Just received the game for X-mas. I am a long time gamer since the start of gaming, seen it all. Played a bit of the campaign but mostly on X-box live. Lets start with the graphics that everybody is saying so great. My TV is 53" 6 year old HD projection (witch weren't that great to start with) so the graphics look like sh** and I have trouble seeing enemies and tanks even close up some times, you have to look for motion for something to stand out. Especially with all the constant smoke and dust obscuring visibility. You shoot an enemy up and a cloud of smoke obstructs further aiming. Not knowing where your enemies are is very realistic but it seems like most of the times you die you never see it coming, sometime the radar will light up enemies when they are shooting at you but allot of times it doesn't which is very frustrating because you can't rely on it. They are trying to take 3D life where you have your 6 senses working 360 degrees and peripheral vision - and then translate it to 2D which doesn't work. They have to give you alternate senses to rely on to replace the ones lost. Allot of times it ends up being just a free fraul off killing and deaths unless you are on a drastically winning team or are on a private chat with 3 other friends to coordinate attacks and expose enemies by sacrificing your own. The ability to respawn on your own personal and bases makes dying only a minor inconvenience adding to the free fraul. In conquest respawning only at home base would solve this plus being made to take bases in order and the game ending when you posses all the bases would eliminate the craziness and late game home base blood baths creating a straight forward goal based battle. The next biggest frustration with the game is getting stuck on you surroundings either waking or driving. When walking anything over 6 inches tall (step height) stops you dead forcing you to jump as well as hills you think you should be able to climb up stop you and you sit there jumping like an idiot trying to get up. You will end up pulling your hair out because of this. When driving a tank you get stuck on almost everything. There is not much that can stop a tank in real life but when you get stuck on a wooden fence or building it's frustrating. Some things come down easy an others do not - very frustrating You should be able to flatten the grass/bamboo/tin huts in the Vietnam version without even slowing down. Some will break with effort but by then you are dead from enemy fire that you can't locate it's origin . Next is the weapons capabilities, as you build rand they give you more weapons not necessarily better ones. As you scroll thought the list of weapons you can't compare them directly, you find two you like at opposite ends of the list and by the time you scroll from one to the other you can't hardly remember where the bar was - to solve this give the power / accuracy / range bars a numerical value. As well the ability to only use one spec in each of the three spec columns is a piss off. You put hundreds of hours into the game to earn this stuff and only get to use 3. They make you choose between armor or ammo, targeting systems or speedy reloading ect............................It feels like all the time and progress is futile. You should be able to use them all, you put the time in you reap the benefits. If it gives you to much of an advantage make them harder to get or set up games where your entrance depends on ability. Low rank players play with other low rankers ect... Another thing that is frustrating is the aiming ability, whenever you hit the button it seems like I am always pointing at the enemies feet. If you set the sensitivity low it moves to slow and you end up dead, too fast and you over shoot the target every time, I can't seem to find a happy middle ground. Always liked some sort of mild auto aiming. Lastly the gun sights projected out in front of you whether walking or driving are either white or lighted red or blue. The white being the worst, you have a hard time seeing them especially when going though like back ground colours or smoke. Half the time you can't tell where you are aiming. The 4x red dot scope is a great spec but you have to pass up other good specs to use it. I should have waited for version 3. I hope they address all the problems with #2 and fire all their testers and hire some that know what they are doing and have some balls to say that the game isn't ready yet!â… Collapse

It's like upgrading your Battlefield Bad Company 2 up to Battlefield Bad Company 2.5, this is more than just a simple dlc map pack like you get with blops- This is a whole new multiplayer expansion with new maps, weapons, vehicles, music, in game movies, and most importantly a whole new strategy on how to play the game. The best way to describe the Vietnam expansion is by saying it's like combining Bad Company 2 with the Battlefield 1943 released in 09. Unlike Bad Company 2's huge map-scope based battles- Vietnam throws you in the $h!t up close with everyone else, it's close quarter skirmishes that get ugly quick. This is not to say the new maps are small because they are by no means smaller than the original Bad Company 2 maps, it's just how EA set up the landwork so that battles come to bottlenecks and brush for a team to advance. Mix in all the new extras including the game changing flamethrower, and you've got the best online shooter dlc coupled with the best online shooter out. A must buy.… Expand

This expansion takes the already amazing BC2 base game and engine and adds perfect variety by forcing closer quarters, more intense shootouts in 4 (5) new maps. Its not just an addition of skins and new weapons, it actually provides a completely different feeling in terms of gameplay and strategy required to succeed. There is less emphasis on vehicles, though, but the Huey helicopters are extremely fun when you come across them. In the end, definitely worth the $15 to expand one of the best online shooters on PS3.… Expand

Like Vanilla BC2, but better. It takes getting used to though, as the guns are quite different, with fights being very short range. In contrast to Black Ops, which is set in Vietnam and doesn't feel like it, you can obviously tell that this is in Vietnam, even from trailers. There is 2 hour's worth of Vietnam era music, which you can hear in vehicles.
This is a multiplayer only expansion. Its worth the money.… Expand

Worth it in every way, great DLC, and a great game! So much better than COD a.k.a Call of garbage, you know, that game that requires no thinking to play, where you can just run around with the same machine gun, doing the same routine to rack up kills... Yeah, I couldn't stand it so I'm so glad that my cousin introduced me to BFBC2. And besides any noob can pick up COD and run around with a machine gun, but you can tell when someone sucks in BFBC. Just saying...… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Two words can sum up this game real good. And those two words are, Awesome and OWNAGE! Core (10.0) ID… Expand

The expansion brings everything that was already good in Bad Company 2, only with a different guise. New trophies, pins, weapons, vehicles and stages will keep veteran players occupied for a long time. And the Vietnam feeling while you are on tank, listening to musics from the past, is an extra that turns the expansion a must.

cream of the crop, this game is breathless, its too addicting, but even though the story is weak it makes up for the multiplayer which is hard to get off your seat, the framerate are find, battlefield veterans will find this game very good, the only problems i encountered are lag and its underrated status, its a great buy

To clarify, I don't think this "stole" anything from Black Ops, although they have similar settings, that's about it. While this is only an expansion, it definitely feels like the more authentic Vietnam experience. Nothing like flying a copter into battle with Ride of the Valkyries blaring. While I played BFBC2 alot at launch and the months right after, I hadn't touched it in a long while. This made me pick it up again, and get a little more use out of an already amazing game, one that I would put above COD any day.… Expand

BFBC2 Vietnam is a throwback from Modern Warfare to Bush fighting in jungles and gripping bunker-busting action, The Graphics are amazing and make you feel like you're actually in the game! Teamwork is always at hand and the Viechels have stunning detail, overall I would prefer this to CoD7 any day!