

In June 2004, Battlefield Vietnam received a "Gold" certification from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland, indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The game is the first in the Battlefield series to utilize a 3D map, allowing players to see icons that represent the position of control points or friendly units, giving the player an increased situational awareness. 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. ( October 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)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. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.
