Men of Valor: Vietnam not only sounds like Medal of Honor and looks like its spiritual cousin but it is also developed by the same team and given the same attentive detail. On the E3 show floor, Men of Valor was being shown in a closed booth with a short line. What the thousands of gamers walking by didn't realize was that they were missing one of the finest FPS war game demos of the entire show. They must not have noticed the dazzled look on the faces of those who emerged from the small theater labeled Men of Valor.

The demo begins with a few soldiers hanging from the doorway of a chopper swooping over a Vietnamese camp of thatched huts and gun posts. The landscape is beautiful and lush and the player is controlling a machine gun turret attached to the chopper shredding thick green vegetation and scattering enemies on the ground. Jets pass overhead and anti-aircraft fire wounds the chopper sending it plunging into the thick forest. When you emerge from the woods your platoon is under attack by unseen, AK-47 wielding antagonists in the green.

A.I seemed pretty solid along with the handsomely designed environments - individual blades of grass among the millions, leaves and trees, noteworthy character models and brilliant bursts of gunfire. Considering the expertise of the development team, MoV: Vietnam is already on its way to being a memorable game experience but from the looks of it, there should be plenty of wild action to push this one to classic status.