Posted on: September 29, 2019

Alucard20101

Games: 118 Reviews: 69

Nostalgia and good for what it is

It's like a 90's action movie with over-the-top violence. It may be the first FPS (at least that I can remember) having active dismemberment. All the guns sound heavy and devastating, which is great. The story is kind of typical 90's fare and doesn't get in the way too much while playing. While the shooting is fun, there are a couple of problems that hold this game back (I'm using the SOFPlus patch, so not sure if these criticisms will hold true without it). There is a propensity for the doors to sometimes either get you stuck, forcing a restart, or turning you around a random percentage; usually it was about 180°, which was perfect for enemies to either kill me or remove a large chunk of armor/health. It could just be the difficulty that I chose, but there were also a number of times that enemies would just spawn in right behind you as soon as you turn around. This only happened extensively in a couple of levels (Africa and Tokyo), but when they happened, they were incredibly annoying. That being said, this is an FPS classic and can still be enjoyed thoroughly despite the flaws. I'd also recommend staying away from the medium difficulty and going for something harder. The only time I was inspired to finish this game was when I played on the tougher difficulties.

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Posted on: July 19, 2021

Jeriko_One

Verified owner

Games: 9 Reviews: 1

Win10 64bit not working

Pls update...

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Posted on: July 24, 2021

Mungojerrie86

Verified owner

Games: 345 Reviews: 11

Does not run

Could not get the game to run on Windows 10 20H2. Sofplus patch didn't help. The SoF process is jsut chilling idly in the memory, doing nothing.

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Posted on: February 22, 2023

AyYoShyman

Verified owner

Games: 332 Reviews: 8

Great Gore But That's About It

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.

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Posted on: September 1, 2023

pobelamus

Verified owner

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Decent romp

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,

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