Posted on: December 14, 2021
StuntmanMikeL
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Don't expect a run'n'gun game
While the original Soldier of Fortune was very much a run'n'gun shooter, with its realistic military theme being more of a gimmick, Soldier of Fortune II attempts to tackle this disconnect between the theme and gameplay by being a much more grounded and realistic experience. Sadly, I don't think that Raven managed to pull this one off. To be quite honest, this might be the only title out of the entire developer's portfolio that I not only dislike but genuinely hate at times. Some of the design decisions are pretty ridiculous and take the concept of realism way too far. For example, whenever you pick up an automatic weapon, then you're better off switching it to semi-auto because the amount of recoil and spread in a full auto mode is so over the top that you'd think John Mullins has arthritis. Isn't this game about a veteran mercenary? It really makes the gunplay feel dodgy when your badass hero can't even handle a burst from a machine gun without spraying bullets all over the place. You'll also spend most of the game leaning from behind corners and trying to pick off dudes at a distance because trying to advance at even a slightly faster pace will get you killed in no time, plus the enemies have a tendency to chuck grenades at you with accuracy of a clairvoyant. I only finished this game once before but the jungle level is usually the moment that breaks me whenever I try to give the campaign another go. It's just terrible. And don't even get me started on stealth mechanics, it's basically trial-and-error and isn't fun at all. Story-wise I don't think the game is terribly interesting either. The concept shows promise at first but the in-between-mission sections where you have to sit through uninspired dialogue scenes or explore the non-combat areas are very boring and go on for far too long. The first game always dropped you right into the action and any filler that was there was brief and purposeful but in this game, I was really struggling to care.
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