Vietcong: Purple Haze - PC
Game Overview
 |
|
Summary
For those of you yet to experience the intense jungle warfare of the Vietcong games, Purple Haze provides an incentive to do so via a rather attractive bundle. In the usual fashion, the title offers a compilation of the original Vietcong, originally released in April 2003, alongside its brand spanking new expansion pack, Fist Alpha.
The most celebrated of 'Nam-based adventures, Vietcong is a first-person shooter that plunges you deep into the inhospitable jungles of Vietnam and casts you ... more >>
The most celebrated of 'Nam-based adventures, Vietcong is a first-person shooter that plunges you deep into the inhospitable jungles of Vietnam and casts you ... more >>
For those of you yet to experience the intense jungle warfare of the Vietcong games, Purple Haze provides an incentive to do so via a rather attractive bundle. In the usual fashion, the title offers a compilation of the original Vietcong, originally released in April 2003, alongside its brand spanking new expansion pack, Fist Alpha.
The most celebrated of 'Nam-based adventures, Vietcong is a first-person shooter that plunges you deep into the inhospitable jungles of Vietnam and casts you as the leader of a team of US Special Forces. In similar vein to the likes of Rainbow Six, the gameplay is squad-based, meaning that you must take charge of your team and implement a fair amount of strategy throughout each mission.
Set across a respectable 20 missions, you're charged with overcoming dozens of formidable obstacles and employing a considerable amount of stealth in order to progress through the game. Staying faithful to the real-life action of the famous conflict, the game soon has you learning to keep a low profile, making use of shadows and developing a sharp eye for booby traps.
Fist Alpha follows it up in the usual way, providing a host of new additions and features to add more life to the proceedings. There are seven unique single-player missions, as well as an additional eight all-new multiplayer maps, all including the game's popular co-op mode. As well as this, the expansion pack introduces six new weapons to the fray, including bayonets and machetes, which heighten the hand-to-hand combat element of the game, and even heavier artillery filling the smoky skies with a shower of shells on both the US and NVA alike. You will also feel the wrath of the likes of B52 Bombers, F-105 Thunderchiefs and F4 Phantom Fighters as they continue their reign of terror in the skies. << less
The most celebrated of 'Nam-based adventures, Vietcong is a first-person shooter that plunges you deep into the inhospitable jungles of Vietnam and casts you as the leader of a team of US Special Forces. In similar vein to the likes of Rainbow Six, the gameplay is squad-based, meaning that you must take charge of your team and implement a fair amount of strategy throughout each mission.
Set across a respectable 20 missions, you're charged with overcoming dozens of formidable obstacles and employing a considerable amount of stealth in order to progress through the game. Staying faithful to the real-life action of the famous conflict, the game soon has you learning to keep a low profile, making use of shadows and developing a sharp eye for booby traps.
Fist Alpha follows it up in the usual way, providing a host of new additions and features to add more life to the proceedings. There are seven unique single-player missions, as well as an additional eight all-new multiplayer maps, all including the game's popular co-op mode. As well as this, the expansion pack introduces six new weapons to the fray, including bayonets and machetes, which heighten the hand-to-hand combat element of the game, and even heavier artillery filling the smoky skies with a shower of shells on both the US and NVA alike. You will also feel the wrath of the likes of B52 Bombers, F-105 Thunderchiefs and F4 Phantom Fighters as they continue their reign of terror in the skies. << less
Contribute
You deserve credit for what you know. So, send SPOnG screens,
summaries, credits, artwork, news, release dates - even reviews. If your info is genuine, new
and up to standard, we will run it. And you will get the credit.
more >>
more >>
Screens
Artwork
Similar Titles
Return To Castle Wolfenstein (PC/Power Mac)
Three different development companies have spent an inordinate amount of time (and $9 million) in bringing this game to you. You will not be disappointed with the results. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is everything you could have expected. And th ... more >>
Battlefield 1942 (PC)
Following in the footsteps of the mighty Medal of Honor was never going to be an easy task. The game, now synonymous with WWII-based first-person shooters, has created a benchmark for the genre, leaving subsequent imitators with a hard act to fo ... more >>
Halo 2 (PC/Xbox)
In 2002, long-time FPS developer Bungie accomplished something that showed the industry just what it was capable of. That was Halo, a launch title for the much-vaunted Xbox that was dubbed by the media as a killer app for Microsoft's new console. ... more >>View all similar titles (22) >>
Related Games
Vietcong (PC)
Take 2, after the usual post-Christmas drought, has kicked off its 2003 release schedule with a literally explosive first-person shooter. Vietcong pits players in jungle warfare as they experience a virtual representation of that infamous conflic ... more >>
