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Summary: Violent fun!
Review: Make no mistake, this game is violent. If you don't believe the 'M' rating, you should. The GHOUL 2 dismemberment engine works just fine, and you can turn the violence down if you want (the game defaults to low gore during installation, so you'll have to turn it on if you want it). My system is an Athlon 1.2 ghz with 256 megs ram and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 video card with 128 megs video ram and it runs ultra-smooth at 1280 X 1024 with all options set to max. It looks gorgeous too.
I've been a fan of all Raven games since the original "Heretic", due to their uncompromising quality of games. This one is no exception, but if there's one thing wrong with it (and the reason I deducted a star), that is its unrelenting linearity. Raven's games are just getting to be more and more linear, with enough locked doors to make it impossible to ignore the fact that you are being guided along a path by the designers. But I can ignore this and a few other assorted bugs (like enemies that won't die no matter how many times you hit them from a distance) because this game is really fun if you accept it on its own terms. Riding around in the back of a truck shooting the truck-mounted machine gun for instance has been done before, but never this well, with other trucks careening after you and ramming your truck as you try to shoot them. This is amazingly well-done and must have taken a huge amount of time to design. All weapons sound fantastic and do a beautiful job of conveying realism and satisfaction. I imagine a 32 meg GeForce 2 card would do a fine job with this game, but I wouldn't recommend anything less than that. Enjoy this for what it is; straight-up fun!
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Summary: Great muliplayer game play
Review: I enjoy many of these FPS games like Urban Terror, Medal of Honor and the ranks and this one rocks. The multiplayer game play is outstanding, I can't speak to the single player game play as I haven't even tried it, can't get off-line.
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Summary: Oops, forgot to be fun...
Review: In their quest to crank up the realism, activism forgot to make this game even half as fun as the first SOF. You die constantly by unseen forces (a grenade from above *POOF* you're gone) which I'm sure is pretty realistic for one man taking on armies, but the net result is you spend A LOT of time looking at the loading screen (and if anyone tells you they don't spend a LOT of time with that screen, they're lying). I don't mind dying if I blow it or the AI beats me, that's the mark of a well-designed game with appropriate difficulty. But constant, random death isn't "difficult", it's boring. Also the aiming is terrible--totally lacking the violent satisfaction of the first SOF. You can shoot at the same guy forever and not know whether you got him untill he blows your head off (even on the novice setting). Pumping whole clips into a baddy only to have him pop up and ice you with the same model of weapon you just emptied at him is nothing but frustrating. Most of SOF2 feels like the tedious part of Allied Assault where you're being sniped by unseen enemies. Some people got off on the "realism" of that level, but most people who have a life and play video games for FUN (what a concept) hated slogging through that die-a-thon. For those of us whose grin muscles still ache from playing Jedi Knight 2, it's one helluva comedown.
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Summary: The Best Adult Combat Simulation Yet Engineered
Review: No software currently available can offer the experience of Soldier of Fortune: Double Helix. This game is without competition. I will not give away any spoilers, because discovering the locales for the first time is part of the incredible gaming experience. But I must praise one aspect in particular: the rainforest and jungles. Weeds, grass, and exotic plants sway in the breeze all around you; trees tower above you creating a dynamic canopy that creaks and slowly moves with the wind; atmospheric sounds surround you hinting at the beasts that are watching you from a distance. It is simply amazing. But the jungles are only one environment out of several. Urban combat enthusiast will not leave disappointed. But contrary to other faster paced first person shooters, Double Helix is not a run and gun; especially on the upper difficulty levels. You have to take you time and think out your approach. The enemies are intelligent and use flanking manuevers, flash and frag grenades, and different weapons depending on the circumstances. For example, one enemy might throw a smoke grenade in a strategic location to prevent you from seeing their positions clearly. When the smoke finally clears, you may discover that an enemy ran to a more strategic location, all the while not a single shot was fired by the enemy, for that would have reaveled their position prematurely. This type of intelligent enemy strategy makes the game incredibly intense and makes each time you play through a mission a completely unique experience. And this A.I. extends to friendlies also. Many times you will find yourself in a platoon of marines, taking orders from the sergeant. You must listen carefully and try to position yourself as instructed to insure an assault is successful. If you ignore your commander, you may get yourself and others killed. And it is so refreshing to finally discover a game that treats the end player as an adult! The consequences of aiming your weapon at a human opponent and pulling the trigger are graphically depicted onscreen. This realistic gore and disfigurement is often visually disturbing, but adds an enormous degree of intesity. There are 32 "gore zones" on the enemy models resulting in unique death animations that rarely repeat. If you do not want to experience realistic modern combat then you should avoid this software. This game was engineered from the start with a mature adult user in mind. And all I have descibed so far is the single player experience! Multigaming sessions are completely different, with different controls, different graphics, and different maps. It is like getting two games in one! You will need a powerful machine to experience Soldier of Fortune: Double Helix in its full glory, but an incredible plethera of scaling options will allow the end user to fine tune the game for maximum enjoyment. If you enjoy the subject matter and scenerios this game offers, buy it now without delay.
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Summary: A gamer from NY,NY
Review: this game rocks soooo much and its the best online play ive ever played even better then Half-Life Counter-Strike that game is a blow out comparing to SoF2. And single player is awsome if you dont have a internet connction or if you connection just plain [stinks]. its a definant game to buy
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Summary: Bada-bing-boom.
Review: One word: Ka-boom. One of the best action-packed games I've ever had the honor of playing all my 31 years of living. This is the Grand Theft Auto III of first-person shooter. Even though it lacks the depth and time-amount of Deus Ex, or the intelligence level of Black Thorn, this is still the king of mindless shooting-fish-in-a-barrell action that Soldier of Fortune used to be. The only difference is the awesome graphics, gameplay, animation, sound, controls, and multiplayer.
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Summary: good
Review: this is a really good game great graphics really fun single player and awsome online
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Summary: This game is OUTSTANDING!!
Review: Though I have been playing video games for some time now, I have never seen anything like SOF2. The graphics are outstanding and the difficulty level is not a "come and kill me" AI (Artificial Inteligence). So Far I havent seen any bugs. The game performs superbly well. I recommend this game!!
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Summary: SOF 2
Review: this game is awsome, you gota' get it
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Summary: Yes indeed turning off the alias function stinks
Review: Glad I didnt buy SOF2, Once I found out aliases were turned off I let my clan know [SFM] and we won't be moving to it. To bad to, it has some good stuff but like the other reviewer said: If I wanted a limited game machine (non-pc style) game I would have gotton a game machine. Sad state of affairs when things like this happen.
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