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Description

As Alan Mason, a Marine Corps sergeant, you are sent behind the enemy lines, but the raid turns to a total warfare. You are to fight your way through the jungle, with weapons like M16, M60, M79 and LAW. The missions categorize from urban gun battles, through sneaking in the thick jungles to the man-made tunnels under the ground.

The battlefield is made lively with things like various air-strikes, anti-personnel mines, fire-fights, ambushes, snipers and tanks. There are even your fellow soldiers for you to fight with, giving you a feel that you we're really in a war, not a game.

You can challenge your friends in a multiplayer battle in total of 19 multiplayer levels with different game modes like Gruntmatch, Capture-the-flag and Fireteam, where each of you are allowed to select a soldier type and are sent to a different kinds of missions for you to fight.

Alternate Titles

  • "Vietnã" -- Brazilian title
  • "Napalm" -- European Title

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User Reviews

It's not that bad! Spartan_234 (426) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars
Interesting game ruined by insane difficulty - Telee - (14) 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars
Adequate Ian Loa (8) unrated
Love to hate it! Ben Fahy (75) unrated
Completely awful Remi Spaans (454) 0 Stars0 Stars0 Stars0 Stars0 Stars
Probably the worst game I've ever encountered. Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4476) 0.33 Stars0.33 Stars0.33 Stars0.33 Stars0.33 Stars
Ugh Wolfang (136) unrated

The Press Says

All Game Guide 1998 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars 60
Computer Games Magazine Oct 07, 1998 2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars 50
GameSpot Aug 05, 1998 4 out of 10 40
IGN Aug 12, 1998 3 out of 10 30
PC Zone Aug 13, 2001 2.8 out of 10 28

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Trivia

According to Matt Saettler and Lisa Sheets, Napalm was the original name for the game. It was changed to "Nam" at the request of the Wal-Mart chain of stores.


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Wolfang (136) on Mar 09, 2000.
 

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