Vietcong
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This first-person shooter takes you straight to the jungle on 'Nam, in the heat of the battle where your only ally is your ability to blend onto surroundings. Wether through singleplayer mission or multiplayer mode, you will experience what it means to be in boots of an american soldier (or vietnamese in multiplayer) and relying upon the rest of your team. You can issue orders to your team members, plan your attack, deactivate possible traps, call in an airstrike, pick up enemy weapons, and more. Aside the suspenseful storyline, the multiplayer is extended to provide you with several well designed maps on which you can select several different gameplay methods, from clearing the ruins of enemy presence in coop mode, and protecting the relay station while enemy (either other players of computer AI) is marching attack upon you, to typical capture the flag and deathmatch modes. The weapon arsenal is wide enough, though you can only hold up to one knife (regular item), one hand gun (that means if you wanna pick up enemy's gun, you'll have to throw down yours), one machine gun (sniper, M16, shotgun, or such stuff), grenades, and possibly a map or some medicaments. Vietcong brings you into the heart of the conflict and it doesn't care about your sorry ass, but leaves you there in the dirt instead, to rely on nothing but your instinct for survival.
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- Вьетконг - Russian spelling
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Critics
Average score: 78% (based on 35 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 34 ratings with 4 reviews)
The Good
I guess the music was ok. It wasn't that good, but the idea of using 60's style music is nice.
The Bad
The graphics are awful (Half-life did this years ago). You can take 100 bullets before you die, so there aint much realism to talk about. The missions are ridiculous and boring.
The Bottom Line
This is not the vietnam game you're looking for. In fact, there is no vietnam game to this date that is worth playing. This one is way too low budget to even get close to decent.
Windows · by Grov (657) · 2003
The finest on-line multiplayer EVER!!!
The Good
This game has a good, taxing singleplayer campaign, which is absorbing, and tough on the harder difficulties (I defy anyone to complete it on vietnam mode!) The graphics and atmosphere are stunning, and the weapons are by far the most realistic ever in a game: Pterodon actually fired the weapons, modelled them and recorded the sound from the real thing, they even had a ballistics expert to perfect the weapons behaviour. Apart from this, it is the best multiplayer FPS I have ever played. It simply demolishes games like CS or DOD and was the FIRST Vietnam war FPS to come out. The 60's musical score is perfect too!
The Bad
The singleplayer campaign was less exciting than the multiplayer, but still challenging and rewarding. Maybe too easy when played on "easy" level (to be expected really)
The Bottom Line
The singleplayer is a fight for survival in varied hostile environs, from muddy swamps, to paddy fields, to the famous VC tunnels. You and a team of SF soldiers have to make your way through missions which vary from routine patrols, to horrendous close up battles in the jungle. The action swaps from fast paced firefights, to stealthy patrols. The multiplayer is a very well supported, and well devised game. There are lots of game types, and plenty of stunnning maps. Pterodon have been good about patches/maps and the new fist alpha update, and I think it is a game that will run and run - go get a copy!
Windows · by Charlie Kinloch (5) · 2004
The Good
Graphics are good and the weapons are quite realistic looking. Doesn't take long to get used to the controls. Quite an immersive story line.
The Bad
Too rigid in its story line. Controls are sometimes awkward to use. Sometimes the soldiers in your squad disobey orders from you. The scripted breaks for radio transmission disrupt the flow of the game. Hard to judge the throw of your grenades. If you are engaged in a fire fight and bring in arty support your soldiers tend to get killed because they wont stay put and advance on the enemy. It is very hard to climb over logs etc, you need to be in just the right position. There is only a VERY poor firing range with which to acclimatise yourself to new weapons.
The Bottom Line
Not a patch on Medal of Honour, but a refreshing change from WW2 all the same
Windows · by sbikerbud (9) · 2003
Trivia
German version
In the German version, all blood and gore effects were removed.
Red Dawn
On March 20, 2005, an official add-on titled Red Dawn was released for free. It was first included with the April issue of PC Gamer UK and later made available online. The expansion offers a new Vietcong cooperative campaign, new multiplayer maps, one new single player mission (Rice Fields), AI bots for the multiplayer mode and new theme music.
Awards
- Computer Games Magazine
- March 2004 - #8 Game of the Year 2003
- GameSpy
- 2003 – Most Underrated PC Game of the Year
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Game added July 1, 2003. Last modified March 6, 2024.