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Best Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have always been a fan of BFV. I lost my CD Key awhile ago and couldn't play online. This was a cost effective way to get a new one. great price and always a fun game. Came out in 04 but still up there with one of my favorites. I think its better than some of the recent Battlefield titles.

Not Bad But Not Great Either

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a year or two after it came out when I just wanted a new game to play. I was always a fan of the Battlefield 1942, so I thought this would be a good game to try.

I never had all these problems with the installation or gameplay that many people talk about. However, I don't do multiplayer so I can't speak for that. My copy installed immediately and it played with no problem without downloading any patches. Maybe waiting for awhile after the game comes out is the key...instead of buying it right off the shelf the first day its out (which saves money too). I think its funny that so many people complain about bugs when most games that come to mind have patches out now or bugs that get fixed later on.

As far as the game goes, when I first played it, I hated it. I have some notion that urges me to play games on hard or else I do not find them challenging or they are just to short of games for the money. On the hard setting I think the best I could muster was a minor victory in a couple of the boards. I would get shot and killed easily from a huge distance with an automatic weapon and die, but I shoot someone point blank with a shotgun and they turn around and start shooting at me. I can only really take so much of that so I stopped playing it. I went back some months later, determined to like it enough to play it occasionally and tried again. On hard, I got the same results. I changed it to normal and I found the game to still be somewhat challenging and much better for my blood pressure, though I have yet to lose a scenario on normal. That can take some of the fun out of a game for me as I feel like there is no effort involved.

The AI seems to be fairly good in the game, but I think they just make it so someone randomly shoots you and most of the time you have no idea where that person was. From what I have garnered talking to vets who were there, that isn't wholly untrue, but it is frustrating after the tenth time. Just like the previous Battlefield games, the AI tends to have a one track mind and will blindly pursue that one goal for quite some time. For example, out of four control points, you have three and the enemy has one up on a hill. They will always run down the hill in the same relative spot making it like Duck Hunt for NES without the dog. If they are spread out, it can get quite interesting however and the dynamics take over like a real battle, at least to a degree.

The vehicles are primarily useless in this game, unlike in 1942, but can be fun in the right scenarios. Most of the time the terrain is too uneven or blocked with trees or water for most vehicles to be effective for more than a few minutes. The boats were fun in some boards but were really only useful in the Game Warden scenario. As in 1942, air units are really difficult to use and just get on my nerves, so I never use them. I'd prefer to run.

The game was a disappointing follow up to the 1942 games but on its own, it isn't a bad time killer. I find it fun to just load up, do a few scenarios, and then move on to something else. As with most games, I would never pay more than $30, but I do not consider that $30 poorly spent. It is fun, the graphics aren't bad, and I don't think people should really expect it to have the mechanics of real weaponary. It IS a game after all. Buy it for fun and to screw around with and you won't be disappointed. Buy it because you thought it would be the best game ever because of whatever pent up reason/excuse you had, be disappointed. There are no half stars, so it got three on the board, but I would really give it 2 1/2.

Well...its good.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing FPS. it has great graphics,and awesome gameplay. But, if you have a computer from when Windows XP just came out it takes at least 7 mins to load a single map. Newer computers can load it faster, but loading still takes a very long time. I tried the online multiplayer. Its not worth it. You wait for it to load, then you play for about 10 or 15 mins, then some more loading, etc. etc.

Best Online Action Game Ever. A Must Buy. Absolute Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bough this game here in Amazon in 2005. Since 2002 I was only playing Counter Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Doom e.t.c. CS, TF & DOD are amazing and I still play them. Since 2004 a friend of mine called Liquidmerc who I met in a CS tournament in 2003 was telling me about this new game called Battlefield Vietnam where I can do more then just shoot around and blow up stuff. He said I can jump in Helicopters and fire machine guns at the enemy, fly Helicopters like Hueys, KA25, MI8, Cobras, Chinooks, fighter-planes like MIG17, MIG21, A7 Corsair, F4 Thunderbolt, DC3-AC47 Gunship, Skyraider, Bombers, Transport-Planes, and ride other vehicles like Jeeps, Tanks, Armored-Vehicles and fire Missile and Rocket Launchers, Mortars, RPGs, Heat Seeking Missiles, Anti Aircraft Guns, Scooters, Gun-Boats and tons of other vehicles.
The game is just amazing. It is the best game ever.
Plus, there are free add on extensions called MOD like Point of Existence, World War II and more. POE has new aircraft and vehicles.
Today in 2007 I am still playing BFV and its MODs and I am still not finished. I this is an ever lasting game.
Its a must have game. Check out the videos of BFV, POE and WW2 on Youtube. You will see what an awesome game this is.
The new games like BF2 and BF2142 are good but do not have the kick of BFV.

this game is a awsome copy of battlefront

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

finaly!!!!! a game like battlefront (star wars) but without the lasers and wired battlegrounds this game will blow your mind!!!!!!!!!!!

AWSOME GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Forget those bad reviews. As a hardcore bf player, BF veitnam and BF 2. This game is very realistic! Ground combat just gets your blood going and Helicopter dogfights, OUT OF THIS WORLD! If you get in a F4-phantom vs. mig dogfight it will blow your mind how much fun! Online is AWSOME! You actually have to plan and use guerella warfare! once i was fight a guy online in a building. he ran behind a wall to avoid my AKMS. I expected him to just run from behind it but then he jumped out really fast and I almost reached the moon! LOL. anyway... Very fun game. buy it for addicting gameplay. Also try out BF2 and BF2142 (BF1942 is kinda boring, not many weapons).

Overall very good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Being a Vietnam vet, I enjoy this game very much albeit I was a sailor so did not see the landbased combat. Graphics are overall very good but a little dated - shows the growth in the BF series. Have trouble controlling the aircraft - the single player maps are a little resrictive. Also, have somewhat mastered helo ops but have had the helo move in reverse from what keys were being used causing a crash. Don't know if this is related to my bluetooth keyboard. Have not tried to use a helo with FAng yet.

Ignore the bad reviews

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is lots of fun... I am not a hard core gamer so I can't comment too deeply about the graphics... but they look good to me. I really love the music feature as well... Alot people don't like the capture the flag aspect of the game... I think it adds a strategy element to it.

Not bad

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like this game a lot but I didn't initially. There is a learning curve with the aircraft and that has turned out to be my favorite part. I've gotten very good with the helicopters. With the planes, you have to navigate using the little map. I like being able to play music in the vehicles. I have BF 1942 and Battlefield 2. Of the three, I like BF Vietnam about the same as 1942. I like 2 the least in terms of single player.

how can such a popular game suck so bad?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i know nobody cares what i think, but bf 1942 and bf vietnam are perhaps two of the worst games i've ever played. in 2006, the controls are of course completely dated and terrible (though i don't care about the graphics, they're pretty cool actually). bf vietnam does a great job at atmosphere. you really feel like you're there in vietnam. but then what happens? the control of the weapons is TRASH. talk about clunky!!! the CALL OF DUTY series blows this game away in every regard. sure, call of duty could learn some things from this game - how to use bigger maps and vehicles for example. but as far as actual GAMEPLAY and excitement, call of duty is infinitely better. there were times in this game where i'd go maybe 20 minutes without even seeing an enemy! all you do is walk around, keep walking, keep walking... maybe this is like real war, but if i wanted to be a real soldier i'd go join the army.

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