Line of Sight: Vietnam Demo

Major crap. Anyone noticed this is a cheap replicate of Deadly Dozen? Those terrain and woods / foilage make u think that gfx got a bit better from that of DD but the core gameplay remains the same. In other words, u have to fight the godly aim of A.I. while babysitting every step of squad members. Besides I can't find the reason to kill the enemies. Just becase they exist and so that I can live on?

These days pub/dev guys seem to think anything with a gun toting at the right corner of the screen will get them money. No fucking way. The original DD felt much fresher despite atrocious difficulty.

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/misc/Line+of+Sight+Vietnam/1/los-vietnam/nam-0.jpg

How did Russell Crowe get in there?

enough war games already.

They need to make a Vietnam sniper game where you play Carlos Hathcock (sp?), that guy owned.

are the multiplayer maps able to be played co-op?

i can see why this is a budget title
BA-LEETED

Ahem.

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6973106

wholy ballsack, there's a lot of demos to try out today

so this is a different game than Vietcong? what is going on here

humm, looks fake...kinda

has the market for this genre not become saturated yet?

This is a pretty decent game. Hard as FUCK though. As in, if you don't have 100% situational awareness and don't sneak everywhere you will get your ass handed to you.

Pros:
-Pretty good graphics, handles more foilage / jungle levels than SOF 2 does.
-Good sound effects. Brushing against trees while standing, or crouching, or laying -down make varying levels of nosie which the enemy can hear.
-Atmosphere. It really does feel like you are in "Da Nang"

Cons:

-Too accurate enemy AI. If a VC sees you peek out around a bush while standing you almost always catch a bullet in the face. This is made by the same guys who did the "Deadly Dozen" games and it seems they just ported the way too accurate AI.

-Lack of info on objectives. You get dropped in a 5 mile radius and an example of an objective would be "resuce pilot". That's great but where he is ISN'T marked on your map so you have to go around everywhere and like slaughter every VC on the map to find him.

- Stupid squad AI. Every game that has squad AI always has this con. Sometimes they dont return fire while shot, sometimes they get stuck on a blade of grass or stairway, etc.

Overall: Pretty fun Vietnam shooter for 20 bucks. It's short as shit though, I'm almost done all 12 missions and I've only had it for 2 days. If you like stealth-shooters you might as well pick it up.

Wow are FPS's continuously looking worse and worse nowadays (with the exception of Unreal 2 and Unreal Tournament 2K3)? IMO, Half-life looked better than this. It's probably more the artwork than the engine, but I mean come on, that was like 5 years ago. You'd think the industry would be getting better and not worse.

Good Timing.

Weird... I'm only getting half the speed I normally get to fileshack chicago :( 60k/sec instead of 120k/sec