The Battlefield franchise entered a new era equipped with more firepower modernized weaponry and vehicles and a deeper infantry experience from the jungles to the beaches of Vietnam. In Battlefield Vietnam players selected from a variety of characters within the different soldier classes.The game introduced new dramatic battle scenarios including leading a squadron of helicopters in an all-out attack on an enemy compound executing an ambush of enemy soldiers from dense foliage captaining a PT boat through a dangerous jungle river passage and more.