Customer Reviews

Conflict: Vietnam

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

CONCEPT: Lead a four man infantry squad from the 101st Airborne (YEAH, BABY!!! I'm a 101st infantry vet) on a variety of missions during the Vietnam War. Your troops can be customized to perform different tasks or use weapons with different degrees of expertise.
GRAPHICS: Any one who is a "veteran" of the "Conflict" series (Desert Storm I&II) will know that the graphics are solidly decent. Not too great, yet not terrible. Characters tend to look a bit jerky when running, and enemy troops (NVA and VC) are rather tough to pick out in the jungle during a firefight (I guess that adds to the realism...). Weapon models are decent, as the weapons look more or less like their real-life counterparts, although size was a factor (ain't it always?). 7.62x51mm M-60 machine guns were roughly the same size as 7.62x54mm Mosin-Nagant rifles and THEY were kinda the same size as a 9mm M3 "Grease Gun"! Backgrounds were nice, as were the FMV sequences. I could go on, but I have a review to write...
SOUND: Again, C:DS I&II vets will know this. Sound is at best so-so. Voices are muffled and have no variety. Gets a little old when the M-60 gunner blasts someone and yells "Another one bites the dust!!!" over and over. There is very little sound difference between your weapons and the weapons of the enemy, so firefights can be somewhat confusing, and weapon reloading sounds nothing like it does in the real world. You cannot turn the voices off, you just have to live with it. The music is really cool, though. Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane and Martha and the Vandellas are there, as is the song that no 'Nam movie/game could live without, "Paint It, Black" by the Stones. Nice musical choices, more would have been nicer. Lines spoken by the game characters reference some classic 'Nam flicks like Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, and Platoon (your character's name is Kahler, rhymes with Taylor...). It's a nifty touch.
CONTROL: Controls are irritating at first, juggling between commanding troops, splitting up ammo and gear, and fighting. However, this was a gripe I had with the "Desert Storm" games, and after a while, I was good to go. Patience is a virtue. However the hallmark of the "Conflict" series was/is the ability to command your troops in a realistic fashion, even allowing you to implement actual infantry combat tactics.
WHAT'S NEW: There are a few changes that have been made for this game, that are new to the "Conflict" series. Now, you can order your men to pick up certain items (weapons, gear), heal wounded squad members, provide cover for each other or friendly units, and disarm booby traps. Also, when you go into 1st person aiming mode, you see the sights of the weapon, and not just generic crosshairs. However, the iron sights look pretty much the same, so the novelty wears off rather quickly.
OVERALL: You'd think that after all these gripes, I'd hate this game. Well, the developers took the tried and true "Conflict" formula and did it again. I loved the first games and so far, I like this one. All three games have a distinct flavor that take some time to get used to. Being a Vietnam game you have to get past some of the silly Vietnam stereotypes. You have the dumb redneck, the black dude from the city, and the ever-present scream of, "I can't take it anymore!!!" Being developed by Pivotal Games, you have to get past the lack of historical and military correctness (Military-type dialogue was taken to the hilt, and platoons have more than 4 guys. maybe you are LRRPs - Long Range Recon Patrol). But, overall it is a fun game with a nerve-wracking feeling of "What's behind THAT tree?" and triumphant feeling when that Huey swoops in to pick you and your boys up after a mission. Foul language, drug references and a real music soundtrack easily makes this entry into the "Conflict" series the most realistic (all things considered) and viceral. Check this one, you won't be let down. By the way, if any one from Pivotal Games is reading this, a game set during the Korean War (1950 - 1953) would be most welcome...

Conflict: Vietnam is another great game in the "Conflict" series. For the record I am a female & I never really play any fighting games (with the exception of the Conflict games) because I'm not into the shooting/fighting games. When Back to Baghdad came out my husband begged & begged me to play it with him & I finally did & I couldn't stop. When we saw that there was a new one out we sent my husband out the night it was released to get it. We love it. As the other reviewer stated the controls are the same but I didn't find the game easier. If anything I found it a little harder. You still have the option to do the missions on 3 different levels & we started at the bottom on easy. It still takes us a few tries before we beat a board but if you want a harder challenge do it on one of the harder levels. We like to beat it on easy & then go back & beat it on the other levels. The boards seem to be a lot bigger on this game & it's a little more difficult finding you way because there are a lot of foliage. It looks like your in the jungle most of the time. If you liked Conflict: Back to Baghdad or are looking for a new shooting game I highly recommend this game. We love it.

A hilarious portrayal of this otherwise very serious war, Conflict: Vietnam exaggerates just about every theme the war has inspired in films such as Full Metal Jacket, the Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. It is about four men who's troubles begin during a inevitable separation with their Platoon while doing an ordinary patrol through the jungle. The group's Sergeant, Frank Wier, while determined to return to the 101st, is a man that has a much greater agenda in mind other than survival. A true dedicated leader in the war against Communism. And somewhere between scavenging for Intel, destroying hidden weapon caches and eliminating scattered NVA operations throughout the jungle, the true aim is to just make it back to their squadron. You encounter abandoned Buddhist temples infested by VC, explore large networks of underground tunnels, plow through swamps, cliff-hang off the sides of Hues and shoot at NVA militants below with M-60s. I mean, this is a pretty fun game! There are also a few unique missions in addition to the ordinary seek and destroy, where stealth often plays an important role in your run for victory, namely the mission where you help a small group of South Vietnamese villagers rescue some people from their tribe who were kidnapped by the VC.

This game is bound to keep whoever plays it occupied for countless hours.
When it originally hit shelves in late 2004, I immediately bought it (Being a big fan of the Conflict Desert Storm games). Taking you from the base... to the jungle...to a POW camp...to hovering around in a chopper. This game does indeed place you in Vietnam!

It's great that they take wars from back in the day and make into a video game it give this young generation a history lesson. Even if it's bloody violent I say it has to be that the only way a game can get their attention. Gory bloody games is what out today. This Vietnam has great graphics and good sound you can move all around the board which means more adventure.

This game is too hard at the Beginning but when you learn to use the controls the game is very adictive, is one of the best Conflict series.

I loved the single player mode of this game and suggest to anyone that likes single player games to buy it. The controls are a little weird but are easy to catch onto. The multiplayer I was expecting to be just as good. It was a co-op mission in mutiplayer which isn't very good in my opion. Over all I suggest this game.

Conflict has the best war game/fighter games on the market to me. And I'm not really a big fan of games outside of sports. But this 3rd installment of the series is gold. It takes you back to the time of Vietnam as you should know by the title. Its the best Vietnam themed game on the market. I hear some people complain over the controls and such.....but like any game it takes time to learn the them and once you do that switching guns and getting health packs become second nature. I do it without even thinking about it because I'm so used to the series.It has a turtorial,use it! Go thru it twice if you have to. What makes this one different from the other 2 before it is its set in mostly jungle backgrounds which require a different stratagy then being in a desert. You never know whats coming at you from where and your always on the edge. You have to lookout for traps and such because you just can't run out guns a blazing or your dead. This series hasn't been known much for its graphics, but come on, when your dodging bullets in a game do you really think to yourself "Wow, he's kinda choppy and the sky isn't really sky blue."? Give me a break. The graphics are good enough for you to know whats what. The soundtrack is kick-ass and I even listen to those songs now and people think I lost my mind. I just tell them I've been thru the "dogs of war"! LOL! If you take your time and and don't let the controls fustrate you then you will truely enjoy this game for the experiance and when you talk to a "Nam" vet tell him you know what he's been thru.Well maybe not,but the game has that surreal feeling. Vietnam was no joke.

KD

It is harder to kill the enemy than Conflict Desert Storm but I think that adds to the thrill. Usually a headshot will take em down pretty fast. I also like the flying blood and limbs. The heavy use of profanity is cool too.

This game does absolutely rock!Alot like Desert Storm 2
but better and definitely harder.You never know what`s around
the next corner.Just a tip, you don`t have to make all silent
kills to get out of the P.O.W. camp on the level "Russian Roulette". I grabbed the A.K. then went to the back room, got some medkits and the knife then snuck out and silently killed the guard snoozin.Then picked up his A.K. That gave me enough ammo to start mowin down everybody and grabbin their ammo as I went.The silent kill plan is fun too though.The mission scenerios seem pretty authentic from what I know about Vietnam.
Great graphics too. A must buy