
Conflict Vietnam

Note that unlike the title name given by eBay, the ACTUAL title is "Conflict Vietnam" with NO colon. The reason is that this title, unlike the other "Conflict" titles, was made by an entirely different studio and HAS NO CONNECTION with the other "Conflict" titles other than basic genre and many user interface elements.
Frankly, it's not a derivative work, or a prequel to the original Conflict titles, it's cruder, with grossly inferior artwork, and a play style with a more rigid general mission structure than the original games. People expecting the kind of quality they saw from "Conflict; Desert Storm, Desert Storm II, and Global Terror" are going to be disappointed.
I've worked on a number of major PC/Mac titles over the years including WarBirds and World War II Online, and I wouldn't have let this game out of my studio as it is. While it's an acceptable title, it will never be considered a great, or even particularly good title.
The most that can be said for it is that the game play isn't all that bad, and the weapons used are in general more restricted to what was available then (the other games, particularly Global Conflict, used a larger mix of weapons to include those that US SOCOM might in the future adopt, or individual soldiers, who are allowed to chose their own personal weapons in that command, might carry). The VC are largely restricted to Moison Nagant rifles from World War II Russia, and the AK-47 is largely found only in the hands of NVA regulars. So the MOST positive thing about this game is that it got the fog of war in Vietnam and the dearth of advanced hardware in possession of the enemy down cold.
Now if only they had fixed the graphics and physics engines. It's embarrassing for a big huge soldier not to be able to climb over a small pile of rocks . . .
-Stephen "Caligula" Evans
Software Engineer
Semi-Retired (e.g. keeping up with the technology, but haven't found a new gig worth taking).
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