Objective:
Use all means necessary to find and secure four stolen nuclear warheads. Track and stop the terrorist organization responsible for the theft before they can carry out their thermonuclear holocaust. Dispatch as many terrorists, skinheads and enemy soldiers as necessary to complete your mi...
Objective:
Use all means necessary to find and secure four stolen nuclear warheads. Track and stop the terrorist organization responsible for the theft before they can carry out their thermonuclear holocaust. Dispatch as many terrorists, skinheads and enemy soldiers as necessary to complete your mission. Failure is not an option.
Parameters:
10 covert missions take you through the political hot spots of 5 different continents during 26 levels of play. Your arsenal includes ultra-realistic real-world weapons. Enemies are numerous, and a good mercenary knows that wits and intelligence are just as important as guns and ammo.
Give this one a shot if you haven't already. It's a fast-paced and fun first person shooter with a colorful (almost comic book) style. It's not your usual military shooter, and there is some unique characters and weapons. Like all great first person shooters, it just feels good to play and is very cathartic. This version has been recently patched, so you can finally run it on windows 10. Also, the SOF Plus patch is available online for multiplayer. There are still some people who play it!
This is the closest any game has come to the feel of 1980s American action films, especially the ones starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It has excessive violence, over-the-top plot, one-man-army action.
Said violence is the game's focus and fairly unique selling point, boasting surprisingly many hit-zones (outside of SoF's sequel, I can't think of any other game that differentiates in its reaction animations between a shot to the head and to the neck, for instance) and easy dismemberment. You can enjoy a sight of an enemy clutching his leg, hopping after a shot in the foot, or "dancing" under SMG fire.
I would've given the game 5 stars, but I had minor technical issues with controls. Mainly, they seemed at times floaty or had lag spikes somehow connected with, well, connectivity: they would get the worst while the game was showing an icon with an unplugged ethernet cable. Also, sometimes when strafing or moving through narrow spaces, the game would "add" another direction to the buttons I was supposedly pressing (e.g. the character also moving back while I was trying to strafe to the side).
The only reason I didn't give 5 stars to this game was some small movement bugs during my gameplay, the puppet seemed to be sliding on ice instead of running...
But honestly, WHO CARES?
The game is just too good, its trademark was the exaggerations.
I had a great time playing SoF, it's a shame that it's sequels didn't even come close to this big boy.
ATTENTION
Remeber to download SoFplus - client to have a good exprience.
Honestly, the only thing I really need to say about this game is that I used to have to get into fights with my then-16-year-old sister because she was hogging my computer all the time, playing through Soldier of Fortune's campaign on repeat. Let that sink in for a moment.
If that doesn't sell you on trying out this game then I don't know what will.
And before you get on my back for suggesting that girls aren't gamers or whatever, you really need to understand what kind of a teenager my sister was. She was literally the last person you'd suspect to be into this type of game at that age. Hell, she was never really into gaming at all and once she got over SoF, I don't think she ever picked up another game ever again.
And I guess it's entirely possible that what grabbed her attention was the fact that you could shoot dudes in a dick and they would react to it in a believable way. But my personal takeaway from this little anecdote is that Soldier of Fortune is just so much fun that literally anyone will find it enjoyable.
