• Publisher: VU Games
  • Release Date: Oct 29, 2004
Metascore
71 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. And don't listen to talk about the games hidden agenda. Who cares if its pro American, this is gaming, not art-house political cinema, we're here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and we had a hell of a lot of fun doing it!
  2. Much better than the Xbox incarnation, offering improvements in graphics, control and even slight AI improvements.
  3. Men of Valor tells the best story and delivers the best action of any of the Vietnam games currently available.
  4. It's quite gritty, has some surprisingly creative missions and even offers historical lessons about the Vietnam conflict. Now if only it was prettier and fixed the "realistic" walking motion.
  5. A competent historically based shooter with some unique features and an occasional flash of brilliance, making it one of the few quality Vietnam War FPS to date.
  6. A nice execution of admittedly old ideas, Men of Valor features exhilirating action, storytelling that takes risks, and convincing team AI.
  7. Luckily, the shooting wins out over the moralizing and helps make Men of Valor one of the few games to successfully tackle the Vietnam War.
  8. A solid game but it doesn’t really do anything new or unexpected other than exceed as an actual good Vietnam game.
  9. Those of you who are military shooter buffs should certainly want to play it, but don't expect the type of nail-biting action that we've witnessed in "Call of Duty" or "MoH: AA."
  10. It does have its fair share of flaws and rough edges, but it also has quite a few areas where it absolutely shines.
  11. 75
    A notch better on the PC than Xbox, thanks to significantly better visuals, but that's still not enough to push these valorous men past the paces of the best military games of this season.
  12. To be honest, I expected a lot more from 2015.
  13. An immersive Vietnam war experience hampered by poor AI.
  14. 70
    But don't let those flaws keep you from trying this Vietnam War shooter. At its best, it's an immersive, intense game, filled with pulse-pounding action and diverse missions.
  15. 70
    The soundtrack, featuring James Brown and Strawberry Alarm Clock, keeps you going long after the Agent Orange has taken away your ability to feel.
  16. 70
    An adequate entry into the emerging Vietnam-sub genre that offers plenty of simplistic shooting fun, but fails to capture the depth and grandeur of similar titles like "Battlefield Vietnam" or even "Call of Duty" despite the obvious inclusion of so much historical information.
  17. Great gunplay, shame about the A.I. [Jan 2005, p.94]
  18. It shows in the incredibly intriguing and well-executed storyline. However, as shiny as the story may be, it can't hide the unpolished feel of other aspects.
  19. 68
    The "Medal of Honor" approach doesn't fit with such a controversial war, and the frankly simplistic combat becomes old pretty fast, a matter not helped by feeling hemmed in along a linear path, where one village tends to look like any other, as do the rivers, gulleys, and hilltops.
  20. A good game that would have been great if not for the disappointingly absurd A.I. and unpolished gameplay.
  21. A decent game with an outstanding theme and some innovative ideas for making an FPS more challenging, but remains bogged down with frustrations by the same ideas.
  22. Available on both PC and Xbox, the PC version is markedly superior. The main problem with the Xbox version is that it's very difficult to make out enemies amongst the tall grass, due to the low resolution of the platform.
  23. The final insult is the atrocious console save-system. The game saves automatically between each level and a couple of times during each level, but if you stop playing, you have to restart teh entire level. [Jan 2005, p.86]
  24. Like a clapped out Huey returning from its final mission - ugly, rusted, outdated and just so shot shot full of holes. [Feb 2005, p.82]
  25. Generally disappointing. It's a decent game, but just nowhere near as enjoyable or impressive as the many new FPS recruits who have recently landed on the retail battlefield.
  26. As a Vietnam War shooter, with its strong themes and unforgiving violence, Men of Valor succeeds. [Dec 2004, p.85]
  27. Ultimately fails as a game because of one poorly implemented feature: the "save game," or as it's called around here, the thing that keeps you from re-playing sadistically difficult levels 20 or more times. [Jan 2005, p.68]
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. JohnR
    3
    This game simply sucks ass. It came a long time after Vietcong and a short time before Medal of Honor: Paficic Assault and both games featured better graphics and better gameplay than Men of Valor. Okay, Men of Valor actually has nice jungle graphics. But everything else is simply bad. The characters look bad, the weapons look bad, the missions are simply unrealistic bullshit, so is the fighting, the scripted sequences are animated like in the first 3d rpgs, the 'innovative' health system is stupid and even the music by Inon Zur seriously disappointed me. Okay - whether you like the way the story is told - that's a question of taste. But I simply cannot explain to myself how this game could find any fans at all and how it's possible, that the game is so much worse than Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - after all, it's the same people who have been working on both these games. I give the game three points for nice jungle gfx and the attempt to touch topics which have not been part of any other wargame before - but anything else about it is simply crap (starting with the title which expresses something absolutely different than the game itself). Full Review »
  2. PeterF.
    6
    I bought this game for 10$ so im not that fusturated but i fell sorry for the people who bought it at $100. You guys must have ripped all your hair out. This game started out preety good. It has unique and different objectives to other games. I hate in games where you are gving an objective like destroy weapon catches or blow up a technical. BORING! These had different objectives which i liked at the start. The first mission was ok but then after a while it gets really annoying, you hav those gay and corny letters whenever you start or die in a mission. Which happens very frequently because of invisible enemies in trees killing you while the stupid ai enemies stand there and yell ".... .." While your ai squad friends yell stupid and repeatative stuff and they block you and they don't kill any enemies. People are saying the graphics are fantastic but they arn't that great. Comapred to bf2 and moh it looks like its been done in paint on your computer. I can't get into maultiplayer because it keeps on telling me to get the updated patch, i keep doing that but it won't let me download it because it says i have it but i DON'T! The Ai is horrible, worse then the first battlefield, graphics are ok the only plus side in single player is missions are different to other games but the saving is ridiculous, you having to start everytime. THis game was really dissapointing but the funny thing is its probably the best vietnam war pc game which is preety dissapointing. I hope they learnt their mistakes and come out with a better sequel. Full Review »
  3. RobertH.
    7
    I thought it was a very well played game there were some flaws but much better that medal of Honer Pacific Assult the jugle fighting was much better.