Line of Sight: Vietnam

Line of Sight: Vietnam is a Vietnam war oriented squad-based first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by American studio nFusion and published by Infogrames and Atari in 2003 for Microsoft Windows.

Developer(s)	nFusion
Publisher(s)	Infogrames, Atari
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	NA: March 5, 2003 PAL: July 18, 2003[1]
Genre(s)	Tactical shooter

Description

The game follows Pvt. Chris Egan, a sniper in the US Army's 5th Special Forces based in Nha Trang, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The game involves 12 singleplayer missions, each with different objectives that must be accomplished in order to complete the mission. In the majority of the singleplayer missions, the player is accompanied by an AI squadmate who can be given commands/orders. The player can switch ingame to the squadmate and play the game from their perspective. There are 2 types of enemies in Line of Sight: Vietnam: North Vietnamese Army soldiers and Viet Cong guerillas. They are usually found in groups of 2-3 and are either stationary guards or moving patrols. Missions can take place at day or at night. There are over 10 different weapons in the game, and the player can use weapons that are dropped by enemy forces. The game can be played from both first-person and third-person perspectives. The player can switch between perspectives ingame. Apart from sniper rifles, all weapons in the game are shot from the hip and do not have playable ironsights.

The cooperative multiplayer over Internet cannot be played anymore as it was based on GameSpy, which has since been shut down.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 68/100[2] Review scores Publication Score CGM [3] CGW [4] GamesMaster 35%[5] GameSpot 7/10[6] GameZone 7.5/10[7] IGN 6.5/10[8] Jeuxvideo.com 11/20[9] PC Format 83%[10] PC Gamer (UK) 37%[11] PC Gamer (US) 73%[12]

The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[2]

References

1. "Line of Sight: Vietnam (2003) Windows release dates". MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
2. "Line of Sight: Vietnam for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
3. "Review: Line of Sight: Vietnam". Computer Games Magazine. No. 152. theGlobe.com. July 2003. p. 85.
4. Nguyen, Thierry (July 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 228. Ziff Davis. p. 78. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
5. "Line of Sight: Vietnam". GamesMaster. Future plc. November 2003.
6. Wolpaw, Erik (March 21, 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
7. Giacobbi, Kevin "BIFF" (April 16, 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam - PC - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
8. Deez, Ivan (April 10, 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam Review". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
9. Dinowan (September 24, 2003). "Test: Line Of Sight: Vietnam". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
10. Dudley, Kelly-Marie (October 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam". PC Format. No. 153. Future plc. Archived from the original on November 17, 2003. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
11. "Line of Sight: Vietnam". PC Gamer UK. Future plc. October 2003.
12. Peckham, Matthew (June 2003). "Line of Sight: Vietnam". PC Gamer. Vol. 10 no. 6. Imagine Media. p. 71. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved August 12, 2017.

External links

• nFusion's listing
• Line of Sight: Vietnam at MobyGames