Post by Keith Heitmann on Nov 26, 2004 21:44:44 GMT -5
I just installed this game yesterday. 4 disc install. It puts you in the role of a U.S. Marine PFC Dean Sheppard serving in Vietnam. After a quick training session you are transferred to a platoon and sent out on your first mission.
There's a lot of strong language and dialog in this game, so I don't recommend it for small kids. There's also a lot of blood spatter when a man is hit.
The missions take you through historically based incidents in Vietnam from the first landing at Da Nang onward.
While on patrol you start out with your primary weapon a M-14 carbine but as you find them you can pickup other weapons either friendly or VC and use them. You can pack up to 4 weapons, from rifles, pistols, MGs, grenades, etc.
Motion capture isn't bad, but as usual not perfect. The jungle environment gives you a good feel and allows the enemy to ambush you without warning.
The between mission or pre-mission cut scenes lay the ground work for the next mission you are on and run for several minutes at times.
Sound effects are realistic as are some of the visual effects of fire, explosions, screaming F-4s zooming past at treetop level and dropping a load o napalm on Charlie in the treeline.
At times the combat seems a tad too much like an arcade game, in that the enemy keeps charging at you in various waves. They aren't hard to kill, it's just that at some points there are quite a few and you may end up letting them get too close to lob a grenade at you. Enemy heavy MG emplacements never run out of ammo or have to reload. If you knock one out you can take it over and use it yourself from it's fixed position.
I've died many times already only get resurrected at the last progress autosave point. You can't manually save the progress of the game during a mission, so you are always put back to the last autosave point. This is remeniscent of the save points in "The Thing" which made the game a little frustrating to play because you might have repeat a very difficult point again instead of starting after that point from a manual save.
I was getting a little motion sick in the one tunnel rat mission I just completed. So I had to call it quits, but I made pretty good progress in the few hours that I played it last night.
All in all not a bad game, with enough tension and action to keep you interested and busy. If you are tired of WWII shooters or killing monsters, you might want to give this game a look.
There's a lot of strong language and dialog in this game, so I don't recommend it for small kids. There's also a lot of blood spatter when a man is hit.
The missions take you through historically based incidents in Vietnam from the first landing at Da Nang onward.
While on patrol you start out with your primary weapon a M-14 carbine but as you find them you can pickup other weapons either friendly or VC and use them. You can pack up to 4 weapons, from rifles, pistols, MGs, grenades, etc.
Motion capture isn't bad, but as usual not perfect. The jungle environment gives you a good feel and allows the enemy to ambush you without warning.
The between mission or pre-mission cut scenes lay the ground work for the next mission you are on and run for several minutes at times.
Sound effects are realistic as are some of the visual effects of fire, explosions, screaming F-4s zooming past at treetop level and dropping a load o napalm on Charlie in the treeline.
At times the combat seems a tad too much like an arcade game, in that the enemy keeps charging at you in various waves. They aren't hard to kill, it's just that at some points there are quite a few and you may end up letting them get too close to lob a grenade at you. Enemy heavy MG emplacements never run out of ammo or have to reload. If you knock one out you can take it over and use it yourself from it's fixed position.
I've died many times already only get resurrected at the last progress autosave point. You can't manually save the progress of the game during a mission, so you are always put back to the last autosave point. This is remeniscent of the save points in "The Thing" which made the game a little frustrating to play because you might have repeat a very difficult point again instead of starting after that point from a manual save.
I was getting a little motion sick in the one tunnel rat mission I just completed. So I had to call it quits, but I made pretty good progress in the few hours that I played it last night.
All in all not a bad game, with enough tension and action to keep you interested and busy. If you are tired of WWII shooters or killing monsters, you might want to give this game a look.