Posted on: April 2, 2024
QUAKETALLICA
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Highly Underrated B-Movie Game
Soldier of Fortune: Payback has an unearned notoriety as one of the "worst games of all time," but this is far from true. What is more accurate is to say, is it's probably the buggiest game of all time, when you first get it, anyway. When shooting enemies, bullets go right through them and the crosshairs don't even register that you're aim is dead on. Ragdolls are hilarious, with enemies flying like rockets. However, all this is just compatibility issues, that are easily fixed by a quick moddb download of the 1.1 patch, followed by setting compatibility mode to Windows 98. This worked for me. Another solution for others was to force V-Sync from Control Panel (but that didn't work for me). Once the technical issue is gone, the game is everything I wanted and expected it to be. It's pretty much the same as any other "Soldier of Fortune" title, which if you are unaware is a sort of B-movie type game that takes the industry standard shooter of the day, and decides to add ridiculous levels of gore and dismemberment to it. The first SoF ran in Quake II engine and looked like Half-Life, with linear levels that you just run through, feel like an action movie badass, and enjoy near-Brutal Doom levels of gore. (Actually not quite that extreme. More like Mortal Kombat blood with Jedi Outcast's Dismemberment with the cheat code on.) SoF: Payback is no different, except it's got updated mid/late 00s graphics. In a nutshell, this game is like CoD 4 with awesome levels of gore. There's not much more to it than that, and there doesn't need to be. Is it some groundbreaking title? Of course not, nor does it need to be. Not everything has to be a Half-Life. The story is like the iconic John Carmack quote--it's like story in a porn movie. It's there, but just in the background. Not that important. It's welcome, but not meant to be taken too seriously. This is a game that is very easy to get into, turn your brain off, enjoy a few missions, and then you're done.
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