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Low score given by IGN but I rate it high

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Game sets in '68 Nam. You start as a private and advance higher and higher through the ranks. Game play is very good, very challenging but it has it flaws as does every other game out there. I'll give you a for instance: During gameplay you and your squadmates are engaging the Vietcong and your allies will run right into the enemy and the enemy will find you first and shoot at you. But during later missions your squad will actually get in some great shots to aid you. Graphics are outstanding, voice-over is a little off. Very graphic about blood and body parts and yes very course language. Has a great soundtrack from the 60's. Be warned this game is very, very long. Another plus, it has co-op play so you and your buddy can play split screen or even on XBox Live. So, enjoy this game because, I love it.

A Solid First Person Shooter.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Men Of Valor contains intense firefights in the jungle's,underground bunker's,foxhole's,and towards the end into the city.I felt I was able to see the enemy better in this game than the other Vietnam games,but in the very dense jungle parts it was hard too see the enemy,much like the real vietnam war.There's no commands to give either to your squadmates,they pretty much figure it out on there own,but sometimes I wish I could direct them because sometimes they weren't any help,but sometimes they saved my but many times as I was flanked to my side by an enemy.Sometimes your followed by 2 to 4 teammates .And one mission is solo in the underground bunker.(The whole game you just control your own man).It kinda works out because you have your hands full with the many tough enemy soldiers coming at you.I played it on next to hardest setting and it was just hard enough to keep me going.But you can't save on the fly,you have to make it to a checkpoint before game automatically saves.I guess it took me about 25 hours to finish ,it seems longer than the other games.When I finished game a total of 1,330 enemies I killed. This is not a tactical squad type command shooter where you give orders mostly all tactical orders are given to you. You do have squadmember's with you fighting along side you,sometimes they took point ,but mostly it's you who's up front.You can also pick up enemy weapons and health,but you better be quick because they dissapear after a while.You can also switch out weapons trade your's for there's.You have a total of 4 weapon slots. Whenever I got the chance I would pick up an AK47 or any enemies weapon because your own ammo supply will run short,then you just pick up enemies ammo,and health after youv'e blasted them because they only drop ammo that fits there guns not your supplied american weapon.This game also sticks to the facts of the vietnam war,your not gonna win,just like the real war,but you do save a life and win many small battles.I won't spoil who it is.It's no real big plot twist.Also the facts displayed during load times are interesting.The graphics are good,a little blocky,but still nice,some of the explosions were really kool,nice fire effects,also during the cutscenes you can look around in first person while they are playing. Keep in mind I am using an "S" cable which inhances graphics on all games.I like it when you get to the city parts ,you can see the enemy better.Lets face it the jungle's a tough place to fight an enemy with so many hiding places.This game gave me a respect for the vietnam war,the soldiers and the effects it had on our country.It makes you feel like your in it.In conclusion this is a solid shooter game.With a no brainer type game style,mostly linear with tactical commands for your soldier.Just shoot,take cover,shoot,run,rinse,repeat.All of the commands are directed (at you) such as "defend perimiter",or "take that turret",or "take out RPG & Sniper's",or "provide cover fire for squadmate so he can take out bunker",or "take out that tank.etc.etc."

EA games your days of making crappy war games is over

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game yesterday and I was impressed with the over all presentation. Sure it's no Halo 2 (comes out in less than 30 days) mind you, but it's not supposed to be. This is a very accurate vietnam war game. I myself own some of the weapons that are avalible in the game (Colt 1911, SKS, M14), and they all sound and reload the way they do in real life. The single player game and 2 player cooperative mode is very well done. The trees, voices, and best of all the explosios all have very nice touches added to them. Both the enemy and allied AI is good but not great. The soundtrack is another stong point for the game it consists of 60's and 70's music combined with a classic modern battle score. The developers 2015,were previously with EA games and made allied assualt. The first medal of honor on ps1 was a breakthrough in ww2 games, and at the time was created by dreamworks interactive. Electronic Arts being as greedy as they are bought the small development team and like their sports franchises tried to create a monopoly. MOH Allied Assault was a great game on the PC but it lacked what war was all about, blood and more importantly the attitudes of the men who fought it. MOH frontline was a scaled down version of allied assault for PS2 and was a direct port to XBOX, as was Rising Sun. These were both ok games, but they were lacking something. Men of Valor powered by the unreal engine improves the over concept of the first person war game genre and adds several new game features like the ablitily to bandage your self when you are bleeding, and being able to search dead bodies of both enemies and allies. If you do not use cover and tactics you will not last long, you are not a geniticaly engineered superhuman cyborg that can jump 10 feet in the air and then do a 180 in mid-air, while shooting some one in the head with a sniper rifle from 200+ meters, you are an average soldier with a small amount of health and average abilities. I have not played the online multi-player enough yet but the class based system should be interesting. If the game would have come out a few months earlier like it was supposed to it would recieve much more praise, but with Halo 2 on the horizon it will quickly be over shadowed, and it might not recieve the following that it deserves.

Wonderful realism, but very difficult

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing first person shooters since Doom was on the market. Men of Valor has wonderful graphics, story, and realism. The only aspect of the game I hate is the difficulty level. When the difficultly level is on easy I had to play some missions over 12 times! I pride myself on beating most games on medium to hard. If you like to play a mission over and over again this game is for you, but I like to progress through a game in a reasonable amount of time. Oh yeah, one more thing, there is one set number of enemies on a mission. For example, I was walking through the jungle with my squad and came upon a village of four to five huts; VC jumped out immediatly. I found cover behind a tree and picked then off with my M-14, but they never stoped comming. When I finished the mission I had killed 128(!) enemies in 4-5 huts. Overall the graphics, story, and weapons are great, but the difficulty level is like pushing a concrete block in the sand.

THE BEST WAR GAME BAR NONE!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

PLEASE DONT MAKE TO MUCH OUT OF THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS. I CANT BELIEVE THE DISS BY OXM (OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE)REGARDING THIS TITLE. THE GAME PLAYS PRACTICALLY LIKE HALO, W/ THE EXCEPTION OF NOT BEING ABLE TO JUMP (NO BIG DEAL). THE GRAPHICS ARE A SIGHT TO BEHOLD. THE NARRATION AND PRESENTATION ARE WELL SCRIPTED. THIS GAME IS A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CULTURE OF THAT TIME.IE..THE LANGUAGE/CURSING (WHICH YOU PROBABLY DONT WANT KIDS TO PLAY..BUT THATS WHAT WAR/KILLING/STRESS WILL DO TO YOU) ALSO, THE MUSIC REALLY ADDS A ELEMENT OF REALNESS TO THE GAME (MOST WAR TYPE GAMES I'VE PLAYED DO NOT EMBRACE THIS FACTOR). I DEFINATELY LIKE FACT THAT (VIVENDI) HAD THE COURAGE TO TELL THIS STORY FROM THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE, WHICH IS EVIDENT IN DEAN'S LETTERS TO AND FROM HIS FAMILY. MEN OF VALOR IS A GAME THAT WILL KEEP YOU BLASTING AWAY MUCH LONGER THAN HALO 2 IN TERMS OF LONGEVITY. ONE OF THE KNOCKS ON THIS GAME IS THE ENEMY (AI). YES, YOU SOMETIMES SLIP UNDER THE RADAR BUT NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AS I WISH I COULD!! THESE CATS WILL CUT YOU DOWN IF YOU TRY THE BUMRUSH TACTICS.. GO AHEAD AND TAKE ME UP ON IT!? AFTER ALL IS SAID, I'M GIVING THIS GAME 5 STARS. HI! MY NAME IS D. TUCKER AND I APPROVE OF THIS GAME ;P

What a tremendous surprise!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is WOW!The awsome graphics ,The awsome sound which is also better that holo 2(sound that is),and the very grand presentation and story some of the battles you fight will have your heart completely racing its that good. I played trough this game in about 15-20 hrs I didnt really keep up with it.A few days later i got my copy of Halo 2 As huge of fan as i am of Halo I'll have to admit I had more fun with this game.Halo 2 is only about 11-12 hrs long and you can read my review on it I was disapoited.Be warned if you are offended my vulgar languge or if you crack under pressure this is not a game for you.most of us may be to young to haved served in vietnam thankgod,but this game puts the hell our soldiers went trough in a new context in your brain up till now if you werent there yourself I guess you have visions of Vietnam from movies Like Platoon,Apox.Now,Hamburger hill,in this game you mind will go into vietnam overdrive.I would go to bed and have dreams of VC poping outta bushes and diffrent things like that,it really gave me better perspective on the war then,and a greater appreation for are military men and women fightin in Iraq and Afganistan,if anythin after you play this game I believe you will Have A better understaning of the phrase War Is hell,atleast as much as you can get without have being there.

The Most Realistic Nam Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My original review for this game was a lampoon of complaints. Now that I have actually beaten it on the normal difficulty setting and given it a second chance on the easy difficulty setting, I must say this game is probably the most accurate depiction of the war, realism being its primary principle. And I have played all the Nam games, with the exception of Purple Haze which I shall purchase sooner or later.

What I liked most about it was how it did not take a side. Meaning, no matter what your thoughts were about the war, you cannot disagree with the game. You see it through the eyes of a fictional soldier, who dose not question the right or wrong of the battle, but fights simply to survive. Your character, Dean, is developed mostly through letters he receives from his parents and the letters he writes home. Unfortunately, no attempt was made to bring the player closer to the other men. You do see them engage in tremendous acts of bravery, such as carrying a wounded comrade on their shoulders to safety under enemy fire. There was this one unforgettable scene where a soldier is weeping over the body of a dead commander, as napalm fire ignites forest in the background. This kind of humanism in fictional characters is what really brings a game like this home.

All the battles you engage are reenactments of actual battles during the real war, starting with simple patrols around the Da Nang airbase, followed by Operation Starlite, the first US military offensive in the war, and eventually taking you into the Hill Fights of Khe Sahn, the fight for Siagon, and the fight for Hue. The Tet Offensive, so to speak, where both sides agreed to a cease fire until the celebrations of the Vietnamese New Year was over (the truce broken by the NVA/VC). Let me tell you, your character, Dean Shepard, must be one tough motherfo to survive THAT long in-country! You will be immersed by jungle, by swamp, and by the tight walls of enemy trenches and underground tunnels. I just wish the game would have dedicated some disc space to Vietnam War life outside the battlefield, but...all is well.

In order to beat this game, you have to take every precaution in order not to get shot. You must spend the majority of your time taking cover behind trees and rocks in the jungle, shooting short bursts at enemies in the distance. You cannot advance without huddling behind every object you come across, even if there are no known enemies around, because the VC is constantly in wait, ready to ambush you and your squadron. This is really the only thing that makes the game so long, and it dose not fit into everyone's preference. A lot of the times, certain levels require you to beat it a *certain way, not just any way feasible. This, to me, is totally inexcusable. Especially when the level is so hard that it is impossible to sustain life for anymore than five minutes, but somehow you are expected to find the path the producers intended you to follow while you are under gunfire that is so heavy, if you stand up just for a second you will find yourself dead and starting the level all over again. Which brings me to the issue of there being no save feature. So, expect to play the same crap again, and again....and again.

Luckily, there is a difficulty setting where you can set it to easy which dose enhance the game dramatically. You will spend more time playing than dying on the easy level, except on those select few missions where you have to beat the mission a *certain way and spend hours dying while searching for that way. If there was no easy level, this game would not be worth a nickel because on the normal level I spent so much time dying on just one mission that I couldn't even follow the story and often forgot which battle I was in. The easy difficulty setting will provide a much more fluent gaming experience for those who are after *The Experience*. For those who are after a challenge and wish to die repeatedly (and you will, I don't care how good you think you are) then this game is right up your alley when set on normal. I don't even want to think what the hard setting is like. And you are reading a review from a person who thinks Doom 3 is easy on any difficulty setting, so I ain't no push over.

Good game but falls short in some aspects

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

NEGATIVES:
-On the first couple levels, enemies sometimes pop out right in front of you or behind you without even shooting.
-Enemies sometimes run around chaotically without direction.
-Team AI is mediocre throughout the game, you'll be killing the vast majority of the enemies.
-Enemies always yell. You'll always know that enemies are in the area because you'll hear them yelling slogans such as "F*** you GI" & "This is my country" in a stero-typical asian accent.
This happens WAY too much throughout the game.
-Some Enemies take too many hits. 5 bullets from an M-60 or any other gun should be more than enough to put down any VC or NVA soldier but not in this game.
-Directions for completing tasks are too brief. On about every other level, it seems like there are parts where you get stuck because the directions were too brief & you don't know what to do.
-Holding down the B-button to heal your wounds gets really annoying & hurts your thumb. (the developers should have made it so you just press it, not hold it down)
I've died sooo many deaths because of this annoyance!
-Long loading times
-No rewards for beating the game (no cheats, videos, nothing?)

POSITIVES:
-Guns (plenty of awesome firepower)
-Gameplay (for the most part it's usually real good)
-Some levels actually make you feel like your in Nam
-The gun turret parts of the game are really good. You'll be shooting out of a huey & some other helicopter.
-Most levels are well designed
-There are usually enough checkpoints in missions
-The story line is actually decent
-Graphics are pretty good
-Sound is also pretty good

Men of Valor is a good game but it also has it's share of annoyances which can hinder game play.
The main two annoyances being that you have to hold down the B-button when ever you get shot & that enemies take too much damage (usually in the 2nd half of the game)

Over all I would give the game a 7 out of 10.
It would have been nice if there were more game modes for single player.
I picked my copy up for $20 and it was worth it.
I wouldn't have paid more than $25 for it though.

Replay value isn't very high.

Men Of Valor XBOX Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is extremely realistic, but the difficulty is very hard even on easy mode. I got it for my bday on (...) I beat Hamburger Hill and part of the next level. I am stuck on the ville part. After I clear the hooches in the first ville, I go through the grass to the bridge. I usually get past it but when I go to the 2nd ville I get killed. Also, my checkpoint thing is messing up so when I turn it off and then on again later I have to do the first ville again. Other than the difficulty level, this game is very good and will probably give you an idea of what it was like in the intense firefights of Vietnam. Maybe Vivendi should have lightened up on the language?

this game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is so awsome.i'm only 12 but i love studing war all day.this game has great graphics and sound.I like when you land on iron triangle.Halo is a good game just like brothers in arms but this game rocks.Not too brag but i have probably every war game.don't rent it buy it

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