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Excellent excitement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the multiplayer demo of this game for several days, and it is fantastic. The lush jungle environment is beautiful (even on a 2 year old computer - 800mhz and GeForce 2 card is adequate). The game offers strange emotional punch as you are able to play both sides of the questionable war. Politics aside, the complex jungle landscape makes patiently hiding pay off as you are given powerful sniper rifles and camoflague.

I am not an avid FPS gamer, but this one is simple to learn and actually gets the heart racing. It is difficult to tell friend from foe at a distance in the jungle, and "friendly fire" is common in this game as well as in reality.

Great Game But Taste is Questionable...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I tried the demo for this game, and it does an excellent job at recreating a jungle war. From the buzzing of the insects to the running streams, this is perhaps the most realistic game I've tried.

Everything that a soldier experiences is captured... from the tense suspicion over every waver of a bush, to the immense difficulty it takes to identify a target before opening fire, thus leading to quite a bit of friendly fire casualties.

There is quite an aresnal of weapons at your disposal, from a silencer to various sniper rifles. In the multiplayer mode (at least), your given the choice of either playing a Vietcong soldier, or a US soldier.

What I am most concerned about in this game is its taste. In my opinion, it is in rather poor taste to exploit the Vietnam war in a videogame, but that is exactly what it does, despite stunning visuals, and wonderfully capturing the mood. For that I deduct a star from an otherwise perfect game.

Jungle Warfare to the Max

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You want jungle warfare this is it! You want a taste of Vietnam especially the highland or I should say the "I Corp" then this is it. The only thing missing is the red dust from the dustoff....I tried the demo version and it brought tears back to my eyes...walking the edge of the hilltops looking down the hill and seeing shadows running around...preparing to run through them blazing away......get this game for your favorite grunt from VN who knows what it takes to clear the area (search and destroy)....the negative is no "claymore"..hehehe
If you are not sure try the demo before purchasing would give you an idea if this is the fast paced game you want to play on the internet....catch you on the "CA"....

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!!!

Not for the "Run & Gun" 1st Person Shooters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. (Or at least the demo does as the full version isn't available yet) You can feel the terror as you try to walk quietly throught the jungle. Suddenly you hear a bullet whiz past your head. Where'd it come from? You look around and all you see is the jungle, you try to listen and all you hear is the wind in the trees and agitated Howler Monkeys. Finally, you catch a glimpse of something to your left about 30 yards out. You spin and shoot as a second round sizzles past you. Time for a grenade. You pull the pin and count 1,2,3, and heave it in the direction you thought you saw something...4,5 BOOM! Your ears ring as you see a lone black pajama clad figure scurry out of the bush away from you. You fire two rapid bursts from your M16A1 service rifle and the figure falls lifeless, to the ground. You breathe a sigh of relief and give thanks to your God, suddenly, horrifically, a third bullet slams directly into your chest with a sickening thud, your heart beats wildly in your ears..."Son of a B&%^^%*ch! I've been bush whacked" are your final thoughts...surroundings fade to black...all is quite, now.
If you sincerely love Quake, Unreal 2003, and Serious Sam, this may not be the game for you. However, if you want to experience realistic Jungle Warfare and hunt a deadly human enemy with realistically modeled weapons, look no further.
John F WIllis

Best FPS; environment and squad tactics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Counter Strike, Rogue Spear, Ghost Recon, Raven Shield (demo); this beats them all. The environment is awesome, first game where the environment is a pervaisive factor in gameplay. Crawl in water, through ferns, hide in bushes. Multiplayer action is awesome on broadband; 50 players in a battle. Very realistic in "vietnam mode", no fake sights like Ghost Recon (which I played routinely since it was released). This game forces you into cooperative squad tactics. Feels more "natural" than the others (peeking over rocks, around trees). Sound effects great. Jungle, jungle, jungle; very cool. Can run at 2048x1536 w/radeon pro and get 40fps with all features!! try that in any other game! Good rendering engine.

excellent realism, raises bar in today's standards

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

On trying the game from various game demos that i test from fileshack.com, I could tell that it wasn't just any other "this is realistic" game. VC offers a real jungle world where players can hide in the scenery and pick off the enemy from a distance.

On trying out the sniper, I felt like I was an actual GI employing "jungle warfare". In other games you just point and click, but in vc you have to think like you're in the jungle to survive. If you just run out you'll surely be sniped from a distance by enshrouded enemy snipers. If you crawl or quickly dash from bush to bush, the chances are greatly lowered.

The game offers a wide variety of actual guns used in nam including the tommy gun, m16, AK-47. So far the demo offers 3 modes of play: capture the flag, assassination, and all out death match. Get this game if you're looking for something that will be fun. After 40 hours of playing this, I'm still not bored.

Kick Butt and Plays forever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this demo for over a month now, this has got to be the best demo of a game I have yet to play. Can't wait to get the full version. This game incorporates so much realism and the graphics are very nice. I recommend this to anyone who wants a game that gives you chills and makes you jump when you get your head blown off because you werent paying attention. Anyone who liked MOH or Battlefield should like this unless your epileptic because its so real the movement could make you sick, literally.

The Multiplayer mode isn't worth playing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All I've played on this game so far is the online multiplayer mode. It's a bore... Everyone in the game keeps shooting each other. No plan, no direction... The game might be better in single player mode, but don't waste your time downloading the multiplayer, it sucks...

Has Lots of Potential

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

let;s not forget everyone that the version out now is only a demo.
developers put these out so that you the consumer can get an idea what the final product will generaly be like. Its also an oportunity to get feedback on the design,playability issues, and any bugs that need to be fixed before the final product is released. I gave this a 5 star because the developers obviously put alot of effort into making the environments as realistic as possible. The water/River effect is stunning! It looks so real!And this is a FPS Your supposed to go around and shoot everyone, if your in DM MODE. If your in another Mood of play and it happens just go to another game or start your own. Don't whine about it.

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