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Decent game for older systems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game will play well on older systems, in case you have one. Action is sterotypical, but so are many FPS's. Not that bad, but newer games have better graphics.

boom! his head fell off! NNIICCEE!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

sof 2 is a great game but to get the most of it, you need a modern card like Radeon or Nvidia

One of the Most Gory FPS I've Played

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good if you like bloody fps, there's a large weapon selection etc. but overall a bit redundant and boring after a while.

great multiplayer game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

SoF II is an excelent multiplayer game. Capture the Flag mode is like Counter Strike, but after being killed, one doesn't have to sit and watch others play. This is great for those who just want to shoot, shoot, shoot, and blow some more stuff up. This would be worthy of five stars if the single player mode wasn't so poor. That is just boring. This game is best played as a multiplayer game.

An addictive, fun, gorefest

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game was very good. The violence was excellent the gore was off the hook, and the story was okey, if not a little cliched. I dont realy have too many complaints about this one except for the graphics.

A smooth fun addictive gore fest!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game had me up til four in the morning killing people blasting arms off, and creating havoc. The violece is excellent the gore is the best gore that ive seen in a video game in a long time! The story is okey i guess if not a little cliched. Dont realy have too many complaints about this one, except maybe the graphics.

The best game made so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the most realistic game I have ever played. The graphics could use some updating, but as far as realism (such as bullet damage) I was amazed. I have never before seen a game with such detail. Hopefully they will do another one and make it even more realistic. For instance walls should explode when you lauch a missile at them, and characters mouths shouldn't move like the nutcracker's. I give it 5 out of 5 stars.

*Sigh*

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I want to praise this game, i really do, but it can't. As i played it i felt bored and dissapointed. I kept telling myself that i should be having fun, but it just wasn't happening. I loved the original SOF, and still do. It is probably my favorite game of all time. So, naturally, i was psyched about Double Helix. It didn't have that SOF feel that the first one had, at least not till near the end. This game feels more like it's very own game without ties to SOF. It reminded me more of a James Bond game than one with John Mullins.
I did like the addition of the M4 carbine and the OICW though. One factor that really bothered me was that the grenades are no longer in an inventory menu, instead they are thrown in with the weapons menus. This means there is no quick grnade throw before entering a room. Unless you can act really fast and switch to grenade, throw it and switch back to a weapon to clear the room. Throwing grenades seemed mostly pointless anyway, since the enemies throw em back at you if they get a chance. Grenades are a big part of the game, the enimies love to lob grenades your way. Very often, i found myself doing great on a level, only to be suddenly blown up by a grenade. Bummer.
The violence in this game is much more realistic and almost chilling in a way. In the original, you could run into a room, guns blazing and limbs would fly, guys would scream, it was total chaos. That was great.... the violence of action was very well displayed in the original. it really gave you a feeling of kicking some major butt. In Double Helix, while things are more bloody, it feels less real....even the most dynamic entires don't seem that way.
One thing you will notice about the game is that you have to play it differently. In the original, it wasn't uncommon to be able to run around like a psycho engaging anyone in your path. This approach wont work in Double Helix. You find yourself having a lot of shootouts and snap shooting like crazy. Things have to get a lot more tactical, it reminded me of SWAT 3 in some parts. The enimies are everywhere and move around a lot...it's a lot harder to get a solid shot. You'll shoot at them and they move just in time. It gets annoying.
Something about this games and in a lot of games today, is that there is soo much focus on storylines and cinematics. I am so sick of graphically beautiful games with great story lines that are not that much fun to play. The recon missions and cinematics cut into the action too much and i wasn't even psyched to keep playing.
It also just seemed like too much of the same.... the missions were almost borring in their set up and many of the enimies look exactly the same. It's annoying the shoot the same guy hundreds of times.
With the gold edition, this game is a lot more fun. I think the M3 SMG is trash though, so i usually put in a code cheat so i could use the Mp5(gold edition only). You can download a gold editon patch, like i did, and it makes things more fun. Suffer through some of the earlier levels, and things well get more interesting, and more fun.

Great Game....Buggy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game in a sound blaster card package...I installed it and instantly loved it. It is a great first person shooter- single player and multi...The only reason I did not give it a 5 star ratin is because I have tried it on 3 computers that are about high mid-level systems...And it ran buggy on all of them.

eh...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game shortly after it came out. i'm sitting here and i honestly can't even remember it. i have a great memory for video games, but i just can't remember a single level or mission parameter of this game. i sold it soon after beating it. nothing that great aside from the locational damage and the great character models. other than that, this game really was nothing great.

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