Product Description

Men of Valor is a historical shooter that recreates infantry combat during the Vietnam War. Follow new recruit Dean Shepard as he and his Marine squad fight through the junglesof Southeast Asia, during the 1960s.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5034 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Vivendi Universal
• Model: 72245
• Released on: 2004-10-26
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• First-person shooter set during the Vietnam War
• Includes major incidents from the conflict, such as the Tet Offensive
• 16 historical missions, from urban combat to dense jungle fighting
• Soundtrack includes rock classics from the late '60s
• Single- and multiplayer missions

From the Manufacturer
From the creators of the award-winning Medal of Honor: Allied Assault comes Men of Valor, an historical first-person shooter that portrays infantry combat during the Vietnam War.

Men of Valor immerses you in the humid jungles of Southeast Asia in the most controversial conflict of the modern era. Experience the intensity of the historical battlefield recreated with cunning AI and detailed graphics that put you on the frontlines. Battle your way through the major actions in the conflict, from search and destroy missions around Da Nang airbase to the Tet offensive and the counterattack on Hue. You can also experience the entire thrilling tour of duty with friends via various multiplayer modes, which allow you to view the war from the perspective of the Viet Cong guerillas as well as U.S. forces.

Customer Reviews

NOT bad for a 3 year old game
This game shows the difficulty of war.Expect to get killed at least 3 times per level the game is just that hard.Experience hours of play in beautiful and detailed landscape.Fight from the jungles to the city streets.

Gameplay:4.5
Graphics:4
sound:3.5
Lasting appeal:4.5
overall:5

Men of Valor Made My Top 5 Worst Game List
Wow. Paid about $8 for this and even that small amount wasn't worth it. Out of the 80 or so FPS games I've played, Men of Valor is one of the worst. I have to go way back to IGI2 before I find a game this bad.

First the good. The music is fine.

Now the bad.

Graphics: When I first popped this in my rig, I thought I had a defective disc. The graphics were awful. I went to the video options and turned everything up to maximum. No difference. I thought I went back to the late 1990s. It reminded me of the first Turok game. I was stunned that this was a 2004 effort.

Character models are laughably bad and wooden and they GLIDE across the ground as if the whole environment is made out of ice. It reminded me of my little plastic soldiers I used to play with when I was a child. I just pushed them across the ground.

Story and Characters: The Vietnam story is compelling and the various cut scenes with footage which gives a mini-history lesson on the war is okay. But the actual missions in the game are forgetful. The effort to try to connect with Shepherd, the main character, via letters home really doesn't work. In fact, I usually cut those off because they became boring very quickly.

Movement: Moving is really awful. You get stuck on just about everything - rocks, logs, limbs, boxes, bodies. Nothing is moveable. Every level is narrowly encased in an invisible barrier. You think you can take a path to flank hostiles only to bump into an invisible wall which blocks that path. Only one narrow and lineal pre-determined path is allowed and scripted. You can't jump. Even the smallest of logs you're locked behind. This is one of the poorest games I've played for trying to traverse the terrain.

Gameplay: Awful. This is really bad, folks. The whole game is about 12-14 hours. However, at least HALF of that time is replaying the same thing over and over. Save points are far apart and, often, you will tediously and slowly make your way up a path or river, systematically eliminating the hostiles along the way, only to find yourself ambushed (which, by the way, is scripted in there toward the end of every objective) and you die (very quickly). When you respawn, you're ALL THE WAY back at the beginning of the objective -- which sometimes were as far back as 20 minutes of gameplay. If you try to go any faster the second try, you'll die, so you have to go slowly and systematically through the same routine all over again. When you get at the hard section, you at least know what to expect and you can plan for a counter-attack. Sometimes, however, you're not successful on the second try and back you go for another 15 minutes re-do. It became OLD very quickly. I think the worst one took me about six tries to finally make it though at about 10 minutes per try. So, it took over an hour of playing to work my way through a 10 minute section.

Having a challenging objective is one thing. But to have a boring tedious re-doing of 20 minutes of work over and over with objective after objective is absolutely ridiculous. The result was a game that just wasn't fun. In fact it was painfully frustrating and boring. I think the developers wanted to make a game that evoked the "reality" of the Vietnam War. But the result was a game that wasn't fun to play.

Overall: 2 out of 5. Men of Valor makes my top 5 worst FPS games of all time

Beware, does not work on all systems
I bought this game, only to find out that it would not work on our PC. If you do not have a T&L vidoe card, it will not run. BE SURE YOUR VIDEO CARD IS A T&L BEFORE YOU BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!