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This Game Does NOT Deserve The Hype It Gets

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All it is is blood and gore, no strategy, no intriging plot, not good ai, and poorly animated guns. Too easy also. If your looking for a good first person shooter get half-life. Its by far the best game i have EVER played. Great AI, guns, amazing plot, and gameplay. It full heartedly deserves it's many accolades such as "Best a game ever"-PCGamer and it got "game of the year award" by over 50 publications. You will thank me if u get it. Soldier of fortune !!! Don't get it!!! You'll be sorry!!!

Nothing but a first generation FPS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There seemed to be quite a bit of hype for this PS2 release (in reality a PC port) and it has unfortunately not lived up to its many expectations.

The main promotional factor of this first-person corridor shooter was the realisitic gore. Shoot a person in their leg with your 12 gauge and the limb flies off as the victim hopelessly dances around on their remaining leg screaming and moaning in pain. According to Gamespot (...) SOF offers 26 different hit zones, each with the victim reacting differently as their body gets blown to bits and pieces. Yeah, this an intriguing feature... unfortunately it's the only one the game has to offer and loses its appeal after about 10 minutes of gameplay.

First-person shooters attract gamers for two reasons: story mode and multi-player ability. Soldier of Fortune is lacking in both aspects in my opinion. The story mode is bland and dry, as you do nothing but mash the fire button as you stroll through uneventful and boring stages, blowing away enemies who are only smart enough to charge you... as you mow them down with your array of average weaponry. Absolutely no strategy required here.

The multi-player mode, which was extremely hyped (over 40 multiplayer maps) has some SERIOUS flaws. If you're dueling it out with a buddy alone, the mode plays decently, but toss in a few bots and the game goes crazy... frame rate seriously drops, the screen becomes choppy and will even occasionally freeze completely, demanding a full reset of the system.

The graphics are sub par, as corridors often become grainy and enemies appear square-like and extremely unrealisitc when you approach them.

All in all, Soldier of Fortune is reminiscent of a cheap, first-generation Duke Nukem take-off. It provides gamers with a bland story mode, a buggy multi-player option, poor graphics, horrible enemy intelligence, and a fun factor of almost nothing... until you get bored of the repetivness of blowing opponents arms and legs off (which you will... trust me, the novelty does wear off) then the game is completely worthless.

this is the worst dam game i ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst dam game i have ever played on any system at all. It has worse visuals than a freakin Atari game. THe game takes place in Iraq and Russia, but the Iraqis speak Russian. The game is so unrealistic that you blow up a a nuke on a train, and run along the top of it as it's exploding. I could go on but I choose not to because that is not possible for there is so much wrong with this game to name it all would take forever.

Purile nonsense.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is strictly for teenage gore fans and nazis only. It's supposed to depict the effects of various types of
gunfire on human bodies as realitically as possible - nothing could be further from the truth.

In reality, you will be laughing at the way your enemies' limbs appear to dettach so easily from their bodies and the way that your shots
don't quite match the wounds that appear.

And then there's the problem that the bodies melt away into nothing five seconds later. This is unusual for a PC game but will doubtless be
the same for the PS2 with its limited memory resources.

The worst part of it all is the racist plot set in locations such as Russia, Iraq among others. All your so-called enemies simply run towards
you firing in a lemming-like fashion.

It also "stars" John Mullins, who is supposed to be a real life mercenary, but is quite clearly a self-styled macho egoist. Methinks he does
protest too much perhaps?

Like the magazine of the same name, this will only really appeal to teenage boys and adult neo-nazis gun freaks who have problems
asserting their masculinity.

Soldier of Sorry

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Soldier of Fortune for the PS2 is a very bad first-person shooter. You can play single player offline or multiplayer online or with BOTS. I played offline, but I doubt that it makes much of a difference since SOF has many technical problems.
This game is barely worth my time. Soldier of Fortune for the PS2 should have been beta tested, so it would not turn out this bad. This is simply of one the worst games currently out for the PS2. It is an insult to the pc version of Soldier of Fortune. The pc version had clean graphics, fast framerate and great sound effects. The PS2 version has none of those things. My biggest gripe about this version is the very crappy frame rate, it is pathetically bad! It has some of the worst graphics to date on the PS2! You'll see this strange folding effect on the screen; as if someone is tugging at it, because the graphics cannot keep up with the action on screen.

Not only does it look horrible but the choppy frame rate will also affect your game play. If someone is shooting at you from the upper level and you want to aim your cross- hairs up, it takes a couple of seconds too long and then you are either dead or the enemy gets away. The aiming controls can barely catch up to the target in time and this is very frustrating.

Just imagine an internet game with tons of "LAG", and then you'll understand what I mean. The graphics and colors look muddy and drab (even the SNES games look better). Animation is jerky and the characters look strange when they run around shooting. SOF also had clipping problems; in some areas I spotted enemies because their arms or legs where showing through walls. Loading the game takes forever! You can go have a cup of coffee and it will still be on the loading screen! Then when SOF finally loads you'll be treated to every bad thing that a PS2 game can have wrong.

The one good thing about the graphics was that it was able to keep the blood and gore from the pc version- you can still blow people's heads, arms and legs off. And I liked the fact that they included BOTS in multiplayer and you can play against them by yourself. Are the BOTS any good you ask? Well they have a tendancy to shoot you in the back very often and they seem to have better shooting accuracy than you, but they don't have any real strategy. They basically run and shoot a lot mindlessly. But the action is never exciting because of all the "LAG".

The frame rate is laughably bad (like a bad joke). Playing Single player is even less fun and I got ticked off by one of the levels where you ride on a moving train. My character got stuck in the railing a couple of times and the enemy cpu got me with a lot of cheap shots. I found a few other places where my character got stuck to a door and the enemy came and blew me away. That's just bad programming. If they had done a better job of beta testing SOF, this would not happen. The controlling is not bad but it needed to be more responsive (especially when aiming!)

The sound of effects are weak and unrealistic. The sound of gun fire from each weapon is very inaccurate and sound cheap. The Shotgun sound is too loud for its own good. Grenade explosions also sound weak as do machine gun fire. However, the music is pretty good as are the screams from enemies when you blow them away.

In conclusion SOF is plagued by everything that could go wrong in a game of this type and you are better off buying something else. I feel sorry for the people that buy this game and then they can't get their money back. So I hope they listen to me when I say this: Soldier of Fortune for the PS2 is total junk. I suggest many other first person shooter games that are much better and enjoyable than SOF. Games like: "Timesplitters 1 and 2", "Medal of Honor", "Red Faction 1 and 2" "James Bond Nightfire". Those games will leave Soldier of Fortune in the dust bin- where it rightfully belongs!

Don't Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Please spend your money on another game. The regular game play is too fast and jumpy. However the multiplayer, which is very popular these days, is awful. Even during a 2 player match the game slows down and lags, I cannot imagine what playing with 4 players is like.

This game is bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: March 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hate this game. It is one of the worst games I have ever played and it will make your life a lot worse. This games features are horrible and they should not even sell this game anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eh yucky...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I won't go into reviewing this game very long so I'll make it short. This games graphics suck! I have scene better graphics then this and this is from the PC I mean c'mon! The graphics are terrible compared to the PC.

I hated how bad the frame rate was and everything about the graphics were really really bad.

The violence in this game are hardcore but the pc Version is better mainly cause of the graphics.

I'm so glad I returned this I just couldn't handle the bad controls and graphics. I mean I donno I just did NOT like the game compared to the PC version which is better.

In short...Get the pc version

1 out 5

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A bit too much hype over this game....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying I have not played the PC version so I cannot compare the two. However, SOF for PS2 is...well...simply put, really dull. If you have played many first-person shooters, much of the game play will have a been-there-done-that quality, except not as good!

The choices available in weapons are uninspired and the enemies are nothing special.

Worse yet are the graphics. They are far below what the PS2 is capable of. There is little detail to textures and many objects look too simple. In fact, I have seen better graphics on some PS1 games!

Text for the mission briefings is so small, you will need an enormous television to read it without going blind. Unfortunately, this is a port of a PC game that looks like a port of a PC game. Disappointing since so much better is possible (the PS2 version of Half-Life, for example).

Not that good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll sum it up for you.
PC game is great.
Ps2 version isn't. Buy the PC game if you want this game

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