

This makes capturing those points overly simplistic. Though the unpredictability of the whereabouts of these events are nice and surprising (as opposed to Battlefield 1942’s mostly straight-line, sequential capturing), and very true to the Vietcong way of war, it does create giant empty pockets of nothingness around their flags. They usually elect to pack a few people into a few transport helicopters, and drop every man they have on one of your capture points. In a counterpoint to those observable problems, it’s hard to know where the enemies are going to strike next. On top of hardly noticing you in passing, the adversary doesn’t conceal itself very well, and apparently has no sensory ability of picking up weighty, pounding footsteps approaching them in an Olympic-like sprint from behind. One huge setback I noticed was that the AI almost seems pre-programmed to lunge straight for the capture points regularly ignoring me speeding by them in a Jeep, until I shot at them, ostensibly saying “Here I am!!! Shoot at me please!” What downright perplexes me is that the AI more or less seems dumber than it was in Battlefield 1942.

With any luck (though doubtful), EA will also patch the AI, for it’s a pitiful comparison alongside some of the current top contenders. This will unquestionably be fixed in later-released patches, but it’s a weighty irritant to deal with until then. As the game stands now, there are various bugs and lockups existing. Was there any way Battlefield Vietnam could be so excellent, that it would cool the hot coals of American opinion towards the war, as well as surpass its prior outing? EA Games took a fearless leap when deciding to bring this war back to the forefront with Battlefield Vietnam, not only because of the bitter reminder of the war, but also in trying to follow up its phenomenally received Battlefield 1942, and the two expansions that followed. No other war has ever amounted as many snarling protests from the American public like this war did. For those of you, (especially the protestors) that think the current Iraqi conflict is false-hearted and contentious, imagine existing among the population of 1964, and engulfing all the controversy that was the Vietnam War.
