Customer Reviews

Soldier of Fortune 2: Gold Edition

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Ok there is an mp5 in the game, its in multiplayer. Its a silenced machine gun but its only on multiplayer. Gold edition sucks and the original is the one i prefer anyone to buy for online action...... the original game rocks

i got in the habbit of staying up all night playing this. The gore is excellent, the violence is off the hook, the multiplayer looks like alot of fun even though i haven`t tried it yet. dont realy have any complaints about this one except the graphics.

In comparison, this game is like Jedi Knight 2. The singleplayer is a fun and interesting expierience. The main characters are incredibly alike, and the graphics are alike. The multiplayer consists off pushing guys over and doing backslashes in jedi knight 2. That was a fault in jedi knight 2 that led alot of people to different games. This game has a problem with multiplayer as well. Namely... the people. There are so many little kids that believe themselves kings of the online gaming world that it is pathetic. The multiplayer brings nothing new to the table except when you play the outdoor maps. Namely the large ones with weeds and houses. Those are the best maps as you can hide in a house and guys are hiding all over the place. There are people hiding in the grass sometimes ambushing you or people in buildings waiting behind doors. Other than that, most of the levels get boring. Most of them.

The single player is truly an expierience. Jedi Knight 2's was fun, but this game has a great thing going with the GHOUL II engine. You basically dismember your opponents. Sometimes it's fun, others it can be a little gruesome. Namely guys falling over holding their arm sockets. On one hand though, it does make the game feel real, and fun. I The single player also has stealth. It's okay. There are some problems with steath that make it kinda boring.

The weapons are pretty cool too. The shotgun is fun, but what's cooler is customizing your pistol with laser sight and silencers. Now, the light attatchment would be cool if the editors made the light a little less bright. You can basically illuminate the land for a mile and have no enemy realize your existence. There's also some nice nades that are fun to use.

The singleplayer portion is the reason to buy this game. Multiplayer is rather dull and feels meaningless most of the time. That's why there's counter-strike. If you are expecting anything really new about multiplayer.... It is too easy. I haven't played multiplayer in a year or two. I logged on a big sniper server yesterday and was 58 17. It was almost laughable at how veterans of cs will excel in Solider of Fortune 2. If you haven't played cs than SOF2 is a fun multiplayer expieirience I would say.

There are also some bugs in the game. You may shoot a guy and bullets will go through. This is extremely rare and sometimes happens when he is running. There are also other things you'll see that don't crash the game, but they certainly tell you alot about SOF2's testing team. In one part a prisoner is holding an uzi, then he kills the guard and picks the uzi up again. It looks really stupid because the testers should of caught that.

Anyways, this game is a solid investment. If you enjoy the ability to fully dismember your foes then get this game.

This game is probably the best in my library of PC games. Single player is fun, but I think the game is all about multiplayer. There are many maps, and you can get new maps from the internet; there are many game types including capture the flag, and classic deathmatch. This game is very fun - if you liked CounterStrike or any other game in its class, you will surely love SoF. There is a large variety of weapons, including grenades and the famous AK74. Overall, if you love FPS's, buy this game. And when will Soldier of Fortune 3 come out?

Last Year After I was tired of dominating the Delta Force Series, I decided to try out SOF2. The first thing that disappointed me was that although the cover of the package plainly shows a guy holding an H&K MP5, but the game doesn't even have this weapon! Next is the online gameplay, It plain sucks. There are very little number of game servers to choose from (unless you download the upgrade patch, then you will be about to play on many more servers). The upgrade patch is a pain in the a** to download, Activision & Ravensoftware refers you to 1 of 10 download mirror sites to get the patch from. Most of these, however, want to charge you money to download the upgrade! Then, after downloading it (the patch is almost 50mb, so even with DSL it takes a while) I couldn't figure out how to install the patch. I doesn't come with any instructions. When I tried installing it (I was guessing at how to do this) I must have done something wrong, because the game wouldn't run at all.
This game has okay action, but the levels are too linear, and are very small in space, the bad guys are too hard to kill. I would give it 2 stars if it weren't for the patch issue, but I think it was the biggest waste of $39.99 + tax that I ever spent. My suggestion: Buy all 6 of the Delta Force series from Novalogic they have easy upgrades, great single player action, and kick a** online fun.

i purchased this game just because of the fact that i loved games that had to do with shooting. The first time i played i was hooked. the single player is pretty good, fun, but the story line makes no sence. But anyway lemme talk about the greats. this is the BEST multiplayer game out. ive played alot of games like cs, and even the new battlefields but still spend more time playin sof2 online then all combined!! ive been playin it for the past year and became probably one of the best in it. its so fun and addicting because the guns, blood and the whole aspect of killing is so detailed. anything from heads blown off, limbs seperating, and just plain blowing up is so exhilerating. when people sneak up and shoot the sounds make me literally jump from my seat!. theres alot of clans running on sof2 so this gives the opportunity for the players to get even more involved in the multi player aspect of this game. I recommend you get this game if you like multiplayer shooting games as soon as possible. maybe ill see u in a server! i love soldier of fortune 2.

Blood and gore is good but I found lots of bugs in the game. In the train station you can jump toward their back or just jump and they cant even hear you, stealth is not required for this game because the developer gave up with the stealth probably, picking up the body is stupid and useless. the prone is useless as well cuz the enemy can see through the tall thick grass. The effect sounds are crap except the voices in the game and the weapon color looks different than the real weapon, that is why you'll see a lot of mods or modifications for sof2. Too make this game better I replace most of the sounds and weapon skins. Lots of people are playing multiplayer, I'll recomend you to get this game for multiplayer. I would have given this game a higher score if it had fix many problems in the game. SUPPORT ACTIVISION AND RAVEN AND BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!

SOF2 is what soldier of fortune 1 SHOULD have been. All the unrealistic sci fi weapons are gone. Gone is the stupid Comic-book villain wanna be bad guys. And finally we have a selection of REAL weapons to choose from, complete with selective fire, alternate fire modes, and some other nice touches.

SOF 2 definatley improves on the first. Based on the quake 3 engine, the graphics are pretty good, though not always great (by modern standards). There is an abundance of bland textures and less that perfect character models. Over all though, the graphics are pretty good, though in some places the detail is definatley lacking.

The infamous GHOUL engine form the first game, which allows for dismemberment and all sorts of gruesome graphical effects is back and much improved. Bullets holes and even throwing knives will now show up anywhere on a model where it is shot (the first game only had pre ploted points on models so you might shoot someone somewhere and have the bullet hole show up 2 inches left of there - but no more). The gore is more detailed and grittier than ever. More precise damage effects are obvious - shoot someone in the face and you can blow of thier jaw, or rip part of thier skull off. Really nasty stuff. Occasionaly a grenade will leave behind a dark real pool of sausage meat looking stuff that actually gave me shivers. But somethings are missing here... there are no more intestines hanging from the belly like in the first, which I thought was the nastiest effect in the game. There is also no graphic deption of brains either. Though what was done is surely disturbing enough. You'll want to keep this one away from the kiddies.

The weapons are fairly accurately modeled - much better than the first, but there isnt enough of them. Nothing like in Counter Strike or other games. Nor are there any varients of the main weapons, and the ad ons like laser sights are VERY few. The guns dont feel very different either. The game is still an action game and I suppose it plays the roll well - though more attention to realism here would have been good.

Gameplay goes from great, to disapointing. The story tries to use some "half life" tricks, but it ultimatley fails. And many of the missions and levels are pretty poor. The character AI is also pretty sad, and not believable - also the gameplay is completely linear. The environments arent very interactive, and the game feels old by the time you're half way through it. Online multiplayer is good, but not great... I still prefer counterstrike.

The random mission generator is a GREAT addition - atleast on paper. In practice it creats bland, unintriguing missions and maps, and creates the same ones over and over. THere is no real pressence of urban combat or interesting environments. and in general I feel disapointed.

The game is fun, and a VAST improvement over the first, but gameplay needs tweaking and the developers should both focus on detail and realism (this game needs polishing) as well as get a little more creative.

No doubt though, many SOF fans will be MORE than pleased with this game as it fixes the most obvious faliures of the first.

I haven't even played through the first level of single player, as it really wasn't my type of single player game. However, I started playing multiplayer and just became addicted to it. The multiplayer graphics and speed (if you have an adequate computer) are the best of any game out there. There are thousands of servers up on the net and they are filled 24/7 with players. In the online FPS category this is the best game I've played. It offers different multiplayer modes, among them is demolition, capture the flag, and deathmatch. The online environment is comparable to CS, but with much better graphics and not nearly as many annoying users. So, if you have a DSL+ speed internet connection and a fast machine with a decent graphics card....this is a great game. However if you're looking for single player, SOF2 just isn't very good. So, if you can't wait for Half Life 2, Doom 3, Deus Ex 2, and all the others in the new generation of FPS games coming out, buy this for the multiplayer.

This game seems to mix the arcade world of FPS with a tactical simulator and at times, it seems they do a good job. But as others have said, sometimes the lack of attention to detail can really make it seem like an arcade game with no realism at all. Like: The M203 does not shoot far at all, pretty weak. No firing from the prone positoin? Pathetic. Bullet balistics...not very good. Also, the handguns have a very low rate of fire, no double taps in this game. Bang!........Bang! What, does Mr. Mullins have joint pain? Bummer. Makes using the handguns pretty pathetic, especially since the knock down power of the SOCOM .45 is not what it should be. I don't care where you get hit with a .45. You would go DOWN. The way to compensate for this slow rate of fire is to use the cheats and use a .45 (or .50) in each hand. Yeah, Resevoir Dogs was sweet, but I don't think I'd see a Green Beret trying to clear rooms with a gun in each hand. There are mods to create more realisic damage. Also, the hype about all the realistic damage is all centered around the gore content, not on the people reacting realisticly to their wounds. And the screams? Not very scary. I think they could have asked a few people who did actually kill people and listened to they scream, and ask them if SOF does a good rendition. I'm sure they would have said no. It sounds comic, which adds a whole element of cheese to the game. AI is fair, some will always complain about bad AI, but in this game it is not that bad, not amazing, but not terrible. I've seen far worse. The Delta Force games come to mind. Also, just like the arcade first person shooters, there is really no playing with large maps where you can use tactics that keep changing. It is just pretty much, walk, shoot. The weapon depiction is ok, nothing too incredible, but entertaining, except the handguns, as I said before. Weapons balistics are pretty weak too, no bullet drop, everything pretty much shoots the same, not like Operation Flashpoint (which is what you should get if you are really looking for a realistic combat simulator).

Some complain about the graphics being poor, and perhaps I'm old fashioned or something, but they seem pretty amazing to me. Especially if you have a computer with a fast graphics card and something over a pentium III 733, you should be dialed in for the high end of this game. I played it on a 1.8 gig, and it was awesome. Where this game shines is in all out battles indoors, where the action is fierce and I don't get annoyed that I can't run through the woods with reckless abandon. Try that in this game when outside and you just run into little barriers that corral you back to where the game wants you to go.

Fighting in a drug dealer's pad with a shotgun, silenced (actually probably more like suppressed, since if you are trying not to alert the bad guys and you fire it off, they hear you and alarms go off...even in the pouring rain on the deck of a ship with no one around) MP5 is damn cool, the rounds impacting wood, glass, brass going everywhere...not bad. And of course, it is to their credit that when you shoot people, they blead and there is gore. They are trying to depict the act of taking human life after all. Perhaps when they really get it down, players will realize that taking life is a horrible thing and nothing to idealize.

Oh yeah. The story. Pathetically stupid. Some like it, but they probably read Tom Clancy and think that is authentic too.