Men of Valor
by Vivendi Universal
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Video Game Reviews of Men of Valor
Customer Review: One of the most watered-down, worst war games ever
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a pretty dissapointing game. A lot of things are just stupid, like the lame between-mission dramatic moments, but i'm going to give an example of a typical mission to illustrate my point.
I'm supposed to attack a heavily fortified hilltop position. At the base of the hill, I take cover with about 7 or 8 other squadmates to try and take out some enemies blocking our way up. While we're shooting at them, I'm taking heavy fire and can't figure out where it's coming from, especially since i'm getting shot when I'm lying down behind a dirt parapet. Eventually I realize that a machine gun at the top of a far away hill behind a tree line that I can't even begin to see through is shooting me with pinpoint accuracy. When I finally move up the hill, I'm instructed to go help some of my buddies lay down fire on the machine gun bunker at the top. This is actually a very intense firefight, but the gameplay itself completely ruins it. I'm ordered to suppress the bunker, and while I do, it informs me that I'm supposed to be sticking with a certain member of my squad. It gives me a name but in the dark and in the firefight it's rather difficult to differentiate between any of my squad, so I literally have to play through the action 4 times more before I figure out waht to do, because if I don't stay right next to that particular squad member it fails the mission. When i finally figure out who it is, I'm told to continue suppressing the bunker while a different man takes it out with a rocket. He gets shot (it's in the script;happens every time) and I'm informed I have to take the bunker out using a grenade, rocket, or C4. I don't have any of those things on me, but I figure no big deal, I'll run to where my squadmate was shot and use his rocket launcher. Guess what? As soon as i run towards him, I get failed for leaving my other buddy. I can't get past this mission only about 3/4 through the game because of ridiculously stupid planning like this. It's not worth the money or the time to just get caught up in the game's poor development.
Customer Review: Closer to 3 1/2, but definately not 4
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm only reviewing after playing the demo, but from what I've played, I can basically review this as if I've played most of the game.
Unlike what some of the people here are saying, the graphics are generally really good. There are some very WEIRD animations in the game, and just a few bugs, but the graphics are very nice, really give the feeling of being in the jungle. I found that the blood effect was really bad/unlrealistic looking. Now, I've never seen someone really get shot or anything, but to me, the blood just looked too bright and too much of it. The gun models generally looked good. Explosions are pretty satisfying.
8/10
Now, the sound; VERY disappointing. The Thompson sounds so fake its not funny. The PPsh sounded really crappy too. There were times when I couldn't distinguish the different gun sounds when my whole team was firing, and the team had just about everything - M60's, M16's, Thompsons, M14's, and then the VC were shooting, and I couldn't really tell the difference. Now, there is a lot of swearing in the game, but its not like Brothers In Arms, where even though they run through the full gamut of expletives, they don't sound like they were put there just to be there. In MOV, I thought it just seemed like they developers tried to put in swear words everywhere, not necassarily to fit the situations like BiA. Overall, very disappointing.
5/10
I'm not really going to spend much time describing the gameplay, because that is definately different to everyone. All I will say is that I genuinely felt like I was in the jungle; I was looking out to the side for traps and the VC the whole time - very immersive. I just wish the blood/gun sounds/swearing was re-worked.
Customer Review: nam vet
Summary: 5 Stars
I like the small details example the fire flies ,lightning, officers screwing up, artillery on present position. Customer Review: this game sucks
Summary: 1 Stars
i can't even play it because every time i try to install the game it either crashes my computer , which is brand new , or it gives me all kinds of error codes.no customer support or help is within reach.if you don't believe me , log on to the official website and enter the forums to see how many unhappy people besides me there are !!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T BUY THIS GAMECustomer Review: Call of Duty wanna be
Summary: 2 Stars
This game sure gives me the feeling of "been there, done that" in its gameplay. I am refering to Medal Of Honor and Call of Duty, except those games had a decent game-save feature. Here you have to wait for the game to automatically save itself because you can't. The result is that when you're killed you must replay the same action again and again until you get it right and can proceed. It even has the little compass so you'll know which direction to go, which is only another way of saying that this is a super linear game. It might appear to be a great big jungle for you to explore, but there is really only one way for you to go. This copy-cat game can be fun at times, but the feeling of deja-vu transcends the experience. This game is completely unoriginal and, if you really want to try it, just wait for the price to drop before you get it.