Vietcong

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Silently, I creep through the middle of the Vietnamese jungle in the early dawn. Carefully watching what I do and step on, I noiselessly look for any sign of life. As I move forward, I trip a wire, and this huge whip trap flips out of the bushes, cutting my head off. Ouch. This is going to be really cool.  Say hello to Vietcong, the exciting and challenging first-person shooter based in Vietnam.

Starting Off and Picking a Weapon

You start (and finish) as Sgt. First Class Steven Hawkins, an ambitious soldier stationed at Nui Pek camp, an American stronghold near the Cambodian border. As you fly in via helicopter for your first mission, you get a good look at your new “home” as well as the dangerous jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. When you land, some people talk to you (who cares) and then the best part of the beginning, you get to choose whatever weapon you want. However, the choices only are an M-60, a shotgun, and some weird looking thing that probably came out of a science fiction movie. I chose the shotgun, thinking I could blow away any bush in my way. After this, I'm ready for my first mission. With the leader of my camp, and a medic, we travel to a nearby camp to see what the matter is.

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Apparently, there are some snipers in the bushes and its my job to go find them and waste them. As I travel off, they begin to hit me, but when I find them, I realize that shotgun is a bad weapon, even though I finish them off. So I go back to camp at the end of that mission and switch to the M-60. Thank goodness. The missions continue on, getting progressively harder but all the more fun. This game has a great FPS function, but a little more can be said about the multiplayer function.

Much To Be Desired in Multiplayer

After my exciting endeavor with smashing North Vietnamese Commies, I decided to try my luck on the multiplayer function. As I am loading some map called “Docks”, I try to remember what Americans look like and what the North Vietnamese look like. Game's loaded. Time to go hunt people, right? Unfortunately, right after I spawned, some enemy runs by and shoots me to death with a pistol. Well, no problem, lets spawn again. Another problem is that I can't choose where to spawn so I randomly appear on the map in some cave and then realize that all I have to attack with is a pistol. Great. So as I'm running I get pistol-killed again and decide its time to go somewhere else. I quit and go to a forest map where as soon as I spawn, I see an Ak-47. Running through the forest I can't tell the difference from an American and a communist. I accidentally kill a teammate, (who later kills me back) and let a Northerner run right by. Stupid multiplayer, I think I'll stick to Battlefield to cover that aspect

Overall

All in all, I really thought the game was pretty cool, even if it's the only Vietnam game out there. The controls were easy and the game itself was very challenging. But then there's the really bad multiplay that's confusing and the corny country music playing at the menu screen. Happy trails!