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If you're tired

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Gamers, are you tired of games which cost $50, take up 4 gigs on your hard drive and slow down to a slide show even on top end systems? Are you tired of games which take an hour of wandering around and talking to other charactes before the shooting starts? Do you want to have some FUN... bloody, loud, explosive shooter fun, like the kind we had the late 90s with Quake and Doom? Are you tired of stealth and puzzle solving? Well look no further! This game, released in 2000, is a blast, literally. This game is simple, violent and fun. You are John Mullins, a freelance soldier who is given the dirty job of finding 4 nukes stolen from a Siberian base by terrorists. OK that's pretty standard stuff. But SOF delivers action and atmosphere in spades. Right away, you are thrown into a gang war in the NYC subway. I live in NY and the trains aren't so realistic, but this is a game, so what. It's the action which counts. SOF distinguishes itself by the extreme level of violence... shot enemies react depending on where they've been hit. Pop him in the foot, and he'll dance around in paid; hit the head and it explodes like a watermelon. The gameplay is not too cerebral... find the enemies (they're not hard to find) and kill them. You'll have from time to time help from other characters, but most of the time you're on your own. So get you kill on with SOF Platinum... you won't regret it!!!

GREASTEST GAME OF EM' ALL NEXT TO SOF2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is totaly awesome,though i'm said about Hawk but dude you must play this game you will REALLY love it,and play SOF2 the sequal to SOF1.Poor,John Mullins always loses his kick @$$ partners.

P.S.:I bet you nobody will be playing on Soldier of Fortune Multiplayer!
Scincerly SOF1,2 Lover,
POO(Im not tellin you my name)

Violence Has Evolved

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Trust me this is what a bullet does to you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

THE KING OF KINGS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, all of us video game players wait for so long a game like this one now that it has more than a year of it's start in the market the only game that can win this one is the second part don't you think?
hey this is the more brutal game ever.
it isn't for you koids i'm serious....

This game could have been great, but......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game very much, the plot and storyline were excellent, but the game was rendered on the outdated Quake II engine, so the graphics while better than Quake II itself, were mediocre at best. The game focused too much on blowing people apart and not on the quality of the graphics to enhance the storyline. Also the gunfire and resulting injuries or kills were very unrealistic as to what they would be in real life. I don't think there is anyway a pistol would blow someone's arm or leg completely off their body. While this is no high quality game by any means, it is a very fun one and has a very engrossing storyline and plot. Let's hope they use a much better engine in the upcoming sequel and that the storyline is as well developed in the second game as it was in this one.

Major goriness, but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As I was installing Soldier of Fortune Platinum, a prompt asked me if I wanted to put some limits on the level of blood and gore in the game.

"Nah," I said. "How bad could it be anyway?"

Boy was I in for a surprise! I've been shooting things in games ever since I was 5, and I'd have to say that Soldier of Fortune would be #1 in blood and gore so far.

Shoot any enemy in any place and they react in the proper way.
A shot in the foot will result in bad guy grabbing his leg (or lack thereof). My favorite thing to do when I'm in an evil mood is to unload a whole clip of SMG bullets into a bad guy's chest and watch him do that crazy dance of his.

The game does have limits, but only in story and level design. But when you're in the mood to just walk in and blast away a few hundred bad guys, simple story and linear levels can be a good thing. Just don't let little kids play SoF or even watch you play it without the parental controls on.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: October 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I found myself wanting this game to be overwith after 20 minutes of gameplay.I kept waiting for the game to get better,but it only get's worse.The graphics [are not good] and the gameplay is old and tired.The people who wrote good reviews about this game worry me.I will always be suspicious of game reviews from now on.If you want a true FPS game try 'No one lives forever' it will satisfy what you are looking for.Avoid Soldier of Fortune...

Good graphics, very very very VOILENT GAME!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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...........

Nothing more than violence and a bunch of guns, Save your $$

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because ...I had a gift certificate. The singleplayer is pretty lame and repetitive. After the 1st couple levels I was failed to be at all slightly impressed. The graphics are pretty good but I noticed a lot of graphic flaws. For example when people's limbs get blown off they are missing textures and if you load a map through the console you'll notice a lot of graphic glitches. In singleplayer you do nothing but kill people and press a bunch of buttons...THATS IT!!!

I played the multiplayer but after a couple games I was bored and quit. Multiplayer games are nothing special and not at all exciting. I played this one CTF map online and the floor was missing. The weapons don't seem balanced. For example I unloaded a clip of a machine gun at someone in a online game and he didn't die and than he shoots me once with a shotgun and I die...THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!<...

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