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Summary: Still four stars, different reasons
Review: I'm glad I picked up this game. It was worth the money I spent for it. The graphics are still pretty good for a game based on the Quake II engine (which I don't believe is used at all anymore). The sound, with the execption of the main character's hammy voice acting, is good. The level designs make sense. The buildings look and (I don't know how else to put this) FEEL like they should. In other words, the Iraq level buildings don't look just like the Kosovo buildings, only reworked.
With the right difficulty setting, the enemies can be quite cunning. They will dodge your fire, duck, roll, and wait for you to have to reload.
All in all, SoF is a fine, albeit VERY violent, first person shooter.
The bonus footage of the upcoming SoF II: Double Helix is a nice bonus, too.
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Summary: Trust me this is what a bullet does to you
Review: My friends older brother owns this game and he lets me play it every now and then. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Being an extreme fps player, the graphics were outstanding and the reality of it is also astonishing. For insatance if you shoot someon in the arm with a .50 Desert Eagle they will clutch their arm in pain and there will be a hole in their arm, of course tere are exit wounds. Also if you shoot anyuone with a shotgun something is guarenteed to blow up or blow off with much blood after each shot.The problems are that grenades never work since people are to fast. Not done with the gore. If you shoot someone in the mans weakpoint (which is the troat area between your chest) with a sniper rifle they will fly back with a hole inthem and roll their eyes up as doing so. If you thought that half-life is the goriest think again this goes all out. A must play unless you are squemish. Also what the hell is this guy ulike it looks on the cover which is a well organized delta force personal its more like angry mitia men/ex swat comandos and the funkiest swat Fbi team sent by Ozzy Osborne or something. My final words for this review are buy it.
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Summary: Only Play If You Have Strong Stomach
Review: Only play this game if you have a strong stomach. This game is very bloody. When you walk into a room of people and start to shot then you will see a large red screen, there will be legs going one way heads another and all of the guts and bones and arms and fountains of blood will be sprouting up ever were. This game is definetly not for kids. I am fourteen and I really enjoy this game, this is the kind of game that you can play when you have a bad day at work and want to take it out. I have done this a time or two and trust me it works. Because it is played on a Quake 3 engine it has awesome graphics. And it is very fun. The weapons are very realistic and sound just like the real thing. I have a computer in my room and thats is the only reason that I am aloud to have the game. My Mom does not want my siblings to see that. I have played alot of shooter games and this is right up there in the top five. The first being Half-Life. Not to be played with small children in the room. Or if they are in the house. The sound of the blood gurgling in the dead people mouth. It gives me the hibbi jibbis. All and all a great game.
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Summary: Violence Has Evolved
Review: Soldier of Fortune is a breakthrough of violence in the gaming world! But that is all it is. The game uses a heavily modified version of the quake 2 engine. The characters look somewhat blocky. The worst part of the game is that it is extremely repetitive. You kill person after person after person, that's all you do. By the end of the game you'll have killed over 1000 people. The story wasn't worth telling, and the enemies never get exciting. The difficulty settings were badly designed, luckily you can create a custom difficulty setting, which I reccomend. If you enjoy computer game violence this is for you. You'll dissembody every conceiveable body part. You'll here men screaming as their skin burns. If you don't care what the violence in games looks like there are many other FPS's better than this.
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Summary: Soldier Of Fortune
Review: Soldier of fortune is a good fps with a story driven single player gameplay and a great multiplayer gameplay. You play John Mullis a soldier and he sounds like micheal douglas. The story a gang war has taken place in the new york subway and the cops have been beaten, Though it is not a military operation the captain let you (john) and your patner handle the situation, The leader gets away and you find out that something much bigger than the gang war has happened. Four nuclear weapons are stolen and you have to get them back and stop the terrorist organisation. The game includes lots of very intresting missions in new york, Iraq, sudan, japan ect. The level design is very good, It is fun and challenging to get through the level. The selection of weapons though not outstanding are very good and their effects are very realistic. The unique ghoul feature feature is superb, You can blast the bad guys into a dozen pieces. The game is very violant and there are loads of nasty sences, You could see a guys head blown to bits, arms comming off ect, In the sudan cow factory you need to travel through a whole place full of blood. I played sof on the default openGL video mode and it runs very smooth. It is built on a modified Quake2 engine with detailed textures, 32bit color ect. The graphics, charecter animation and sound recording are very good. Sof's main menu is very good, You can reduce the violance in the game. You can tweak the enemy toughness, enemy respawning, Inventory carrying capacity, save game limits. With those options you can make sof very hard or very easy. Soldier of fortune is a very good game for fps fans, but it is not as good as half-life or no one lives forever.
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Summary: Fantastic Graphics
Review: The graphics in this game are truly incredible. The human graphics are the best in any game i have played so far, for example if you shoot someone in the stomach their intestines will fall out.
There isn't much strategy in it though, if you like strategy this game is not for you. You will never be stuck not knowing where to go.
I beat this game two times before my parents stopped letting me play it.
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Summary: Gimmicky, but still worth it
Review: The word-of-mouth factor for this game was off the charts when it was released due to the supposedly incredible level of violence displayed throughout the game. Is it violent? Yeah, but that sort of gimmickry really only works on the teenagers and Washington DC lobbyists. The excessive gore gets old quicker than you'll anticipate, but thankfully you'll still be left with an above-average first-person-shooter. The developers called it GHOUL, translated it means the baddies react to wherever they get shot, sometimes hopping on one foot, sometimes covering their nether-regions, or simply revealing some blown-out intestines. It's interesting about the first dozen times, but afterwards it's just more same-old same-old. This GHOUL system isn't defined enough to really provide a wealth of anatomically correct reactions, only about 7 or 8. The gameplay itself is based on the now-classic Quake II engine, and while not providing the depth of Rainbow Six, or the intricate plot of Half-Life, it still manages to give the single-player gamer a compelling ride. The story is fairly thin, almost non-existant, and the gameplay is linear to the point where any deep thought is rarely called for. Just kill everyone you see, except the occasional civilian, who you most certainly will kill anyway because the targeting cursor is so small that distinguishing green from red is practically impossible in the heat of battle. The "Platinum Edition" is nothing more than the Gold Edition with 5 extra multiplayer levels, a preview of SOF2, and the Brady Games strategy guide which is provided on disc, not in book form. So in short, it is worth it and stands on its own as a derivative, straightforward, yet fun FPS. Just don't count on the carnage providing any long-term satisfaction.
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Summary: Revolutionary
Review: This game has some of the best graphics that I have seen in a long time. I had played Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition for a long time before this and this is better by far. The only problem I have is the lack of the skirmish or offline multiplayer because of my dial up connection. I only have the Gold edition, but I have heard that there isn't much of a change between the two. One of the best things about this is the controls. Being able to lean around things helps, and even better is being able to zoom in and out wiht the sniper rifle. The gun models are also far superior. I have a 1ghz athlon with a 64meg GeForce 2 and 128megs ram and there is almost no loading time between missions.
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Summary: diablo in FPS
Review: This game is absolutely great. First of all, the graphics are amazing. Everything looks realistic, and detailed. As are the sounds. Second, the game play is nothing to be compared to. You don't feel uncomfortable with your mouse and keyboard. Movements are smooth, you don't have to spend half your bullets trying to hit your target. You have a good number of Weapons, bad guys, and levels. The game includes way too many levels, and hours of gaming, in many different countries and places. Third, it's as realistic as it could be. You hit them in the leg, they start jumping around. you hit them in the head, they fall, you hit them BETWEEN their legs ==> Believe me, ouch :)
And even that depends on the weapon. If you're using a Shotgun, you'll see them falling apart, even their heads can blow up. In the train level, if you hit the Helicopter Pilot with your sniper, you'll see blood all over inside the heli. The game doesn't contain much secrets if that's what you are expecting. It's more like Blow'em up style. You don't get lost in the scenarios, and that's what makes it fun. And if you don't like that, you can always try the easy way, using a sniper. So much fun, you can play it a lot of time. I didn't notice any bug while playing.
Watch out for the Violence and Game's Requirements. Buy the game, it's really worth it.
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Summary: Good graphics, very very very VOILENT GAME!
Review: This game is good because it's powered by the QUAKE3 ARENA ENGINE!!that's all that's good about it.It's so violent, theres the most mature rating content I've seen in a fps. it's so gorey, so bloody, so voilent, so much suggestive themes, I only played it for 10 minutes then uninstalled it off my computer, tried it 3 more times, felt the SAME WAY!This game is too voilent and should only be played by people 17 or older, HECK, I'm only 13 and I coudn't even stand it!Naughty I was to play it, eh?for all the 17 years olders and higher, buy this game if you are voilent and gory and want a voilent shooter, infact, then if you like this, YOU ARE VOILENT.!17 years old and up, buy this if you want.Any thing below, I don't reccomend it unless you have your parents permission...........
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