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I can't play it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If this is a good game I'll never know.

I bought it, installed it, clicked 'New game' and kicked me to the desktop.

I tried a dozen times before giving up. To heck with this.

Pretty good!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the multiplayer demo the other day and i was surprised at the graphics (which are very good if you have a good video card)Also I was impressed by the way the weapons handled (Kick, aim ect) i have two beefs, one the guns should be a tad louder when shooting and being next to someone shooting & two the M60 and RPD sounds almost them same,which is kind of annoying because of the detail in the guns and stuff youd expect theyd give them different sounds

Based on the Demo, Multiplayer needs some work.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I found the demo for Men of Valor online the other day so I downloaded it but with what I saw, the graphics are not as good as I thought or in the screen shots I've seen of the game.

The game play is fairly decent with the two maps they give you to play on. One is a urban type setting and the other is a jungle map. As I played I found myself getting shot every few seconds or so because unlike Call of Duty's United Offensive Multiplayer map that are pretty much out-in-the-open, these are filled with places to hide or crawl through without being noticed (Bad if you are not a good player). Basing this on C of Duty's multiplayer this is a lot harder so if your an adverage online FPS player you may want to pass this up or at least the multiplayer version of the game. Going back to the graphics issue, the weapons textures were bad unlike the fine detail C of Duty's weapons entail and the weapon sounds were really bad sounding more like you were shoting a 22 rifle rather than a M14 (and I know because I've shot both guns in real life). I did like the fact you could throw a granade fast with a hot key which is what C of Duty is lacking.

This game should be good in the single player version so I will still order it but compairing it with the infamous C of Duty's multiplayer, it does not stack up at all so far.............we'll see.

nam vet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like the small details example the fire flies ,lightning, officers screwing up, artillery on present position.

Style over Substance

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Considering the hype and sys spec req, I was expecting "gameplay + graphic" enjoyment; wrong. Just another FPS. Nothing special and at times very frustrating.

Somewhat ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not too good,much rather have another vietnam game. This is not that good.

Feels like im doing the same stupid mission over and over again.

very goofy DUM AI ....makes killing them enjoying

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i really like the yelling in vietcong.....funny stuff gets boring not very hard to beat....i stop playing after i beat 6 levels nothing interesting in this title.

Men of Valor Made My Top 5 Worst Game List

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow. Paid about $8 for this and even that small amount wasn't worth it. Out of the 80 or so FPS games I've played, Men of Valor is one of the worst. I have to go way back to IGI2 before I find a game this bad.

First the good. The music is fine.

Now the bad.

Graphics: When I first popped this in my rig, I thought I had a defective disc. The graphics were awful. I went to the video options and turned everything up to maximum. No difference. I thought I went back to the late 1990s. It reminded me of the first Turok game. I was stunned that this was a 2004 effort.

Character models are laughably bad and wooden and they GLIDE across the ground as if the whole environment is made out of ice. It reminded me of my little plastic soldiers I used to play with when I was a child. I just pushed them across the ground.

Story and Characters: The Vietnam story is compelling and the various cut scenes with footage which gives a mini-history lesson on the war is okay. But the actual missions in the game are forgetful. The effort to try to connect with Shepherd, the main character, via letters home really doesn't work. In fact, I usually cut those off because they became boring very quickly.

Movement: Moving is really awful. You get stuck on just about everything - rocks, logs, limbs, boxes, bodies. Nothing is moveable. Every level is narrowly encased in an invisible barrier. You think you can take a path to flank hostiles only to bump into an invisible wall which blocks that path. Only one narrow and lineal pre-determined path is allowed and scripted. You can't jump. Even the smallest of logs you're locked behind. This is one of the poorest games I've played for trying to traverse the terrain.

Gameplay: Awful. This is really bad, folks. The whole game is about 12-14 hours. However, at least HALF of that time is replaying the same thing over and over. Save points are far apart and, often, you will tediously and slowly make your way up a path or river, systematically eliminating the hostiles along the way, only to find yourself ambushed (which, by the way, is scripted in there toward the end of every objective) and you die (very quickly). When you respawn, you're ALL THE WAY back at the beginning of the objective -- which sometimes were as far back as 20 minutes of gameplay. If you try to go any faster the second try, you'll die, so you have to go slowly and systematically through the same routine all over again. When you get at the hard section, you at least know what to expect and you can plan for a counter-attack. Sometimes, however, you're not successful on the second try and back you go for another 15 minutes re-do. It became OLD very quickly. I think the worst one took me about six tries to finally make it though at about 10 minutes per try. So, it took over an hour of playing to work my way through a 10 minute section.

Having a challenging objective is one thing. But to have a boring tedious re-doing of 20 minutes of work over and over with objective after objective is absolutely ridiculous. The result was a game that just wasn't fun. In fact it was painfully frustrating and boring. I think the developers wanted to make a game that evoked the "reality" of the Vietnam War. But the result was a game that wasn't fun to play.

Overall: 2 out of 5. Men of Valor makes my top 5 worst FPS games of all time

NOT bad for a 3 year old game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game shows the difficulty of war.Expect to get killed at least 3 times per level the game is just that hard.Experience hours of play in beautiful and detailed landscape.Fight from the jungles to the city streets.

Gameplay:4.5
Graphics:4
sound:3.5
Lasting appeal:4.5
overall:5

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