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Mad_Skills at 06:19pm 03/25/2004
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Really, in Vietnam we were killing Vietnamese on a 10 to 1 ratio.
So really, they're going to have to come up with made up scenarios
to use modern weaponry in shooter games. It's already fantasy that
the Vietnamese had MiG's and choppers.
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Mad_Skills at 06:18pm 03/25/2004
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What's funny is that war games will become increasingly unrealistic
in their settings if we keep going forward in the future. I mean,
once you get to the 1980's, there's no one that can challenge US
military might in any way, shape, or form, unless you exaggerate.
Game designers will probably have to either give the foreign teams
tactical nukes or "dirty bombs"; either that or make the
American team have a player cap of 10 and the foreign team a cap of
30 or something like that . lol
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Anonymous at 06:22pm 03/23/2004
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You should really be taking on the aircraft unless you have SA
missiles. The m60 can definitly take it out, but not if you are
standing out in the open like a moron, you really should use cover
wisely and not fire when the chopper pilot can see the huge muzzle
flash.
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Anonymous at 06:19pm 03/23/2004
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Well I can offer you some advice, which is don't waste your money on
a POS like FarCry, but if you dont want Vietnam then UT2k4 is a much
wiser choice than FarCry. Even so, Vietnam kicks EOD's !%@.
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Anonymous at 06:17pm 03/23/2004
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The only bug I have noticed is that ping sorting doesn't work, and
that you cant scroll scollbars with the mouse or by holding down
buttons.
But the actually game itself runs flawlessly, execpt when servers
are configured wrong or are not powerful enough. Combine that with
a crap PC on the client end and you are just asking for trouble. I
think most people problems stem from having an underpowered PC, or
they are trying to run in on the highest detail and just expecting
any PC to blitz through it.
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Anonymous at 06:13pm 03/23/2004
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Whoah, #15, you said what I wanted to hear.
I have always hated the non-independant turrets in 1942, whether or
not it was realistic.
The bad news is in Vietnam they have made you more vulnerable as now
the turrets only rotate through about 45 degree arc (so you can
shoot those behind you). Again I'm not sure if this is realistic or
not, but gameplay wise it sucks.
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Anonymous at 06:09pm 03/23/2004
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I think you have just wasted some money, FarCry is a terrible game
but it seems a lot of reviewers have been fooled into thinking it is
a good game just because it looks pretty. Underneath all that smoke
and mirrors however lies a substandard game experience.
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Anonymous at 06:07pm 03/23/2004
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EOD sucked, that was worth 30 seconds of my time.
DC is a keeper, although as it's only a graphics pack for the
original game you don't really need it. Now if the planes and
helicopters handled more realisticly, and if you could designate
targets with tanks and planes then it would be great. But you cant
(can you?).
Battlefield Vietnam's planes auto-target which is extremely annoying
as you really dont know who is going to get hit if a friendly and
enemy are directly in your point of view, and sometimes the missiles
will head to the ground because they are tracking a ground target.
That is one area of BF Vietnam that needs fixing, if anything they
need to remove the tracking of friendly targets with homing
missiles
Graphically Vietname kicks Farcry's $$% from an artistic point of
view. FarCry's jungles seem to have a bit more detail, not much
more but it is noticable. But FarCry's textures are ugly compared
to those in Vietnam, and the way the grass lights up on pastures in
Vietnam is really gorgeous. You know what? Battlefield Vietnam has
nice looking water too. The one area where FarCry's graphics are a
step ahead is in rendering distance, but the textures in Battlefield
Vietnam just look so much better.
Gameplay wise, I have never had so much fun in an online game since
the release of Return To Castle Wolfenstein, but I admit the game is
starting to get boring already which is probably due to the fact
that it's the same gameplay as Battlefield 1942.
I'm really impressed with the way helicopter handling has been
'handled' in Battlefield Vietnam. Desert Combat has a thoroughly
unrealistic flight model, and so does Battlef
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Anonymous at 07:33pm 03/22/2004
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Yeah, the reviewer should have played some Eve of Destruction before
writing this review. Saying the choppers in BF:V are the same as
the ones in DC is silly. Both EoD and BF:V have auto hover, so the
comparison there would be more fair. In BF:V I can get into a hover
over a flag, and then take my hands away from the mouse and keyboard
for a while and not crash. In DC, you have to have some
skill/experience to hover in a chopper like that and if you release
the controls you'll be dead in short order.
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FS-Pongky (View my Profile) at 12:40pm 03/22/2004
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Hey Lance, nice user review - though you should post the review in
our 'user review' area - so people later on could easily find it
attached to this review.
Click on "add user review" on the right-hand side of the
article page, you will find it. Anyone else care to post one there?
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