Vietcong (2003)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Vietcong is an tactical FPS known for its realism focused gameplay and at the time, original Vietnam war setting. The game featured many early examples of later genre conventions such as iron sights and a cover system.
In addition to the main story-driven campaign, the game also features a number of quick skirmish style missions for single player, as well as a fairly robust set of both cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, including a downloadable set of coop missions entitled "Red Dawn" played from the perspective of Vietcong soldiers.Show more
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I have always remembered this game in the last 20 or so years. From those opening Jeep and Helicopter rides, to patrolling in what felt like lush & dense Jungle, hiding from snipers in rice paddies to crawling in dark tunnels, battling waves of NVA as they charge barbed wire and finally calling in an artillery strike on my own head. This was what I would consider one of the first good attempts at making an authentic and immersive tactical FPS, the type of game that tries to straddle the line between the Hollywood bombast of Call of Duty and the near clinical simulation of an Operation Flashpoint. No high tech gadgets, mini-map radars or super soldier abilities present here. One aspect I always loved was the radioman. If you wanted to call in support, check a position or get updated info you had to actually get close to your radioman and use the radio. No quick mouse clicks or hotkeys to instantly do something, no blinking dots on a map or radar to let you know where you or the enemy were. That kind of immersion gives you so much agency and makes you pay attention that you can't help but be engaged and let it imprint on your brain.
This masterpiece was the best jungle experience in any FPS for a long long time. Really narrow coridors in the game feels like natural and some locations are even quite large for FPS. The sounds of the jungle, moisture everywhere and all the traps and tunnels! Vietnam war is THE war with the best soundtrack ever and this game fully shows it's power. Even the multiplayer game was alive long after the release, because it was really fun to play. (Maybe some enthusiasts still play it)
I love the sound of the jungle and walking through it, you never know when you will get ambushed. There is a lot of different missions, you will either walk alone or with your team. My favourite is the one in the tunnels. I think younger generation should know this gem and that's why it should be on gog!
When I was a very young boy, I didn't yet understand how video games worked. By the way, I got my first computer in 2004. It was probably in 2004 that I played Vietcong for the first time. The game presented quite a challenging experience. It really put the player to the test, enemies hiding behind bushes and trees, able to take me out with a single shot.
There was a funny moment that I still remember to this day. I didn't know the game had a flashlight you could turn on by pressing the "L" key. There was this mission in underground tunnels, and it was incredibly dark. I spent hours running around trying to find the exit in the darkness. I think I even used my knife, hitting the walls to identify what was in front of me by the sound! Sometimes, I’d fire my pistol just to light up show the path for a split second.
Hands down my favorite game of this genre and era. The graphics engine is interesting, as it looks completely different from anything else of its time, but I thought that this game was simply stunning in its beauty and level design. Even then, the engine looked to be about one gen older, but the designers and artists somehow made it work, and I would not want to play it using any other engine, because this one fits it perfectly.
You and your team are sent out to do missions, and you control each member of your team. This system overall works pretty well, and the odd glitch here and there only makes it more endearing. I loved this game, and would pay a good amount to be able to play it again. If my PC had an optical drive, I would try to make it work.
I used to play Vietcong on my gamer uncle's computer when I was less then 10 years old and ever since I got my first computer at 18 I have come back and finished it 3 times, every few years. For me, this game is in a special league, with Project IGI and NOLF2 among others.
It's possible to find it on abandonware and play with a few patches but this game deserves to be available for purchase.
To this day it's still a very enjoyable shooter, slow paced and tactical, with an incredible hostile jungle atmosphere that still gives a great sense of immersion. In every mission there is something different going on, eventhough it's mostly jungle, it's still manages to get creative.
I can feel that the game even respects the vietnamese resistance with various notes you find and the documents you can read in your bunker.
Please GOG do something about Vietcong!
Это лучший шутер про войну во Вьетнаме от чешской студии Pterodon в сотрудничестве с легендарной Illusion Softworks. Почему этой игры и её дополнений до сих пор нет в цифровых магазинах — не понятно.
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The only M.P. map in a game that made me fall out of my chair laughing at the sheer madness of it all.
You, your friends and 100 square feet of dirt on a mountain top and EVERY Vietcong soldier within a 500 click radius hell bent on merc'ing you.
WAVE after WAVE of suicide bombers, AK strapped madmen and OHH GAWD the stick grenades. ENDLESS incoming stick grenades. If terrain deformation was a thing back in the day, the mountain would have become a mole hill.
If you have played it, you know. Nuff said.
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