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Utterly, utterly awful.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Despite almost universal praise in the games press, this is a terrible, terrible game. I'm horrified that it seems to have gathered so many good reviews. It's essentially a dated, semi-professional Quake 2 mod, with the addition of a novel damage-modelling system that lets you shoot people's arms off. Made even worse by a useless attempt to give the game some authenticity - the box, CD, installation and loading screen are covered with warnings that the game is a realistic depiction of modern warfare, all of which exist purely as a tease, because the game itself is essentially a G.I. Joe cartoon with blood. The violence is strictly cartoonish - shoot somebody in the leg, and he hops around yowling - and the novelty wears off after a minute or so. Everything else about the game fails, comically so, from the interactive music (which, because of the game's lack of any slow bits, stays in 'combat mode' almost all the time, negating the point), to the 'stealth element' (make too much noise and bad guys appear in the level, usually in totally illogical places) to the interface, which looks as if it had been drawn by a backwards child. The gameplay itself is pure Quake 2 - you run through a linear track, along which bad guys are placed at regular intervals. Sometimes you have to press a button to open a door. If something moves, you shoot it. Most usually, nothing moves - the bad guys are, in the words of GameSpot, 'strawberry-jam-filled turrets'. Anyway, if you want a decent modern shoot-em-up with stealth elements, get 'Project IGI'. If you want violence, trip somebody up and then jump on them and have a fight.

OK game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: February 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wouldn't really actually know. i orderred it 2 months ago and still havn't gotten it. i thought it would be cool, but i have yet to even see the box. i say i want a reffund.

one word: GORE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It has been awhile since I played this, I have the PS2 version and I I bet you could get a used copy for about 99 cents. This is probably the most violent game I have ever played. There is a violence lock in the game that can let you control whether dismembered limbs or blood are allowed. If you turn everything on, you have one big goreapalooza. This game goes beyond mature. Dont let the kids get there hands on this!

Disappointing...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I found this game very disappointing... I read all the reviews that said this game was the best, extremely fun, very real, etc. So I was expecting a game that consisted of undercover missions and espionage, but instead all you do in this game is run and shoot. You can't really sneak around because there's nowhere to go. All the levels are comepletely linear, you have no choice where you go, there is only one path.

Aside from that it is practically impossible to sneak up behind enemies and perform a "silent takedown". Not that you ever need to, the enemies in this game are completely stupid and couldn't shoot the side of a barn. You could run into a room full of enemy soldiers and take them all down with a handgun without losing any health. In this game you simply end up running through the levels shooting human targets as you go.

This game is for people who just want to blow stuff up (although, some of the things you can do to enemies are pretty cool...) but the overall game is pretty boring.

If you're looking for a game that actually requires some thought, buy Deus Ex or Half-Life, don't waste your money on this...

Realism? I think not.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw the "glorious" fps Soldier of Fortune, I must say I really took a step back. The graphics were so so, for the time, but the very graphic gore and bloody explosions were in a class by themselves. I truly loved to watch arms pop off, and heads explode. It was very entertaining. But alas, it is so fake I really only laugh at there silly attempt at "realistic gore". As the forensic pathologist for Orangeburg county South Carolina, I can honestly tell you that this gore is anything but realistic. First off the shotguns blast range is far to long, and the 9mm causes far to much physical damage. Headshots often only wound opponents, whereas sometimes a simple 9mm shot to the abdomen is an instant kill. We found other glaring unrealistic wound physics, but I don't have enough typing room to get into all of them, but just so you know, we sat around the office one afternoon just trying to match up one of our Soldier of Fortune killings, with an actual shooting homicide victim, and none were even close. As far as gameplay goes it is a very take or leave it title. Nothing new or exciting. Multiplayer is pale in comparison to other top rate fps's. But don't be tricked into believing this title has realistic gore.

An Average game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have just been playing the demo of SOF and I must say that I am a bit dissapointed. The graphics date back almost to the old Duke Nukem 3d game style graphics, not anywhere close to current standards. The weapon fire is the most unrealistic I have ever seen in a FPC. The storyline is good and the playability is good, but it could have been so much better if the graphics were worth a flip, but they're not, but it is a fun game nonetheless, and for the cheap price it's going at now, should be worth the money, but I would never pay full price for a game the lacks as much graphically as this one does.

Soldier of Fortune

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first time I played this game at my friend's house I could not stand the violence, it was disgusting and really offensive so I played most of the game with a parental lock (Which allows you to take blood and everything you find offensive out) which is a good point of the game... Other wise it was pretty good and extremely realistic, with all the body motions and details etc... I do think one of the downs about this game is that there are bearly any decent puzzles or anything, I mean it's basically a go around and shoot the heck out of everybody and till there is no more living and then that's it, level complete, kinda boring... Well I don't think I'll buy this game but hopefully the company who designed Soldier of Fortune (Activision) will learn from their mistakes and come up with a Soldier of Fortune 2 which'll be 10 times as good...

Great Single Player - Multi-Player Lacks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought this was one of the best first person shooters in single player mode. In fact, I would say it is the second best single player FPS next to Half-Life. I was totally immerged into the single player game and thought it was nothing short of outstanding.

Multi-player however lacked in my opinion. Player movement speed online was way too fast for the game. I thought the online play should of been more realistic feeling, perhaps similair to the popular Counter-Strike Half-Life modification.

If you like single player FPS games, this is a must buy.

Soldier of Fortune lives up to...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

its expectations as a great action game.

The online multiplayer game rocks, but I gave it a 4 only because of the maps. I think they are way too full of 'furniture' and fixings that really don't have a place and tend to get in the way of the action.

It is a fun challenge however to learn to use the grenades properly and I feel that there is a certain amount of skill needed to be competitive with this game online.

I recommend it.

Realism combined with graphic violence

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you manage to make it past all of the "mature audiences" warnings, you'll find an absorbing, heart-pounding and altogether impressive game. Not for the faint of heart, there hasn't been a shooter that's made me afraid to turn corners like this since Wolfenstein 3D.

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