Battlefield: Vietnam is the flavor of the week and what a ride it has been. The helicopter flight is a game in itself and makes you feel like the kid in high school who had a car before anyone else. Being one of the last people in my class to get a car, I’m really just guessing on that one. And best of all, it’s given me a use for my fancy joystick which has until now been collecting dust next to my desk. Once other players realize that you can actually fly the thing, everybody’s your best friend asking for a ride to a reasonably safe LZ or to their girlfriend’s house. Nobody ever offers to pay for gas.

So you load up your chopper with soldiers and everyone hangs out the sides firing bullets into small towns. It’s a real hoot.

I can see my house from here.

But you can’t have all the fun and sometimes you have to just mind the store. The online community for this game is, for the most part, good at working as a team and that’s a welcome change from the usual crowd you get with an online first-person shooter. Hope we can all play together some time so I can show you the new Alpine stereo I installed in my chopper.