My Game Craze Portal

Listen up sonny, youve just been drafted! Log on to EBay or break open the bottom draw, you know the one I mean, with 17 expended jolt cans and musty yuck, find a disk from DICE, a legacy aptly named Battlefield Vietnam. But amidst the cobwebs, this is a real game, a long beloved Battlefield franchise member, we should look back on these classics for their game play. Classics like Battle Field: Vietnam, where you are the charley going up river with incoming fire all around, and bloody disembowelments galore (Alright, not that last one, but itd be cool).

So it is for that reason that I sought out my old Battle Field Vietnam disk and entered a virtually reenacted hell on earth.

I played the Reclaiming Hui map, a map where American and North Vietnamese force fight for control of the rutty spittoon of a city. Depending on which side you choose to be, one team will start on their bridge and the other will have control of the citys flags. I chose to play as a soldier with a heavy machine gun and LAW anti-tank rocket. Quickly hoping in a jeep (The Vietnamese held the city in the map I played) I hit 0, bringing up the awesome in-game radio games like GTA 4 have only now decided to bring back, browsed my options, and quickly turned on ride of the Valkyrie. With a superior musical selection, I drove into the city with an AI gunner. Unfortunately for him, when we entered the city he ate a bullet right in the gut. I drove right on into the oncoming enemies, bashed several to a bloody death, smashed into a wall, and hoped out. The enemies were preoccupied with my allies from the front, so I turned and unloaded with my gun, in an old 1-2 dead fashion. Quite extravagant if I dont say so myself.

Together making short work of them, the AI good ole boys and I moved onward. I decided to let someone else take the jeep, deciding it made me target practice in the long run. Moving in to the structure at the center of the city, an odd Asian structure, maybe a temple, I see an enemy tank and decide its time to introduce it to my little friend the LAW.

Taking out my LAW, I fired a rocket into it. Although the Russian made relic was smoking, the gun still rotated. Quickly going prone behind a behind a short stonewall, I let my AI boys take the fire, for the greater good of course. However, there were only about three of them, seeing as most had opted to run for a different base. Two manage to survive the blast (But Id put pounds to tea bags they both lose a leg). I reloaded and got back up, firing my rocket to a satisfying explosion. I drew my little friend and rushed the base with my AI team. After gunning down some random charly AIs, I took the base (Who knows where the AI boys went, could have found a viet-pub). After that, I found an ammo and health crate (I had taken some damage and only had 1 rocket left). Feeling fit and outfitted to fight yet again, I ran straight out of the base seeking my AI team and possibly the pub, at best in a random direction.

I was in an alley on a dirty rutty road that might have been made of semi dried sewage, and seeing several Charlies go by, I let go a volley of random bullets (Dick Cheney would have been proud). Quickly deciding that they would win in a straight fight, I took the politician like move and sought refuge in a nearby building. Cleverly checking my map, I saw that I was behind enemy lines. Its really not as swell as the movies would make it out to be.

I found some stairs and approached a window to see another enemy tank, with enemies in it, but for some reason not moving, sitting in the road next to an enemy base. Quickly taking out my LAW, I put a rocket into it. Dink! Before I knew it I was dead, darn snipers! Anyway, we went on to win the battle (I died eight more times). It was pretty extreme fun, and should serve to remind people that graphics dont make a game; they make a tech-demo, now raise your hand if you want to buy a tech demo

Even with its out-dated graphics, Battle Field: Vietnam is still a great game. Thats why I chose to give this oldie 7.5 intact limbs out of 10.

Sincerely,

~ Prince Python