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AWESME...THE REALISM OF NAM ON THE PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game and it's awesome....I love it and can't get enoughof it. I highly recommend this game to anyone interested in Vietnam era games.

Essentially, the "Green Berets" of Vietnam games...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...and I don't mean that in a good way. However, I'm not really here to bash the game, in fact, I enjoyed it thuroughly and that it was a well done piece. It however really avoids any crucial points the Vietnam War really gave during the late 60's and early 70's. Being produced and created by a third-party company, Pterodon Games, it really has a sense of lacking that other games (much to say, 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault') really give in choice. I actually was very surprised to see that the graphics and lighting of the game were very well done. But the game premisise? That's another thing.

You play Sgt. Steven Hawkins (although in the game, his name is pronouced "Stephor", that's really because his middle name is R.), a young-Clint Eastwood lookalike sent to Camp Nui Pek (an actual base camp, pronouced "Neo-Peck") near the Cambodian boarder of South Vietnam, 1967, less than a few miles from the notorious Ho-Chi Mihn Trail, as a replacement when one of the camp's officers was KIA. You take his place, in the Special Forces there (basically means you don't get to wear those cool helmets, but instead wear a bandana) You start off the game in a Huey helicopter, riding with a fellow soldier named Hornster, a machine-gunner. After a small chat, you arrive in the camp. The camp is strangely shaped very similar to the medical camp in M*A*S*H (although that was Korea) and you then meet your fellow platoon members; P. Defort, a wimpy radioman; Sergeant Joe Crocker, your cliche medic (why do they always wear coke-bottle glasses?);Thomas Bronson, a Black engineer; Hornster is in there; and finally, Sergeant Le Duy Nhut (pronouced "Lee-Day Nut"), a South-Vietnamese pointman that supposively was formally apart of the VietCong (or NVA) in the country's despute with French diplomats and colonists during the French Indochina war of the late 50's. Once meeting the guys, your first mission is a Red-Cross type of delivery of rice to a nearby village. Then chaos errupts when a VC sniper starts picking off fellow villagers and your men. Dispose of him and return back. Simple, right? Not really. It gets pretty tough, dealing with real life warriors instead of monsters from a nuclear disaster or Zombies from an experiment in the mountains.

Unlike MOHAA, your health is very limited, and you're given a small amount of ammunition through the ENTIRE game. Whereas in most FPS games, you're given around 1000 rounds of bullets, but this this game worlds, you're given 20 rounds per clip and only about 4 magazines, depending on the weapon. And if you reload in the middle of the clip, you just lost about 10 valuable rounds and one clip. Sucks right? Not at all. It very fun, actually. As the missions drag on, so does a heck of alot of time. One of the many lows of the game is that the levels drag on for way too long and seem almost like you're not getting anything done. Your second mission has you, Nhut, Crocker and Defort surging through the dense jungles of Vietnam, searching for a village and watching out for ambush attacks. It's a very long level, being that the helicopter drops you off at least 5 miles from the destination point, not including the cliffs, lakes and rivers you have to go through. And to a bizzare extent, your character can't swim at all, so don't think about crossing the pond to get over to the goods, because you'll drowned slowly and painfully. Interesting, to keep very little ambundance with time period, you have to go through around 3 very long missions with dated weaponary (i.e. the M1 Carabine, most popularly used in WWII and Korea, but only used in Vietnam during the very beginning of the conflict, such to say, 1962?) before you can advance to more modern (or cliche) Vietnam War weapons, like the M-16, AK-47 or M-60. But it's certainly worth some of the wait.

The game's atmosphere and level design are very highly influnced by practically very single Vietnam War film ever done; Looking at the canopy top of the second mission reaminded me so much of "Platoon", that I was waiting to hear 'Adagio for Strings' by Samuel Barber star playing. One level where you rescue a captured pilot from an NVA camp is remesicent to the imfamous Russian-Roulette scene from "The Deer Hunter". Your Boot-Camp officer in basic training is a carbon-copy of R. Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket". You charge a muddy hill, much like in "Humburger Hill", and then in TWO levels in the game, you search through VC tunnels as a 'tunnel-rat', much like in the underrated war film, "Casualties of War". However, the movie homages get pretty corny sometimes, much like in the beginning of a level with half a dozen Huey helicopters flying to a mission, yours is shot down and spins out of control onto the ground, while someone over the radio says "We got a bird down, we got a bird down!", always laughable beginning totally without a doubt inspired by "Black Hawk Down". Probably one of the coolest levels is when you're inserted into a base camp on top of a hill in Cambodia, while pouring rain, trying to defend the camp from being overrun by the North-Vietnamese Army (NVA), which it eventually does and you escape just in the nick of time.

"Vietcong", in no doubt, is a great game and like most great games, it has it's flaws. It pretty much represents the Vietnam war in a light toned maner that what most people saw it. In the game, no anit-war statement is made (as if hippies didn't ever exist!) and no drugs like LSD or Marijuana are used by fellow soldiers unlike the real soldiers did. There's almost no strong profanity (aside from Bullsh*t) and the racial slurs are replaced by political indentities (instead of bigot hard-ridden soldiers calling Vietnamese "Gooks" or "Dinks", the strong lashing towards them is calling them "Communist Pigs" or "Commies". It's really quite funny) Aside from politics in the game given a heavy dose of Political Correctness, I recommend either buying it or borrowing it from a friend. It makes a great time passerby. That is, if you have A LOT of time! ;-)

Somewhat good, and Somewhat bad...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is unique in its on way. I did have fun playing it, and yes you full as if your there in the woods and jungles of vietnam. There are a few bugs here and there, but not enough to make you just want to stop playing it. If your in to fps shooters and like vietnam games this is an ok game to own for your PC gaming collection.

Great game for playing online!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great first person shooter.
Graphics are a little out dated but the game play is fun.

vietcong = worth the money

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

viecong turned out to be one of the finest games i have played in a long time the only problems with the game that i do not like is the fact that after every mission when you go back to your camp u are confined to your bunker and the shooting range and cannot roam around the camp there are excellent missions on this game such as holding and taking hills from NVA and VC rescuing POWs and finding MIAs in fact the only mission i didnt like was the tunnel rat mission where you have to crawl thru these seemingly neverending VC tunnels which are hopelessly easy to get lost in.
After playing this game i give it these grades:
graphics 8-10
sound 9-10
gameplay 9-10
replay 8.5-10
fun 9-10

overall 9-10
great game highly recommend it peace out

Don't believe the nay-sayers because this game is a blast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is, hands down, the best Vietnam War game out there. I've had this game for several years and recently reinstalled it on my PC, and it's just as fun now as it was when I first played it. Your role is that of a Special Forces intelligence sergeant who's part of Team A-216 stationed in Vietnam's Central Highlands, astraddle to the Cambodian border. The graphics aren't spectacular and the AI isn't the smartest, but the missions, maps, terrain, and overall atmosphere make this game a must-have. Your team is also very helpful and you need to work with them in order to accomplish the objectives.

Multiplayer sucks bad, but nobody plays it anyways, so don't let that discourage you. And if you think you're going to roll through the bush blazing away on full-auto with your M16, while mowing the NVA down, think again because you'll be KIA in short-order. This is not a "Rambo" 1st person shooter.

Wrong kind of game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

MULTIPLAYER [BAD] IN THIS GAME

In multiplayer it is the wrong setting for the type of game this is. This is a fast paced game like quake, with the setting of a covert opperationg such as Vietnam. I thought this game was going to be one like America's Army, it did not deliver, in this sense.

What makes the fast pacedness of this game even worse is that there are no clips of ammo lieing around so you are constantly forced to use your knife (a very ineffective weapon). This is especially true in multiplayer mode.

As well the graphics are not nearly as good as they could and should be. The grass is pixelated, an the whole invironment has totally the wrong lighting. OH WAIT, correct that, it has practically no lighting effects at all.

Anyways the single player is fine (it's kinda like Ghost Recon graphics wise), so get this game only for Single player, NOT multiplayer.

If you like the multiplayer in a game most then don't get this game at all!!!

the best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is awsome the graphics rock! if you like line of sight vietnam youll love this game. Choose from over 20 weapons to kill the enemy. Sneak into vc tunnels and take control with a colt 45. or some other weapon. I highly recommend this game so get it.

Even better than Battlefield 1942!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Vietcong is the ultimate online multiplayer. I love games like Battlefield 1942, but this is even better. 5 Stars!!!!

Shooter you must have.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game 3 days ago. The multiplayer version is fast paced but fun.
Graphics on my PC (1.6, 512 Ram, Nvidia Ti card) are pretty crisp.
Mission wise, a good game all around. Weapons are pretty tight.

The previous reveiws were all demos. I don't know if that makes a difference.

My favorite game ever has been Tactical Ops. Vietcong is easily becoming my third favorite multiplayer right after Battlefield 1942.

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