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Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is boring...you're not in the action at all, you're kind of just walking around it. Aiming is horrible, control over crosshairs very poor. I compare every first person war shooter to the GUI of MOH:frontline, compared to that this game is horrendous. Save your money.

This could have been a good game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This appear to be a good game until you reach the level where you have to rescue the journalist. Once you have to rescue that person, the sequence is stupid. It tells a comrade to interrogate the villagers but they shoot them all up and everyone look stupid, not knowing where the journalist at, leaving you stuck.

I tried doing a search on the Internet and found other people wanting to know the same thing but no real answer. I'm trading in this garbage for something that was at least went through QA

OMG!!!! When is a good vietnam game ever going to come out?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game looks good. it sounds good. does it play good? NO! This game is al l about volence and bad languge. I agree with Jeff Rogers. The game is comepletely filled with retarded gameplay. ur teamates can't die no matter what. There are many games better than this one.

Horrible game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like many of you I couldn't wait for this game to come out. After I started playing I got very frustrated. This game seemed as if though it was terribly rushed. I have never understood why game designers would rush a project and produce a product like this and lose creditabilty for future products instead of just continuing to delay the game until they completely finish it. Like Delta force blackhawk down, at least i hope the designers will finish Delta force blackhawk down completely or scrape it!

Anyway back to this game. The graphics and environments are really exceptional. The only problem is it makes absolutely no sense for the designers to make such lush environments and not make them fully interactive. In other words you can not always hide behind a tree as the design engine does not always allow you to. A lot of times you are confined to a narrow pathway. The designers should have taken a page from US SOCOM: Navy Seals' designers on this aspect. Despite the narrow pathways, you still get turned around and lost on some mission. That is inexcusable since you have to put up with the narrow pathways in the first place. The terrian is another problem, you can walk over some things while others you can't. However, the passable and impassable terrian looks the same. All the while you are being ambushed and shot at with no idea of how to reach the enemy. The load times are long and unneeded even to check mission objectives takes a minute to load. Totlaly ridiculous! I wouls say do not buy this game. I would wait to see if there is a part 2, perhaps nam 68' LOL!, and see if the designers fix these glaring flaws. And if anyone knows where the d*mn reporter is on mission two could they please tell me!

A Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: October 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game lacked many realistic details, for example: *The Vietcong were not very smart (in my opinion the AI was terrible).
*Whoever designed it had a serious obsession with blood and dismembered limbs.
*You never really feel like you've got a mission other than to kill your way through seemingly endless enemies.
*The characters have no honor or valor, making you feel like
there is no good side to fight for.
*The weapons were not done as well as to be expected.
*Your health is unreal!! I was hit about 40 times and was only at 50% health.
*Among other things, I found it quite disturbing to put sexual themes in a game like this.
*It felt like you were stuck on an already determined path through the jungle, you lack the ability to go off course.

After all of that being said, I guess it would only be fair to put in the things which give it it's 2 out 5:
*The graphics were well done.
*I found it enjoyable to pick up a different gun when I found one.
*The handling of the controls was well done.

Conclusion?
A waste of money, you'd be better off getting Socom Navy Seals (which was very well done) or Ghost Recon.

What are you looking for?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for something that realistically portrays being in Vietnam, then get Conflict: Vietnam.

If you are looking for an arcade game, then get Shellshock.
Mind you. Shellshock doesn't even re-create the Vietnam like Jungle. It looks like you are going through the woods in your local area.

Just as good as any other crappy linear game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are swamp, rice pattys, villages. The missions are poorly conceived pieces of stuff, it is also very, very, very linear to the point that they don't hide it like in any other video game. The enemy is not changeling (the NVA would hide and not have big hats). The enemies come in two flavors those that just stand there oblivious that they have to move to avoid your shoots and those that run towards you.

There's an interactive Base Camp where you can talk go around and do a whole lot of nothing, except boom-boom, get some illegal drugs, shot your weapons, and the "boom-boom" is stupid and has no gameplay/fun/replay value.

The Graphics are realistic graphics they have a grainy texture to them, This is cool some of the time and if it were a better game (aka open ended with brighter/more hidden enemies this would be cool. The death animations are so unbelievable you'll laugh at them (not that I admire the death scenes in any video game). And the cutscenes are vile and pointless (due to the pointless violence)

I would say that the controls are easy to learn and that there's a easy learning curve, but then again (no bragging/pun/'I'm better that you', because were all equal :) I have played a lot of games and know how to easily learn all the control schematics of the games that I play.

ShellShock has one of the least realistic damage to the main character than from any game that I've played. Your health bar regenerates over time, so all you have to do is go to a safe point and wait for 10 seconds.

This game is a best a $10.00-$5.00 meant to be picked up in the bargain bins. You probably should Rent or buying at the price I mentioned in the last sentience anything more is a waste of money.

Spend your money elsewhere!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I waited almost 4 months for this game and come to find out the missions suck and the so called "true war" experiance was about the most "untrue war" experiance I have had from any game. The only mission that was any good was the forth where you have to rescue the POW's. They also say that "Each mission should range from 45 to 65min in length". 10 mins on each mission is more like it! and on the subject of missions 11 only i thought it was going to be 14? terrible game, if you want to get it try renting it first you will save a few bucks!

3.5 Stars. A surprisingly good game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Vietnam War seems to be the subject of quite a few games latley. Men of Valor and Battlefield: Vietnam are two entrys into the shooter genre. Now fledgling developer Guerrilla games from The Netherlands have given us the game Shellshock: Nam 67 as thier first official release prior to thier highly anticipated game Killzone later this year. And though not perfect, Shellshock is an entertaining game in it's own right.

In Shellshock: Nam '67 you play a green G.I., newly arrived in the Nam. The game centers around your character as you battle the North Vietnamese Army in a variety of locations (swamp, rice pattys, villages). You also have to make "moral descisions" in the game. Situations arise where you have to make descisions which may affect the outcome of the game.

The gameplay is fairly good. It tends to get a bit repetitive but there's enough variety here to keep you interested. The NVA are a challenging enemy at times. They will regroup and adjust position according to your actions. Though the enemy A.I. is spotty at times, the game is never too easy. There are also sub goals during missions. One of them is to defuse booby traps. Something I have yet to do sucessfully. The enemys are surprisingly tough. It takes quite a few bullets to put them down. There's an interactive Base Camp where you can talk to your fellow soldiers as well as upgrade some of your weapons. Some may be dissapointed with the lack of an online component but it really wouldn't give you anything different than countless other games already include.

The graphics while not great are very condusive to the game's environment. The graphics have a grainy texture to them. This is to replicate the feel of a 1960's Vietnam newsreal. One of the things that happens quite often is that the enemy will blend in well with the background making them hard to see. This is intentional I'm guessing. One of the things that struck me as unusual was the movements of the non-player characters. They looked at times like they were skating across the gamescape. Your character moves a little stiff at times but as the game progresses you get used to it. The sounds on this game are very good. Alot of period music is used to give the game more historical context. The NVA will curse you out as your fighting them. Your squadmates are very vocal as well and the weapon sounds are very good. This is good sounding game.

The controlls are a little stiff. It takes about 45 minutes to become accustomed to the control scheme. But once you start blasting it's hard to stop. Some things like switching weapons is still a little tricky but there's a quick switch that compensates for it.

I have to say that I didn't expect much from this game. But when you get a few levels deep, it does become rather addictive. Though I wouldn't pay $49.99 for it, I most likely would pay $19.99 for it. My best advice is to give it a rental first.

Viet-Doom

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had eagerly anticipated this game since I first read about it. It turned out to be a straight forward shooter. To me the ideal shooter was Operation Flashpoint. That game despite the limited graphics was the most realistic game I have ever played. In this game I didn't like the fact that you where unable to aim down the sights of the weapon, you had to use the crosshairs. The game was so not dynamic that you couldn't even jump. Even in Pitfall you could jump. I just seamed like I was trying to figure out where I was supposed to be according the developers script than really completing missions. Once I had gone through all the appropriate motions the level was complete. I ended up just grabbing the M-60 and the Death machine (a 1000 round M-60) and just mowing every one down. That's fine for me because I carry a machine gun in the Army. Too much like Doom to be the realistic shooter advertised. The film grain gel was very cool though. That was designed to make you feel like you where in a documentary.

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