Obnoxious character dialog, poor voice acting, lag in multiplayer and numerous bugs make this one to skip.

User Rating: 3.5 | Vietcong (2003) PC
I wanted to like this but beyond the electric guitar music at the main menu screen there wasn't much to like.

The opening scene which takes you to a camp up north for some "action" you've been just dying to experience versus the "boredom" of being safe with a chance of going home in one piece and still breathing sets the stage for the initial missions. During this flight you get the rundown on the poor soul you are replacing from one of his pals who is completely unaffected by the loss and tells you oh, well he took a AK-47 round to the head and was dead before he hit the ground. Oh well, that's war he tells you with bogus macho facade geared towards some stereotypical idea of a stupid teenage boy who would think this is cool.

Fortunately, I would hope most teenage boys are not stupid and would not think this downplaying of the horror of vietnam and the death of one's friends is cool at all and neither is this stupid game.

The opener really blew it for me personally. That and the immediate bugs with looping sound, looped speech in training, completing training and having the drill instructor never notice but keep ordering you to do it like nothing ever happened, the several crashes and the general ugliness of the graphics pretty much told me early on it's time to bail now before any more time is wasted here.

I could forgive half-baked visuals easily in a game that otherwise is stable and of decent quality in other areas but I just didn't see it here. Needless to say, I didn't get very far.

I tried multiplayer and while the server ping was very low, the lag was horrific. Who knows why. I tried several with similar results. I am surprised at this late date for this game in particular there are any servers going at all but I guess it must work better on some systems or something. Most games play just fine for me but who knows. In any case, it was unplayable and at this point I logged an uninstalled before it could crash again on me.

Pretty much a train wreck of a game in my book that could have been good with a lot more work which it never got. Avoid this one as there are much better ways to blow 10 bucks in the bargain bins than this lemon.