Men of Valor

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Battle through 16 historical missions, from the coastal plains of Chu Lai to the ancient city of Hue during the Tet Offensive
• Advanced, cunning AI and detailed graphics put you on the frontlines
• Immersive, cinematic, real time scripted events and intense first person gameplay
• Lead search and destroy missions around Da Nang airbase, battle in the counterattack on Hue and more
• Experience your tour of duty in multiplayer mode, as you play either U.S. forces or Viet Cong guerillas

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001R0426
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,869 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Men of Valor is a historical shooter that recreates infantry combat during the Vietnam War. Follow new recruit Dean Shepard as he and his Marine squad fight through the jungles of Southeast Asia, during the 1960s.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low score given by IGN but I rate it high, November 23, 2004

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J. Bell "Scorpion 'Toasty'!" (Kentucky (Wildcats all the way baby)) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Men of Valor (Video Game)

Game sets in '68 Nam. You start as a private and advance higher and higher through the ranks. Game play is very good, very challenging but it has it flaws as does every other game out there. I'll give you a for instance: During gameplay you and your squadmates are engaging the Vietcong and your allies will run right into the enemy and the enemy will find you first and shoot at you. But during later missions your squad will actually get in some great shots to aid you. Graphics are outstanding, voice-over is a little off. Very graphic about blood and body parts and yes very course language. Has a great soundtrack from the 60's. Be warned this game is very, very long. Another plus, it has co-op play so you and your buddy can play split screen or even on XBox Live. So, enjoy this game because, I love it.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful realism, but very difficult, January 1, 2005

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Eric D. Johnson "Max Deshaine" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Men of Valor (Video Game)

I have been playing first person shooters since Doom was on the market. Men of Valor has wonderful graphics, story, and realism. The only aspect of the game I hate is the difficulty level. When the difficultly level is on easy I had to play some missions over 12 times! I pride myself on beating most games on medium to hard. If you like to play a mission over and over again this game is for you, but I like to progress through a game in a reasonable amount of time. Oh yeah, one more thing, there is one set number of enemies on a mission. For example, I was walking through the jungle with my squad and came upon a village of four to five huts; VC jumped out immediatly. I found cover behind a tree and picked then off with my M-14, but they never stoped comming. When I finished the mission I had killed 128(!) enemies in 4-5 huts. Overall the graphics, story, and weapons are great, but the difficulty level is like pushing a concrete block in the sand.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EA games your days of making crappy war games is over, October 21, 2004

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Stompy (LA, California) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Men of Valor (Video Game)

I just got this game yesterday and I was impressed with the over all presentation. Sure it's no Halo 2 (comes out in less than 30 days) mind you, but it's not supposed to be. This is a very accurate vietnam war game. I myself own some of the weapons that are avalible in the game (Colt 1911, SKS, M14), and they all sound and reload the way they do in real life. The single player game and 2 player cooperative mode is very well done. The trees, voices, and best of all the explosios all have very nice touches added to them. Both the enemy and allied AI is good but not great. The soundtrack is another stong point for the game it consists of 60's and 70's music combined with a classic modern battle score. The developers 2015,were previously with EA games and made allied assualt. The first medal of honor on ps1 was a breakthrough in ww2 games, and at the time was created by dreamworks interactive. Electronic Arts being as greedy as they are bought the small development team and like their sports franchises tried to create a monopoly. MOH Allied Assault was a great game on the PC but it lacked what war was all about, blood and more importantly the attitudes of the men who fought it. MOH frontline was a scaled down version of allied assault for PS2 and was a direct port to XBOX, as was Rising Sun. These were both ok games, but they were lacking something. Men of Valor powered by the unreal engine improves the over concept of the first person war game genre and adds several new game features like the ablitily to bandage your self when you are bleeding, and being able to search dead bodies of both enemies and allies. If you do not use cover and tactics you will not last long, you are not a geniticaly engineered superhuman cyborg that can jump 10 feet in the air and then do a 180 in mid-air, while shooting some one in the head with a sniper rifle from 200+ meters, you are an average soldier with a small amount of health and average abilities. I have not played the online multi-player enough yet but the class based system should be interesting. If the game would have come out a few months earlier like it was supposed to it would recieve much more praise, but with Halo 2 on the horizon it will quickly be over shadowed, and it might not recieve the following that it deserves.