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ShellShock: Nam '67

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Game Info

Publisher: Eidos Interactive

Developer: Guerilla Games

Genre(s): Third-Person Shooter, Action

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: M (Mature)

Release Date: September 14, 2004

Summary

ShellShock: Nam '67 focuses on one mans experience of the most controversial war of modern times. You take on the role of a rookie soldier on his first tour of duty as he experiences the fear, chaos and atrocities of the Vietnam War. From the napalm bombardments of civilian villages and the gruesome VC (Viet Cong) boobytraps, to the permanent threat of invisible foes and deadly ambushes, Shellshock: Nam '67 dares to go where no other war game has gone. Powered by Guerrillas ground-breaking technology, ShellShock: Nam 67 delivers a graphically harrowing depiction of the terror of combat. You must fight your way through a variety of missions ranging from large scale battlefield encounters with the North Vietnamese Army to stealth-based missions such as assassinating a VC General. As you progress from a grunt to Special Forces carrying out classified missions, you will have to rely on the same skills and tactics employed in the battlefields of Vietnam in order to survive. Your tour will take you from the lush wetlands of the South to the mountain borders of the North featuring diverse locations including dense jungles, rural Vietnamese villages and claustrophobic tunnel systems. [Eidos Interactive]

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What The Critics Said

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Stuff

The line "Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules" has never been so fully embodied by a video game.

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AceGamez

On the plus side, what's there is competently done and is flecked with powerful moments of brutality. On the downside, these spots of overt anguish aren't dealt with particularly well and lead to a reduction of the overall effect.

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Total Video Games

You cannot kill your fellow US soldiers...why? We’re not saying that it’s a good move to blast your support into oblivion, but it would be a consequence to taking a gung-ho, guns blaring approach.

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3DAvenue

The repetitive and boring gameplay, amongst other issues, unfortunately overshadows the realistically unique brutal nature of the game, which is a shame because it really does a good job in its portrayal of what war really is about.

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Game Chronicles

The cutscenes are shockingly brutal, the language is shockingly harsh, and the gameplay is shockingly bad.

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Gamer.tv

One of the most harrowing action titles we've ever played...The game itslef is well crafted. The enemy A.I., however, is a little shaky.

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GameShark

It fails in my eyes as an innovative title that people will find themselves wanting to pick up in the face of "Doom 3" and the impending "Half-Life 2."

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IGN

Shellshock is as painfully straightforward as can be. Somewhere between conception and launch, something went wrong.

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ActionTrip

The game does have some grittiness to it, but it seems to be geared more towards teenagers who would feel better about themselves playing a mature game, than it is towards mature gamers who are looking to get a little depth to go with the arcade action.

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PC Format

The game is incredibly awkward to play. [Oct 2004, p.99]

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eToychest

Shellshock doesn’t amount to much more than six or seven hours of gameplay. It’s over almost as soon as it began which, depending on how much you paid for it, might be a good thing.

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Game Over Online

Character growth? Unnerving realism? I don’t think so. And when you take away the sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, figuratively and literally, the true gameplay is revealed as repetitive and uninspired.

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GameSpot

It certainly raises the bar on vile, pointless cutscenes. However, anyone interested in more than stubbornly average gameplay should look elsewhere.

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Sydney Morning Herald

It would have been nice if the developer's willingness to include controversial subject matter had extended to exciting gameplay.

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GameSpy

Has a bit of style but not much new gameplay behind it. It looks good and it's a serviceable shooter (you do get to shoot things, after all), but the game play just isn't that exciting, especially when you consider that it has no multiplayer and the single-player is so linear.

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Edge Magazine

Firefights become more surreal than menacing when the worst-case scenario is of your fellow GIs having to catch their breath for a few seconds after being riddled with bullets. [Aug 2004, p.96]

Computer Gaming World

A bad third-person shooter is still bad even with '60s music and Vietnamese prostitutes. [Dec 2004, p.96]

Computer Games Magazine

The 3D engine is incredibly sluggish, delivering mediocre graphics that manage to tax even fast computers and high-end videocards. [Jan 2005, p.69]

GameCritics

It portrays the killing of specific, theoretically real (in that they're virtual stand-ins for the actual soldiers that fought in the war) people as nothing more than a gruesome shooting gallery...At some point everyone has to decide when enough is enough. And now I have.

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PC Gamer

A turd of a third-person shooter that so revels in senseless violence and horrible design, I needed a shower every time I stopped playing. [Holiday 2004, p.100]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ups2006 smith gave it a0:
If you took a rocket ship to the Planet of Bad Games and then found the country on that planet where all the really Bad Games were and then found the capital city in that country where the really Crappiest Games existed and then found the shop in that city which sold the absolute worst games ever, I still think you wouldn't find a crappier game than Shellshock Nam '67. This game stinks! I can only assume that Eidos were suffering from shellshock when they released this ugly, useless title. Controls? Forget it it! Game play? Non-existant! Graphics? Garbage! Audio? Embarrassing! Enemy AI? What enemy AI? Cut scenes? Gratuitous filth! Arrrgghhhh! I hate this crap so much! Now I must get it off my PC immediately!

[Anonymous] gave it an 8:
If you judge this game fair, it has earned a 75 at least. It's kind of an arcade, console-like game, but hey: You wanna tell me that Cod and that stuff is "realistic" ? :D This game is fun, it motivates you with the collection of "trophies". Give it a try, you might like it !

Agent gave it a 0:
This game is a total waste of money!!! terrible graphics, terrible AI, terrible level design, terrible controls and not playable online.

Steve T. gave it a 1:
Terrible controls, cartoonish combat, atrocious level design. Dodge this draft.

[Anonymous] gave it a 5:
Truly disappointed by this game. Really anticipated a unique experience because of the media leading up to its release. General freedom to act and explore in this game is very limited - they should have licenced the Crytec engine. Graphics are likewize outdated -even older engines generate better graphics. Gameplay is again hopeless! Even purchasing an older Conflict series game is recommended compared to this.

Kyle F. gave it a 0:
An absolute pile of crap.

TheBeast gave it a 5:
I think a good opportunity has been missed with this game.The game is far too linear, and although the graphics are good they cannot compare with Far Cry.I think if this game had the graphics of Far Cry and the gameplay of Fist Alpha and the plot of this game then they would be onto a winner but as it stands i feel a little bit short changed. i completed the game very quickly and felt that i had not really been tested. Also there is no way to play online which in this day and age of broadband is unforgiveable.

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