#Battlefield 6 vietnam movie

But that's OK, The Man says, because death sells, and anyway, it was ages ago, so it's fair game to resell human misery for our kicks.

Like it or not, the misery of a generation is now being trivialised for your entertainment, people. It's terrifying trench warfare played out to the backdrop of late 60s rock music, the jarring rattle of automatic weapons, the roar of Hueys walloping overhead, and the desperate screams of the unfortunate many.

#Battlefield 6 vietnam movie

Let's just say that Digital Illusions' Canadian studio has made up for that in the sequel with a whole new engine that depicts the Vietnam jungle as the kind of claustrophobic hellhole that every Lysergic Acid Diethylamide soaked Hollywood movie nightmare threatened it would be.įor the (in)sane of brain, and the geek of speak, think sweat sodden dense tropical foliage rendered in jaw dropping detail, specular lighting falling dynamically on every intricately crafted weapon, the bump-mapped surfaces on the tread of your Jeep's tyres, and even the perilously thin straps of your inhumanly heavy pack. BF on acidĭespite being acknowledged as one of the greatest multiplayer experiences in the history of humanity, never mind gaming, BF 1942 wasn't much more than 'quite good' in the visual stakes. In what is tantamount to the first rock and roll online game, Battlefield Vietnam was shown off for the fist time to slavering journalists at 'Camp' EA and the game has surely, along with Half Life 2, already secured the future of PC gaming as we know it. Whatever Napalm smells like first thing in the morning, EA wants to make sure we breathe it deep into our lungs. Now we've got the business of shooting Nazis in the face out of the way, it's only logical that gamers should want to spend hours online working out where the Yanks went wrong in South East Asia.