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* MissionControl: In the first game and ''Fist Alpha'', it's Captain Rosenfield. In the second game, we have Colonel Lewis, Captain Rigley, and some unnamed NVA or VC officers.
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* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Try playing this game after playing ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'', ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', or any other [=FPS=] where you only need to hold either the left mouse button or the G key to use the grenade. Here, you'll have to press the left mouse button, ''then'' hold the button to cook the grenade, then release the button to throw it. Worse yet, the grenades in all of the games have exactly 4 seconds before exploding.
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* TheNeidermeyer: Rigley. He's in charge of a failed mission (either the one depicted in the intro, the [[spoiler:final VC mission]], or both) near the DMZ which ends with his marines either getting killed by the [=VCs=] ([[spoiler:Minh's team included]]) or blown up by minefields and [=RPGs=]. Boone, who participated (and gets wounded) in said mission, hates him so bad that he filled a complaint and he almost got court-martialed.
-->'''MACV soldier''': Rivalry between army and marines. The marines swept it under the table.
-->'''MACV soldier''': Rivalry between army and marines. The marines swept it under the table.
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* FiveManBand: The player is accompanied by at least 5 team-mates in the first game and ''Fist Alpha''. In ''2'', it's usually 4.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Fist Alpha'' and ''2''.
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* FiveManBand: The player is accompanied by at least 5 team-mates in the first game and ''Fist Alpha''. In ''2'', the second game, it's usually 4.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Fist Alpha'' and''2''.both campaigns in the second game.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Fist Alpha'' and
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* DarkActionGirl[=/=]FauxActionGirl: Hawkins and his team encounters some female [=VCs=] in a few levels.
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* HellishCopter: Any helicopter shot down by the VC counts. Most notably, [[spoiler:Hawkins]]' Huey crashes while approaching Po Tlong Karai. And pretty much all of the Hueys in the VC campaign.
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* LargeHam: Hawkins, Douglas, and Boone.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Boone can talk with Hawkins and Rosenfield in the first and third US missions, respectively. Also, [[spoiler:Minh and his team encounters and kills a Green Beret advisor who is later revealed to be Hornster]].
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* BloodKnight: Defort appears to enjoy fighting in the jungle. He gets berated for it.
-->'''Defort''': You kidding? We're in deep, hostile jungle, dodging VC, tiptoeing past traps and toe-poppers, I feel great!
-->'''Defort''': You kidding? We're in deep, hostile jungle, dodging VC, tiptoeing past traps and toe-poppers, I feel great!
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* TagalongKid: Tommyboy.
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* TheSmartGuy: The LLDB pointmen Nguyen Nham and Le Dhuy Nhut.
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-->'''Jarai tribe chief''': VC no move the Jarai!
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* DifficultySpike: The Vietcong campaign's second mission, due to being much shorter (only ''4 levels!'') compared to the American campaign (13 levels).
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* UrbanWarfare: The entirety of the American campaign takes place in Hue City. The Vietcong campaign on the other hand, is much closer to the original.
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* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
* GunPorn: There are lots ''and'' lots of guns in the series.
* GunshipRescue: Many of 'em.
* GunshipRescue: Many of 'em.
-->'''Nhut''': Look trung-si! [[spoiler:Tanks will no shoot. This old French tank, me know it.]]
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* TheTeamBenefactor: The LLDB pointmen Nguyen Nham and Le Dhuy Nhut. They Both [[TheEngineer the engineers]] and [[TheMedic the medics]] as well, arguably.
* EscortMission: In ''Fist Alpha'', once Douglas and his team finds the F105 pilot, they must protect him until the evac chopper arrives.
* FaceHeelTurn: Nhut's backstory.
-->'''Nhut''': Me fight with Viet Minh against French. But me no like commies, they damned son-of-a-bitches. We must fight French, no Vietnamese, but they fight Vietnamese too, so commies be boss of all. I no like, so I go south and joined LLDB.
* FaceHeelTurn: Nhut's backstory.
-->'''Nhut''': Me fight with Viet Minh against French. But me no like commies, they damned son-of-a-bitches. We must fight French, no Vietnamese, but they fight Vietnamese too, so commies be boss of all. I no like, so I go south and joined LLDB.
* KilledOffForReal: Douglas. Earlier in ''Fist Alpha'', [[spoiler:Nguyen]] while defending the Nui Pek camp from a VC attack. He gets replaced by [[spoiler:Nhut]].
* NonStandardGameOver: If one of the player's team-mates goes down and either TheMedic [[EpicFail dies]] or takes too long to heal him, the mission will fail.
* TanksButNoTanks: [[spoiler:The old French armored cars are called "tanks" for some reason.]]
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The RPG. While it can bring down a chopper in a few shots, it'll miss. A lot.
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* GameBreakingBug: The first game is notorious for this when run on newer computers, especially in the third mission, where the game always crashes after Hawkins says "I can smell those VC bastards". It also crashes whenever the radio icon shows up on the HUD. Fortunately, there's [[http://www.vietcong1.cz/index.php?site=files&file=42 a third-party program]] that tweaks the game to prevent it from crashing.
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* GameBreakingBug: The first game is A really notorious for this (and famous) example occurs when the game is run on newer computers, especially in the third mission, where the game always crashes after Hawkins says "I can smell those VC bastards". It also crashes whenever the radio icon shows up on the HUD. Fortunately, there's [[http://www.vietcong1.cz/index.php?site=files&file=42 a third-party program]] that tweaks the game to prevent it from crashing.
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* GameBreakingBug: The first game is notorious for this when run on newer computers, especially in the third mission, where the game always crashes after Hawkins says "I can smell those VC bastards". It also crashes whenever the radio icon shows up on the HUD. Fortunately, there's [[http://www.vietcong1.cz/index.php?site=files&file=42 a third-party program]] that tweaks the game to prevent it from crashing.
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* GrenadeLauncher: The [=M79=] and the [=XM148=], the latter of which is always underslung on an [=M16=].
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Both Bronson and Stone, the only black characters in the series, survive throughout the series.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Both Bronson and Stone, the only black characters in the series, survive throughout the series.
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* TheEngineer: Thomas Bronson and Dutch. The engineer in this case refills your ammo.
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* DirtyCommunists: Averted.
* NotSoDifferent: The NVA, the ARVN, and the VC are depicted this way.
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: At the beginning of ''Fist Alpha'', Douglas and his team sees an F105 going down. Naturally, they search the jungle for its pilot. In the second game, Boone and his team is tasked with rescuing ARVN Captain Soat, who "[[HeKnowsTooMuch knows too much".
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: At the beginning of ''Fist Alpha'', Douglas and his team sees an F105 going down. Naturally, they search the jungle for its pilot. In the second game, Boone and his team is tasked with rescuing ARVN Captain Soat, who "[[HeKnowsTooMuch knows too much".much]]".
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* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: The M113 APC.
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* StuffBlowingUp
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* BadassBeard: Hornster.
* BadassMustache: Nhut.
* BadassMustache: Nhut.
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* ShownTheirWork[=/=]TruthInTelevision: Lots and lots of 'em throughout the series.
* SniperRifle: The [=M21=], Dragunov, M1 Garand, and Mosin-Nagant.
* SniperRifle: The [=M21=], Dragunov, M1 Garand, and Mosin-Nagant.
* WarIsHell: The series doesn't really demonize war, but its hard difficulty, not to mention its focus on realism screams this trope at the top of its metaphorical lungs.
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* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: The whole point of the CIDG program. Subverted because the montagnards aren't exactly peaceful and they know how to defend themselves from the [=VCs=].
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* DifficultySpike: The Vietcong campaign's second mission, due to being much shorter (only ''4 levels!'') compared to the American campaign (13 levels).
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* KickTheDog: The CIDG destroying Minh's village at the beginning of the Vietcong campaign.
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* BadassArmy
* LargeHam: Hawkins, Douglas, and Boone.
* RatedMForManly
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* AngryBlackMan: Bronson.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Let's face it, Douglas' fate ([[spoiler:getting sniped during a routine patrol]]) fits this trope to a T.
* OneManArmy: Deconstructed. In any mission or quick fights where the player is alone, a stealthy approach is the only way to win it other than using GodMode.
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* IntrepidReporter: Davis and his cameraman Schultz.
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* BattleInTheRain: Many missions throughout the series.
* ClusterFBomb: There are lots and lots of swearing.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: We have the Green Berets, CIDG, LLDB, and MACV.
* HeroicMime: Averted. All of the player characters talk throughout the series.
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: That search team being the player's.
* ShoutOut: Debatable, but the last 3 missions in the first game's campaign is similar to the FinalBattle in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. There are also several in ''2'':
** To ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in the American campaign's intro.
** After killing a VC propagandist, Boone can play around with his radio to taunt the sniper. Sometimes, he'll make a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' reference.
-->'''Boone''': Starship Enterprise, this is your Captain speaking. We have boldly gone where no man has gone before, but there is still one Klingon sniper in the sector.
** In the same level, a marine yells "[[Franchise/StarshipTroopers Come on you sons of bitches! You wanna live forever?!]]" [[spoiler:[[Film/FullMetalJacket He ends up shot by an NVA sniper]]]].
* StandardFPSGuns
* TankGoodness: For [[spoiler:the NVA in the last level of the first game and]] the Americans in the second game. Earlier in the first game, air recon picks up what appears to bean NVA armored division. a couple of VC tanks. [[spoiler:Turns out it's they're actually just rusted French junk armored cars]].
* ShoutOut: Debatable, but the last 3 missions in the first game's campaign is similar to the FinalBattle in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''. There are also several in ''2'':
** To ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in the American campaign's intro.
** After killing a VC propagandist, Boone can play around with his radio to taunt the sniper. Sometimes, he'll make a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' reference.
-->'''Boone''': Starship Enterprise, this is your Captain speaking. We have boldly gone where no man has gone before, but there is still one Klingon sniper in the sector.
** In the same level, a marine yells "[[Franchise/StarshipTroopers Come on you sons of bitches! You wanna live forever?!]]" [[spoiler:[[Film/FullMetalJacket He ends up shot by an NVA sniper]]]].
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* TankGoodness: For [[spoiler:the NVA in the last level of the first game and]] the Americans in the second game. Earlier in the first game, air recon picks up what appears to be
* BloodierAndGorier: Inverted. Compared to the second game, the original is very bloody.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hornster and Bronson.
-->'''Bronson''': Good! The more you shoot, the less I carry!
* DeadpanSnarker: Hornster and Bronson.
-->'''Bronson''': Good! The more you shoot, the less I carry!
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Hawkins fails to reach the LLDB outpost in time, Nhut will chastise him.
-->'''Nhut''': Outpost dead now.
-->'''Nhut''': Outpost dead now.
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''Vietcong'' is a FirstPersonShooter series consisting of 2 video games and 3 expansion packs (2 are free).
It's quite notorious for its high difficulty, and it managed to capture the atmosphere of TheVietnamWar. The game is notable for quite realistic portrayal of hardened soldiers and their environment as well as for including less popular themes, such as supporting the Montagnard tribes and urban combat during the Tet Offensive. With helicopters, plethora of military tropes and music from the '60s added for good measure.
The first game puts players as US Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant Steve R. Hawkins, assigned to the SF camp in Nui Pek to replace the previous intel sergeant, Douglas Warren, who is playable in the expansion pack, ''Fist Alpha''. Both the original game and ''Fist Alpha'' was bundled and ported to the PlayStation2 and {{XBox}} in 2004 as ''Purple Haze''.
In the second game, players assume the role of MACV Cpt. Daniel Boone and Viet Cong member Minh during the Tet Offensive.
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!!Tropes present in all games
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish
* TheBigGuy: Hornster and Stone.
* CommunicationsOfficer: C.J. Defort and Tommyboy.
* DeathFromAbove
* TheEngineer: Thomas Bronson and Dutch.
* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
* FiveManBand: The player is accompanied by at least 5 team-mates in the first game and ''Fist Alpha''. In ''2'', it's usually 4.
* LaResistance: The [=Viet Cong=].
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Fist Alpha'' and ''2''.
* TheMedic: Joe Crocker and Cobber.
* MoreDakka: Many weapons in the series.
* NintendoHard
* TankGoodness: For [[spoiler:the NVA in the last level of the first game and]] the Americans in the second game. Earlier in the first game, air recon picks up what appears to be an NVA armored division. [[spoiler:Turns out it's actually just rusted French junk armored cars]].
-->'''Hornster''': [[spoiler:So ''this'' is what a VC tank platoon looks like?]]
* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar
* UsefulNotes/VietnameseWithKalashnikovs
* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks
!!Tropes present in the original ''Vietcong'' and ''Fist Alpha''
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The NVA assault on Nui Pek was repelled at the cost of many American and Vietnamese lives, not to mention the camp itself, but Hawkins' part in the war is temporarily over.]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: One appears as the player's instructor in the tutorial mode. He also appears in the campaign as a colonel. Complete with a [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kilgore]] attire.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: We have the Green Berets, the CIDG, and the LLDB.
* MissionControl: Captain Rosenfield.
* PosthumousCharacter: Douglas.
* ShoutOut: Debatable, but the last 3 missions in the campaign is similar to the FinalBattle in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
* StealthBasedGame: Some missions.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: The whole point of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG). Subverted because the montagnards aren't exactly peaceful and they know how to defend themselves from the [=VCs=].
!!Tropes present in the original ''Vietcong 2''
* UsefulNotes/AussiesWithArtillery: Some Australian soldiers appear in the game. [[TheMedic Cobber]] is one of them.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Minh]].
* DownerEnding: Both campaigns end this way:
** The American campaign ends with the tactical failure of the Tet Offensive, but the NVA wins a propaganda victory, becoming the first step to the fall of Saigon and the withdrawal of US troops from South Vietnam.
-->'''Boone''': Damn politicians. [[SenselessSacrifice All those friends, all those lives,]] [[AllForNothing dead for nothing.]] We could win... if they ''JUST'' let us!
** The Vietcong campaign ends with Minh and other VC troops sent to capture a group of priests. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he kills himself when Boone surrounds him while taking the French priest]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Minh]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Hawkins.
* [[LethalJokeCharacter Lethal Joke Weapon]]: The trombone gun.
* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Averted.
* SemperFi: Subverted big time.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Boone, as shown in the {{flashback}} intro.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in the intro.
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''Vietcong'' is a FirstPersonShooter series consisting of 2 video games and 3 expansion packs (2 are free).
It's quite notorious for its high difficulty, and it managed to capture the atmosphere of TheVietnamWar. The game is notable for quite realistic portrayal of hardened soldiers and their environment as well as for including less popular themes, such as supporting the Montagnard tribes and urban combat during the Tet Offensive. With helicopters, plethora of military tropes and music from the '60s added for good measure.
The first game puts players as US Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant Steve R. Hawkins, assigned to the SF camp in Nui Pek to replace the previous intel sergeant, Douglas Warren, who is playable in the expansion pack, ''Fist Alpha''. Both the original game and ''Fist Alpha'' was bundled and ported to the PlayStation2 and {{XBox}} in 2004 as ''Purple Haze''.
In the second game, players assume the role of MACV Cpt. Daniel Boone and Viet Cong member Minh during the Tet Offensive.
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!!Tropes present in all games
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish
* TheBigGuy: Hornster and Stone.
* CommunicationsOfficer: C.J. Defort and Tommyboy.
* DeathFromAbove
* TheEngineer: Thomas Bronson and Dutch.
* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey
* FiveManBand: The player is accompanied by at least 5 team-mates in the first game and ''Fist Alpha''. In ''2'', it's usually 4.
* LaResistance: The [=Viet Cong=].
* ForegoneConclusion: ''Fist Alpha'' and ''2''.
* TheMedic: Joe Crocker and Cobber.
* MoreDakka: Many weapons in the series.
* NintendoHard
* TankGoodness: For [[spoiler:the NVA in the last level of the first game and]] the Americans in the second game. Earlier in the first game, air recon picks up what appears to be an NVA armored division. [[spoiler:Turns out it's actually just rusted French junk armored cars]].
-->'''Hornster''': [[spoiler:So ''this'' is what a VC tank platoon looks like?]]
* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar
* UsefulNotes/VietnameseWithKalashnikovs
* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks
!!Tropes present in the original ''Vietcong'' and ''Fist Alpha''
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The NVA assault on Nui Pek was repelled at the cost of many American and Vietnamese lives, not to mention the camp itself, but Hawkins' part in the war is temporarily over.]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: One appears as the player's instructor in the tutorial mode. He also appears in the campaign as a colonel. Complete with a [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kilgore]] attire.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: We have the Green Berets, the CIDG, and the LLDB.
* MissionControl: Captain Rosenfield.
* PosthumousCharacter: Douglas.
* ShoutOut: Debatable, but the last 3 missions in the campaign is similar to the FinalBattle in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
* StealthBasedGame: Some missions.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: The whole point of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG). Subverted because the montagnards aren't exactly peaceful and they know how to defend themselves from the [=VCs=].
!!Tropes present in the original ''Vietcong 2''
* UsefulNotes/AussiesWithArtillery: Some Australian soldiers appear in the game. [[TheMedic Cobber]] is one of them.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Minh]].
* DownerEnding: Both campaigns end this way:
** The American campaign ends with the tactical failure of the Tet Offensive, but the NVA wins a propaganda victory, becoming the first step to the fall of Saigon and the withdrawal of US troops from South Vietnam.
-->'''Boone''': Damn politicians. [[SenselessSacrifice All those friends, all those lives,]] [[AllForNothing dead for nothing.]] We could win... if they ''JUST'' let us!
** The Vietcong campaign ends with Minh and other VC troops sent to capture a group of priests. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he kills himself when Boone surrounds him while taking the French priest]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Minh]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Hawkins.
* [[LethalJokeCharacter Lethal Joke Weapon]]: The trombone gun.
* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Averted.
* SemperFi: Subverted big time.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Boone, as shown in the {{flashback}} intro.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in the intro.
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