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Pretty much is all

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Feel free to berate what I have to say, even flame me, I'd like something to debate.
Yes, the graphics are pretty. I'll say they did a rather good job making things look 'pretty' but that is all. I've only made it so far in the game, but that far has already annoyed me to the point I don't think I want to continue.
I'll give it kudos for a good game of multiplayer as well.
Now, what don't I like it? Poorly inspired level design. The world is so linear, that you can't help but go in the right direction. This, in my opinion makes for a bland game. I want to feel like this is a world, not a tunnel. And the maps are rather uninspired. It is everything I've seen before, not necessarily done better
I still have yet to see the awe inspiring AI in action. Guys hide behind trees.. ok, seen that. It saves me from taking cover. All I have to do is wait for them to poke their head out. The AI also over uses grenades. Not just the bad guys. And they don't seem to know how to use them. I've seen a flash of an explosion 100 feet out only to find out that they are trying to throw grenades at me when I can just pick them out in my scope. And god forbid your friendlies get the idea to toss one. Sitting in the middle of a firefight when all of the sudden a mis thrown grenade from a computer controlled friendly lands at my feet is not a fun thing to have.
The pacing is terrible. There are levels where you have to stay with a group of 'friendlies' through the whole map. while this isn't a bad thing, it is a bad thing when the friendlies are set at their own, designer created, pace and if you go to far away from the group you will be considered to be 'endangering the mission' and subsequently killed. I found this annoying so I tried killing off the group to save me many tries of happening to get tofar ahead of them, because they move ridiculously slow even when I have killed every hostile for a square mile. The end result of killing them is dying. It can't be stopped. instant dead.
I've also noticed some graphics issues. I have a 2 Ghz machine with a 128 Gforce 4, I do not want to see graphics problems. these include choppy frame rates in open areas, shadows that will fall on top of objects and go through walls/floors and lips that don't move when the character is speaking. Lip movement is an old technique; you'd think they could do it.
Gore: just pointless. Unless you are one of those people that get off to blood and guts, this game doesn't offer what hasn't been offered before. Their claim that it is for the sake of realism is just plain stupid. It is just to make people with a ... for blood buy the game. The only time I thought their modeling was interesting was when a guy looked to be trying to pull the knife out of his back that I put there. Then he died. That part was cool. No sooner did he hit the ground, though, than a massive pool of blood formed. This pool of blood continued to expand when I moved the body. The blood also looks the same no matter the area. If it was affected by things like, say, rain, I'd give thumbs up to it, but it is just for show.
All in all I've had a terrible experience. I don't recommend it to anyone, try something like `America's Army' or any of the Rainbow Six games, if you want a `realistic' combat experience. This game is just for show.

SOF 2: Double Helix...? correction SOF 2: Second mistake

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are wondering whether or not to spend 50+ dollars to purchase SOF 2 then let me make your decision easier. If you are over the age of 10 and/or have more than a hand full of brain cells in your head you WILL NOT enjoy this game's lack of plot and its senseless gratuitous violence. Don't get me wrong I like to tear there heads off just like any other guy but this is just ridiculous. The game starts off in Prague where you have to get to your hotel. Now unlike the rest of the tourists, for some reason you have to fight your way there by killing dozens of native police men. (I cannot believe real vets came up with this game!) If that wasn't bad enough the games graphics looked like something out of a bad Saturday morning cartoon. Save your money on this one folks!! But if you really want to be a soldier of fortune get a copy of Hitman: Codename 47 (a game that makes killing your targets a work of art) and if you'd like a REAL military shooter then the best one out now is Ghost Recon. Good luck and happy hunting!

Soldier of Fortune 2 - Save Your Time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a major disappointment. Nothing new or unique here. Graphics sub-par and gameplay already done. No new weapons not seen before, same old tired first person shooter. If you are going to spend [price], pick something else. A total bummer.

Yes indeed turning off the alias function stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Glad I didnt buy SOF2, Once I found out aliases were turned off I let my clan know [SFM] and we won't be moving to it.

To bad to, it has some good stuff but like the other reviewer said: If I wanted a limited game machine (non-pc style) game I would have gotton a game machine.

Sad state of affairs when things like this happen.

Ridiculously Hard,,

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Even at the medium level, the enemy can shoot you, but you can't shoot them! Thew game is virtually impossible to efeat.

After 3 levels, I threw the CD in the trash, and I will NEVER buy a game by this idiots again.

Plus, the save feature is idiotic. You have to waste a save to start your game at the same level.

Complete idiots wrote this game.

Oops, forgot to be fun...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: June 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In their quest to crank up the realism, activism forgot to make this game even half as fun as the first SOF. You die constantly by unseen forces (a grenade from above *POOF* you're gone) which I'm sure is pretty realistic for one man taking on armies, but the net result is you spend A LOT of time looking at the loading screen (and if anyone tells you they don't spend a LOT of time with that screen, they're lying). I don't mind dying if I blow it or the AI beats me, that's the mark of a well-designed game with appropriate difficulty. But constant, random death isn't "difficult", it's boring. Also the aiming is terrible--totally lacking the violent satisfaction of the first SOF. You can shoot at the same guy forever and not know whether you got him untill he blows your head off (even on the novice setting). Pumping whole clips into a baddy only to have him pop up and ice you with the same model of weapon you just emptied at him is nothing but frustrating. Most of SOF2 feels like the tedious part of Allied Assault where you're being sniped by unseen enemies. Some people got off on the "realism" of that level, but most people who have a life and play video games for FUN (what a concept) hated slogging through that die-a-thon. For those of us whose grin muscles still ache from playing Jedi Knight 2, it's one helluva comedown.

What a waste of money!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being an avid fan of 1st person shooters, there are few I don't own. Soldier of Fortune (version 1) is a favorite of mine in the area of close combat and weapons variety. How wrong I was to buy the second verson SOF2. The AI is very poor, the graphics are plain, the weapons too common, the exits in missions far to hard to find, and the story line almost non-existant. This game (SOF2) in no way resembles its predessesor in game play or feel. SOF2 is a broken promise of great FPS gaming. Instead I recommend Rogue Spear Platinum Pack (Rogues Spear with Urban Operations)for its many weapons mods to try hundreds of different weapons. I also do recommend JK2JO (Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast) and DFLW (Deltaforce 3 "Landwarrior").

This was SUPRISINLGY good...until...:

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I agree with virtually everything va_dave wrote in his review, but nonetheless I came away with an overall sense of having enjoyed myself. For a while. I liked the single-player mode enough to finish it. It reminds me a lot of Deus Ex (in part because of the voice-over actors.) I wish they would have included Deus Ex's weapon carrying limit. On one hand they try to emulate realisim with super-graphic violence, but then they let players carry fourteen rifles. Silly!

It's VERY linear...so much so that I couldn't finish certain missions without having to go back into the house to exit through a specific window (in Colombia.) The AI is not great, neither for your enemies nor your team-mates, and I wish I could move more things...nothing but trolleys blocking your way in the hospital, which seem nailed to the floor. The game looks good, as you'd expect from the Q3 engine.

Unfortunately, I ultimately got stuck in a level called Kamchatka, and could not leave. I killed everybody, took out the safety grid, but was not able to complete the last task. I spent twenty minutes at three different times running around the map...no way out. Stupid. I can't help but wonder what I missed, and believe me, it couldn't have been obvious. Like. I play a lot of these games, virtually every FPS that coems to market (everything from serious Sam to Jedi Outcast to No One Lives Forever.) I can't stand poor level design. Sigh.

The violence is gratuitous, no question about it, but you knew that before you read this review. Multiplayer feels Quake-like. I still prefer (the very tired) Counter-Strike, and I'm surprised they didn't emulate it. Limit players to one main and one back-up weapon which can be bought at the outset of the round, or picked up in the game.

I really enjoy First Person Shooters, but would enjoy something new as well. Let's face it...we're all waiting for Duke Nukem to return, and show us how it's done.

Eh,its not sll thst good

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

I really think that this game should have had better graphics. There are many glitches which often occur- such as people disapperaing in thin air. Maybe its just my computer(Pent3) but i think that this game could have been a lot better.

SOF2 BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit I didn't play much of the game after I saw the graphics. NOT as good as the first SOF. Don't waste 50 bucks on this one.

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