In no way did that look like a Vietnam game.....

But I have always wondered why they NEVER make Vietnam games? I loved Battlefield Vietnam so much!

Maybe they dont make Vietnam games because it would just be a game you couldnt win?

Xuchilbara

How did Freebird become the official "you're about to die" music? King of the Hill, The Devil's Rejects, and now this...

Kyattsuai

Somebody needs to make a realistic Vietnam game, that actually plays well. Even tho Battlefield: Vietnam didn't have much of a single player campaign, it really nailed down the look of the Vietnam war. Lush jungle environments is where it's at I say! It would be great to see Infinity Ward to take up the task of a Vietnam game, I think that they could do a great job with it.

Oh, and ShellShock: Nam '67, what a waste of cash that game was, even tho I picked it up used for $10. Craptastic.

dead_red_eyes

I'm actually excited for this- if you read up this synopsis, it sounds like you are fighting off a crazed crew of a crashed plane- sounds pretty cool- and different...

SIDE NOTE: A new trend seems to be happening with game trailers and the whole "grindhouse" theme- I like it- Dead Space did the same thing

TheXanadu

So zombie vietcong was the next logical step then?

Vau

Another bit of proof that Freebird makes everything awesome.

ShaggE

Hmmm zombies and first person shooter. I'll sign up for another tour.

Pornosaur

Shellshock 2 has a better premise. Look at the Virus'd killing people. I think that's pretty awesome.

Dexyn

Looked pretty interesting. Looks like they're trying to bring the horror side of war into the game, and not just the action, which really, most games should have been doing by now, letting the gamer feel how the soldiers feel. (and yes, some have done this like Brothers in Arms, but not enough have, and this game is definitely taking it to the next level with the horror)

Here's to hoping the overall game doesn't turn out to be mediocre though.

Mit

Shellshock 1 was tolerable because for once it wasnt a crappy FPS(it was still rather crap though)but 3PS.
Oh well there they go too,why not work with Uwe Boll and smash it together with tunnel rats in a craptastic bundle?

Chibirazi

@rayne117: Sorry for the double post but, ARE THOSE FREAKING ZOMBIES!?!!!111!!1!!1!!

rayne117

No matter how good Freebird is... it will never be enough to spike a reincarnation in the ShellShock series.

rayne117

But aren't Guerilla busy making another sure-to-be-no-better-than-average "Killzone" game? How do they have time to make another sure-to-be-no-better-than-average "Shellshock" game?

Oh, snap.

(As it turns out, they're not making it. I still don't care- "Killzone" was a waste of my time.)

kicking222

looks like Call of Duty and Condemned 2: Bloodshot had a kid heh.

hell yeah i'll give it a shot. Vietnam War FPS's are few and far between.

F22

@TK423: The original Shellshock was a third-person game. It looks like the sequel is an FPS, though.

Lezard

That trailer didn't look third person to me.

TK423

Zombies, eh?

Crazed men? People infected by viruses?

W--T--F.

Coquiton

Ah wtf, you got zombies in my Vietnam!

Lucidity

@pylon_trooper: Indeed. Brain skip.

Michael McWhertor

@Xuchilbara:
Two reasons:

First, Vietnam is NOT a war that people like to look back upon, especially we Americans. And when you look at it it's not hard to understand why that is. Even the most ultra-right pro-war yokel recognizes that our flagrant dismissal of American and international rules of law and warfare lead to a flat-out failure that allowed Communism to rapidly spread through South-East Asia and resulted needlessly in millions of innocent deaths, not to mention the pointless waste of hundreds of thousands of American lives.

The other reason is that ignoring these very real elements in the story ends up grossly distorting the very real courage and patriotism of millions of American and Vietnamese citizens who were forced into service in this war against their will.

thecactusman17

WHITE KNIGHT??!!1 What is that?

skadebo

This is the weirdest change of direction for a game i've ever seen.

The first game is all about vietnam...and now they're adding zombies?

SamuelJackson1

I actually wonder if McWhertor actually played the game he alleges to have forgotten, as previously stated, Shellshock was a third person game.

pylon_trooper

Actually there were some,Vietcong was pretty good.
The sequel not so much.

Chibirazi

as mitch hedberg would say:

"I hate zombies. If you stand in the video game aisle at the store long enough, you start to get mad at zombies. There's zombies from hell, zombies from viruses, zombies summoned from wizards. someone needs to tell the zombies, man, just be yourself."

SeaCreation

Could be fun to pick up in a year or so for cheaps. No way I'm throwing down $60. We're all gonna be broke by the end of October.

ca$h

i kinda liked the first one

GrumpierGrunt

@Ra is on House: Not true it still wouldn't make Jack thompson awesome.

dsmx

Holy crap I love it.

PS2 animations, quick cuts, melodramatic voice over, horrible music pauses, and that awesome skipping scene where the zombie guy keeps coming at the character with a machete....

I <3 the year 2000.

Worst case scenario its....wretched. Best case scenario is Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy which was clunky but played really well.

raviadso

@Pornosaur: I dont think theyre zombies, i think theyre infected people.

Ra is on House

@ShaggE: How true.

Ra is on House

Alright, this is a ****ing cool idea.

I'm willing to give it a shot based on that alone. I'm also willing to forget the disaster that was the first game.

bluedeviltron

Don't judge the game by the first one. The developers have changed. Rebellion works on this game here. And Rebellion did Alien vs Predator 1 ... this kinda rises my hopes for this game. Could be like Vietcong with some Jacob's Ladder influences...

Bedlam

Yeah, what the hell? Zombies? In Vietnam? Give me co-op and I am so in!

rizzo9972

The choice of music doesn't make much sense :OX...

Rajolae

@kicking222: Agreed. After all the hype, Killzone was probably one of my most disappointing gaming purchases ever.

Cathaoir

Wow, I fucking loved that trailer. Granted I love Skynyrd but still, that was just awesome

tshack

@raviadso: Good to see a fellow Psi-Ops aficionado. That was quite the enjoyable game.

Chupakun

@Rajolae: Uh, yeah it does. The song was popular around the time of the Vietnam War...

Paladin58

@skadebo: The RPG that was supposedly coming out for the PS3 at some point.

Cathaoir

Uh. . . yeah. This game will not be getting my money this holiday season.

xMindPrintsx

FREEEBIRRRRD!!!!!!

PATSCRU

That looks kind of intriguing. I'll be keeping my eye on it.

ShirtGuyDom

The Vietnam war was an ugly, disturbing, traumatic experience for soldiers that still have a hard time coping some 40 years later. Even those called heroes don't think of what they went through like that.

Now how do you capture that in a game (particularly a genre that loves the thrill of battles and not the horror)? By making a game so ugly, disturbing and traumatic that it messes gamers up for life?

Well that won't work, now will it. These are 'just' games, right? So they can never effect us that way, even though movies can and do (Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket STILL mess with me some).

Many gamers and even devs like to have it both ways. That's why a Vietnam War game hasn't and won't work.

DARTH_TIGRIS

a vietnam war themed game might work. take the gameplay concepts from cod world at war, then add rape and civilian executions and you've got a game that's pretty spot on.

rennyf77

@DARTH_TIGRIS: What's your point? You think any war is fun for the people who were in it? You think Vietnam was more horrific than WW2? Do you know anything about the Eastern Front? Russian tanks driving over fleeing refugees...German's dropping grenades into the pockets of tied up POWs...artillery barrages lasting days... You think those soldiers didn't come through that just as traumatised as any Vietnam vet?

I know why you say a Vietnam game won't work when you don't seem to have a problem with other war games. It's because America lost isn't it? You're fine with the wars that America won I bet! No problems playing CoD or BiA because you get to be a hero?

(....waits for the "America didn't lose, it was public opinion back home that prevented us from striking the decisive blow" etc etc...)

stagga

@Chupakun: Everyone loves Psi-Ops...

AngryEddy

@TheXanadu: "Grindhouse" themes are this year's "The Ring" theme.

AngryEddy

@dsmx: Jack's had a rough week or so - no need to pile on. But it is a fact - play Freebird over scenes of jack ranting and he'll come off as pretty rad. Freebird makes everything awesome. Frankly, I'm not sure why a presidential candidate hasn't figured that out yet. Don't try telling me the guy who has Freebird as his song wouldn't win in a landslide.

AngryEddy

@rayne117: Yes. Zombies. Looks like Freebird was able to 'spike a reincarnation' in something!

NiceMissMayonnaise

@thecactusman17:
While 'Nam was without a doubt a bad idea, "waste of hundreds of thousands of American lives" is something of .... well that's just wrong. Total US deaths in 'Nam was 58,159 deaths. If you are counted wounded 303,635.
Large numbers yes but not so much compared to other conflicts.

Impurethinker

@Michael McWhertor: Aha, then all is right with the world!

pylon_trooper

I dont think they are zombies or its a virus. What these men maybe inflicted with is a experimental combat drug along the lines of LSD or PCP. Watch the movie Jacobs Latter, it will give you a idea what the game might be like.

screenmonkey

The first Shellshock wasn't anything special when it comes to FPS gaming, but damn, it had some moments in it when it came to storytelling. I still remember the sick feeling I had in the pit of my stomach during the torture scene about 2/3rds through. What it lacked in gameplay it made up for in atmosphere.

PratzStrike

I'm pretty sure they only kept the Vietnam theme so they could use Freebird.

paeper

Hm, I had no idea a sequel was being made. But this teaser trailer achieves it's goal and I'm ready to play.

I liked the first shell shock. It's not in my top ten, but I enjoyed it. I guess you can say that I choose my shooter games like the majority of the Kotaku community chooses it's women. If it breaths, I'll pay for it.

Warbuff6644

@dead_red_eyes: You should check out a game called Vietcong for the PC. I thought it was a pretty awesome Nam game for it's time.

Idioteque

@stagga:

I'm not going to argue with you, but you have me ALL wrong. War is ugly. WWII is glamorized often in fiction and real life while Vietnam is when war lost its heroic nature (in the US anyway). That's all. Stop putting words in my mouth.

DARTH_TIGRIS

I played the first Shellshock back during my first tour of duty in Afghanistan and really enjoyed it. It wasn't a super special game but fun nonetheless. While this one looks sweet I am a bit skeptical on the "infected" VC's. Oh well.... lets hope this game rocks!

Guts4

I actually enjoyed the first one, mostly because it was third person but it seems they've tried too hard with this and it just looks like another boring generic FPS, ah well i'll still give it a go.

Ms_Achievement