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Men of valor needs more attention

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i played the game Men of valor to the end, and since i am a fan of the genre, i have played also vietcong, conflict vietnam, shell shock nam '67, line of sight, and the newest vietcong 2. Yet i must say that though it is not perfect Men of valor got me deep into the vietnam feeling whereas the others failed to do so. Why? because of the historic accuracy and atmosphere. The very first level puts you right there on top of a M113 apc in a authentic environment. You get your first contact and then you are chasing vc for the very first time. Exiting start. With an M14 which makes a good sound but a little weak. Like a rifle on a fancy fair. The M16 and CAR15 sound good, the SKS also sounds too weak. I would like to change these sounds if i knew how. The pistols when fired have a heavy recoil, they move as a whole backwards i would rather like to see the slide moving. Furthermore, i got irritated by the clumsy teammates whom you cannot shoot; when you try a red cross appears on them. No friendly fire possible. I would have liked to see the characters of the white soldiers be more authentic too, especially the guy with the M60 looks like a bodybuilder from a comic strip. They also move in a strange way. I especially liked the different scenery and landscapes. And the destroyed city of Hue is magnificent with beautiful colors. This level "recapturing the citadel" with Captain van Bao represents the right vietnam-urban-fights-atmosphere unmatched by any of the vietnam shooters so far. Top-art. Vietcong 2 has tried to picture these historic themes of Hue and Saigon too but failed to create any real vietnam feeling, it just looks too artifical. Men of valor did succeed in this because they where careful to pay attention to the things that makes a war look authentic. The smoke, the dried grass, the junk, the demolished buildings, the bricks, the burning cars, it is a real city at war. In Men of valor, when you approach the Administration building behind your tank in the dust you can almost smell the diesel smoke, the dried grass, and the car wrecks. Every shot you fire is a real one, doing damage somewhere.The explosions are very realistic and make your vision "tremble" in a way i never saw in any other game. If i could get the right mods and tools for Men of valor i would appreciate it as the very best Vietnam shooter so far.

this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i can't even play it because every time i try to install the game it either crashes my computer , which is brand new , or it gives me all kinds of error codes.no customer support or help is within reach.if you don't believe me , log on to the official website and enter the forums to see how many unhappy people besides me there are !!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T BUY THIS GAME

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.

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!

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!!!!!!!!!!

One of the most watered-down, worst war games ever

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: April 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty dissapointing game. A lot of things are just stupid, like the lame between-mission dramatic moments, but i'm going to give an example of a typical mission to illustrate my point.

I'm supposed to attack a heavily fortified hilltop position. At the base of the hill, I take cover with about 7 or 8 other squadmates to try and take out some enemies blocking our way up. While we're shooting at them, I'm taking heavy fire and can't figure out where it's coming from, especially since i'm getting shot when I'm lying down behind a dirt parapet. Eventually I realize that a machine gun at the top of a far away hill behind a tree line that I can't even begin to see through is shooting me with pinpoint accuracy. When I finally move up the hill, I'm instructed to go help some of my buddies lay down fire on the machine gun bunker at the top. This is actually a very intense firefight, but the gameplay itself completely ruins it. I'm ordered to suppress the bunker, and while I do, it informs me that I'm supposed to be sticking with a certain member of my squad. It gives me a name but in the dark and in the firefight it's rather difficult to differentiate between any of my squad, so I literally have to play through the action 4 times more before I figure out waht to do, because if I don't stay right next to that particular squad member it fails the mission. When i finally figure out who it is, I'm told to continue suppressing the bunker while a different man takes it out with a rocket. He gets shot (it's in the script;happens every time) and I'm informed I have to take the bunker out using a grenade, rocket, or C4. I don't have any of those things on me, but I figure no big deal, I'll run to where my squadmate was shot and use his rocket launcher. Guess what? As soon as i run towards him, I get failed for leaving my other buddy. I can't get past this mission only about 3/4 through the game because of ridiculously stupid planning like this. It's not worth the money or the time to just get caught up in the game's poor development.

Probably fine on a console, but not on PC

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game seems to have been written for console platforms with the PC version as an afterthought. The graphics are Playstation-esque even at high resolution and the gameplay is more like console shooters than recent PC games (checkpoints instead of savegames, etc.). Add in severely anemic sound effects, comical character models, jerky gameplay (even on smoking fast machines), confusing missions, and a healthy dose of bugs (I ran one whole mission with my entire squad glued together like something from John Carpenter's The Thing. Hilarious but not much use in a firefight.) and Men of Valor makes for a big waste of money.

On the plus side the fire effects and explosions look really good, but save your money and download some screenshots instead.

good animation

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I will say this game is more of an animated vietnam movie,its heavily scripted.at certain points yo lose control and the little scenes play out and you cant shoot or move, very iritating.For some reason some of the trees and bots will turn totaly white like a siloette.that could be a video card issue but I understand other people have had this problem.The voilence is good,I realy enjoyed the viet cong women.very intense battle situations but unfortunately this actualy gets old after awhile.I also noticed right off as a military buff and historian,a few mistakes.These guys are marines right ?well they are wearing Army issue flack vests instead of the marine ones and the snipers have M-21's with the ART scope,well thats an Army weopon.Marines usualy used a Bolt action 30.06 REM or something similiar in those days.This is not acurate at all sorry.The playability is decent but not up to par with MEDAL OF HONOR ALLIED ASSAULT.

Call of Duty wanna be

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game sure gives me the feeling of "been there, done that" in its gameplay. I am refering to Medal Of Honor and Call of Duty, except those games had a decent game-save feature. Here you have to wait for the game to automatically save itself because you can't. The result is that when you're killed you must replay the same action again and again until you get it right and can proceed. It even has the little compass so you'll know which direction to go, which is only another way of saying that this is a super linear game. It might appear to be a great big jungle for you to explore, but there is really only one way for you to go. This copy-cat game can be fun at times, but the feeling of deja-vu transcends the experience. This game is completely unoriginal and, if you really want to try it, just wait for the price to drop before you get it.

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

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