Line of Sight: Vietnam

If you're expecting a run and gun Call of Duty type experience, skip this one. This is a full blown ♥♥♥♥ in the dirt stealth/tac shooter with absolutely zero regard for your overall enjoyment. But that being said, if you can appreciate an Operation Flashpoint/Hidden n Dangerous style of gameplay, this might be up your alley during a deeply discounted sale All of the problems you'll read about from more traditional gaming magazines are true. Team-mate AI is horrid, enemy AI is either the same or just outlandishly "too" good. You will be hitting the quick save and quick load button a lot after you get stun locked from a hit scanned bullet that somehow hit you from across the map despite being crouched behind cover. If you like a challenge and don't take it too seriously, I believe you can have a decent time with it but it is, objectively speaking, definitely a low quality game when you consider the Tom Clancy titles and Op flashpoint are older than this is

Awful

There is great idea of using stealth to ambush enemies in this game, but unfortunately the execution of this idea falls short. Since stealth is supposed to be a core gameplay mechanic, the game unfortunately cannot be recommended. Enemies simply can see you from too far away and from behind thick cover as well. If I remember correctly, in some missions it is nighttime and even then the enemies seemed to see me way too easily. If I had played this game around its release when I was younger, perhaps I would have had the time and patience to see whether you could make the stealthy approach work under certain circumstances. In my seven hour plus playthrough, I eventually resorted to using the arcade setting with the easiest difficulty level which reduced my playthrough into just running and gunning through the maps like it was OG Doom or something. At least I was able to complete the game. On the positive side, I have to say that the game has a cool voice-over narration between missions (akin to a Vietnam War movie), a wide variety of weapons which you are either given for the mission or can pick up from dead enemies and squad members who at least in principle might help you.

childhood

It's like a sequel to Deadly Dozen, the budget tactical shooter series. But this time they added the ability to be concealed in grass. This works in comedic ways with enemies being right next to you and not being able to notice your squad crawling at their toes. Enemies have a tendency to spawn when you have performed some task you were set to do, sometimes in less subtle or fair ways. The missions are straightforward except for the last one when you have to climb a hill from a weird angle to not alert every enemy to shoot at a captive you're tasked to rescue. It's expectedly janky for a budget game, but the graphics were decent for 2003.

Unplayable. Couldn't get through the first contact of the first mission. Enemies see and shoot through mountains. Don't waste your time.