This means you won't be searching for a game for hours until you can finally get down into some multiplay action. There are an impressive number of characters, 50 to be exact, split over six different factions.
SoF features five different multiplay styles, but most revolve around the deathmatch model. You'll find:. Realistic DM: Where one head shot can mean instant death and you have to manually reload your weapon. You'll also have to worry about fatigue in realistic DM mode as running around too much will quickly tire your character out. Assassin: One of the favorite game types around the office.
Assassin is kind of like tag where you're assigned a particular enemy to kill, and someone is hunting you as well. If you kill a bystander, you lose a point, if you kill the person assigned to hunt you it's worth one point, and if you nab the person you have been assigned you receive a whooping three points.
Be careful, though, as the better you get, the more people are assigned to assassinate you. For the most part, lag isn't that bad in the game, at least no worse than any other shooter over the Internet. Of course, if you have an old school modem you're going to want to play with less people to reduce your lag, but I found playing with up to 16 people on a DSL connection to be pure butter most of the time, with only occasional laggy burps. There are a few things that I didn't like about SoF, but they were just minor flaws in an otherwise near-perfect game.
As a Soldier of Fortune, you're obviously in it for the money, but the money you get for "services rendered" doesn't play a part in the game. It's basically just a score you can use to compare how well you did against others in the single-player game.
Another problem is that the AI is a bit disappointing in spots. Sometimes you'll be shooting at an enemy and another guy standing certainly within earshot and sometimes even within eyeshot will totally ignore his buddy getting minced into ground chuck. But that's about it, really.
There's not much not to like about this game, and if you've got the stomach to handle the violence, then you'll be extremely happy with SoF. It's solid, it plays well, multiplay is fast and furious, and the cinematic feel is something I hope to see in more shooters in the future. As you've already figured out, we liked SoF a lot Soldier of Fortune is definitely going to change the way we think about fast-paced shooters in the future and it's nice to see Raven back on the right track since we were mildly disappointed with Heretic II.
A big warning though: keep Soldier of Fortune out of the hands of the kids. And even if you are an adult, some of the graphic depictions in the game may be too much to handle for some.
How to run this game on modern Windows PC? Contact: , done in 0. Search a Classic Game:. It isn't easy being this hypocritical, you know. On the one hand, we believe Soldier Of Fortune to be vile anarcho-porn of the highest and most hideous order -a shamefully slick helping of fascist super-violence designed to satisfy the xenophobic bloodlust of dunderheads, bigots, macho dickballs, and the many thousands of dangerous gun-toting, Armageddon-quickening paranoiacs currently squatting inside self-built bunkers-cum-armouries in two-horse US towns with names like Jarhead, Ohio, feverishly stroking their shotguns while they pore over their bomb plans.
And on the other hand? We like it a lot actually. If you're lazy, truly lazy, then here's a capsule, sum-it-all-up-in-a-sentence review: "Soldier Of Fortune is an ultra-gruesome, real-world take on the Quake genre that's nowhere near as good as Half-Life, and is demonstrably sick and wrong, yet exerts an unusual addictive pull all of its own.
Now you lazybones can tootle off to the end and gawp at the score, while the rest of us have a laugh at some of the game's content. In SoF, you play a character called John Mullins. His name's John, but everyone calls him 'Jam'. It's all "don't go in there, Jam", and "watch your back, Jam".
Jam is a Vietnam vet, a firearms expert, an experienced mercenary, and easily the most laughable prick ever to have stepped foot inside a computer game since the eponymous star of the execrable Leisure Suit Larry games reared his wormy little head before a disinterested world. Jarn 'Soldier of Fortune' Mullins is an absolute dingleberry. A tool of the highest order. He looks just like celebrity chef and Sunday morning Godslot presenter Kevin Woodford, so it's hard to take him seriously and even harder to resist the urge to somehow twist the gun round and watch him blow his own head off.
He's also totally lacking a sense of humour. This man takes himself more seriously than Goebbels, as do his mates at 'The Shop' the shadowy organisation of mercenaries for which he 'works'.
In fact, every single person in the game stomps around pulling expressions of utter, steely-eyed seriousness, delivering duff lines with such grim self-importance, you keep hoping - praying- that one of them'll blow off in their combats or something, just to break the ice a bit and make them smile. If you had to sit next to one of them at a dinner party, you'd probably end up taking your own life with a cheese knife before the main course hit the table.
He's easily the most ludicrously over-the-top villain you'll have seen in your life -- even if you've spent your entire life watching Sky Movies. Fortunately for Jarn, who's clearly unhinged himself, tracking down Dekker and, er, his stolen nuclear warheads involves visiting a host of glamorous around-the-world locations and shooting a frankly jaw-dropping number of people.
It's like watching an edition of Holiday hosted by those Columbine High School maniacs. At which point, it's worth pointing out just how gruesomely violent SoFis. You can, quite feasibly, shoot the gun from a man's hand, then take his leg clean off while he begs for mercy - and then blow his head to jelly as he slumps, screaming, to the floor.
And once he's down, you can stab him in the face, you can circle around picking off the remaining limbs with a shotgun, or you can pump round upon round of machine-gun fire into his lifeless body and watch it jerk about. This is not a nice game. Playing this game must be bad for you. It feels bad for you.
There are. There are machine guns and rocket launchers. There's an excellent sniper rifle and a downright hideous flamethrower.
There is screaming and bloodshed. At the end of each mission, you're given a tally listing the number of head shots, neck shots, groin shots You'll want a bath afterwards. And then you'll go back to finish off the next level.
It's undeniably fun to play. The levels aren't particularly taxing, but they are on the whole imaginatively designed. The real-world setting adds to the thrill, as does - and we're almost ashamed to admit this - the outrageous level of violence. The graphics are exemplary throughout, as is the use of sound the music's a bit sucky, but it is 'dynamic' - ie it reacts to the action.
The weird and slightly frightening thing is, if SoF was set in the spaceports of Mars, or the fictional netherland of Etemia, or wherever, it's doubtful whether it would have held our attention for so long. Fact is, the nigh-on pornographic buzz of spraying a modern-day office with gunfire, taking limbs off be-suited, screaming enemies left, right, and centre, while a standard neon strip-light buzzes overhead, keeps you glued. That may be wrong, but it's the honest truth. The ultra-violence is eye-poppingly hideous - but it's also whisper it quietly perversely satisfying, in a please-God-don't-let-this-corrupt-me kinda way.
But it would mean nothing were the game itself not so damn playable. Soldier Of Fortune is a balls-out, whisky-swilling, flag-waving, carbine-smoking, xenophobic, fascistic, cathartic arcade game that you'll end up playing more than you should.
It probably deserves to be banned - but while it's here, let's enjoy it quietly. Oh, and we'd recommend taking short breaks to read some Enid Blyton or a Mr Men book or something. Returning the game because it's too sick? That's got to be a first for one of our readers. All in all, the general consensus is that most of you find the extremely explicit violence fascinating, while being aware that it is wrong. Want to take part in a quick experiment?
All you have to do is read the following words and monitor your reactions carefully. Here we go: Guns. Muzzle flare. Zapruder footage. Heavy recoil action. Trigger finger. Empty casings rattling round your feet like hollow cockroach shells. Charlton Heston. Dirty Harry. Guns, guns and more guns. Experiment over. Did you find yourself getting sexually aroused? If the answer's yes, then congratulations - you're probably just the sort of person who reads Soldier Of Fortune magazine, the right-to-bear-arms bible of gung-ho gun nuts everywhere.
Even if you haven't seen Soldier Of Fortune magazine itself, you know the kind of thing: you sometimes see gun porn mags lurking guiltily on newsagents' shelves in the UK, where they're imported from the US. A typical issue has a cover peppered with 'product shots' of phallic-looking semi-automatics, a feature on the National Rifle Association, some survivalist tips, and a wipe-clean centrefold of some trailer park jailbait deep-throating a muzzle.
Soldier Of Fortune is one of the most established ones. And now it's been turned into a game. A first-person shoot 'em up game. And, surprisingly, it looks like it might just turn out to be really really, good. Soldier Of Fortune the game is being developed by Raven Software, the people responsible for politically neutral actioneers such as Hexen 2 and Mageslayer. The company's track record is a befuddling mixture of peaks and troughs in which robust and imaginative 3D shooters such as the aforementioned Hexen 2 feature prominently.
Soldier Of Fortune is the latest addition to the fold. Soldier Of Fortune utilises the Quake II engine, and as you can see from the screenshots here the game looks disturbingly realistic. This provides more believable object physics in the game, for both wounded victims and pieces of architecture. Furthermore, as you'd expect from a game based on a magazine for gun fetishists, the weapons are designed to look and behave just like the real thing - nail-biting reload times and all.
It should be enough to have regular Soldier Of Fortune readers breaking into a sweat before the end of the first level. To this end, we're promised plenty of 'over the top violence' coupled with authentic strategic elements, support for all leading 3D cards, and thrill-a-minute multiplayer support bunged in for good measure.
The licence is neither here nor there - this game should turn heads on its own merit. We'll be reviewing SOF in a forthcoming issue. Thomas Mason finds himself battling an insidious enemy that knows no boundaries. Boasting more weapons options than any previous Soldier of Fortune installment, the arsenal includes more than 30 weapons.
These include sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, projectile explosives, weapon attachments and cutting-edge tactical weapons.
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