'Nam of the game

Platoon's developers claim it as the first PC game to be based on the Vietnam conflict. You lead a small squad of soldiers through the jungle looking for the enemy.

It's an RTS game with a three-quarters top down view. That's the first problem: the jungle trees are in the way most of the time. Secondly, you control all your squad. So an enemy you can't see starts shooting and your men stand there waiting for you to do something. Dead squad. And you can't save until the end of the mission.

Oh, and the dialogue is incredibly dull and repetitious. Stick with it though, and you get to fight basically the same action as many times as you like. Great. Not.