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Good not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are kinda bad... thats only becuase its some what old. even if the graphics are bad its is extemely realistic. one of the most impresive and gruesome things about this game is the massive amount of blood and gore and the realistic actions of your victoms. like you shoot someone in the chest with the 50 cal sniper rifle and they'll blow in half. shoot someone in the leg or arm with a pistol or weaker gun and they'll grip their arm. shoot it with a shut gun and it will get blown right off. their isn't really a plot to the game but if you love seeing lots of blood and killing stuff get this game.

Best Game Ever!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game I have played ever!The guns are cool when you blow a guys head,legs,arms and there brains out.The PC verion is sweet and I hope it is the same for Playstation 2.I hope you have fun!!!

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.

Hot Shots

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is not for the weak at heart. The graphics are awesome and the storyline is hardcore. Just make sure you adjust the mayhem/gore section down to tame before you let your little brother play it!!!

I like the Shotgun and 44 Magnum the most. But the supressed 9mm is the bomb for stealth. Go get'em!!

Bring on the Gore!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ya gotta lot it! Pure, unadulterated violence. My kinda game. Yeah, the graphics are way outdated, but the manner in which you can blast body parts off of your enemies is fantastic. I can't get enough of the dismemberment as they scream with their last breaths while being separated limb by limb with hot smoldering shotgun rounds. The "save anywhere" feature is a blessing. Overall, I enjoyed this prehistoric game. I had to cheat to beat the final boss, but besides that, the difficulty level was just right. Oh yeah, stay away from "No One Lives Forever". That game wreaks.

lots of gore, lots of fun, but some hang ups

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you've heard of Soldier of Fortune, then like most people you probably heard of it's notorious reputation. At the time it was released, Soldier of Fortune was arguabley the most graphic, violent game on the market. While it lacked any vulgarity, the realistic depiction of gore really pushed the envelope - it even got condemned as "pornography" (due to violence, not nudity) by the canadian government.

This is how I first became curious about the game, and my first time playing it, I was pretty shocked - in a pleasant way. The game uses technology called the "ghoul engine", which drives the games graphical gore fest. This system allows, for all sorts of realistic damage to be done to objects and characters in the game. Nasty looking bullet holes, complete with powder burns, apear where you shoot a bad guy. Blood is plentiful in the game. And of course shoot someone enough times at a joint (or with a high caliber weapon) and you will dismember them. This is actually pretty fun, though somewhat disturbing. Shooting someone in the stomache with a shotgun will even cause intestines to spill out, and shooting someone in the face causes a REALLY nasty mess.

While the over the top gore, is the main "feature" of the game, but otherwise the graphics look pretty good considering the year the game was made. Nothing too spectacular, but based on the quake 2 engine the game looks pretty good. Aside from dead bodies with missing legs and pieces of shattered bone potruding froom the stumps, the game has lots of other little graphical details. Bullet holes are different sizes for different weapons, and are different based on the type of surface you fire at. Sound too is pretty good, and bullets hitting metal, not only made nice looking bullet holes, but also sound pretty intense.

Besides these features the game is a little lacking in plot, but then again, that's probably not why you're playing this game. The gameplay is a heck of a lot of fun, and as long as you're old enough to handle it, the gore is just a nice little commodity. The problem is the game doesnt feel very "serious" although it tries to. The story gets pretty stupid towards the end, as the end of the game is a "boss fight" with a bad guy who looks like a reject from the GI Joe cartoons.

Also the realism found in the graphics is no where in the rest of the game. The selection of weapons is lacking, and the weapons are FAKE made up weapons, that are only LOOSELY based on real military arms at best. Some of the late game weapons are just plain stupid. They would have been better of staying with a gritty military persona for the game.

The gameplay is good, and if you want to see lots of blood and guts you'll love this game. But you may be disapointed that the rest of the game lacks character and realism.

:-/

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i'm hardly used to the ps2 controls, so this was tough for me. i like the pc version better, but like one guy said, it lacks the ai and strategy. if you like kill frenzies get this. if you like kill frenzies + puzzles get half-life, which RuLeS!

ps: don't forget to turn the gore down in front of your parents. :)

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

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.

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.

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