

Players are able to fire from the passenger sides of vehicles, rather than leaving the player defenseless. Players can replace the vehicle soundtrack with their own music tracks. It also has several additions to it, such as air-lifting vehicles and, while in a vehicle, playing the vehicle's radio, which featured 1960s music. Various contemporary weapons and concepts are featured such as the AK47 assault rifle and punji stick traps. The game gives the player a variety of weapons based on the war. īattlefield Vietnam features the United States, with Marines, Army and the Navy, South Vietnam with Army of the Republic of Vietnam and North Vietnam with People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong.īuilt on a modified Battlefield 1942 engine, Battlefield Vietnam has many new and improved features from its predecessor. A "Sipi Hole" feature for the Vietnamese – effectively a mobile spawn point, representative of the vast tunnel networks the Vietnamese used in the actual war – was implemented in order to balance the gameplay. This gameplay was intended to reflect the actual conditions of the war. The U.S., for instance, will get heavy tanks, helicopters, and bombers, while the Vietnamese are forced to rely on anti-tank/anti-aircraft weapons in order to stop the U.S. rely more on heavy vehicles and the Vietnamese rely more on infantry tactics. or North Vietnamese) are given wildly different kits and vehicles, making the U.S. Battlefield Vietnam features a revolutionary form of asymmetrical warfare gameplay. Like other Battlefield games, Spawn tickets play a vital role for defeat of a team. On 15 March 2005, EA re-released the game as Battlefield Vietnam: Redux, which includes new vehicles, maps, and an EA-produced World War II mod, based on the previous Battlefield 1942.īattlefield Vietnam has the same point by point objectives of Battlefield 1942 in most maps, the objective is to take Control Points around the map to enable friendly players and controllable vehicles to spawn. Battlefield Vietnam takes place during the Vietnam War and features a large variety of maps based on historical settings, such as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Battle of Hue, Ia Drang Valley, Operation Flaming Dart, the Battle of Khe Sanh and Fall of Saigon.

The game was developed by the Canadian company DICE Canada and published by Electronic Arts.

Battlefield Vietnam is a first-person shooter video game, the second in the Battlefield franchise after Battlefield 1942.
