This game is basically a collection of mini games. The premise being a squad of GIs being lost in the Vietnamese Jungle.

User Rating: 8.5 | Lost Patrol AMI
By Ravenhoe | Review Date:
This game is basically a collection of mini games. The premise being a squad of GIs being lost in the Vietnamese Jungle, who now need to find / fight their way back to the next base. As you might expect, strolling through the Jungle is not a cakewalk with booby traps under your every step, Charlies in the trees (no offense, just trying to invoke the game's atmosphere), short supply of water and so on.

The game is divided into two parts. A map of the area which lets you choose the path you want to go, the shorter one being more dangerous, the longer one - well - taking longer, d'oh. Occassionally you encounter ambushes and need to shoot your way through (these are the aforementioned mini-games).

The crux of the game is its atmosphere which is very good, if you happen to be into that Vietnam war theme. High Quality pictures of GI's fill the time gap between the events and you can see tough men with tougher faces stalk through rivers, carrying each other and resting. The music (a gloomy synth soundtrack provided by Kraftwerk) is very good and even nowadays, the tune is sticking with me.

For war gamers (not the ultradeep RTS or Company of Heroes people), but old school war gamers, this game should be interesting as the approach of this title is a more "personal" one, focussing on morale and claustrophobia and xenophobia which come with the strange lands (strange to the Americans) that are the Vietnamese Junglese.

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