Despite being blocky in some parts, somewhat stiff in the animation, and suffering from that unfortunate case of repeating models that comes from video games, the NPCs do at least look passable enough for the game, which is more than I can say for the in-game weapon models. Despite the linear mission structure, these locations do look and feel very much like real, lived-in areas. The various locales you'll visit-from the subways of New York City to a hidden mountain base in Siberia, from the streets of Baghdad (in 2000, I'd like to add) to a high-rise in Tokyo, culminating in a climactic one-man invasion into a neo-fascist manor in Hanover, Germany-is properly diverse in its level design, with wide open expanses, twisted vents to Solid Snake your way through, and tight corridors filled with cranky enemies who want to tear you a new one. This game runs on two different gaming engines: a modified version of the id Tech 2 engine, which was used for id Software's own Quake 2, and this game marks the debut of Raven Software's own GHOUL engine, and has aged surprisingly well. Soldier of Fortune needs a Clancy-esque narrative like I need a purse filled with Tampons. To assume the game suffers from a lack of story is to assume it actually requires one, which it doesn't. As Mullins, your mission is to stop an underground organization of terrorists that have stolen four nuclear weapons from a storage facility in Russia, and are on the path to acquiring advanced weapons of mass destruction. You play as John Mullins, an experienced combat veteran who works for a U.S.-based mercenary organization known only as "The Shop", and who seems to have the same affinity for funky mustaches as the Modern Warfare trilogy's Captain Price (I'm sure Price got it from him). And since I made it one of my New Year's resolutions to play through the games on my Steam and GOG library that I have yet to get around to, I figured now was as good a time as any to finally get to a certified classic by the name of Soldier of Fortune.
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While Raven Software and Activision's Soldier of Fortune is also available on the Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, this review focuses on the PC version of the game.Īfter completing the original Thief trilogy, a game series that bares one of the richest, most layered and complex narratives of any video game in existence, I found myself in need of a decompression, in need of something less taxing on the mind.
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