Vietcong occurs as first-person shooter PC game, developed by Pterodon and Illusion Softworks, published by Gathering in 2003, and placed in a period of the Vietnam War. A streaming video streaming video player requires on the role, in the only-player campaign, of Sergeant First Class Steve Hawkins, who has been assigned to the Special Forces camp at Nui Pek. Nui Pek is placed touching in which a Ho Chi Minh trail reenters Vietnam from Cambodia, so these are considered one of a most serious areas altogether of Vietnam. Steve leads a rest of the Favorite Forces stationed at Nui Pek, both of whom occurs as Sergeant in their have best, & has their have specialties: Thomas Bronson, an African-American who chose Vietnam over clink. Bronson serves when a engineer and demolitions expert on the team. Joe Crocker, the San Franciscan world health organization dropped away from Stanford to join the Army. Crocker serves when a combat medic on the team. P.J Defort, the young & extremely intelligent previous Air Force Cadet. Defort serves when a radio operator on the team. Le Duy Nhut, the Vietcong defector, with extensive noesis of the region in the area of Nui Pek. Nhut serves when a pointman & translator on the team. C.J. Hornster, an everthing-well-rounded hardcase, avid (typically as well avid) to locate a enemy disregardless a odds. Hornster serves when a machinegunner on the team.

Additionally to a linear campaign, the game features many have-alone lone streaming video player maps & network & on the internet multiplay. Multiplay back modes include capture the flag (CTG), deathmatch (DM), team deathmatch (TDM), assault team game (ATG), last human standing (LMS) & real war (RW).

Vietcong: Purple Haze, an expanded version for PlayStation 2 and Xbox developed by Coyote Games, was released within 2004. 'Purple Haze' occurs as information to Jimi Hendrix's song of the same name.

A sequel to Vietcong, Vietcong 2, is potential to exist as freed around late 2005.