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Conflict: Vietnam | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 11819
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 29417
UPC: 710425294174
EAN: 0710425294174
ASIN: B0002GTFJO
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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Product Description
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 mastered
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Extreme language ruins good game April 27, 2005
T2JRW
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
 Rentable, but not buyable April 2, 2005
Brian D. Sims (Seattle, WA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 The best Vietnam game ever November 15, 2004
Joey (NY)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Conflict: Vietnam is a really good game. It is better than Conflict: Desert Storm 1 and 2. It is hard but it is still posible to beat it. I did because I got the stategy guide which helps a lot. The grafics are really good and the controls are the same. Now in Conflict: Vietnam you can tell you squad members to heal people, Shield people or pick up something. The AI is a lot better. Sometimes the enemy will play dead or plan a ambush. Theres even boobytraps like tripwires, pungi sticks and pits with spikes in it. The best part is the vehicles. You can ride in jeeps, tanks, river boats, helicopters and a armored thing with a lot of guns on it. You cant steer the riverboat or helicopter but you can shoot the guns on them. It has some real battles that you can fight in like Hue and Tet Offensive. Conflict: Vietnam is in 3rd person and you can look down the guns sight if you want to aim carefully. If you liked Conlict: Desert Storm you should definatly get this.
 Another Conflict Hit! November 4, 2004
W. Newberryr (st.simons.isl., GA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
Not even worth renting October 30, 2004
Chip L (Little Rock, AR)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
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!
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