You'll be venturing along jungle trails, through ramshackle villages, among the ruins of ancient temples and down into VC tunnels and trenches - with your escapades being punctuated by some excellently designed set pieces. My dalliance with the preview code started off with a lot of huffing and puffing on my part perhaps because I felt that Conflict's spiritual home was located a lot closer to my living room floor than my office-bound gaming powerhouse but some of the situations that the game threw at me really started to reel me in.
A seemingly obedient village, for example, luring you in before suddenly sprouting snipers and rampaging militia intent on gunning you down. My favourite moment, however, came with the start of the Tet offensive; the point at which the facility you've been pottering about in and doing your training is suddenly invaded by hordes of North Vietnamese trouble-makers.
Fighting your way back to the giant, circular, high ground at the centre of the US military compound is all great scripted fun, with VC leaping into your trenches left right and centre and providing some neat surprises. The climax comes with the defence of the central, circular compound - marking the VC entrypoints with red smoke grenades and watching helicopters swoop in and torch the flood of enemies.
Matters are made slightly more frenetic meanwhile, with the appearance of an enemy tank - and with three of my men grounded by bullet wounds it was a truly tense moment that saw my medic bombarded by bullets and shells, crawling across exposed ground to revive a stricken Hoss who I had equipped with a rocket-launcher and was therefore my only hope in incapacitating the roving tank.
I succeeded, but was later summarily brought back down to earth when I mistimed my red smoke-marking of the final enemy incursion point, highlighting instead the surviving US troops and watching them hurled far into the air by their own air support.
Pivotal clearly wants you to develop a stronger attachment to your allocated foot soldiers than in its previous efforts, so as well as the story and the in-squad bickering there's an RPG-lite feature that crops up between missions.
Here you can tinker with your troops' abilities, so if you want to turn your medic into a gung-ho, cigar-chomping machine-gunner then you can - as long as he's racked up enough points on his travels through the wilderness.
Another thing to keep your eye on is ammunition - you're trapped behind enemy lines so your army-issue bullets increase in value the further you go into a game, and you often have to abandon them altogether and fight instead with pilfered North Vietnamese weaponry. I've lost count of the times while playing the preview code that I've gathered my men together before a major confrontation and discovered that all they have to offer in the way of firepower is two rifle rounds, a few pistol bullets, a knife and a paperclip.
Ammo conservation and distribution is something that has to be addressed on even the easiest of modes, and those who foolishly leave their grunts with full permission to blast away at anything even mildly threatening will start to rue their wasteful habits. But this isn't just any conflict - this is Nam. The poster-boy skirmish for grit, grunts and guerrilla nastiness; so how does Conflict: Vietnam slot itself into the Saigon vibe? Well first off there are the obvious routes - such as having a level based on an Apocalypse Now-style patrol boat, staging the game's opening chapters in the aforementioned military base and ramming a mix of profanity and Nam jargon into your squad's filthy chitchat.
Look a bit closer, however, and you'll realise there's also some genuine ingenuity going on here. For a start there's the traps - if you're sauntering through the undergrowth and sparing little attention to the well-being of your squad, then a hidden wire or mine will ignite your point-man before a comrade has got beyond screaming the Boo! Elsewhere, when searching for a downed helicopter and extremely low on ammo, I was absolutely delighted to come across a neat pile of grenades and rifles in a quiet jungle clearing - but markedly less delighted when I rushed over to grab them and was met only by the unexpected detonation of the explosives hidden underneath them by a clever VC.
Another neat touch, meanwhile, is when you blow away an enemy and wander over to inspect the damage you've caused, only for Charlie's last dying act being to roll over and reveal a freshly primed grenade sitting at your feet -provoking all manner of swearing and frantic order-giving. Conflict: Vietnam certainly seems to be capitalising on the gameplay opportunities presented by the grubby chaos of Nam - whether you're running away from a friendly napalm strike or trying to lock a shot onto a hidden sniper.
The victor of the battle of the Vietnam shooters is still far from revealed, but we're warming to Conflict: Vietnam maybe it's the cute Vietnamese goats that have swayed us but our expectations have certainly been raised. One Of The glut of Vietnam-based titles that's popped up over the last couple of years. The gameplay style remains similar, only now you're toting an M16, sporting a green bandana and running through the jungle instead of kicking up dust in the Middle East.
Taking command of your four-man team is a breeze, thanks to the clever yet simple control system, and the Vietcong enemy present a hefty challenge. But it ain't all gravy. The aiming controls are floaty and frustrating possibly down to the game being developed for consoles first , and the levels frequently force you down annoyingly narrow corridors, even when you're out wandering the rainforest. The omission of a jump key doesn't help either - you can't even clamber over a fallen tree trunk. Even more astounding is the lack of a multiplayer mode.
A squad-centric title like this is simply crying out for some online co-operative action, but the developer has stubbornly stuck to its single-player guns, thereby missing an obvious trick.
Unless you're a fan of the previous games, or a Vietnam obsessive, we see little reason to shell out a tenner for another tour of duty. Conflict Vietnam is both the best among the conflict games and one of the best among the Vietnam shooters today. That isn't to say it's a superb game, but it has its moments and can make for a pretty intense ride at times. The game puts you in control of a squad of four men cut off behind enemy lines during the Tet Offensive.
You get to control the four men, switching between them at will as you work your way through miles of jungle on your way to freedom.
The game starts off with a pretty interesting training system that drops you in the middle of a base and then sends you scurrying between training stations to teach you movement, the shooting system, command system and how to heal.
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