Conflict: Vietnam

by Global Star

Product Features

• 14 enormous missions will take players through small villages, into ruined temples, and down Viet Cong tunnel complexes
• Develop your men's skills -- Use performance-based points after each mission, in categories like Sniper, Medic, Demolitions, and Leadership
• Work with the era-specific arsenal of over 20 weapons - assault rifles, mortars,. 50 caliber machine guns -- even call in napalm air strikes
• Put your squad behind the wheel of APCs, Jeeps, tanks, helicopters and river boats
• Revitalized control scheme allows context sensitive commands like giving covering fire and guarding civilians

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002GTFJO
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 10, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,610 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

In a conflict that lasted 11 years and killed over 3 million people, four men are going to have the longest 28 days of their lives. Cut off behind enemy lines during the 1968 Tet Offensive with no way to contact help, four young, barely trained soldiers realize their only hope for survival is to head into the heart of darkness. With few rations and dwindling ammunition, the only thing that separates them from freedom is 100 miles of ruthless terrain, crawling with unseen enemies. They don’t want to win any war, they just want to make it home alive.

Features:

• The third game in the hugely successful Conflict series.
• Fourteen enormous missions will take players deep into the Vietnamese jungle, through small villages, into ruined temples, and down Viet Cong tunnel complexes.
• Fully deformable environments that players can use against the enemy or that the enemy can use against them. Splinter vehicles apart, shoot out lights, collapse buildings--whatever it takes to survive!
• Use performance-based points after each mission to develop your characters in 12 skill categories such as Sniper, Medic, Demolitions and Leadership.
• A revitalized control scheme allows context sensitive commands such as giving covering fire and flanking enemies.
• An era-specific arsenal of over 20 weapons including assault rifles, mortars, .50 caliber machine guns and the ability to call in napalm air strikes.
• A wide range of vehicles puts your squad behind the wheel of APCs, Jeeps, tanks, helicopters and river boats.
• Paranoia inducing AI with enemies that set booby traps, strike from hidden areas, and coordinate their attacks in an environment that they are the masters of.

Product Description

Conflict: Vietnam is the story of four men struggling for survival in the hostile Vietnam jungle. It's 1968 when they're cut off from their unit and left behind enemy lines. Tasked with fighting their way back to their side, they are faced with day-to-day survival in a hostile environment. Navigate ruthless enemy terrain, while fighting an unseen, "invisible" enemy that could be hiding anywhere and everywhere. Advanced enemy AI -- watch out as the VC set booby traps, strike from hidden areas, and coordinate their attacks in an environment they have mastered

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Conflict Hit!, November 4, 2004

By 

W. Newberry "agent_47" (st.simons.isl., GA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conflict: Vietnam (Video Game)

I like this game. It's my favorite of the Conflict series. The missions are hard ,with bullets flying by everywhere,and enemies coming from all sides at times.I'm playing it on normal setting and its hard. There's four settings easy,normal,hard,and extreme.I can only imagine how hard the extreme level is. I found that the best way to play this game is to use each one of your soldiers wisely. I always found ample supply of ammo,but you gotta be smart about this game,search everywhere to find all the extra med-pacs,ammo,weapons,grenades,etc.There's some serious firefights in this game. It beats all other versions of this series.ITS HARD!This game might be too hard for some players.Its the hardest conflict of the three games.The graphics are average,simular to SOCOM2 for PS2.They do seem to get better in the later levels. But I'm using an "S" cable,so thats why my graphics look better than the standard RCA plugs. There is a stealth aspect in some of the missions, but most of it is balls to wall bullets flying everywhere.This game very much depicts the frantic pace of the real vietnam war. With lush jungle environments,and enemies hiding in almost every corner.You can switch between each squad member and control there every movement,and you can switch between third & first person perspective by clicking right thumbstick.But First person perspective is kinda bad because the weapons aiming scope blocks almost the whole screen ,only the pistol,sniper & crossbow use just the crosshairs,all the other weapons literally take up the whole screen in first person mode.Almost all the weapons have a zoom option in first person,click the left analog stick. But I found that third person was best, except for sniper weapon,so you can see what the heck is going on. The levels are mostly linear ,but there's usually two routes you can take,like a fork in the road.This game definatley requires you to use your head .Watchout for booby traps ,Running and gunning will get you killed almost always,but sometimes you gotta run .The first mission is just walking around talking to people,but that soon ends as the bullets start flying by.If your having trouble beating this game here's the code for ALL CHEATS: At "Main Menu" Press,RT-RT-LT-LT-B-B-Y-Y-X-X-White Button.Then a Cheats option will open in menu.It gives you INF AMMO ,INF SAVES,ALL LEVELS,ALL MOVIES. Then after starting or loading a saved game while playing pause to menu go to OPTIONS the you'll see CHEATS to turn on INF AMMO,INF SAVES.It took me a few tries to get the cheat to work ,but it does work ,just keep trying.I'd turn off my xbox to reset ,it seemed to do the trick.RT= Right trigger,LT= Left Trigger.I Played this game again on the EXTREME level ,just because I like a challenge.Plus with the "infinate" saves cheat ,that made it more fun.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even worth renting, October 29, 2004

By 

Chip L "chip1978" (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conflict: Vietnam (Video Game)

Conflict vietnam is a squad based third person shooter. You control a squad of four soldiers who must go from objective to objective while killing enemies on the way.

That's about it. The mission is totally linear - leading the play from one point to the next with no variance. You can pick up VC weapons or stick with your own GI weapons.

The graphics are terrible. This is a cross-console game that was made for the slowest console (PS2) and the graphics probably look the same across the board. Water, ground, rocks, and enemies look fake and blockish. There's no detail, and the lighting is often awkward.

The control is not intuitive. Aiming automatically locks on during fire-fights, which makes for some lame combat action. Squad conrols are cumbersome and take too much time to use during combat.

As many other reviewers have said, Ghost Recon is a far superior squad based game. Brute Force has more intuitive firing and squad controls. And almost any other x-box game has better graphics. There are at least three other vietnam era games currently out on x-box - try one of them instead!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rentable, but not buyable, April 2, 2005

By 

Brian D. Sims (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Conflict: Vietnam (Video Game)

Luckily I rented this game instead of buying it outright. Even now I feel like asking for my rental money back. The graphics for this game are decent, but not amazing. And the overly complicated system for issuing orders to your team or an individual will make you forget about any redeeming characteristics of the graphics. The worst thing by far though is the actual aiming and control of the currently selected squad member. It's cool that games are starting to use the actual sights of the weapons you're carrying instead of the good old targeting reticle, but in this game the sights are way too big, and effectively give you tunnel vision by obstructing your periphreal vision. You can try using the auto-aim feature, but for some reason it likes to go from being locked onto the enemy to momentarily locking onto on of your teammates if they run anywhere near the line of fire, so that you shoot your own guys instead. The worst is with the mounted machine guns though. You have the 3rd person mode where the players body is in the way so you can't see precisely where you're aiming, and a first person mode where you still can't see a thing because of the huge gun sights. I enjoyed playing both Conflict Desert Storm games but I just couldn't get into this one and frustratedly returned it to the video store long before it was due back. The one plus of this game is the soundtrack for the cutscenes and when you're at the American base, you can't go wrong with the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane for a Vietnam videogame.