Posted on: October 2, 2018

slamdunk

Games: 417 Reviews: 51

fun and fast paced shooter action!

Soldier of Fortune is a pretty straight foward early 00's FPS, but with the added gimmick of gore. It does its job, and it does it fairly adequately. The storyline is a fun paramilitary romp. The gameplay is still perfectly playable by today's standards. There's a variety of guns that kill people in different ways. It's a fairly simple and average game, but simple and average is good. It's an safe bet if you want to play an old style of FPS before the days of digital knife collections and dancing emotes. I'm giving this a rock solid 3/5 for being as average as it gets, but I'd bump that up to a 4/5 if you like cheesy gore effects.

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Posted on: February 18, 2019

npocmaka

Games: 326 Reviews: 4

One of my favorite old-school shooters.

The game is great. It has this specific 90's shooters atmosphere. Solid features as limb damage, kind of randomly generated enemies , quake 2 engine solidness, enjoyable old-school game play. But think twice before buying this. This this owned by Activision. Probably a big share of the money will go for the Robert Kotick's annual bonuses. This parasite does not deserves even a penny more in his wallet.

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Posted on: July 18, 2022

boomlinde

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Games: 134 Reviews: 2

Somehow still good

The story is mostly trite, most maps are very linear and some enemies, especially bosses, are really bullet spongey without much feedback as to whether you're causing them any damage at all. Still, the variety in settings, the punchy weapons and the fire fights overall makes this worth a playthrough today. The game works fine on Windows 11 now.

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Posted on: October 1, 2018

Telvas

Verified owner

Games: 260 Reviews: 4

Just as great as 20 years ago

I was afraid to play this game again after 20 years... I had great memories of it and didn't want to destroy them. Fortunately, Soldier of Fortune aged surprisingly well and GOG version works flawlessly. When I started playing, I just couldn't stop until I completed it few evenings later :) There aren't many THAT absorbing games nowadays :) And the "Hard" difficulty from 20 years ago is a REALLY hard compared to these "hard(ish)" difficulty levels from current games :D

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Posted on: January 21, 2022

Milan V.

Verified owner

Games: 355 Reviews: 17

Classic Y2K goodness

I won't waste much words on the game itself, it's phenomenal, I suggest watching Gmanlives' review to get the feel of it. To play the game as if it were a modern title, you'll want to download the SoF plus patch (http://sof1.megalag.org/sofplus/) and the registry fix for the forced mouse acceleration (https://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.com/2010/03/markc-windows-7-mouse-acceleration-fix.html). I can personally confirm these work on Windows 10 as I bought the game last year and refunded it because it played horribly, pirated a few days ago to see if these would work, was euphoric when I found out they did, and repurchased the game. But yeah, Soldier of Fortune is an amazing FPS with good gunplay and well-done level design - the weapons all mostly sound and feel good, but the SPAS-12 and the Desert Eagle deserve individual praise as they're an absolute joy to use. Highly recommend this title.

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