Well a Far Cry-ish game set during the Vietnam war could be neat.
Using the movie seems like a bit of a cash grab though.
But hey, the Rambo game turned out to be amazing so anything is possible.

And now Pillars of Eternity 2 is being crowdfunded as well. There's a thread about it already, if you want to talk about that game.

I do find this strange because Josh Sawyer is a consultant in the Apocalypse Now RPG, if he was involved in both projects why would they release both of their crowdfunding campaigns just a day apart from each other?

The Apocalypse Now crowdfunding seemed to not have much of a marketing push behind it already, now it will probably be buried with this bigger news coming out.

Watch the redux version, it adds some interesting elements (e.g. a plantation with some remaining French colonials).

For someone whose dad fought in the war, not that it means much. (This will piss off a lot of people) I think it's a very pretentious Hollywood take on the war. Martin Sheen is excellent, but the film is wrapped in this pseudo-intellectual hippy portrayal of the war. I was naive to think it's a great movie, but I changed my mind. Full Metal Jacket is better showing the savagery and chaos, in fact, I think Platoon is a better movie as well. You may enjoy it as a movie I think, but not a 'war movie'.

I don't even know if Apocalypse Now has much of a message about the Vietnam war. It's too surreal to work as a political statement.
I would agree however that Full Metal Jacket is a better movie, certainly one gets a sense of the realities of war that is largely absent in Apocalypse now.

It's what I heard before, including from my parents (not that they have any connection to the war, they've just seen the movie way back when), which is probably why I always ended up buying some other DVD instead. I guess I should eventually watch it just because it's such a classic that a movie buff like me needs to know it, but like I said, other movies I actually want to see always get in the way.

I don't expect a great game, it's difficult to make it from a masterpiece movie. ^_^

Apocalyspe Now is actually an adaptation of the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The novella was set in Belgian Congo in 19th century. In the film, the Congo was changed to SE Asia, Belgian colonists became the US army, Congo River became Mekong River, and so on. The setting, the history, the Vietnam War, they are not the main themes of the film. The main theme is that of the loss of humanity. My family is from Vietnam, they were among the boat people who fled the War, Heart of Darkness is one of my favourite novels, so I really enjoyed the film. If you are merely interested in the Vietnam War and nothing else then maybe you will be disappointed with the film.

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Apocalypse Now felt less like a Vietnam war movie and more like a psychological horror that showcases a loss of one's humanity and a breakdown of one's reality.

This is my favorite scene of the movie. It shows us the absolute chaos and is very eerie to watch. I think it's the darkness that surrounds everybody and the screaming in the far distance, along with the irregular behavior of the soldiers that makes it a trip to watch.

As for making a game based on the movie, why? Why not make a Vietnam game that simply can take inspiration from it instead? Odd choice.

Gotta agree. The war (or this particular war) is just a backdrop, must be the reason why its one of my favourite movies while i generally dont like war movies ;)

At topic: dont really see how this would work either. There wasnt a whole lot of fighting in the movie, it was more of a road (river...) trip that got more and more surreal, dunno what kind of gameplay would fit...
Spec Ops the line comes to mind, which was very obviously inspired by AN but the over the top shooting kinda distracted from the serious elements in my opinion.

I should watch the movie again. Been probably way more than a decade since the last time I've seen it.

Looks like it's picking up momentum, thought it wouldn't make the goal when I took a look at the KS yesterday. But since I'll probably back PoE2, I won't back this one.
Sounds interesting though, so I'll keep an eye on it and hope it's going to make!

Just....why....

AN is such a great and timeless film that I honestly think this would only come off as fan-fiction, just leave it alone. Not to mention that RPG's where the enemy variety is only human enemies would be pretty boring.

Funnily enough, there was a famous Half-Life 1 total conversion mod called "Heart of Evil" which was a spoof of AN, except add zombies, monsters and aliens, one of the weirdest and best single-player HL1 mods ever made.

I'd imagine so, and because how many people know of Apocalypse Now vs Heart of Darkness. In any case, I'd much rather have a proper dark adventure game based on the book itself. But to stay true to the book it might have to include some content too controversial/risky for the developers.