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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 18 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- An evolving storyline and intense sound system that captures the danger
- Lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions
- Full-featured multiplayer mode allows gamers to play as U.S. Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers
- Choose from more than 25 weapons, including M16’s, grenade launchers and sniper rifles
- Players can order air strikes or ambush enemy patrols
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Product Description
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Laden with expletives from the off, Vietcong is as far removed from a friendly family game as you can get. A gritty first-person shooter set in the midst of the Vietnam conflict, it's a brutal, engrossing game that needs one beast of a PC to be fully appreciated.
The Vietcong of the title are a crack fighting force, who put up some substantial resistance in the challenging single-player game. You can also, in multi-player mode, switch sides and pit your wits against the American forces. However, you don't have to play with humans to get a team-based feeling. The single-player mode at times demands that you lead a small team of fighters, although that's just one of the cocktail of tricks it throws at you.
The game's 20 missions generate really quite varied gameplay. If you've played other titles of a similar genre, you'll probably be familiar with the drill. Some require you to go out on attack, some require you to defend your positions and others involve more snooping and searching. At their best, the missions really are excellent; they're involving, deeply satisfying and offer a sturdy but enjoyable challenge. On the flip side, they can be a little uneven in tone. There are times when you can go a little too long without a sniff of action, for instance, and things can get quite frustrating.
But overall impressions are still very positive. The AI is strong, and the atmosphere the game generates is particularly engrossing. A varied arsenal of weapons helps add to the adrenaline-pumping action moments. Ultimately, if you've got a beefy PC and enjoy your first-person shooters, Vietcong should be at the top of your shopping list. -–Simon Brew
Product Description
Set during the Vietnam War, Vietcong is a first-person shooter with tactical elements, combining thrilling action with strategic thinking. The evolving storyline combined with the game's intense sound system, graphics and animation truly bring powerful jungle combat to life on your PC.
Acting as an elite soldier, you command the A-team, part of the US Special Forces, in realistically represented Vietnamese environments. Players will lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions, and follow a storyline that captures the danger, fear and unpredictability of the war itself. The full-featured multiplayer mode also allows gamers to play as US Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers and to battle over specially designed levels.
In Vietcong the player chooses from more than 25 weapons, including M16s, grenade launchers and sniper rifles. Players can order air strikes or ambush enemy patrols, but success ultimately depends on their ability to keep a level head in the thick of intense action.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
underrated and untouchable,
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This review is from: Vietcong (Video Game)
Vietcong is one hell of a game. For once and quite uniquely, the “enemy” have some character, you’re in their jungle territory, you hear them speak, you’re in their homeland, they care, they’re gonna get you before you get them. You’ll get up close instead of blindly shooting at anything that moves across the screen. All in all a little realism goes an awful long way in Vietcong. What Vietcong has, that other more famous war time FPS fail to achieve, is atmosphere. This feels like a real war game and a real battle. There’s plenty of stealth as well as full on fire-fights. You have to think as well as push the trigger. There are some moments where you will be so immersed you’ll jump out of your skin as a Vietcong emerges from the jungle in front of you. There are moments where you’ll feel totally overwhelmed and vulnerable. Refreshingly you’ll not feel the script is rushing you on to the next scenario. Vietcong is different and better than most war games because you are fully involved. You get the in between mission briefings animated, there are no cut aways to typed documents with mission overviews. You get to see the choppers getting you out once the mission is finished. And for an all time, wonderful gaming experience the rescue of the American POW from the Vietcong camp is tough, stealthy, brilliantly realised and amazing to play. There are one or two minor glitches but overall a great game that deserves a great deal more credit and great deal more gamers to play and savour. Rank it alongside Medal of Honour and Call of Duty when you want some quiet time mixed with trigger happy jungle trekking. It deserves its 18 rated badge for the language and often dodgy motivations, but at least Vietcong takes no prisoners in a straightforward and hard core Hollywood Platoon style romp.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vietcong,
This review is from: Vietcong (Video Game)
General/Summary: This is a great game.Very realistic to play.Gameplay: The game play is great.You need to take your time in the field or you will die quickly.The missions are very realistic as well as the multiplay portion of the game.The enemy is very hard to find in the thick jungle. The squad that you command and give orders to is a nice feature. Graphics: Graphics are great. I had some frame rate problems at first, but that went away when I installed the no cd patch. While in multiplayer your frame rate depends on how good your game server is. Sound: Sound is also great.I did however go in to dxdiag and turn down the audio excelerator.This also increased framerate with no loss to sound.They really did a great job with the sounds of the jungle.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Vietcong,
This review is from: Vietcong (Video Game)
We all know of the real vietcong, but this is your chance to exsperience all the firefights, snipers, traps and bombings from the saftey of your own homes. The computer are really intelligent (which makes a change from normal) which means that your actually going to have trouble killing them. There's special features such as horiffic traps and mines. You can either play as the vietnese, or the Americans. The scenary is absouloutly AMAZING. There's very, very dense foilidge and networks of caves and hide outs. This is a simple case of look two meters ahead of you in the open and shoot somebody, and it's not the case of somebody saying "act dead carefully" and been able to run around like a mad man, this is a game in which you have to treat things as real life. You can play dead to fool your enemies which is great for that moment in which you are surrounded. If you do ever get tired of going for the computer, then go on line and join in the multiplayer, this I can promise you never gets boring, it's brilliant. There is a realistic hud view in which there is no aids on the screen, and I mean nothing. No health meters, no ammunition counters, no crosshairs in the middle of the screen for easy playing, it means it's like what you would see. To aim your person will actually lift the gun up to his face and use the scope/aiming marks on the end of the gun. It's realism is amazing, and it has a great range of weapons. The only bad point with it which I can find is the sound. It may not be the game, and it may just be mine, but one or two others on the internet have the same problem, they say when using an automatic, there will be one bang, but you will continue to fire rapid, but no sound follows. This means it's like firing a rifle, then going into silent mode for a bit afterwards. Like I say though, don't let it put you off. You forget about it after a couple of times of doing it. It's a great game which you'll never get bored of.
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