| Shellshock: Nam '67 | |
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| Developer(s) | Guerrilla Games |
| Publisher(s) | Eidos Interactive |
| Released | September 10, 2004 (NA) |
| Genre | Third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Ratings | ESRB: Mature (M) |
| Platform(s) | PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2 |
| Media | DVD-ROM, CD-ROM |
Shellshock: Nam '67 (SSN67) is a third-person combat game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC platforms. It was released on September 10 2004 after the initial date of June 25, subsequently pitching it against fellow Vietnam War game Conflict: Vietnam. It was hyped as a gritty, realistic war game but garnered universal disdain from critics and gamers alike for its clunky gameplay and poorly enacted cutscenes that failed to live up to its marketing hype. The game's title screen music is a version of the classic blues song 'Who Do You Love' by 60's blues rock outfit, Juicy Lucy. A game called Shellshock was released for the PC by Eidos Interactive, developed by Core Design, in 1996. Apart from the name, there is no connection between the two games.
Game Overview
You start out as a grunt (1 of three characters the player chooses to play as) in the US Army during January 1967. Landing in South Vietnam you and one of your friends, PFC Kowalski (AKA 'Psycho') are assigned to a remote USMC base camp but before that you have to fulfill a mission. You and your new squad (Psycho, Lieutenant O'Brien, and the radioman, named Short Timer) have been dispatched to take out a VC bunker system deep in the jungle. After arriving, your squad finds another squad already in battle. Artillery is called in, but is called in too close and kills everyone in the other squad except for an African-American private named Tomkins. O'Brien instructs Tomkins to accompany the squad and later reassigns Tomkins to your squad. Continuing the mission, you and your squad take out the tunnels and then make your way to the VC artillery guns. Along with special forces who are at your base you take out the guns. From there, the squad carries out various missions, such as rescuing a journalist from a VC aligned village, rescuing US POW's from a NVA prison, hunting down a deadly NVA officer, house to house fighting in the fictional city of Ku-Lim (Which is based on the city of Hue), and defending your base camp from a NVA and VC attack. Along the way your squad mates are killed. Tomkins and O'Brien are killed in the defense of the fort. The SF troops Eyeball, Tick-Tock and Ramirez "Gunner" are killed during the battle in Ku-Lim. Eyeball is killed when an RPG hits their position [he had a flamethrower], but Tick-Tock and Gunner are captured, tortured and killed by "Mama-San", who was spying on the troops and passing the info to the VC. "Psycho" is killed when an RPG impales him, but it dosn't go off until a few seconds later. "Short Timer" is captured, tortured and dies from his wounds after the player's helicopter that was taking them to R&R is shot down. Then you exit the crash which destroyed the R&R. You and your Vietnamese guide "Monty" then take cover in the command bunker as artillery bombs the camp. The game ends with you and him sitting outside waiting to go home.
