They fought for Freedom... They fought for each other.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and batt...
They fought for Freedom... They fought for each other.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles such as Khe Sahn and the Tet Offensive, transporting you to a time and place American history that only a few can say they experienced firsthand.
Experience the real Vietnam War - from Jungle-Based Ambushes to intense urban Firefights.
Unique battle chatter audio-re-creates the chaotic nature of combat.
13 Action-packed combat missions spanning four authentic operations.
Rich detailed environments and realistic weaponry.
Pick your tour of Duty-Single-Player campaign or Multiplayer online combat for up to 24 players.
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This game is like a slower, more tactical version of MoH, so it can be pretty tough and challenging even on normal difficulty. Run and gun has no place here, you have to often fire from cover if you want to survive. Recommended, but only for patient players looking for a challenge! Works out of the box on Windows 10, just wait for the main menu if you can't see the intro video.
Men of Valor tells a historic drama based story from the beginning of Vietnam, to the Battle of Khe Sanh. Through the eyes of an African-American Marine. Very unique angle I thought.
As far as gameplay goes, even playing on easy I could not beat the game legit. There are quite a few portions of the game where the enemy just endlessly respawns. There was one section where you first get to the desert, and you have to destroy the rocket crews, the enemies endlessly respawn. After that I turned on god mode, and got to enjoy the story. That is how I would recommend to play it. The story took me about 7.5 hours.
Also the intro video is bugged (just push escape to skip), but that is the only video that doesnt work, everything else in the game works perfect, as long as you make sure to make the game fullscreen. (Alt+enter) Just setting 1920x1080 wont make it go fullscreen.
Men of Valor came out in 2004 and boy have things changed in the last 16 years.
You play as Dean Shepard, a marine soldier in the Vietnam war and you follow Dean and his squad mates through 13 missions that ends with the onslaught of the Tet Offensive of 1968.
The gameplay is simple and like Call of Duty, but a lot less refined and much slower. The running speed in MoV kinda feels like sneaking in comparable games. Most of the time, Dean and the others are in the jungle, surrounded by thick foliage and tree lines which makes for a rather odd surrounding in this traditional corridor shooter.
Enemies are dumb as bricks and pops out from the bushes, seemingly at random which makes for many frustrating encounters where an enemy comes straight out of nowhere (there is no way to predict which way they'll come from besides trial and error) and if you are unlucky, a VC gunman will chip away half your health bar with one shot. Most of the times however, the enemy is too dumb to even run in the right direction and starts spraying in random directions.
The plot and narrative of MoV are a lot better than the gameplay, especially the written correspondence between Dean and his father discussing Deans experience in 'Nam and his parents fears and worries regarding their son thay plays between missions. Likewise, when Dean dies (and he does plenty of that), you are treated to a letter of death notification sent by the US Military to Dean's family that describes how he fell (this changes between missions). It gives a depth to an otherwise hollow experience.
The racial dynamics of MoV (Dean and most of his squad mates being black) is interesting and feels progressive for it's time. Sadly, the vietnamese are not exactly depicted in the most flattering light with a rather nasty depiction of a prostitute woman as one example. The fact that Deans squad mates yell insults such as "die you rice eating motherf*ckers" and "choke on this you pukes" (gooks) doesn't make things better.
I bought this because I never got to play it on Xbox One. It seemed promising, but the actual gameplay is so frustrating that I didn't enjoy it. I gave up trying to play it normally and just turned on god mode to finish it. The loading screen quotes are interesting, but you can't read them because the game loads too fast.
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