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Lame Lame Lame: Sold it same day I bought it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I know that some people are going to love this game, but just look at how many used ones are already available. This just shows that this game [is bad]. I love Ghost Recon, Halo, Medal of Honor e.t.c. But this game just blows. I sold it back after playing it for 10 minutes.

First of all the interaction between you and the world is [bad]. It's like playing a Nintedo 64 game. You get close to a door and all of a sudden you see a hand. This means you should open the door. No dah. When you crouch and walk it's as if there is an earthquake going on-you rock from left to right instead of just walking forward smoothly like in Ghost Recon (or any other game for that matter). The crouch walking may seem like a lame excuse to dismiss a game, but believe me it's extremely annoying during gameplay.
Loading: It takes way to long to load levels. The game is way to simple and easy. Switching weapons is too complicated. The graphics are horrible. I can't believe that they were so bad. One star is way too many for this game, it really deserved 0 stars. It doesn't even deserve a review, but this game was so bad that I couldn't help myself.
I would really hold on to my money and wait for all the new games that are coming out in the next 4 months prior to Christmas. If you have to get something and you already have Splinter Cell, Halo, Ghost Recon, and Medal of Honor get Hitman 2, or one of the James Bond Games. Not only are they cheap, but they are also good.

Truly, truly, a terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pathetic. The gameplay is like any cut-and-paste first-person shooter, and is therefore boring. The GHOUL-2 engine is a good idea, but the way it was executed was pathetic. Okay, so you're telling me in real life if you take a slash at someone's face with a pocket knife, you will abruptly take out a 2-inch by 2-inch chunk of flesh and bone from their forehead for no apparent reason? And that if you fire at a guy's chest with any weapon all you get is a 2-dimensional hole, with absolutely no 3D effect on it, unlike the head and limbs, and only if you shoot it perhaps five or six times with a shotgun it will be blown into a big red slab of what looks like meat, that will disappear in six seconds? That you can shoot off a guy's leg at the hip with a Micro-Uzi? That if you do blow a guy's arm or leg off at the shoulder or hip the severed limb mysteriously disappears? Please. Other games didn't have this type of gore effect, but that's what makes them superior to this; at least they don't try and fail miserably. That's what is truly sad: the developer striving to be revolutionary but just ending up with something that pisses you off at the unprofessionalism of it.

Not only that, but the aiming device sucks. It's a poor attempt at mimicking the Tom Clancy game dot and sight iccon that increase in diameter signifying the innacurateness of your weapon. But in this one, it's always crosshairs, and if you stand still and shoot one round with your Micro-Uzi, you can hit an enemy precisely in the head at any range if you aim for them. How frickin' dumb. And also, a highly-trained mercenary with experience like a Green beret goes all John Woo-style and uses two handguns at once, or two Micro-Uzis at once. Okay, the military DOESN'T TEACH ITS TROOPS TO DO THAT CRAP!!! Realism my arse.

It's a very long game, but is very, VERY boring. All the missons are the same: go down a linear path, getting more weapons, shoot people, blast them to pieces. Even if there is a random scenario engine to create missions for you to do in different enviroments, it's still all the same, only the maps change.

The voice acting is terrible, the poor and stereotypical plot twists were easily perceptible from miles away, the plot itself was terrible, everything about this game was downright retarded. Now, normally, I don't care about graphics in the videogame, but the gameplay and plot was so terrible I have the right to complain about them for once. Simply put, they're horrible. The character models are blocky and generally lame to look at (which makes you wonder why the heck it has such high system requirements), the enviroments are completely bare and unrealitic, the GHOUL-2 engine was poorly executed (whoever designed that must have been on drugs, so was whoever described it as being ultra-realistic). There is nothing good about this game. Nothing at all. It wasn't fun, it didn't impress me in the slightest, it was the exact opposite of what they advertised it to be, it isn't worth any amount of money greater than $1.00. Now, if you have very, very low standards, go ahead and buy it, and have fun blowing people's heads off with a shotgun (how original), or blowing their limbs off, or cutting their head, arms, and legs with a combat knife with a few weak swipes and try to mutilate their torso before it blinks into nonexistence, but it gets old real fast, and it makes you wonder why the developer ever gave permission to pass this off for being "ultra-realistic".

And, for yet another attempt at creating a halfway-decent game, the developers decided to put a little stealth meter so you can get the impression that you can sneak around and use some type of strategy. However, if you crouch and sneak up on someone, they'll hear you because of their super-sensitive ears, turn around, and shoot at you, but if you crawl on your stomach, you can get right up to them, bump into their legs, stand up, and slash the back of their heads, without anyone noticing, even if one of your enemies is standing three feet away with his back to you. What the heck is with this game and a lack of realism?

Man, I am so mad I paid $50.00 for this piece of crap. Don't bother, save your money, and go buy a good FPS, like Red Faction, Unreal Tournament, even Postal 2 (as sad as it may be). A general rule: if a game is going to have a crappy excuse for a plot, then just exclude the plot altogether. That's what makes Postal 2 superior to this, even though it is a second-string game.

SAVE YOUR MONEY! THEY DESTROYED A GOOD GAME!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OMG, if you haven't bought it yet, save yourself. Go rent it at least. I played it for 5 minutes and here are my complaints...

1.You have to play as your gamertag.
2.When you look up and down the cursor moves left to right also.
3.The graphics look like an N64 game.
4.You can't choose any options as far as map rotation, weapons allowed in the game, etc, like you can on PC.
5.You have to push the white button to talk to people even if they are on your team.
6.The triangle shaped indicator on your radar (top right on screen) isn't defined well enough for you to actually tell where you're going. 7.They dumbed down the accuracy of the weapons from the PC version also.
8.Only 12 people at a time no matter what. On PC you can play with up to 60 with no lag issues and easily 30 times better graphics that look borderline real at some points.

This was one of the biggest videogame let downs of all time. They took an awesome game and butchered it and made the graphics look like a gameboy advance.

I have played PC and console games since the early 90's. SOF2 on PC is an awesome game. Great graphics, nice interface, the game physics are nice, the weapons are accurate, just all around great. The Xbox lacks any really good hardware so they have to dumb every PC port down. And they really butchered this one. Do yourself a favor and stick to your PC. Even Halo is due out for PC soon, with every aspect of it far superior to the xbox version.

The only reason I gave it one star is because it is in fact a video game, and I love video games, so the more the merrier, but this one serves no purpose other than to act as a coaster for my beverage while I play the PC version.....

Absolutely Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me say I ONLY play first-person shooters. Suffice to say, I have an experience base for this review.

The game play is absolutely horrible: There is no such thing as sniping in this game (yes, I know there are sniper weapons). Even when you do get off a clear shot, any obstruction within a few feet will block the bullets trajectory.

The graphics are horrible: I rank this up there with Super Nintendo in terms of realism and pixelation. Most absurd is that you can be literally standing on top of an enemy and not even know it.

Other things to consider, especially if you enjoy the fluidity of games like Halo: Your player is slow, the enemy is fast. Your weapons are unexciting, aiming is impossible, so you are relegated to the good 'ole fashioned bumb rush attack. Loading and saving are annoyingly slow.

I recommend you skip this and save your money for Halo when it comes out next year. Sorry Activision, try again.

Double Failure

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is an absolute insult to the gaming capabilities of the xbox.

Graphics - on par with a second grade PS One game.

Ambience - Repetitive sounds and lack of sound control (crouching produces as much foot-noise as walking) destroy any hopes of creating any element of suspense.

AI - rather read as AS for Artificial Stupidity.

Controls - they work well (hence the single star).

Overall, I recommend that if you are looking for a FPS, save your money and wait for the releases of Ghost Recon (Island Thunder) or Medal of Honor (Rising Sun).

A MAJOR LETDOWN FOR XBOX FANS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is another PC ported game that is a complete miss. Like some PC ports that end up on the XBOX,they are better than the PC version but not with Soldier Of Fortune 2. This game looks bad graphically and plays terrible with lousy AI. There is no excuse the XBOX is far capilable of more and this is unexcusable game,I thought the PC verison Soldier Of Fortune 2 was bad but this port is worse. However the ported game does get rid of the annoying fog issue like the stupid PC title,so that is one positive. BOTTOM LINE:NOT EVEN WORTH A RENTAL,BUT AS FAR AS BUYING SAVE UP FOR QUALITY GAMES[HALO,DOA3,NINJA GAIDEN,SOUL CALIBUR 2,HALO 2(MID 2004),DOA 4(TBA)]

A sorry excuse for a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying what everyone else is generally saying about this game: the graphics [are bad]. The graphics are about as good as the old playstation 1. The characters and environments look blocky and lack any detail. The graphics are so bad they even make the game difficult - it's hard to tell which direction you're going because everything starts to look the same.

The gameplay is mediocre. Running seems slow and awkward, rather than speedy and fluid. The gunfire is interesting - the weapons really kick, so aiming is more realistic. Otherwise SOF plays just about like any other first person shooter.

This game is touted for its "realistic" weapons damage. Hitting different parts of enemies' bodies results in different body parts being blown off. Call me crazy, but I don't think sadistic violence can make up for a poorly designed and executed game. At any rate, you have to be really close to even notice, so it's not a big deal. Overall, this game is so bad, I regret spending the five bucks just to rent it!

Poor quality

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

So you can deal damage to more specific body parts, thats about all this game has going for it. Even then its rediculous and so far from reality. Your telling me you can consistantly cleave legs off at the hip with a couple 9mm bullets? The "Military Advisor" they claim worked on this game with them must have been asleep. I'd say this game is one step above Turok. Its very, very shallow. I loved Red Faction 1&2...this is no Red Faction.

If you can love a game soley for its unrealistic, constant gore this is a good title for you at 20$.

Waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game with somewhat low expectations and I was still let down. I would consider this to be the " Let down game of the year". There is no excitement at all and you feel cheated out of your pesonal time if you play it for to long. I played for only about 2 hours and I was bored stiff. You can spend you money in so many better ways on amazon. If you have not played Shadow Ops - Red Mercury then I suggest that you buy it over this. I spent $1.38 on that game and I have played it through twice already.

Before you buy Soldier of Fortune, understand this, if this game were formated for Super Nintendo then it would be a whole other story about the quality of this game. This is not a game that should be in the Xbox line up. The movement is slow, poor graphics, numerous glitches, and over all it's repetitive. You cannot interact with any of the backgrounds, you can't even put bullet holes in many of the walls. There is one way and one way only to go through the missions. The game may as well move your character for you while you shoot all the nearly 2-D targets that appear out of thin air. Buy another game, any other game.

Eh....no.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is getting so much hype, unrightfully so. The graphics in this game are horrible and can be compared to the likes of Ghost Recon and Goldeneye for N64. Yes, I said N64. How can a port of such a stunning PC game look so horrible? A question I'm trying to answer. Graphics are just the tip of the iceberg. The sound is sub-par for the Xbox. While some of the sounds are great, you will find yourself hearing them OVER and OVER. They are recycled without variation. Single-player gameplay is mind-numbingly stupid. The game consists of 50 something levels (that all resemble each other) that are all maze-like in design, with only one turn that doesn't lead to a dead end. I can understand why they felt like they needed to element "strategy" after making the AI so dumb. If you shoot at an enemy soldier, he will often not react and keep walking. Nearby soldiers wont take notice and continue as if nothing happened. You can walk up to 2 soldiers, slit one's throat with a knife while the other watches without reacting for about 5 seconds. Let me break this down:

Pros:

-Huge arsenal of weapons (Shotguns, AK-47s, Pistols, Uzis, Knives and many different types of grenades and assault rifles)
-Xbox Live Support (perhaps this will save this sinking ship of a game)
-Dismemberment technology (shoot off limbs, rip apart bodies with your guns)

Cons:

-Horrible single player
-Unrealistic/stupid AI
-Graphics remeniscent of PS1 and N64
-Long load times
-Uninspired plot
-Enemies often require a lot of rounds to eliminate
-Very bad collison detection issues (enemies fall through walls, closed doors).

This game isn't neccessarily a bad one. I'll give credit where credit is due and say that this game sports some of the best dismemberment in a FPS. I cannot reccomend this game though, unless you are a violence-freak or you need to beef up your Xbox Live library. I'd say it's worth a rental (if you have Live).

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