Battlefield: Vietnam. If you've played BF: 1942 and liked then Vietnam is the choice for you. If you're like me and have watched Full Metal Jacket, and listened to hippie music of the Vietnam era, and have earned an intense hatred disliking of LBJ and his ability to send the country in a downward spiral, then I would purchase this game.

'What does it have?' you ask? The game is more designed for platoons of units going after a single objective rather than '42s one man army/assault squadron. The best reason for staying in a rather tight nit group is the expansive vegetation. And since the foliage is napalm resistant, it makes traveling along a sweltering, hot, foreign jungle all the more despicable and miserable. If you happen to make it to any sort of road or place of less plants and trees you can take just a moment to crouch and gaze across the shrubs and the bushes to look for any light earthen colored zipper heads who are carrying a full payload for any wide-eyed intruder. Bullets whizz past you and your speakers mimic that of the surround-sound movie quality until a few find your body and turn you into one of the countless makeshift wooden crosses with helmet and guns of their previous owners serving as a grim realization of the danger to all who play the game.

Haven't seen too many traps put out by the NVA, but both sides have been relying on their moveable spawn points the US has crates which can be picked up in the Huey's and the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) can "dig" tunnels in which for more enemies to pour out like goblins on a human village. (Yes, that was a useless reference) Coming back to Hueys and other helicopters, they were a needed addition to the game, as fighting the Vietnamese would be damn near impossible without them. Paired up with jet technology the skies are no longer a safe haven for anyone. As opposed to 1942.. When ground units fought ground units, and air fought air. (There were some anti-air/anti-ground exceptions.. but let's be realistic there was a huge gap between them.) I've seen helicopters pilots circle bases and reign with bullety death for the newly spawned.

There of course is the music. Which I believe enhances the game experience. If you're a NVA with hear seeking rockets (which are harder to use than you think), all you have to do is lay low and listen for the American rock music to come your way. Without the Doppler effect it would be damn near impossible to gauge proper distance with faster moving vehicles, and now all you have to do is wait for the proper movement and hope that the pilot doesn’t know how to out-maneuver the rockets so you can force the pilots to drop and become easy prey on the ground.

I could easily go one forever spouting off my likes and dislikes of this game. But, I won’t. Dawn of the Dead tonight. Then more Vietnam.