Three days to go. Team17 and Expression Games have dropped the official launch trailer for Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, and the 50v50 tactical FPS hits PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on 13 August 2026.
Into the Jungle — What Is Hell Let Loose: Vietnam?
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam takes the squad-based, resource-managed, large-scale formula that defined the original game and transplants it into one of the twentieth century’s most gruelling conflicts. Players fight as either the US Armed Forces or the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) across 50-player-per-side battles spanning dense jungle maps, river deltas, and contested villages. The game is developed by Expression Games — a studio founded by veterans of the original Hell Let Loose team — and published by Team17, built on Unreal Engine 5.
The two factions bring genuinely different equipment, doctrine, and terrain tools to the fight. Rather than mirrored sides with different skins, this is an asymmetric design: the US brings firepower and air mobility, the NVA brings the jungle and the underground.
Watch the Official Launch Trailer
Scored to a thunderous orchestral rendition of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries — performed by the FAME’S Studio Orchestra — the trailer puts the game’s chaotic jungle warfare front and centre: helicopter sweeps over treetops, river skirmishes, tunnel ambushes, and the fog-of-war intensity that Hell Let Loose has always done best.
New Mechanics — Tunnels, Helicopters, Patrol Boats
Where the original Hell Let Loose revolved around WW2 combined arms — tanks, infantry, supply runners — Vietnam adds distinctly era-specific tools. The NVA can construct and navigate tunnel networks, creating subsurface ambush routes that punish overconfident US advances. US forces counter with helicopter mobility and patrol boat fire support on the game’s river maps.
The result is a game where coordination and map knowledge play out very differently depending on which side you spawn into. For squads who play together regularly, the asymmetry adds genuine replayability. Team17 also collaborated with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the UK Royal Armouries Museum, on an Inside the Armoury content series that profiles the game’s weapons with a historian’s perspective — a level of authenticity detail that distinguishes this from more arcade-oriented entries in the military FPS genre.
Crossplay on Day One — A Franchise First
The headline for Singapore’s multiplayer community: Hell Let Loose: Vietnam launches with full crossplay across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC from day one — a first for the franchise. Singapore players on PS5 can squad up with friends on Steam or Xbox without switching platforms, and the shared matchmaking pool means the 100-player lobbies will fill faster regardless of which platform any individual runs on.
The game is available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation Store, and the Xbox digital storefront from 13 August. For more upcoming game launches relevant to Singapore gamers, see the Game News section on GameTrader.SG.