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"The New Bandwagon"

Vietnam seems to be the new bandwagon for developers who make action orientated games.

So far there has been Platoon, from what I read a sub-standard RTS set in Nam, Vietcong, a great looking FPS which I've been looking forward to for some time, Men of Valour: Vietnam which also looks promising thanks to it being made by the same people behind MOH: AA, and now Line of Sight: Vietnam, a sequel of sorts to that not particularly groundbreaking Deadly Dozen game.

So it appears developers are now abandoning the battlefields of World War 2 for the more open jungles of Nam. Sure it may not be a bad thing, if these games manage to be pretty good, but I doubt all of them will, it just appears to me that when it comes to thinking up of new settings to place a game, developers are a little unoriginal.

Ice Raider wrote:
> I am not looking forward to Vietcong that much, I think Delta Force:
> Black Hawk Down will be better. I am sorry to dissapoint you, but,
> *puts pistol to Vietcong lead developer's head*, i just read a
> preview for Vietcong, and it looks like you play the Americans!!!
> !@#$%^&*()! *puts another pistol to own head and pulls both
> triggers*

I played the single player demo of Black Hawk Down, it was fun, except for the A.I. which was so bad it felt like the dwevelopers where holding my hand through the demo, just because they didn't think I could get through it myself. I hope for you're sake the A.I. is improved in the final game.

I found myself doing things like that in Halo.

"Hey Master-Chief, are we glad to see you"
"shut up"
*thwack*
"Don't shoot, I'm on your side"
"I'm not shooting you, you mong, I'm slapping you in the face with the butt of my autorifle"
*thwack*
*thwack*

I always find myself doing stuff like that in games.
Was playing Medal of Honour last night and my Captain kept getting in my way, so he was pistol-whipped for 3 mins.

At least it's realistic. All we need now is to be actively encouraged to throw grenades into schools in Vietcong, and we're set.

You play Americans in Black Hawk Down. You can shoot Somalian civilians as well as guerillas.

*slow applause*
taste?

I am not looking forward to Vietcong that much, I think Delta Force: Black Hawk Down will be better. I am sorry to dissapoint you, but, *puts pistol to Vietcong lead developer's head*, i just read a preview for Vietcong, and it looks like you play the Americans!!! !@#$%^&*()! *puts another pistol to own head and pulls both triggers*

Playing as the VC will be cool. At least you'll be playing from a perspective rarely seen in the Vietnam conflict, and you'll get to kick some American butt.

You get to be VC in Vietcong?

*polishes AK47*
Goddamn round-eyes gonna get some.
They dont like it up 'em

I prefer games that dont require a perspective on history and maybe set in the future another reality or wot not but I dont like americans rewritting history the way they are over current years

Things like planetside that are about to get released soon

special ops, platoon themes just dont do it for me

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Ah, but you have the added element of US troops barging into small
> Viet villages and shooting hapless children in the head.
>
> Or won't they port that particular cultural contribution into the 'Nam
> games?

Heh, but I don't think such a feature would go down too well with the American audience, seeing as they would find it hard to believe their country was capable of such atrocities. Especially after it kindly, single handily won WW1 and 2 for us Europeans.

Still, Vietcong does give you the chance to play as the VC army, and run those darned Yankees out of the country, which I'm actually looking forward to.