The game mechanics in Men of War are at times inconsistent. You can take direct control of individual units and play as though it was a somewhat awkward third-person shooter, but I wouldn't advise doing so except in few vehicle scenarios and sniping moments. Just as you may have trouble pinpointing the location of an enemy sniper because of all the plant cover, you can use the thick vegetation to hide your troops. The thick jungle brush can make this last part particularly difficult, but also opens up a lot of tactical opportunities for you as a player. In combat you have to be aware of whether they are behind cover or not, whether they're crouching, prone or standing, and where all of the potentially dozens of enemy units are at any one time. Each unit has an inventory, and you have to manage which weapons they carry and use, how many grenades they have (and what type), their ammunition and their health. There's no tutorial either, and the controls are unintuitive at best (default camera controls are spread in an odd way across the numpad), so you can expect an enormously steep learning curve.Īlong with being incredibly difficult, Men of War: Vietnam is very complex. And if you lose one of those units, you're stuck with three for the rest of the very long and difficult mission. If you hide correctly, then you deal with about ten patrolling enemies.
If you don't move your four guys into the jungle in the first fifteen seconds, you lose. To give you some idea of how tough, the very first mission opens with the destruction of almost your entire platoon, and you're told the chopper that blew up your men is probably coming back around to finish the job. It's also one of the toughest game's I've played in a very long time. That means no base building, and more often than not the men at your disposal when you start a map are the only units you'll get until you finish that map. Men of War: Vietnam, like the other Men of War games, is a real-time tactical game. I imagine that simulating the humid, dense Vietnamese jungles and their effects on combat is no simple task, but it's what Russian developer, publisher and even retailer 1C has attempted with Men of War: Vietnam. If the handful of Vietnam War movies I've seen have taught me anything about the war, it was a bloody, brutal affair where neither side was necessarily in the right, and everything was backed by totally sweet hard rock.
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