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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

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

Beware, does not work on all systems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, only to find out that it would not work on our PC. If you do not have a T&L vidoe card, it will not run. BE SURE YOUR VIDEO CARD IS A T&L BEFORE YOU BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

good nam game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played vietnam games a lot like Viet Cong, NAM and this one is right up there with them. good graphics, storyline and weapons....Love the part where planes come in and napalm an area. The load times are long and no gauge or level to see how much time before gameplay starts....lot of swearing and bad language in the game - but it's a lot of fun!

Crappy game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

wow when you play this game it's like playing a medal of honor game except you die to fast now i'm a fan of shooters like Brothers in Arms, vietcong, and The one good medal of honor game pacific assault but this game just sucks alot of the gear is the wrong type for the period marines using M21 sniper rifles for one those weren't fielded till 1969 by the army not the marine corp they used bolt action .308 Remington 700's confirgured for sniping and since does a grenade landing rigth in front of a guy and him running backwards away from it about 10 feet not kill him last time i checked most shrapnel spreads go on fro about 20 feet from a frag grenade overall it just felt like a crappy game it has bad graphics weak sound and lackluster gameplay

Nice game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Nice game lots of action, just a littlle too short, but loved playing it.

something's a bit off...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

even though i'm not anywhere near finishing this game, i'm going to review it. this game gets a lot of things right, which is more than can be said for 99% of games out there. the aim system is great - there's no "spray and pray." you die easier than other ww2 games which is a great thing. also the ways you die are fair - no stray bullets from imaginary enemies will come and kill you. the AI is quite good. the weapons are good too, though i thought the grenade took too long to throw and the grenade launcher, while awesome, doesn't seem to have enough practical use. this game gets a lot of stuff that "awesome" (overrated) games like brothers in arms and medal of honor got wrong. for that, it is certainly to be commended. not to mention the cool historical points, great dialogue between teammates, and the fact that they cuss and joke around about each other's race. there's a storyline, and your teammates cuss and have genuine fun while killing the vietcong. at one point, a u.s. soldier even called one a "gook." that was pretty funny. ;) however it's not some pro-war propoganda garbage. it portrays the soldiers as real people caught in an unwinnable war. great stuff there.

despite all these advantages, i found myself saying "something's wrong here.." while playing. i felt almost sick to my stomach. i think the problem is just the pacing and the controls. the pacing is very linear. you go from one little fight to another little fight.. part of the problem is you have a setpoint that you must reach, instead of deciding more how to fight the battle yourself. but the worst part i think is just the controls... i would like to see this game with the same controls as the call of duty games. instead, you use a "toggle crouch" and "toggle prone." and instead of pressing the spacebar and having your soldier jump up like in COD, you have to press the toggle crouch or toggle prone key again to get them to stand up. what this adds up to is - too much time dealing with your standing position and worrying about your setponit instead of being immersed in the battle. granted, a lot of games screw up their controls, but this game makes me realize that much more how much of an accomplishment COD is...

Fun game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Keeping in mind that this is after all, a game, I'm going to rate this one pretty high, even though speaking as a veteran FPS gamer since 1993 this does break a few of my rules. First rule broken: Linearity. That's the biggest gripe I have. You are guided along a pre-determined path toward your destination. And while you can deviate a few yards in either direction along the way, your options don't really begin to open up until you reach your destination, say a village with hooches you have to clear out. Then is when you have freedom to decide in which order you want to do it. And that's when the game is most fun. Second rule broken: If you're gonna give me a squad to go along with me (and a none-too-smart squad at that), at least allow me to issue them orders so they quit wandering in front of my gun when I'm lining up a shot. For the most part the AI really isn't all that bad, but it is annoying the few times it happens.

I had just finished my first play-through with a game called "Vietcong" before starting this one, and while I really like both games a lot, here are some differences: Men Of Valor runs smoother and has a nicer 3D engine. It is also more linear. The graphics are good, but also less scenic than in the game Vietcong. Personally, if you're a fan of jungle first-person games, I'd recommend both of these games.

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