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what everyone seems to forget

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

is the multiplayer co-operative aspects of this game - ie the best ive ever come across. you and a friend (or friends) working your way through these missions is fun not to be beaten !

Not for girly men

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Conflict Vietnam is a very hard game and will anger the casual gamer. The jungles are nicley done. The 4 man squad is nicely done as well. If a team member goes down you can direct another member or yourself to ethier heal him or jump on him to shield him from further damage. Weapons are able to be picked up from enemy soldiers but you'll need to find to amo for that weapon itself. A must paly for the war gamer

conflict vietnam x-box

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is an excellant game, this gives splinter cell and halo a run for there money. long missions with intense combat, this is one of the best games i have ever played. a must own.you won't be sorry

Cross between Desert Storm and Medal of Honor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, but it is more of a cross between Conflict: Desert Storm and Medal of Honor. There are new options though, more control of the characters in your group and you bond more with your own character. The detail is very good and it really seems well done. If you have played the other conflict games, this will feel like more levels for you. The game is nothing new, but I liked it.

Based on single player

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very similar to the conflict desert storms by controlling 3 other soldiers and working as a team. I hired it and got up to level 6 when I took it back. I didn't get far because I spent about an hour a day on it because this game is annoying and hard. On the first 5 levels it's hard to use stealth(unlike conflict desert storm), it's not linear, it's just enemies run out write away when going into a new area. You can run out of ammo easily(unlike conflict desert storm 1/2).
There are now booby traps in it so because you're in a jungle and there are a lot of plants(it's harder to notice them)you have to hold the left trigger and B to get your comrades to disarm it(you have to always look for them and it slows the pace down).
The way you can disarm traps is the way you can get your men to pick up weapons(and more like heal others and use gun turret)instead of doing it your self when switching character.
You can only save twice(even on easy), we want as much as we want like PC games. A level can go on for along time because there can be too many enemies in black clothes running around.
There're missions or "primary objectives" like "escape" and "Bonus objectives" like "collect dog tags" or "get important documents". After each level you can build your stats up(Sniping, medic skills...).
This is just like the previous games except it's in a jungle(like Metal gear, Splinter Cell 2 and Ghost Recon on Playstation 2...). They could not put a lot of new things in because the other games were so good and it's hard to keep the series fresh. I can tell the developers tried really hard with this game with the graphics but they should have changed how many bad guys are in levels and how much ammo there's. I will rent this again if it's the best game in and I will change the review if it really picks up.
PS They should remake the original Conflict Desert Storm with improved graphics and add in the newer features from CD2 and CV.

Extreme language ruins good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Conflict:Vietnam hoping to have an experience akin to that of the Desert Storm Conflict titles. In many ways, C:V compared favorably to those games. Although the graphics could have been more realistic and improved, I suppose their ethereal nature (especially in the "Bad Moon" mission) was a good change of pace from the other Vietnam shooters released around the same time. They developers cleaned up some annoying control issues from the earlier Desert Storm games, for instance, streamlining the giving of medical care among soldiers. All in all, the plot was original and engaging and the missions sufficiently varied to give the player a real sense of what the Vietnam War was like.

What ruined the game for me was the extreme "strong language" used by the characters. I know that 2004 was, regrettably, the year of the foul-mouthed Vietnam shooter, but C:V's profanity was way over the top. It seemed that the characters, who had much to discuss about their predicament, had a vocabulary limited only to the F-word, the S-word, and a few other unrepeatable combinations.

I know that some folks in the military "swear like a sailor", especially in very stressful moments, but the use of this language could only be described as unbelievably, even unrealistically, gratuitous. I also know, or know of, military folks serving today who go out of their way not to fit that stereotype. It seems outrageous that during a time of REAL war, a software company would stoop into the gutter to degrade the type of people who are risking their lives to preserve our freedoms by perpetuating that stereotype. All it demonstrated was a lack of intelligence and meaningful vocabulary on the part of the game's scriptwriters, not the fictional or real soldiers of today.

It's possible that without this needless language, C:V could have gotten a Teen rating and appealed to a much broader audience. Instead, all the writers did was show that they had an extremely limited vocabulary. I hope that if they ever make a sequel to C:V, they consider returning to the language of the Desert Storm series. Otherwise, they are sure never to get my business again . . . and I'm sure I'm not alone.

The best Vietnam game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Conflict: Vietnam is a really good game. It is better than Conflict: Desert Storm 1 and 2. It is hard but it is still posible to beat it. I did because I got the stategy guide which helps a lot. The grafics are really good and the controls are the same. Now in Conflict: Vietnam you can tell you squad members to heal people, Shield people or pick up something. The AI is a lot better. Sometimes the enemy will play dead or plan a ambush. Theres even boobytraps like tripwires, pungi sticks and pits with spikes in it. The best part is the vehicles. You can ride in jeeps, tanks, river boats, helicopters and a armored thing with a lot of guns on it. You cant steer the riverboat or helicopter but you can shoot the guns on them. It has some real battles that you can fight in like Hue and Tet Offensive. Conflict: Vietnam is in 3rd person and you can look down the guns sight if you want to aim carefully. If you liked Conlict: Desert Storm you should definatly get this.

Rentable, but not buyable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Luckily I rented this game instead of buying it outright. Even now I feel like asking for my rental money back. The graphics for this game are decent, but not amazing. And the overly complicated system for issuing orders to your team or an individual will make you forget about any redeeming characteristics of the graphics. The worst thing by far though is the actual aiming and control of the currently selected squad member. It's cool that games are starting to use the actual sights of the weapons you're carrying instead of the good old targeting reticle, but in this game the sights are way too big, and effectively give you tunnel vision by obstructing your periphreal vision. You can try using the auto-aim feature, but for some reason it likes to go from being locked onto the enemy to momentarily locking onto on of your teammates if they run anywhere near the line of fire, so that you shoot your own guys instead. The worst is with the mounted machine guns though. You have the 3rd person mode where the players body is in the way so you can't see precisely where you're aiming, and a first person mode where you still can't see a thing because of the huge gun sights. I enjoyed playing both Conflict Desert Storm games but I just couldn't get into this one and frustratedly returned it to the video store long before it was due back. The one plus of this game is the soundtrack for the cutscenes and when you're at the American base, you can't go wrong with the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane for a Vietnam videogame.

Another great "conflict" game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Conflict: Vietnam is a great addition to the "conflict" family. The game play closely resembles that of Conflict: Desert Storm I and II, with the choice of 4 soldiers to toggle back and forth between. This game just took it one step further, giving you more control over what your squad does, by allowing you to give your troops orders to heal down soldiers, or to be a human shield. I also found the levels to be longer and more intense than the original Conflict games. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone that enjoyed either of the Conflict: Desert Storm games.

Not even worth renting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Conflict vietnam is a squad based third person shooter. You control a squad of four soldiers who must go from objective to objective while killing enemies on the way.

That's about it. The mission is totally linear - leading the play from one point to the next with no variance. You can pick up VC weapons or stick with your own GI weapons.

The graphics are terrible. This is a cross-console game that was made for the slowest console (PS2) and the graphics probably look the same across the board. Water, ground, rocks, and enemies look fake and blockish. There's no detail, and the lighting is often awkward.

The control is not intuitive. Aiming automatically locks on during fire-fights, which makes for some lame combat action. Squad conrols are cumbersome and take too much time to use during combat.

As many other reviewers have said, Ghost Recon is a far superior squad based game. Brute Force has more intuitive firing and squad controls. And almost any other x-box game has better graphics. There are at least three other vietnam era games currently out on x-box - try one of them instead!

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