Vietcong: Purple Haze is a shooter developed by Illusion Softworks, released 29 January 2004 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Vietcong: Purple Haze is
Vietcong: Purple Haze is a shooter game developed by Illusion Softworks and released in 2004. It was published by Gathering. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Vietcong: Purple Haze is a narrative-based First Person Shooter set during the Vietnam conflict. Players of Vietcong experience the war from the perspective of a soldier assigned to join a squad of U.S. Special Forces running reconnaissance missions deep into the jungles of Northern Vietnam. Utilizing any means necessary, players of Vietcong patrol various tactical regions – setting traps, gathering intelligence, calling in air strikes or ambushing enemy patrols. Over 18 dramatic missions featured in a cinematic single player campaign.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Vietcong: Purple Haze holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Vietcong: Purple Haze launched on 29 January 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen and Pokémon LeafGreen Version. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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