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The Battlefield franchise enters a new era equipped with more firepower, modernized weaponry and vehicles, and a deeper infantry experience from the jungles to the beaches of Vietnam. From villages on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the city streets of Hue wage modern warfare as the United States or North Vietnamese Army (NVA). Select from a variety of characters within the different soldier classes as you command powerful new vehicles including attack and transport helicopters, the M551 Sheridan tank, and the F-4 Phantom fighter jet on the U.S. side and the Russian-made T-54 tank, the MIG-21, and Mi-8 multipurpose helicopter on the NVA side.

Go to war in new dramatic battle scenarios including leading a squadron of helicopters in an all-out attack on an enemy compound, executing an ambush of enemy soldiers from dense foliage, captaining a PT boat through a dangerous jungle river passage, and more. Grab your M-16, ready the Napalm, and prepare to enter some of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War.

Key Features

· Command powerful Vietnam-era vehicles -- rule the skies in the F-4 Phantom, airlift vehicles in transport helicopters, and more.
· Master the weapons of jungle warfare including pongee sticks and booby traps.
· Wage war online from dark jungles to villages on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
· Go to war as a Viet Cong, Green Beret, or other soldier types, each with multiple character skins.
· Head into battle with a generation-defining soundtrack blaring from your chopper, including songs by CCR, Jefferson Airplane, and more.

I really like the BF1942 series and i looked forward to this game launch for a long time. I bought it on the first day of release and, boy, was THAT a mistake! I should have waited for a demo to have seen how buggy this game was.
I have a fairly fast system- an AMD 2700+ / Nvidia chipset/ Geforce 4 Ti 4400 graphics card/ cable modem. Its not the fastest system on the planet, but it's played every other game i have tried without much lag or any problems... until now! All types of graphic problems showed up immediately. Strange bars coming out of the characters going into the sky- things dropping thru the earth- things disappearing.. what a disappointment!
To top it all off, the game play isn't very immersive and feels strange. It's a little bit to much like BF:DC. In fact, you could play the DC mod and have a better experience that i had with this game.
I was disappointed and am hoping that they continue the original BF1942 series with more add-on's which i will buy without fail.
Wait for a demo of BFVietnam to make sure it works on your system.

Battlefeild Vietnam is a really good game.But let me tell you,this game is not for slow or old computers.It doesnt take 5-10 minutes to load a map.I have a pentium 4 and it only takes about 2 minutes max.The guns are amazin,espicailly the L.A.W and the m16 are all really good.You are fighting the north Vietnames and the Vietkong.The Vietkong will use punge sticks(big sticks w/poison on the end)and will use other weapons like that.You can airlift a vehicle in and out of hotspots and you can use fighter jets that have fire bombs and missles(machine guns for the MIG's)You can rig a Vehicle w/explosives and when any1 gets in it the vehicle will explode.This game is much tougher that BattleField 1942 but that doesnt make it a bad game.A few of the minor flaws are that 1.If you fall down the stairs running and kill yourself,but you will have minimal damage if you just fall of w/o running. 2.You can kill an enemy fighter jet w/one missle but it will take 2 to take down a helicopter 3.The game will just freeze after about 45 mins. of play. Overall, this game is definatly worth the cost and the storage it takes up on your computer.The weapons are cool and combat is great.A must buy.