User Rating: 7.2 | Vietcong (2003) PC
Funny - I'd forgotten how this game provides some of the most immersive first person action I've ever come across with some of the most annoying aspects of 3rd person shooter game design and programming. Overall well worth buying mind you but.....if this sort if thing irritates you its worth bearing in mind that it substitutes apparent immunity to bullets and startling accuracy and range with everything as a way of making the game more difficult. Fo example - having drilled a couple of Cong with a 50 calibre machine gun (repeatedly) I was amazed to discover that they could stand up and drill with mission-killing accuracy my boat pilot with small arms. I mean I know there are only a few ways of making a game more difficult but this is bloody silly - a .50 should cut your average Cong in half with a few rounds and I'm reasonably convinced that my boat captain shouldn't be made of bullet-attracting papier mache. So - good game but (as is often the case) let down by lazy programming and crap mechanics. Worth it for the experience but really not that replayable.
