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333:. The game consists of 34 levels divided into four episodes; there are two single player episodes with fifteen levels and two multiplayer episodes with nineteen levels. Very little was changed in regards to controls, movement rate, physics, and CON (control file) language. The only immediately noticeable change in the game code was the removal of the remote detonator for weapon 6, the grenade, which was a pipebomb in 636: 631: 626: 621: 574: 569: 564: 559: 536: 531: 498: 493: 616: 554: 526: 521: 516: 488: 483: 478: 361:
and has undergone genetic engineering to become a super human war machine. He is given standard military orders, and is usually placed alone or with small teams, pitted against overwhelming odds. To prove himself a successful experiment, he must survive several tours of duty in order to show that the
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raid, where Westmoreland is left to survive of his own accord. The player must deal with various firefights, ambushes, booby traps, snipers, air strikes, anti-personnel mines, and more in order to finish their way to the end of each level.
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conversion should have stayed on the Net as freeware. The GT logo on the box certainly doesn't warrant its $ 20 price tag, nor does the game's heavily hyped claim to fame: 'Created with the developer of the
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The player is placed in the center of the Vietnam War in 1966, playing as Westmoreland, who is a very deadly and highly trained U.S. Marine. Westmoreland is under the command of the
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Sergeant Dan Snyder, who helped pioneer computer simulation training for American troops with a
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s "Worst Game of the Year" award in its Best & Worst of 1998 Awards, which went to
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conversion for the Marine Corps.' We certainly feel sorry for the Marines."
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The player assumes the role of Alan "The Bear" Westmoreland, a
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The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to the
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modifications by Matt Saettler, product manager for
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
GT Interactive
Director(s)
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
Engine
Build
Platform(s)
MS-DOS
NA
Genre(s)
First-person shooter
Single-player
multiplayer
Walmart
first-person shooter
Vietnam War
MS-DOS
GT Interactive
World War II GI
Steam
Retroism
Night Dive Studios

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