I’ve played a fair amount of Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and had a fair amount of fun with it. I liked the jungle combat that added some stealth elements and weapons that were present.
To be clear I don’t mean to sound insensitive. I know about the Vietnam war and how distasteful a hero shooters around it could be.
The old 2003 game ‘Vietcong’ is still, IMHO, the most realistic depiction of jungle combat conditions in the Vietnam war (at least, in a singleplayer game). It can oftentimes be a janky, overly hard game, but there’s still nothing else quite like it all these years later.
The jungle is dense for that period, the AI is surprisingly tactically aware (at least from memory. They would ambush you, flank the player, and I think even run away if they were losing an engagement), there’s deadly, well camouflaged traps everywhere, making slowly walking the safest way to move around, the fights are short and deadly, and most impressive of all, it licensed a lot of famous 60’s songs from that era.
It can be a difficult game to get running on modern windows, but there might be some community patches for that. It would probably run better under Linux with wine.
If you’re looking for a hardcore singleplayer experience to explore that conflict from a historical context, I’d recommend giving it a shot.
Thanks for the suggestion. That does really neat and I think I’ll check it out.
The VCLauncher looks like it might be able to help the game run on modern operating systems so I think I’ll see if that works.