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Men of Valor
Developer 2015
Men of Valor is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2015 and published by Vivendi Universal Games for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox platforms. Men of Valor is based on the Unreal Engine 2 and simulates infantry combat during the Vietnam War, more specifically, the Tet Offensive in 1968. The game was released in 2004 to mostly positive reviews. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
184 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
106 positive · 73 negative
95% range 52–66%
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| Steam reviews | 106 | 73 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
513 of 763 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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Reactions
60 of 184 · most liked firstDear Mr. and Mrs. Roland Shepard: This is one of the most difficult letters i have been required to write.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Vietnam War games and there are so many awful ones. If you've always wondered what an old Medal of Honor or Call of Duty (1, 2, 3) game would look like for the Vietnam War, Men of Valor is about as close as you can get. I played this quite a bit back in the day on Xbox and remembered having a great time. I've really enjoyed getting to experience this game again, especially on sale for $2.50. There's a lot to love about it, particularly having a great diversity in level design, areas,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear MR. and Mrs Roland Shepard this is one of the most difficult letters i have been required to write. it is with the most heartfelt sympathy that i as his commanding officer write to you of the death of your son Private First Class Dean Shepard Dean was killed in action by enemy fire while in the performance of his duty while on patrol to locate rocket sites west of Da Nang Dean Was Known to us all as THE SHEPARD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yet another instance in which Steam's binary "Like"/ "Dislike" system is proven to be most foolish. I would not really recommend, nor would I really recommend against Men of Valor, because half of it is good, while the other half is not. For starters, in case you were unaware, Men of Valor was developed in I believe 2004 or so by 2015 Inc. (2015 is the name of the company.) These are the same guys who created Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, minus the sub-set of that team that left to go found…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unforeseen consequences
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't play this game when I was young so I don't really have nostalgia with this game since it was gifted to me a few years back and I never played it until recently when I was looking for a Vietnam era shooter. I would say that if you're looking for a Vietnam-era singleplayer shooter this is probably the best one in terms of graphics and gameplay somewhat. The story is nothing special which is not a bad thing in my opinion. You're basically a Marine grunt that starts in 1965 and fights all…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE GREATEST NAM GAME OF ALL TIME NEEDS A REMASTER
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game hasn't aged well. I got sick to death of the sudden deaths from enemies that just all hone in on you and ignore your AI squad. The same AI squad who don't do anything other than force you to take point and yell "help me out Shepherd!". It was made at a time when a lot of PC first games started to experiment with console first releases. Much like Deus Ex: Invisible War, Call of Duty 3 and Brothers in Arms it features clunky controls, terrible FOV and bloated crosshairs which are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the most underrated, fun, best lookin graphics for the time vietnam war game ever, most people hate it because of "ThE GAme iS a lITerAl hALLwaY", "thE gAME is hArd!11!!!" like man the game is not that bad its pretty good it has several realistic elements and even the US, ARVN, & Vietcong/NVA soldiers looks good and pretty close to its real life counterpart
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, this game hasn't aged well. If you have a 4:3 monitor and a potato for a PC with Windows 98 installed on it, you might be the targeted audience for this game. There are a few modifications to get it working properly on modern systems but they keep getting reverted. For instance, you have to configure the F5 key to keep switching back to your 21:9 aspect ratio every time the game loads a new level. Your configured settings keep reverting to default. You have to hit ESC or CTRL+ALT…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only problem with this game is it's way too hard. If you want a challenge than this is for you. It's a surprisingly realistic and historically accurate take on a setting rarely explored in history games, the Vietnam war. It correctly portrays how many people of color served in the war for America rather due to racist draft boards or volunteering as well as other demographics of the American army. The weapons, uniforms, and everything else is historically accurate. It's also super cheap on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If it helps you also look like the guy from the cover of the 2004 game 'Men of Valor':
unlabelledView post →Men of Valor is one of the rarer first person shooters set during the Vietnam war. It's from 2004 so it's extremely dated and clearly developed for consoles, but I figured it could be fun to come back to this era of game. To cut the BS though, this game sucks. There are plenty of other better military shooters but the reason I kept giving it a chance is the theme. Beggars can't be choosers for this time period and there's only a handful of these games out there (Vietcong, Shellshock, Line of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely cannot recommend this game. What would have been an absolutely amazing view on the Vietnam War is absolutely ruined by incompetent devs. Absolutely amazing music makes you feel like you're playing a war movie and a large variety of kick ass weapons that sound great. The problems? SCATHINGLY hard on EASY. Riddled with bugs, have to fight it to even get it to start, constant crashes. Such a shame. Besides those few good things, this game is steaming hot ♥♥♥♥ buried underneath the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Men of Valor is an FPS which plays during the Vietnam war, and I'm honestly surprised that I‘m playing this game right now. First of all, I loved the game's atmosphere. The soundtrack, the archived film sequences, the game's bright and grim moments, even the loading screen's letters and the "deceased letter", which you get when you die. These are all small things, but adds a lot to the picture. The gun play is all right and there are some pretty good levels in general. There is a story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed it. I love the Vietnam setting and the characters/plot feel believable and help to draw me in. Its focused on a tense "realistic for 2004" feel. To accomplish this the game is very unforgiving. There's pretty much only one way to play, and that's as a cover based FPS. You need to assess the environment and then jump from cover to cover, using the zoom focus/lean to peak enemies and clear a path to the next bit of cover. It felt suspenseful for me as you can easily die if the area is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was forced to stop playing after I got to a mission that was so bugged, even after restarting it, it would not proceed, the scripts were just completely broken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initial Thoughts: I just finished Men of Valor, and to put it bluntly, it was awful. While I was hoping for a gritty, atmospheric trip through Vietnam, what I got was a broken, frustrating mess that felt like a C-tier rendition of Medal of Honor. The only thing that kept me from uninstalling was the historical presentation and my own fixation on finishing every game in my library. This is a textbook example of a project rushed out the door by developers who clearly didn't care about the final…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It may not offer the best view of the war in terms of realism, but the action flows thick and fast in this hybrid World War II/Vietnam shooter.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know it was made in 2004, but you can get THREE SHOTTED, ON EASY MODE.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game, thank you for the memories
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Giving this game a thumbs up based purely on nostalgia from my ps2 days. On PC its extremely wonky. I realize its on an older game engine (Dating myself on that). I still enjoy it for what it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have suffered through this game for 10 hours and I still haven't finished it. It's not because I'm taking my time and exploring, its because about half of that time is spent staring at the death animation because friendly AI won't kill the enemies, actively block your path and just REFUSE to help you in combat. I'm still not done with it, and I'm too deep in to stop now. Its the final mission and it's a test of your patience. Do not buy this game. It's a glitchy, COD and Medal of honor ripoff…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your life expectancy in this game is about as good as the real deal
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, but it's very difficult even at the easy level, it drove me crazy in some parts
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Dark Souls of first-person shooter games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Difficulty : VIETNAM
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While it has many flaws that really frustrated me throughout gameplay (lack of manual saves, checkpoints that require doing levels over and over again, insane hit scan enemies that can one hit kill you even when you're in full health on higher difficulties, and the inability to jump at all in the game), it was still a decent enough spiritual sequel to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault with some ups and downs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am no stranger to Men of Valor, first playing a demo around 2010's off a CD that comes off a Game/Tech magazine, downloading it for small price of nothing from some offbrand site & completing it then & years later after finding out that there is a steam release decided to give it another shot and see if it is as good as I remember or if I have been wearing several rows of rose tinted glasses and as you can see by how I am not recommending the game you can tell it is in fact the latter. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game works on Windows 11. You will need to play it in windowless mode though. There are many community guides on how to start and get the game running in under 2 minutes. So I would recommend checking those out. Now as for the game itself, this is the most unique shooter I've ever played. It's hard. From FPS games I mainly play singleplayer campaigns, and I would recommend playing at normal difficulty on this game because it's hard. Unique health system. You can get a bullet wound, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is like one of my first games ever besides halo n allied assault when i was like 4 or sumn
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a waste of money. not only does the friendly AI suck but the enemy AI is way to overpowered, like one shot and 90% of your health is gone but if you shoot an enemy it takes like 3-4 bullets to kill them depending on the gun you're using. Expect to die at least 17 times per mission. the weapons suck, you cant find any ammo for your guns and you will have to use viet cong guns to shoot at the enemy beacuse there isnt any ammo for your guns that you can find. the missions are very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bought this game at gamecrazy as a ten year old. took me years to beat. a sadistically difficult game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game holds up today imo. I think if you are someone who can still play games like half-life 1 and FEAR 1 today with a lot of enjoyment, you will also love this game for the same reasons. There is something about these old style fps story driven games that you cannot experience with modern fps story games today. I wish indie devs would dive into making games inspired by these type of games. I know Vladik Brutal recently came out and is inspired by Half-Life and it did well, so it shows a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →grate game if you love Vietnam games you will like to play this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is alright imo
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Constant never ending spawning VC,terrible gunplay,crashes. With that being said this is one of the most fun Vietnam shooters released. Its can get really rough but I for a setting like Vietnam this is pretty good for what it is. Some folks are born made to wave the flag Hoo, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son, son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no furtunate one, no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some folks are born made to wave the flag Hoo, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son, son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no furtunate one, no Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord? But when the taxman come to the door Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no millionaire's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You don't have regenerative health, yet good luck to find any health kit. Enemies two-tap you with automatic weapons, even on easy. You can't see them, they come out of the background, you can't avoid them, directions are stupidly vague to the point that you can have no clue what you're meant to do. Grenades are a joke, you won't ever land them where you want to, and you barely ever get any refils for these. The checkpoints are pure torture, some levels only have ONE checkpoint, so good luck if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i like the screaming
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game can be the first souls like - horror fps game in the industry. I played all along on easy and even had to cheat on to beat some levels. If you are into the games like you need to play super carefully going ahead step by step while the game offer you so shallow story, go ahead and give it a try!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're looking for the best Vietnam War-era shooter on the PC, keep looking. If you're looking for the best Vietnam War-era shooter built on an Unreal Engine, still keep looking. I can forgive the dated graphics but the janky controls, terrible AI, weapons that might as well be shooting plastic pellets, lack of mods and community support even with the existence of an SDK among other things are not forgivable. This game was released on 2004, I wanted to play it since then. Played it finally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is kinda ok but the last few missions shouldn't exist and are terrible. Buy only if on sale and even then, get ready for disappointment. Enemy placement isn't as bad as in Medal of Honor Allied Assault, but sometimes they can shoot through the jungle (or jungle levels' walls) and it does not fell very fair. They do spawn out of thin air too, so there's also that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Men of Valor is a game that is mostly terrible and sometimes great. I'm actually a really big fan of this game's noncentered, floating crosshair you use to aim around. I like the levels, Vietnam setting is a plus and still underutilised as an FPS setting after 16 years. But the difficulty is so wildly all over the place, with only getting health back from looting bodies you'll barely see in all the foliage that the enemy can still shoot you through. You will die a lot, and usually from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this would be pretty bad based on the negative reviews. There are valid points, but a few thoughts A: There are no bugs and this game runs perfectly (not common for these old games) B: Great soundtrack voice acting, writing, and environmental design. C: I love having ADS and this game doesn't have it. I thought that would bother me a lot more than it did. You get used to it very quickly D: The gameplay is repetitive, but I didn't mind. It is challenging enough to stay interesting.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never played this game before, reminds me of Battlefield Vietnam but with more realism.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Vietnam war era games and i would like to have more, but this is a terrible exp. You can beat it yeah but don't expect to have a fun time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bootleg call of duty. It is junky. The enemy is sometimes stupid, sometimes sees through 3 bushes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is ok, the idea that you can not move when zooming but can lean is interesting but it not always works with how the maps are structured. If you are the kind of player who tries to clear all enemies before moving forward take note that there are a lot of places on maps where enemies will be respawning infinitely until you move like 10 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ steps forward, honestly it feels like some maps are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ full of these and it gets annoying. My favorite part is not even the game itself but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst Propaganda Military Shooter Ever.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome. If you don't like it, i don't want to meet you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is an original Xbox, and does not have any controller support. It also has a horrible start up process. Also will sometimes involuntarily change my resolution on my computer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Men of Valor Positives: + Some of the graphics are acceptable (by 2004 standards) + Good sound and music + Ok voiceacting + Footage videos of Vietnam and some of the story + The few places/missions that dosent take place in the jungle (cave, base & city) Negatives: - The most horrible & unfair difficulty level I have ever encountered (even on easy) - Cheating AI and ever spawning enemies - AI is either dumb as f*ck or kills you instantly before you see them (like aim-bots from h*ll) - Very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game its like Medal of Honor but Vietnam.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →owned this game on console but that was long ago bought it on here and it dosent open the game and steam wont give me a refund from a failure on there part please let me get my money back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing 8 hours of this game for a week and a few days here's my review. This game is done by the game devs that did the PC port of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault which is pretty interesting to see what they do on this one. The game starts you off as a Marine in the Vietnam War trying to go through the war from 1965 to the Tet offensive in 1968. The game is pretty good for the time for showing off the visauls of what Vietnam looks like in the year it was made in. The guns are fun to use…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yeah its a little jank and hard but its easy to figure out and pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun for sure. reminds me of like Old cod.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love Vietnam movies and old school FPS games your in for a treat. Combat is slightly different than today's standard but if your willing to look past that you will have a good time. 10/10 would mow down VC with a machine gun shouting "Get some!!!" again...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game I loved playing when i had it on my X-box
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They are in the trees
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