Company / Developers –Gathering / Illusion Softworks / Pterodon Homepage Genre – First Person shooter
Introduction
I don’t know if any of you played the demo for Vietcong a while back, but the full release of Vietcong shows once again that you can’t always trust a demo to show you what the future product will be like.
The demo was released a while ago now, last year sometime. Suffice to say it was way before the release date of the retail game. The Vietcong demo was a multiplayer mission called ‘Save the Pilot’ where gamers would play as the US to protect the pilot, and some would be the VC (the Vietcong) to hunt him down. Graphics were good, but the game failed to take hold of me so I lost interest in its progress.
However, being bored one day I decided to go to my local shop in search of a game to relieve my boredom. I noticed that Vietcong had just come out so purchased it because nothing else was around. I tell you; from the moment I finished installing the game and started to play it, my opinion on Vietcong turned full circle. Action-packed from the word “go”, I haven’t experienced such intense combat and sheer madness since I played Paintball in real life years ago.
Compatibility
Resolutions tested
Vietcong has many tweakable options and more resolutions that the ones I tested on. Suffice to say, playing the game at a standard 1024 x 768 (32bit colour) yielded little problems. The game looked wonderful, and I only had to drop my resolution on one level to 800 x 600 when the slowdown suddenly appeared and became unbearable. Every other level worked fine, save the last one where slowdown reared its ugly head. Not enough to become unplayable, mind you, but unpleasant nonetheless.
The game is somewhat demanding, but then again, it boasts such lovely and detailed textures in the jungle landscape using the developers own Pterodon engine, so I wouldn’t approach this with a lesser graphics card or system… although in saying that this gamer on the Gathering Forum says he has no-slowdown using his Geforce2 system, check out his thread here.
Some people have had a few technical problems with the game, with freezes and such. I haven’t experienced any, hand on heart, but its worth checking out the VC forum before you buy to see if there are any outstanding system specific problems that may affect you.
