Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition

Like someone else noticed, the game's gibbing and overall violence are it's sole strength. For what it's worth, it's really damn good. Limbs, heads, and torsos get blown open in gruesome fashion. I frequently took a shotgun and a high-caliber pistol into every mission just for a chance to tear some people up. Being made on the Quake II engine, movement is quick, guns feel good to shoot, and combat is satisfying enough to get you from one level to the next. But that's just it -- it's satisfying enough. I found myself realizing just how identical every firefight started to feel around the halfway point. Most enemies have the same few set behaviors, despite separate skins. Things do eventually get shaken up with bullet-resistant armor and high-powered weapons, but it's a minor challenge at best. You're free to pick an arsenal of weapons to bring into every mission, but you'll eventually just resort to grabbing whatever each enemy uses as their primary weapon once you run out of ammo. By the time I hit the final boss, I was almost wishing that it could've ended sooner. The story is typical fare, and at the very least there's some self-awareness of it. It mostly exists just to string you along and connect the various levels, of which there's some decent variety. Underground subways, trains, high rise buildings, and villages are just some of the places you'll go. It could be worse, really. The final few levels took place in what I can only describe as thematically appropriate areas. I won't spoil them for you. Overall, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Soldier of Fortune. I enjoyed my time with it, and I'm glad I played it. Having said that, I won't try to up-sell you on a mostly generic shooter. If you're a gore-hound, this game is essential. If not, maybe look elsewhere.

One of the main things that still holds up to this day in SoF is the damage system. Visually impressive for the time in which the game was released and surprisingly complex for the Quake 2 engine. As for the game itself, while short, it has pratically no filler. Missions have a decent amount of variety (still, there are some repeated ones like the Iraq mission) while being fun to play through. You basically go around the world. I think the major flaw that this game has is the difficulty. Playing this on Medium, the game had one or two difficulty spikes while maintaining a consistent level of difficulty (a very low one at that). Eventually it starts to get dull when you destroy waves of enemies with just a 9mm. Still, I don't think the difficulty affects much in the fun factor of the game. You should get this on a sale or something, and you'll have something nice to play for the next 4-4.5 hours,

Super fast gameplay with no lag (comparable to the original Quake), awesome weapons, realistic setting with cool characters and the most brutal gore effects in gaming history, yeah thats the fist SoF, sadly the sequels are all pretty lame compared to the original game. If you ever wanted to feel like a real mercenary who is hunting down hordes of bad guys all over the world, then this is your game.

DOES NOT WORK ON MODERN PCS YOU WILL SPEND HOURS SETTING THIS AND SOF2 UP they crash still. Tons of Hoops you have to jump through just to get it to "run" @1440p then aroujnd the 4th level the game wont even work. COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE. But what do i know right? Download it and see for yourself dont say I didnt warn ya.

First off, let me say you CAN get the game running with a little work and this game is amazing, it's just that GOG isn't totally truthful when they say it's compatible with windows 10. The game would refuse to launch on my windows 10 machine. I would click on the game and nothing would launch, however GOG Galaxy claimed the game was running, even though it wasn't. As it turns out, the fix was to go into the games folder, copy and paste the Soldier of Fortune .exe in the same folder, and re-name the copied .exe to "mohaa", click on that .exe then boom, game launches. WHY THE F*CK DO I HAVE TO DO THIS? Not only was that mildly infuriating to figure out, but GOG didn't bother to add a widescreen patch either. Again, SOF is an AMAZING GAME, and this is probably the best place to attain it nowadays, but I cant justify a perfect score when GOG is this lazy. Also Activision is run by retarded ants, so f*ck them in their fat f*cking greedy asses