Conflict: Vietnam
by Global Star
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Product Summary
Brand: Global StarRelease Date: 2004-10-05
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: 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
Video Game Reviews of Conflict: Vietnam
Customer Review: Extreme language ruins good game
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased Conflict:Vietnam hoping to have an experience akin to that of the Desert Storm Conflict titles. In many ways, C:V compared favorably to those games. Although the graphics could have been more realistic and improved, I suppose their ethereal nature (especially in the "Bad Moon" mission) was a good change of pace from the other Vietnam shooters released around the same time. They developers cleaned up some annoying control issues from the earlier Desert Storm games, for instance, streamlining the giving of medical care among soldiers. All in all, the plot was original and engaging and the missions sufficiently varied to give the player a real sense of what the Vietnam War was like.
What ruined the game for me was the extreme "strong language" used by the characters. I know that 2004 was, regrettably, the year of the foul-mouthed Vietnam shooter, but C:V's profanity was way over the top. It seemed that the characters, who had much to discuss about their predicament, had a vocabulary limited only to the F-word, the S-word, and a few other unrepeatable combinations.
I know that some folks in the military "swear like a sailor", especially in very stressful moments, but the use of this language could only be described as unbelievably, even unrealistically, gratuitous. I also know, or know of, military folks serving today who go out of their way not to fit that stereotype. It seems outrageous that during a time of REAL war, a software company would stoop into the gutter to degrade the type of people who are risking their lives to preserve our freedoms by perpetuating that stereotype. All it demonstrated was a lack of intelligence and meaningful vocabulary on the part of the game's scriptwriters, not the fictional or real soldiers of today.
It's possible that without this needless language, C:V could have gotten a Teen rating and appealed to a much broader audience. Instead, all the writers did was show that they had an extremely limited vocabulary. I hope that if they ever make a sequel to C:V, they consider returning to the language of the Desert Storm series. Otherwise, they are sure never to get my business again . . . and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Description of Conflict: Vietnam
Conflict: Vietnam is the story of fourmen 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 masteredAll Games
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