Royal Armouries Partnership Brings Authentic Weapons to the Game
Team17 and Expression Games partnered with the UK's Royal Armouries Museum to scan, photograph and record Vietnam-era weapons for Hell Let Loose: Vietnam.
Authenticity has always been a selling point of Hell Let Loose, and Vietnam is leaning into it further. Team17 and Expression Games partnered with the UK’s Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to scan, photograph and audio-record Vietnam-era weapons for use in the game.
Why it matters
Working from real museum pieces means the game’s firearms can be modelled — and, crucially, sound — like the genuine article. Recording authentic audio is a detail that’s easy to overlook but hard to fake; the crack of a real rifle is part of what sells the immersion the series is known for.
It also signals the studio’s intent to recreate the period’s arsenal accurately across both sides, from American rifles and machine guns to the communist small arms. You can browse the full line-up as we document it in the weapons codex and our weapons guide.
A pattern of authenticity
Combined with maps inspired by real operations like Starlite and Piranha, the Royal Armouries partnership shows the developers anchoring the game in history rather than pastiche — the same grounded approach that earned the original Hell Let Loose its following.