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Pretty Fun Gameplay!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased BFV because I was looking for a new online shooter to play. I've about worn out my Medal of Honor CD's and decided it was time to play a new title. Overall, I think BFV makes a great online title.

I had a few video related problems when I first installed. Rolling back to older videocard drivers fixed the problem. I was up and running in about 10 minutes. One thing that I did find annoying is the high loading times for the levels. I have a 10K Ultra 320 SCSI setup, and the load time still takes forever. I can't imagine what it's like for IDE users.

The other thing I noticed is that the graphics engine on this game brought my videocard to its knees. I'm running a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and I have to run my display settings on low @ 1024x768 to get the framerates I'm used to.

Now, about the online play. It rocks! I still haven't figured everything out yet, but the sheer flexibility of online play is amazing. You and your boys pile into a huey. The pilot hits the radio and turns on your favorite tunes. You go screaming over the enemy base, you and your boys light up your M-16's. The Huey takes a hit, you hear the rotors scream and notice the dark smoke trailing from the back of the chopper. You jump out, pull your chute and land in a stream. You start swimming forward only to get shot in the head by the enemy's assult rifle. Awesome gameplay!

Another interesting aspect about online play that I've personally never seen before is the ability to compromise the opponents spawn points. So if you and your boys roll up into the enemy's quarters and lay seige, you can take over. Once you hang out long enough, you take control of that point, and the enemy can no longer spawn there.

Even with the installation issues I had, I feel the game was worth the 40 bucks they are charging for it. It takes time to get the bugs out of a game, and a lot of people don't have much patience it seems like. Once you spend a year of your life writing a few hundred thousand lines of code, you wouldn't want to be writing a patch just yet either. Nobody does it perfect on the first try.

If nothing else, wait a few months for the price to drop, and for the bugs to be fixed, and you'll have yourself a great online title for your gaming collection.

A review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this is a First Person shooter game, which means you run around and shoot people. You don't just have to stick to a gun, but you can hop into a tank, helicopter, jeep, apc, plane, artillery truck, defensive gun/ cannon , hotwizer , each personilized to the team (the NVA son,t use F-4 's, they use Migs.)

There are four classes in this game each of wich you can take one of 2 kits.

Assult: has knife/ machette (2 hit kill, very useful for close range) except in the case of the NVA SA-7 kit ( a heat seeking missle) a pistol, a main weapon, and accesories (like binoculars)

Engineer: has knife, pistol, main gun (not as good as assult weapon), and accesories (mines, mortors and more (such as the NVA's shovel, which allows you to build a spawn point, more on those later).

Heavy : these kits only cahnge accesories, unlike the others.
the US have

Kit 1) knife, pistol, M60 machine gun (inaccurate, but can fire alot of bullets quickly, great against helicopters), m79 (a grenade launcher) and accesories (binocs, heal pac

Kit 2) knife, pistol, rifle (one shot every second) , LAW (bazzoka), accesories

Nva
1) knife, pistol,rifle (a bit faster than the US one, but not as accurate), RPG (models vary), accesories

2) knife, pistol, SA-7, accesories

Final class-- sniper

The Us have knife, psitol, sniper (models vary), smoke bomb, accesories

The NVA have Knife, pistol, sniper (models vary), some sort of trap, accesories

There are two sorts of "wins" personal and team

Personal is getting on the top three (Killing the most, dying the least, taking the most spawn points) and having your name displayed in the end, with the other two.

team is that you reduce the enemy's tickets to zero.

You begin thegame by looking at a map of the battlefield, you choose your class, looks and spawn point (the place where you come back to life after you die, and hit ready.

Back to tickets: you can reduce these by having the enemy die (the main way to do this is to kill them)and taking spawn points. The more spawns you controll, the quicker the enemy's tickets will go.

Good: Multiplayer is great, the structure is immense (fight by yourself, or join a clan, like ASE or TOG??), Fun game play, very smooth and great graphics (of course I have an XPS 600 with An Nvidia 7800) varied gmaes.

Bad : singleplayer is easy at level impossible, with 64 players (the hardest possible setting), Need broadband. Flying is tough, too. Final problem: do not go into any mainstream game room (like Game Arena #1, in my opinion the best server, with the best game. ) without praticing first, or you will be chewed up spit out and stomped on.

Also, install PunkBuster, Version 1.2 and 1.21 upgrades (bug in 1.2, I can't play the new maps in singleplayer, but I can in mulitplayer.)

It runs great on my computer with

A pentinum D (3 ghz)
2 gig of ram
250 gig hard drive
Nvidia 7800 graphics card

Hey, keeps me entertained......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Before I started Playing this game, I read some of the reviews in here, and I was a little skeptical to buy the game. But when I did, I was plesantly surprised. I don't think the gameplay is all THAT bad. Heck, I have a 2.0 P4, with 256 MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 128MB, and Cable Modem. Overall, my gameplay isn't much different than with BF1942 or Forgotten Hope .61. In fact, I think that the new maps, weapons and forces are kind of refreshing. If you are thinking about downloading Desert Combat Mod for BF 1942, I suggest you try the Forgotten Hope Mod instead, there is just something very large that is missing off of DC. FH is much more realistic.

But I don't think that BFV blows the original out of the water, but I think it has it's plus's. The new 3D map is nice additionally, and the soundtrack is cool. You can even add your own MP3's for customized tunes.

If you are new to the Battlefield, This game is cool. If you are a BF1942 die hard, I can see how you could be dissappointed. Frag on!!!

This is sad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really like the BF1942 series and i looked forward to this game launch for a long time. I bought it on the first day of release and, boy, was THAT a mistake! I should have waited for a demo to have seen how buggy this game was.
I have a fairly fast system- an AMD 2700+ / Nvidia chipset/ Geforce 4 Ti 4400 graphics card/ cable modem. Its not the fastest system on the planet, but it's played every other game i have tried without much lag or any problems... until now! All types of graphic problems showed up immediately. Strange bars coming out of the characters going into the sky- things dropping thru the earth- things disappearing.. what a disappointment!
To top it all off, the game play isn't very immersive and feels strange. It's a little bit to much like BF:DC. In fact, you could play the DC mod and have a better experience that i had with this game.
I was disappointed and am hoping that they continue the original BF1942 series with more add-on's which i will buy without fail.
Wait for a demo of BFVietnam to make sure it works on your system.

BF Vietnam - good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Broken down quick review of current game, implies existing knowledge of the BF franchise.

Graphics (B-) - Certainly not next gen or anything, in fact very BF '42ish overall. Looks almost like the same engine. I kinda expected this, you simply won't get dungeon crawler realism when trying to render large outdoor environments, but i thought it would have been a little better.

Characters (D) - Worst part of the game imho so far. I think the character models look weak. Thin and grangly, movements look forced and not smooth in their motion and action. I was expecting bad a** looking soldiers, instead we got so-so stick figures. Very dissapointed.

Guns (A+) - Most improved part of the game hands down. The guns are phenomenal, you can tell a lot of time was spent here. Models are incredible, the kick, flash, sound, all of it is to a tee. Lots of choices and variation too. Best guns i've ever seen in a game imho.

Vehicles (B+) - I like them in some ways more than BF '42, in some ways less. Not as much effort put in on them as the guns, I think more work is needed on some tanks and boats, the planes are stellar. I do think they are better integrated into the game than in the old BF though and fit this environment well.

Stability (B+) - No issues so far, no crashes, no glitches, and im running on an ancient system. I had to take my graphic settings down 1/2 way to get it running smoothly, but considering how the graphics are kinda dated, i shouldnt have to. Heard of many issues with trying to run at full tilt.

Maps (A) - Always the strength of the BF devel. team, the maps are outstanding, each one blew me away. Detailed, multiple levels of action, attack/defense paths, wonderful. 14 in all.

Gameplay (B) - Nothing too new or amazing here, which is a shame b/c i think this area really needed improvement. The interface is smoothed out which is nice, some flags take multiple people to get the take time down, but overall its the same BF in terms of gameplay. (A little more dynamic and mobile due ot the airlifts)

Overall - (B)

I have to say, there are things in the game that disapoint me, but no biggie, i wasnt expecting to be blown away. What i am really disgusted at are the character models. They stink. Did they do those over a weekend? I hope they fix them, it ruins the feeling of realism. BF '42 models were 10 times better. Forward not backward developers.

Not the ground breaking game most would have hoped for, but more of that BF action many gamers have come to know and love.

This game sucks. What were they thinking?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you expect a first person shooter along the lines of Call Of Duty or Vietcong...forget it. If you have a video card other than Nvidia...forget it. If you seek smooth, logical gameplay...forget it. As a previous reviewer noted, there is definitely something wrong with this game. Movement is awkward and laggy, even at low resolutions. The single player games are pure confusion. The voice-overs and load time will drive you nuts. There is no keyboard reference sheet, and there are at least 50 commands to memorize and use. Land, sea, and air movements require different control setups. The game is bug-infested and the bottom line is...this game sucks.

How disappointing!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved BF 1942, and it was with anticipation that I installed this new installment. Much to my dismay, this sequel feels more like an open-source mod than a whole new game. I fail to see the "great graphics" that some are talking about (I have a high-end PC/graphics card, thank you very much), and the game is full of bugs. The online aspect has been really buggy so far, with unacceptable lag.

My biggest disappointment, however, was with the level design and the overall feel of the game. Whereas the levels in BF1942 (and its expansion packs) were brilliant and really conveyed a sheer sense of epic conflict, the levels here are 1)WAY too dark, 2)Too cramped and 3)Boring. I realize that the battlefields of vietnam were different from WWII, but all the levels end up looking exactly the same: hilly jungle. Far from creating tension, this results in boredom, as you skulk around looking for somebody to frag. All in all, if feels like a cosmetic update to what was a great WWII game.

GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is probably my fsvorite online multiplayer game so far. There are lot's of levels which are huge. You can have up to 64 people on a server.

There are lot's of weapons including bazookas, machine guns, pistols, mortars, rifles, knifes, bombs etc. There are also traps you can set on the ground like spikes and others.There are also a lot of vehicles. Tanks, scooters, jeeps, planes, helicopters. You can get up to like 5 people on one vehicle.

There is only a two minor problems. It gets laggy sometimes and it takes a while to get onto a server. Almost four minutes.

You get to listen to music while your drivin vehicles and that's cool. Songs I always play are songs are "Wild Thing" and "Surfin Bird". There are like 20 songs all together.

Still this is a great game for anyone thats a fan of war games and just good non-stop multiplayer action.

My Father-in-Law had flashbacks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pretty awesome game. I am hooked. My father-in-law, a vet said in a low voice as I ran down into a rice pattie, "watch out--that's where they hide..."

Outdated graphics and game play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game expecting everything that gamer magazines and web sites promised. What I saw on my computer was a game with graphics at least 2 to 3 years behind other games. Sure the maps are large and you can drive vehicles but other games now do a vetter job of this. The landscape is very repetive, the AI is terrible and the interaction with objects and targets is very poor. Try Far Cry, Painkiller, Vietcong or UT 2004.

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