Reading various reviews, it seems that SoF2 could be the best title and SoF3 surely the worst one, but overall the series doesn't appear to be too great.

Ye ye! We Ravensoft again bois!

Loved playing my uncle's copy of SoF1 back in the day. Much thanks to all involved in getting these here.

OK, found it, since it's not explained in the game card.

Gold edition includes 18 new multiplayer maps, 2 new game modes, and an exclusive interview of John Mullins.

Platinum edition includes all of the Gold Edition features, and five new multiplayer maps, GameSpy support and an exclusive look at the sequel, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. Plus, in this version of Soldier of Fortune, you will find some bonus contents on the game disc, like artworks of game's characters and weapons. There is also the manual of the game in digital format.

Nice, I did not know that. It does open the door to being Beamdogged however so let's keep it under wraps :o)
Earmarked for 20th anniversary perhaps?

I would say the first game is the best and playing it is still a blast, I tried SoF2 many times but it never holded my interest to play it through the end and it seems ggmanlives agrees with me.
Never played the 3rd one, but it is made by de team that gave us Chaser, which is not half bad, so it has my interest.

First one was great.

People consider $10 too expensive for these games? -_0 Are they far more expensive in other countries? $10 seems the right price to me for non-emulated games from the late '90s - early-mid-2000s, since it's not like they were just slapped into DOSBox or ScummVM. What am I missing?

That's a hell of a pistol.

Cheapskates that want everything 95% off or free.

The original Solder Of Fortune has my all-time favourite machine gun mechanic: When you kill an enemy with a machine gun, they don't just drop dead, they start doing this bizarre death dance and keep doing it until you stop firing at them - which usually only happens once you run out of bullets, since theim doing their death dance is just so much fun to look at.

I don't know of any other game that has ever replicated this, even though every other game *should* have replicated it

That video is obsolete. He did a REDUX review for SoF 2 in which he admits that he was talking from his a**.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE7xPCI0wUI

The first game for sure still is the best one but SoF 2 also is a lot of fun. Both very worth getting imo. Payback however is something I wouldn't even want to play if I got it for free.

Agree about SOF 1 and 2 (SOF 1 great except for the final levels, which inttoduces a Sci Fi element out of nowhere just to det up a clichéd Final Boss battle) and SOF 2 is pretty good ; I have no opinion on SOF 3 ;the reviews and player comments were enough back in 2007 to keep me from spending my money on it. Imight give it a whirl ate GOG low prices, but not exactly in a hurry to do so.
SOmebody in another thread is having a Histy Fit over how GOG is disgracing itself by even offereing SOF Payback.
I really hate people like that,who think their opinions shold be law.
I have not p layed it, but the general opinion is it's a bad game, a massive step down in quality from the first two.
Indeed, it was made by a totally different development team.
You never heard of it because it bombed very badly when it was released in 2007. Most fans of the first two SOF games denounced it as being a piece of crap,an insult to the first two games.

what a shit, i cannot buy them cause im in fucking germany, nice!

I don't know if you noticed, but GOG is killing regional pricing for emerging markets, like Brazil, Russia, etc.

Get ready for new releases to double in price.

No big sale can truly remedy a base price that is too high in the first place.

any germans succesfully got SoF games? this cannot be they finally get released and A LEGAL WAY is BLOCKED!!!!!!

You can pick up the cd for pence online or in charity shops, or pick up the moddb version mentioned above. What reason is there to pay $10? $5 maybe, just to save the effort of copying over a nocd. Unfortunately for my side over the years the price of releases has gone up, the goodies have become scarcer, therefore I am seeing less and less reason to buy something I either likely already have (disc image + nocd) or could pick up if I wanted to, the old "support gog for drm free" niceties have long since gone, now it is nothing more than a clinical comparison of cost and for my money these are way over priced.