Vietcong (Windows)
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Published by

Gathering of Developers, Inc.

Developed by

Illusion Softworks, a.s., PTERODON, Ltd.

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Asia, Cold War, Historical events

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Description

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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Vietcong Windows Arriving at Nui Pek camp, your base of operations

Vietcong Windows Playing some tutorials.

Vietcong Windows While riding a chopper you can look around at your leisure

Vietcong Windows Opening ingame cinematic in 32bit color and most setting set to max.

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Alternate Titles

"Вьетконг" -- Russian spelling

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User Reviews

A criminally overlooked classic. One of the best PC shooters ever.	Jim Newland (60)
The finest on-line multiplayer EVER!!!	Charlie Kinloch (6)
Makes a change from WW2	sbikerbud (10)	unrated
Very disappointing	Grov (667)

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Critic Reviews

Game Captain	Apr 22, 2003	89 out of 100	89
Game Chronicles	Jun 13, 2003	8.3 out of 10	83
4Players.de	Apr 08, 2003	82 out of 100	82
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	May 27, 2003	81 out of 100	81
Jeuxvideo.com	Apr 10, 2003	16 out of 20	80
Games TM	Apr 24, 2003	8 out of 10	80
Gamesmania.de	Apr 17, 2003	78 out of 100	78
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jul, 2003		70
IGN	Mar 31, 2003	7 out of 10	70
Gamereactor (Sweden)	May 08, 2003	7 out of 10	70

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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.