Don’t expect too much from this game. This game is downright dreadful. The graphics sucks, the game play sucks, the sound sucks, what more wouldn’t you want from a game? What is even more ironic about the game is that its publisher is named ValuSoft. This implies that you had bought a game of great value. How wrong could you be? Ok, it’s a cheap game, but surely there are plenty of cheaper games that are much better than this. Even a dollar would be good money badly spent on a game of such lousy quality. The first game was even worse than this, so it really confuses me why this sequel was even made at all. It’s not as if it was an instant hit or anything like that. So why bother creating a sequel? Just compare this game to another First-Person shooter, like let’s say Counterstrike. This game just pales in comparison to it. On second thought, the game’s nothing compared to it. Let’s start with the general game play of the game. The story basically puts you in the shoes of an unnamed American soldier, sent to Vietnam to track down and kill a renegade soldier. Yawn… Been there done, done that. The lack of originality in the storyline is blatant here. No twists in the story or double crosses by the government here. You get to use an arsenal of 8 weapons throughout the game, which consists of basic weapons such as the AK-47, M-16 and sniper rifle. Of course, these weapons do not look nearly as nice as the guns found in games such as Counterstrike and Battlefield. Unfortunately, aiming with these guns is definitely a chore. Once, I found myself wasting a full round of ammo trying to kill an enemy across a distance. The aiming crosshair is just not accurate enough, even for the case of the sniper rifle. From the start of the game, what strikes you first are the poor graphics found throughout the game. This comes as a surprise if you compare the graphics of this game to the other games of that time. The graphics were so bad, that I mistook a jungle I was in for a big room. The sky just consisted of a grey ceiling, and if only I could have jumped a few inches higher, I really believed that I could have ‘touched the sky.’ The trees and the grass looked just like cardboard cut-outs, and imagine my surprise when I realized that my bullets could not even penetrate through the thin ‘cardboard’ trees. Your enemies consist of Vietnamese foot soldiers and snipers, with lousy Asian accents. What amazes me is the almost super-human eyesight of the AI in the game. Even the darkness of night and the thickness of fog cannot prevent your enemies from seeing you. These super soldiers can see you from across the length of a football pitch and can shoot you accurately, and they aren’t even holding sniper rifles! What more, it’s nighttime! They can even shoot you with such good accuracy in fogs so thick; you can hardly even see a few feet in front of you. You can’t see them, but they definitely can see you! These super soldiers are also so difficult to kill. Shoot them once, and it does not even appear to have affected them at all. No pain, no nothing. They don’t even stagger back for crying out loud! They just stand there continuing raining their barrage of bullets on you. Only after what appears to be many shots, do you appear to have killed them. Don’t believe me? Just buy the game and try it, which I really would not recommend.
Boring and unimaginative are what sums up this entire game. And did I add dreadful? I feel like just breaking the disc every time I play it!
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