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14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 EXELLENT FIRST PERSON SHOOTERDec 27, 2001
wow, this game is amazing, i noticed that a few people have given it a bad rating. i, presonally dissagree with them. maybe you should tone down the blood and gore (it gets a little disturbing)but i guess that's all for the better, right? I think it's a very good game and it is also a good party game because of the multiplayer. The graphics are mind-blowing and i was smply blown awa by the gameplay. if you are a fan of first person shooters i would definetly buy this game (weak-stomached beware of the location damage) those of you who don't know what location damage is it's like if you shoot in the leg wit a shotgun, his leg gets injured and/or blown off, so its like a location on your body gets damaged, get it?
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
I own it, and have played the PC versionDec 08, 2001
I checked up on this game and saw that a few people gave it a bad review. First of all, only a few people gave it a bad review, not enough to be a deciding factor. Secondly, they say it's "overhyped". I haven't seen much hype about this game, I mean it isn't like the overhyped "Devil May Cry" (which I own also and do enjoy, but it is way overhyped). This game is great, I had it on dreamcast and PC and I think it is just as good if not better than either other version. The graphics are beyond great, the backgrounds are good and the weapon effects are flawless. No other game has close to the realism and feel of "Soldier of Fortune". The weapons are great and creative. The weapons all have different affects on the people and the environments. I think telling someone not to get this game is cruel. Games have a funny way of being loved by some, despised by others (eg Silent Hill 2, one of my favorites). I would encourage anyone interrested to try it at least and not take the reviews too seriously since feelings on this game are so diverse. Everyone I know loves this game.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Marvelous stress-reliever.Nov 11, 2002
By Brian Newberry
"Brian"
This game is 95% Hand-Eye Coordination / and about 5% Logical Problem-solving.
Wonderful game! Extremely Violent! This could be good - or bad - depending on your philosophy. And by "violent" - I mean limb-dismemberment, agonizing screams, heads blown off, wiggling intestines, slowly growing puddles of blood, etc...
Some people criticize this as "having no story" or being a "no-brainer", but I love its simplicity!
I'm not saying it's an 'easy' game to win; rather that it's not IMPOSSIBLE to figure out how to play. It is NOT necessary to thoroughly study some 60-page owners' manual before playing this game (I hate that!)
Also when you ARE playing the game, there are NO difficult puzzles to solve. Nothing to side-track you. Nothing to stop THAT FABULOUS MOMENTUM!!!! No secret codes to crack. Nothing tricky - It's just blood-&-guts bad-guy killing!
You put it in & start playing. SIMPLE! The default controls are easy to remember, but using the SETTINGS, you're able to CHANGE any control you wish.
Great stress-reliever. Call me derranged, but I just love it!
I've read some reviews that say this game has 'racist overtones'. Personally I don't see that here.
The bad guys come in ALL colors of the rainbow. You start off killing a bunch of evil hooligans who've taken over a New York subway station. (although one has a Russian accent - the rest are all white guys with completely American accents - Heck most of them are blonde!) - then in the next round you're killing African soldiers on a train carrying an atomic bomb.
Then in the third round you're killing Eastern Europeans. I don't see one particular race or ethnic group being favored over another. EVERYONE DIES!
There's room for improvement, but very often I'll get stuck playing this game till the wee hours of the morning - and I've owned this game for a couple years now.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A bit too much hype over this game....Nov 29, 2001
Let me start by saying I have not played the PC version so I cannot compare the two. However, SOF for PS2 is...well...simply put, really dull. If you have played many first-person shooters, much of the game play will have a been-there-done-that quality, except not as good!The choices available in weapons are uninspired and the enemies are nothing special. Worse yet are the graphics. They are far below what the PS2 is capable of. There is little detail to textures and many objects look too simple. In fact, I have seen better graphics on some PS1 games! Text for the mission briefings is so small, you will need an enormous television to read it without going blind. Unfortunately, this is a port of a PC game that looks like a port of a PC game. Disappointing since so much better is possible (the PS2 version of Half-Life, for example).
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Repetitive Corridor ShooterMar 30, 2003
By Nick
I don't know why I purchased Soldier of Fortune. It's not that I regret it, necessarily, it's just that I had never played it, and I had only read mixed reviews. So I think, what intrigued me, was the controversy over the "gore-zones" this game featured, and how violent it was supposed to be. I guess I wanted to see if the game lived up to the controversy.
It does. Soldier of Fortune is a typical First Person Shooter, about a 'one man army' who fights his way through level after level of enemies that look exactly the same. Aside from the extremely graphic violence, you wouldn't be able to tell this game apart from any other mediocre corridor shooter. But the violence is very, very graphic. Heads are split apart, limbs are torn off, intestines and chunks of various other organs protrude from gaping wounds. It is all an attempt to portray violence 'realistically' in a videogame, but after a short period of time it all seems too over-the-top and very unnecessary. Regardless of whether or not the developers were trying to make the game realistic, blood and gore should probably be a bit more limited than this.
So aside from this 'gimmick' the rest of the game is very average. The control takes some getting used to, the framerate gets very choppy even with the very bland visuals, and the multiplayer mode seems pretty tacked on.
It isn't a horrible game. But it's probably a better rental than a purchase.
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