Platoon Nintendo

I played Platoon on Nintendo the other night. I hadn't touched it in 19 years. I don't think anyone else on Earth has either. That's not to say it's a terrible game because it's not, but there are definitely some rough edges.

Loosely based on the Movie, you work across four levels to eventually escape the jungles of Vietnam. In the first level you need to find explosives and blow up a bridge. Then you rob the villagers of their supplies and start level two underground. There you play a mini First Person shooter game.. it's very primitive to group it in that category but I don't know how else to describe it. After escaping the tunnel you find yourself in a bunker shooting away at ghostly black images that creep up on you slowly. Nice concept and the music fits nice.

And finally with the fourth level you are on the clock. A Vietcong shoots at you and you travel through the jungle and escape.  You have a compass but I don't remember if it matters which way you go.  It probably does, but after two attempts it was game over for me.

With the exception of Vietnam, this game doesn't resemble the movie much.  Label it as something else and no one would probably make the connection that it was based (or inspired) by the movie.  But this might be a good thing since most videogames to movies and movies to videogames suck.

The game does have two redeeming features.  The first is the music.  It's actually very good and sets a mood that would have been difficult to tolerate considering the theme of the game.  The second is the graphics.  Though the animations could be better the lush jungle and opening cut scene was done very well.