patch that was added on. The M60 was a messed up gun which you could kill people like it was a sniper and now pretty much no one uses it. It is true that if you can fly a helicopter well you will get many kills and the games pisses you off a little bit but other then that it's a good game. It is not a single player game if that is what your looking for. This game is ment to be played online. This game has added some fun with my friends in being in the same room and teaming up against everyone. They are coming out with new things for the game such as new levels and helicopters in the next patch so get this game. Based on what others have said it seems like it's a bad game but it really isn't. This game is a fun game and only 30.00 in some stores. Trust me when you are playing against 50 people its crazy!!

You have a Geforce 3 or equivalent? Then forget it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: March 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game looks amazing... as long as you stand still and watch all the fun go by while you wait for someone to come up and kill you. The geforce 3 does NOT meet min specs and it seems I must upgrade. Just as I'm sure they hope gamers like me will do. Thereby validating the "alliance" that Nvidia has with EA. If you are a sucker like me and you upgrade just to play a game, despite the fact your current card is fine, you fall victum to there ploy. And there isn't a thing you can really do unless sitting on your keister reliving the gloried Quake days gets your goat. Nope, if you're like me you bow to the man and suck eggs all the way to the bank. :(

Huge Dissapointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for $50.00 (when it was just released) and loved how it was team based. It had a lot of potential but so many bugs. Like many others, I eagerly anticipated the patch to fix these bugs. Patch was released and caused even more problems. Now the game crashes constatnly during online gameplay. I use to play this game daily. Now, I haven't touched it for about a month. Bought Farcry instead and play it's great singleplayer mode. I use to have so much loyalty to EA games, they've produced so many great games that I still enjoy (such as the Total War line, Command and Conquer, Madden, NBA Live, etc.) but their support for this game really left me feeling bitter and burned. They treat their customers like (...). Take my advice and do not waste your money on this game. I recommend Farcry (if your system's video card is above average, although I use a Geforce FX 5200, I can play fine in low settings and it still looks great). Hope this helped.

Great game, but not perfect yet

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I do not agree with that, but this is how they get to do to release games: first we have a poor performance version, with some lack of functionality, but three or four months later we get patch 1 and 90% of problems get solved.

There are several problems, some within the Options Menu !! How this could not be tested before releasing ??

But I don't mind, it's a great game and it will get better and better after each new patch.

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