Vietcong No-cd Patch 1.6
Tae Damndjperiod
I agree I really like vietcong. It was the only vietnam game that really captured the mood and soldier 'slang' of the time. The expansion was quite good too. I wasn't really a big fan of vietcong 2. it was ok but jungle warfare with traps and gook tunnels ruled.
Agreed, this was one of the major pluses in the Vietcong games. This and the fact that the AI used cover effectively too. I used to play Vietcong on LANs with about 8 people, all of us as a team against the AI. Some firefights took ages. It was awesome. :)
Vietcong was awesome and pretty much the only really good Vietnam game ever made, in my opinion. The music thing isn't a poor argument at all, 60's music is very important for a Vietnam game. The atmosphere of the game was amazing, it felt like a real, claustrophobic jungle and the pace of the game was relatively slow (because you had to look out for traps). Patrolling through the jungle was fun. I also liked how you had to walk over to your radioman to receive orders from HQ. The graphics were good enough to immerse you into the game, even today. It was semi-realistic.
Definitely an excellent game and recommended. I really wish Vietnam wasn't such an overlooked setting, I would love to see another (semi-)realistic Vietnam game. I think BIS would do a pretty good job at that :)
Graphics wise i agree. I dragged this baby out of the draw late last year while i was building a new computer. I finished Mafia and Vietcong again and must say for early naughties they are still very good games. Damn tunnel, easy to see why Hawkins is crazy in the second one.
We grabbed his M14 for arma 1 and I've been really pleased to have it again in A2, though we don't havethe wooden one aymore, which is a darn shame. I was chuffedto bits though to find an SKS Simonov carbine in the Vilas AK pack...
I really like to see Vietcong 3. Vietcong 1 is one of the best games ever. Its had almost unmatched atmosphere with very hard difficulty, the single-player was long and even the multiplayer was very fun. Vietcong 2 was really poor when compareing to first game. It was released too quick and that probably destroyed the whole game studio.
I hope that illusion softworks (2k czech) will make a real sequel for it after the Mafia 2. Every game that illusion softworks create is a pure gold. Only BIS (and looking glass) can challenge them. It just sad that most of the real game studios have been replaced with hollow and sterile zombie factories that print copies of call of duty with 5hr playtime. I wish to see more quality games in future again.
The coop mode was rather poor as far as i remember, it was just kill all bots scatered thru out the map to win (no objectives or anything), also the maps were just too small for coop. CTF was real fun but pugs were unplayable with all the cheaters.
Ha, I didn't know that either the first time I played it! :D I used to drop a few chem-lights on the floor, drew a map on a piece of paper, load a saved game, go blindly using the map and repeat... I felt like an idiot when I found about the flashlight... seriously, my biggest gaming fail :o
After just reinstalling it and using vista it keeps crashing to desktop at a certain point on mission 2. Its a shame its done this and i hope someone comes out with a vista patch to fix it. I have seen older and less popular games come out with vista patches so i can assume its only a matter of time.
Sadly the second part has AI that don't care about being shot anymore, if it doesn't kill them they brush it off, while part 1 incapacitated them for a moment. That and the stupid spawn triggers make us still play mostly VC1 on LANs. Well, that and my bayonet ^^
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