Deciding which side you choose to fight for will inevitably lead to a vastly different gameplay experience, with the Yanks buzzing around in hi-tech helicopters, and the Vietcong trying to escape on an old Vespa scooter. Something of a mismatch, you might think, but Digital Illusions is doing its best to ensure there is some kind of balance. Those battles were fought between the mighty US war machine and the have-a-go heroes of the North Vietnamese Army. One of the other key elements of Vietnam was, of course, airlifting, which really changed the way battles were fought.' Bigger, Badder, Louder Another key part of the Vietnam experience was napalm, so that was something we felt we needed to integrate into the game. It’s a new type of guerrilla warfare in terms of focusing it around Vietnam, and some of the ways we’re doing that is through trench warfare and booby traps. Producer Reid Schneider told us: 'One thing we really want to emphasise is it’s not just Battlefield 1942 with a Vietnam Electronic Arts is keen to stress that the game However, Battlefield Vietnam will be a standalone game, a fact that has already caused murmurs of message board dissent.
