The NVA equivalent kit just has an RPG and a shotgun, which is more balanced. This one kit carries both the most powerful anti-personnel weapon in the game, as well as a potent anti-vehicle weapon it’s a one-stop shop for death and destruction. If that combination isn’t bad enough, the M60 can be fired from a standing position and has a rate of fire that is significantly faster than the prototype (the real one needs to be fired prone, and is actually a two-person weapon). The American heavy assault kit comes with both the M60 machine gun and the LAWs rocket, sparking memories of Rambo. One of the big problems in the game is with the weapons assigned to some of soldier classes. Speaking of fiery death, the Americans also have access to the F-4 phantom which allows you to drop Napalm, but it’s not as effective as the real stuff with a small blast radius that lasts only a few seconds it would have been much more effective lasting longer and affecting a greater area. In the wrong hands though, the helicopters can become airborne fiery instruments of death. It’s time well spent since being able to get a squad to a control point quickly and safely will help your team be successful. A word of caution though: while it’s easy to get these birds in the air, keeping them there and getting anything accomplished – like hovering, attacking, airlifting tanks and landing – is going to take some serious practice. The Battlefield 1942 flight engine wasn’t designed for rotary-winged planes, but the Battlefield Vietnam engine is designed with them in mind making the helicopters much easier to fly. I know, I know, Desert Combat, the popular Battlefield 1942 mod, had choppers, but those ‘copters were too dang hard to fly. In Battlefield 1942 it was easy for one person to take key control points, but now how many teammates are nearby affects the speed one is taken while one person can still take a CP, a squad is going to take it quicker.īattlefield Vietnam has a ton of era specific tanks and jets, but the big vehicle addition is the helicopters. The more control points you own, the faster the other team loses their tickets. You can lose tickets by either re-spawning after a death or not controlling enough control points. The most common game-mode is Conquest, where each team is given a certain amount of tickets and if your team’s tickets reach zero, you lose. There is a single player mode, but the bots are mental midgets and are only good for target practice - any meaningful game-time is going to be spent online playing other people.įor those new to the series, let me do a quick recap. Battlefield Vietnam continues the team-based motif from 1942 with the Americans and the South Vietnamese against the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong. If you were expecting another revolution here you’re going to be disappointed this one’s about evolution, not revolution.
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How do you add enough new features to call it a full game, while not making radical changes to what made it so successful in the first place? Battlefield Vietnam does an excellent job at bringing some new ideas to the table while preserving the “Battlefield” feel. DICE takes risks with their beloved Battlefield and that is what keeps gamers interested.When you have a game that revolutionized a genre like Battlefield 1942 did creating a sequel is a balancing act. That has led to many successes in the franchise, as well as many of its failures. When a Battlefield game goes from Vietnam, to the distance future, then back to World War 1, the gameplay and weapons change with the times. Not the way Call of Duty changes locations, giving gamers have something new to look at in between the shooting. The most common thing that changes from each Battlefield game is the setting. DICE has tried a lot of different things over the years to keep gamers interested and keep them moving from one Battlefield game to the next. When DICE deviates or falters, the games are not a big success. When DICE adheres to this formula, gamers line up to snag a copy. There are some duds in their arsenal.ĭICE has a simple formula for creating Battlefield games, with large maps, team based combat, and vehicles. Since 2002, there have been multiple entries into the franchise, but not all of them have been hits. DICE will tell you that it has not been an easy road to AAA super stardom. Last year, it wrestled the crown for best multiplayer FPS out of Call of Duty’s cold dead hands. Battlefield is DICE's military FPS that gamers absolutely love.