Conflict: Vietnam

Conflict: Vietnam
Developer(s) Pivotal Games
8bit Games (Mobile)
Publisher(s) SCi Games
Synergenix (Mobile)
Series Conflict
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Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Mobile phone
Release
  • EU: 3 September 2004
  • NA: 10 September 2004
  • NA: 5 October 2004 (PC)
Mobile
  • WW: 1 January 2005
Genre(s) Tactical shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Conflict: Vietnam is a tactical shooter video game developed by Pivotal Games and 8bit Games and published by SCi Games and Synergenix for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Mobile phones. It is the third installment in the Conflict series.

Gameplay

Conflict: Vietnam has the player taking control of a squad of four 101st Airborne Division soldiers on the eve of the Tet Offensive in 1968.

Multiplayer allows two players to each control two of the squad's four men and take on Viet Cong members and North Vietnamese forces.

Plot

Conflict: Vietnam opens in 1968, just days before the Tet Offensive begins, as 19-year-old Private Harold "Cherry" Kahler is introduced to his squadmates on a Huey gunship while heading to "Ghost Town" a 101st Airborne Division base in South Vietnam. Twenty-eight-year-old Staff Sergeant Frank "Ragman" Wier is the leader, highly familiar with the Vietnam War from two previous tours of duty. Corporals Bruce "Junior" Lesh and Will "Hoss" Schafer comprise the rest of the squad. Hoss is the squad's adrenaline-junkie machine gunner, while Junior, the squad sniper, is counting the final days of his tour. The 1968 Tet Offensive occurs just after Kahler's first combat patrol, and he and the rest of Ragman's squad soon find themselves cut off behind enemy lines after the helicopters deploying them on a night patrol are shot down.

Over the course of the next several days, the squad battles through miles of unknown jungle filled with hostile NVA and VC and escaping a napalm strike they meet up with "The Chief", commander of a Navy PBR. The Chief is alone prior to meeting up with Wier's squad, having dropped some Green Berets off up river where he "saw some strange shit up there". After fighting their way through a VC-fortified area called 'Charlie's Point', the men discover the Chief has been killed and soon meet up with a group of Montagnards. After retrieving a sacred statue and releasing several village prisoners for the leader of the village, the squad uses a radio gained as a reward to call for a helicopter extraction from the 1st Air Cav, being landed in a base under siege. After fighting off a heavy VC and NVA assault, the squad is praised by an overjoyed Major Wallace, who promises all of them commendations for their bravery. A dying VC throws a grenade into the bunker as the Major speaks, however, knocking them out, and the five men are taken prisoner. Major Wallace is killed when the men are forced to play Russian roulette.

After escaping from the VC POW camp, Ragman's squad fights their way through the jungle and meets Sergeant Stone of the Australian SAS and his squad. The two sergeants lead their men through a series of VC tunnels that the SAS were ordered to destroy. They succeed, and Stone and Wier part on good terms. Meeting up with a USMC jeep, the squad joins up with a column of trucks and tanks headed for Hue. After battling through the war-torn city and destroying numerous NVA T-34's with an M48 Patton tank, the squad mounts up in a 101st Airborne Huey. The helicopter is shot down by a RPG while attempting to destroy NVA SAM's and HAWK radars in the area, and the squad fights their way to and assaults The Citadel, taking the fortress and eliminating its garrison, including a handful of tanks and the commanding general.

A closing cinematic, narrated by Kahler, tells what happens to each of his squadmates and himself after their tour. Hoss signs on for another tour, and Kahler eventually learns from a drunk CIA agent that he is fighting in Cambodia, forever going wherever he can find the thrill of combat. Junior finally goes home, but meets an unjust fate after he joins the Black Panther Party and is killed in a shootout with the FBI. Ragman comes home to an empty house and a pile of divorce papers, and moves to live in the Rocky Mountains with his dog, Ho Chi Minh, having found a well-deserved peace. Kahler gets out and moves to New York City, raising a family and becoming a respected doctor, his expertise in dealing with gunshot wounds being all-too-needed in a city being torn apart by violence and unrest.

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
PCPS2Xbox
EdgeN/A5/10[1]5/10[1]
EGMN/A5.83/10[2]5.83/10[2]
EurogamerN/AN/A6/10[3]
Game InformerN/A7/10[4]7/10[4]
GameProN/A[5][5]
GameSpot6.1/10[6]6.1/10[6]6.1/10[6]
GameSpy[7][8][9]
GameZoneN/AN/A7.5/10[10]
IGN6.7/10[11]6.7/10[12]6.7/10[12]
OPM (US)N/A[13]N/A
OXM (US)N/AN/A7/10[14]
PC Gamer (US)52%[15]N/AN/A
The Sydney Morning HeraldN/A[16]N/A
The TimesN/A[17]N/A
Aggregate score
Metacritic55/100[18]58/100[19]60/100[20]

The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[18][19][20]

Maxim gave the game a score of six out of ten, saying, "figuring out how to work the controller is absolutely infuriating, meaning you go into firefights against stealthy Charlie with no knowledge of your environment, opponent, or weapon."[21] The Times similarly gave the PlayStation 2 version three stars out of five and said, "It is the clichéd choice of music played on the camp radio that makes you wonder whether it is worth delving deeper into this game," citing the use of "Paint It Black" in the TV series Tour of Duty and of "Nowhere to Run" in Good Morning, Vietnam.[17] The Sydney Morning Herald, however, gave the same console version two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying, "Squeezing the Desert Storm games into the currently fashionable Vietnam setting was a mistake. Open landscapes are replaced by claustrophobic jungle, eliminating tactical freedom. Players edge along narrow paths, progressing from one firefight to the next."[16]

References

  1. 1 2 Edge staff (October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, Xbox)". Edge. No. 141. p. 107.
  2. 1 2 EGM staff (December 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, Xbox)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 185. p. 156.
  3. ↑ Reed, Kristan (10 September 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (Xbox)". Eurogamer. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 Kato, Matthew (October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, Xbox)". Game Informer. No. 138. p. 129. Archived from the original on 24 June 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  5. 1 2 Bones (December 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, Xbox)". GamePro. p. 114. Archived from the original on 9 February 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 Wolpaw, Erik (13 October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Osborne, Scott (13 January 2005). "GameSpy: Conflict: Vietnam (PC)". GameSpy. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  8. ↑ Chapman, David (18 October 2004). "GameSpy: Conflict: Vietnam (PS2)". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 17 December 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  9. ↑ Chapman, David (18 October 2004). "GameSpy: Conflict: Vietnam (Xbox)". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 25 December 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  10. ↑ Zacarias, Eduardo (17 October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam - XB - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  11. ↑ Lewis, Ed (27 October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PC)". IGN. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  12. 1 2 Lewis, Ed (11 October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, Xbox)". IGN. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "Conflict: Vietnam". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. November 2004. p. 120.
  14. ↑ "Conflict: Vietnam". Official Xbox Magazine. November 2004. p. 85.
  15. ↑ "Conflict: Vietnam". PC Gamer. January 2005. p. 88.
  16. 1 2 Hill, Jason (30 September 2004). "Best of breed". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  17. 1 2 McNamara, John (2 October 2004). "Conflict Vietnam (PS2)". The Times. Retrieved 9 August 2017. (subscription required)
  18. 1 2 "Conflict: Vietnam for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  19. 1 2 "Conflict: Vietnam for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  20. 1 2 "Conflict: Vietnam for Xbox Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  21. ↑ Cunningham, Sean (5 October 2004). "Conflict: Vietnam". Maxim. Archived from the original on 23 January 2005. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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