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EXELLENT FIRST PERSON SHOOTER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

wow, this game is amazing, i noticed that a few people have given it a bad rating. i, presonally dissagree with them. maybe you should tone down the blood and gore (it gets a little disturbing)but i guess that's all for the better, right? I think it's a very good game and it is also a good party game because of the multiplayer. The graphics are mind-blowing and i was smply blown awa by the gameplay. if you are a fan of first person shooters i would definetly buy this game (weak-stomached beware of the location damage) those of you who don't know what location damage is it's like if you shoot in the leg wit a shotgun, his leg gets injured and/or blown off, so its like a location on your body gets damaged, get it?

Repetitive Corridor Shooter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't know why I purchased Soldier of Fortune. It's not that I regret it, necessarily, it's just that I had never played it, and I had only read mixed reviews. So I think, what intrigued me, was the controversy over the "gore-zones" this game featured, and how violent it was supposed to be. I guess I wanted to see if the game lived up to the controversy.
It does. Soldier of Fortune is a typical First Person Shooter, about a 'one man army' who fights his way through level after level of enemies that look exactly the same. Aside from the extremely graphic violence, you wouldn't be able to tell this game apart from any other mediocre corridor shooter. But the violence is very, very graphic. Heads are split apart, limbs are torn off, intestines and chunks of various other organs protrude from gaping wounds. It is all an attempt to portray violence 'realistically' in a videogame, but after a short period of time it all seems too over-the-top and very unnecessary. Regardless of whether or not the developers were trying to make the game realistic, blood and gore should probably be a bit more limited than this.
So aside from this 'gimmick' the rest of the game is very average. The control takes some getting used to, the framerate gets very choppy even with the very bland visuals, and the multiplayer mode seems pretty tacked on.
It isn't a horrible game. But it's probably a better rental than a purchase.

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).

Marvelous stress-reliever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is 95% Hand-Eye Coordination / and about 5% Logical Problem-solving.

Wonderful game! Extremely Violent! This could be good - or bad - depending on your philosophy. And by "violent" - I mean limb-dismemberment, agonizing screams, heads blown off, wiggling intestines, slowly growing puddles of blood, etc...

Some people criticize this as "having no story" or being a "no-brainer", but I love its simplicity!

I'm not saying it's an 'easy' game to win; rather that it's not IMPOSSIBLE to figure out how to play. It is NOT necessary to thoroughly study some 60-page owners' manual before playing this game (I hate that!)

Also when you ARE playing the game, there are NO difficult puzzles to solve. Nothing to side-track you. Nothing to stop THAT FABULOUS MOMENTUM!!!! No secret codes to crack. Nothing tricky - It's just blood-&-guts bad-guy killing!

You put it in & start playing. SIMPLE! The default controls are easy to remember, but using the SETTINGS, you're able to CHANGE any control you wish.

Great stress-reliever. Call me derranged, but I just love it!

I've read some reviews that say this game has 'racist overtones'. Personally I don't see that here.

The bad guys come in ALL colors of the rainbow. You start off killing a bunch of evil hooligans who've taken over a New York subway station. (although one has a Russian accent - the rest are all white guys with completely American accents - Heck most of them are blonde!) - then in the next round you're killing African soldiers on a train carrying an atomic bomb.

Then in the third round you're killing Eastern Europeans. I don't see one particular race or ethnic group being favored over another. EVERYONE DIES!

There's room for improvement, but very often I'll get stuck playing this game till the wee hours of the morning - and I've owned this game for a couple years now.

which will be better,PS2orPC?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: August 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

when i played the pc version of this game i was blown away by the AI,graphics,and the bloody realism.I hope its the same on console,but a word from an experienced player if youre weak in the stomach use the violence modifyer to tone down the gore but if you can handle it start blastin away terrorists withe shotgun(lots of fun hehe).This is an overall good game so have fun.(expriment with the combat knife,big fun hmhm)

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 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!!!

the most gore game shooter on psx2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

a great fps game the graphics are not that bad i had the dreamcast version and it was too dark now for psx2 is my best fps game lot of blood gore with the shotgun i gave it 4 stars because i did not like the music is just heavy metal rock but you can take out the music on options so dont worry this game will amaze you .

Play this game Online!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have rated this game for its online play; as a single-player game it was nothing special. Online it is absolutely fantastic. It has a nice fast movescale and a good range of weapons. Some good maps too; check out the "Raven" map online; it's great. I recommend playing it with the full blood-and-guts activated; this is a game; not reality, and the extreme gore adds a very entertaining slapstick element to multiplayer scenarios. This game is a classic for online Deathmatch and CTF fans. At any given moment, there are usually about 130 servers running different SoF games, so there is a lot of choice. If you enjoyed Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, you must try Soldier of Fortune!

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!

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