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To keep potential mass murderers happy, Soldier Of Fortune’s toy cupboard practically overflows with different flavours of death: machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades These days, no game can be reported upon without at least one reference to a ridiculous acronym dreamt up by the developers to describe an otherwise dull feature of the coding, and hot diggety dawg, if Soldier Of Fortune doesn’t make heavy usage of a bit of technological fizziness known as GHOUL.

Not only does everything show full respect for the laws of physics – even the boxes shatter in a realistic fashion – there’s also admirable attention to detail. We’re promised the ability to shoot the gun from an opponent’s hand, but if you think it’s more fun shooting off the hand itself, prepare to bellow with unwholesome delight because the loveable GHOUL system also caters for stomach churningly lifelike gore.

If you winced at the merciless crowbar-clubbing action on display in Kingpin, maybe you should consider playing SOF with your eyes shut. Each character model is split into umpteen ‘reaction zones’, allowing goggle-eyed psychos to blow individual limbs off their enemies until their trousers stir with delight. You can shoot a man in the bollocks and laugh as he convulses in agony or burst his head like a watermelon and gasp as chunks of brain fly past your shoulder.

Or do both, one after the other, should you be thus inclined. We rather expect the BBFC to take a somewhat dim view of this, although perhaps, in these apparently more lenient rimes, they’ll pass it uncut and content themselves with rolling their eyes heavenward while sighing in a world-weary fashion.

So what else is there? Well, aside from the usual believe-it-when-we-see-it promises about awe-inspiring artificial intelligence and multiplayer support, Raven are making much of the way the game’s storyline unfolds -like a thriller, apparently – and also, intriguingly, of the occasional role-playing element at work beneath all that stubble and kevlar. Apparently, there’s some degree of NPC interaction beyond picking whose head to blow off next: you’ll be conversing with, and making judgements upon, a wide variety of different characters throughout the game.

All in all, it looks like being a definite contender – albeit a wilfully controversial one. Keep yer peepers primed for a full review in due course. And please don’t subscribe to the Soldier Of Fortune magazine in the meantime. That would be wrong. Licensed from the US gun fetish mag of the same name, Soldier Of Fortune attempts to weave traditional mission-based gameplay into a contemporary setting.

Taking you halfway across the world, it casts you as a ‘consultant’ hired by the US Government to track down four stolen nukes. With 26 levels to tote over 10 guns around, it’s basically you against terrorists and a few dogs – which will please Steve Hill , armed with guns that look real, that controversially expose real-looking innards on successful operation of the trigger. It’s not short on multiplayer options either, with arcade, team and realistic deathmatching, capture-the-flag and more besides.

And we all know how well that turned out. Things are looking good for Soldier Of Fortune. It isn’t easy being this hypocritical, you know. On the one hand, we believe Soldier Of Fortune to be vile anarcho-porn of the highest and most hideous order -a shamefully slick helping of fascist super-violence designed to satisfy the xenophobic bloodlust of dunderheads, bigots, macho dickballs, and the many thousands of dangerous gun-toting, Armageddon-quickening paranoiacs currently squatting inside self-built bunkers-cum-armouries in two-horse US towns with names like Jarhead, Ohio, feverishly stroking their shotguns while they pore over their bomb plans.

And on the other hand? We like it a lot actually. If you’re lazy, truly lazy, then here’s a capsule, sum-it-all-up-in-a-sentence review: “Soldier Of Fortune is an ultra-gruesome, real-world take on the Quake genre that’s nowhere near as good as Half-Life, and is demonstrably sick and wrong, yet exerts an unusual addictive pull all of its own. Now you lazybones can tootle off to the end and gawp at the score, while the rest of us have a laugh at some of the game’s content.

In SoF, you play a character called John Mullins. His name’s John, but everyone calls him ‘Jam’. It’s all “don’t go in there, Jam”, and “watch your back, Jam”. Jam is a Vietnam vet, a firearms expert, an experienced mercenary, and easily the most laughable prick ever to have stepped foot inside a computer game since the eponymous star of the execrable Leisure Suit Larry games reared his wormy little head before a disinterested world.

Jarn ‘Soldier of Fortune’ Mullins is an absolute dingleberry. A tool of the highest order. He looks just like celebrity chef and Sunday morning Godslot presenter Kevin Woodford, so it’s hard to take him seriously and even harder to resist the urge to somehow twist the gun round and watch him blow his own head off. He’s also totally lacking a sense of humour. This man takes himself more seriously than Goebbels, as do his mates at ‘The Shop’ the shadowy organisation of mercenaries for which he ‘works’.

In fact, every single person in the game stomps around pulling expressions of utter, steely-eyed seriousness, delivering duff lines with such grim self-importance, you keep hoping – praying- that one of them’ll blow off in their combats or something, just to break the ice a bit and make them smile. If you had to sit next to one of them at a dinner party, you’d probably end up taking your own life with a cheese knife before the main course hit the table.

He’s easily the most ludicrously over-the-top villain you’ll have seen in your life — even if you’ve spent your entire life watching Sky Movies.

Fortunately for Jarn, who’s clearly unhinged himself, tracking down Dekker and, er, his stolen nuclear warheads involves visiting a host of glamorous around-the-world locations and shooting a frankly jaw-dropping number of people. It’s like watching an edition of Holiday hosted by those Columbine High School maniacs. At which point, it’s worth pointing out just how gruesomely violent SoFis. You can, quite feasibly, shoot the gun from a man’s hand, then take his leg clean off while he begs for mercy – and then blow his head to jelly as he slumps, screaming, to the floor.

And once he’s down, you can stab him in the face, you can circle around picking off the remaining limbs with a shotgun, or you can pump round upon round of machine-gun fire into his lifeless body and watch it jerk about.

This is not a nice game. Playing this game must be bad for you. It feels bad for you. There are. There are machine guns and rocket launchers. There’s an excellent sniper rifle and a downright hideous flamethrower. There is screaming and bloodshed. At the end of each mission, you’re given a tally listing the number of head shots, neck shots, groin shots You’ll want a bath afterwards. And then you’ll go back to finish off the next level. It’s undeniably fun to play.

The levels aren’t particularly taxing, but they are on the whole imaginatively designed. The real-world setting adds to the thrill, as does – and we’re almost ashamed to admit this – the outrageous level of violence. The graphics are exemplary throughout, as is the use of sound the music’s a bit sucky, but it is ‘dynamic’ – ie it reacts to the action. The weird and slightly frightening thing is, if SoF was set in the spaceports of Mars, or the fictional netherland of Etemia, or wherever, it’s doubtful whether it would have held our attention for so long.

Fact is, the nigh-on pornographic buzz of spraying a modern-day office with gunfire, taking limbs off be-suited, screaming enemies left, right, and centre, while a standard neon strip-light buzzes overhead, keeps you glued. That may be wrong, but it’s the honest truth. The ultra-violence is eye-poppingly hideous – but it’s also whisper it quietly perversely satisfying, in a please-God-don’t-let-this-corrupt-me kinda way. But it would mean nothing were the game itself not so damn playable.

Soldier Of Fortune is a balls-out, whisky-swilling, flag-waving, carbine-smoking, xenophobic, fascistic, cathartic arcade game that you’ll end up playing more than you should. It probably deserves to be banned – but while it’s here, let’s enjoy it quietly. Oh, and we’d recommend taking short breaks to read some Enid Blyton or a Mr Men book or something. Returning the game because it’s too sick? That’s got to be a first for one of our readers. All in all, the general consensus is that most of you find the extremely explicit violence fascinating, while being aware that it is wrong.

Want to take part in a quick experiment? All you have to do is read the following words and monitor your reactions carefully. Here we go: Guns. Muzzle flare.

Zapruder footage. Heavy recoil action. Trigger finger. Empty casings rattling round your feet like hollow cockroach shells. Charlton Heston. Dirty Harry. Guns, guns and more guns.

Experiment over. Did you find yourself getting sexually aroused? If the answer’s yes, then congratulations – you’re probably just the sort of person who reads Soldier Of Fortune magazine, the right-to-bear-arms bible of gung-ho gun nuts everywhere. Even if you haven’t seen Soldier Of Fortune magazine itself, you know the kind of thing: you sometimes see gun porn mags lurking guiltily on newsagents’ shelves in the UK, where they’re imported from the US.

A typical issue has a cover peppered with ‘product shots’ of phallic-looking semi-automatics, a feature on the National Rifle Association, some survivalist tips, and a wipe-clean centrefold of some trailer park jailbait deep-throating a muzzle. Soldier Of Fortune is one of the most established ones. And now it’s been turned into a game. A first-person shoot ’em up game.

And, surprisingly, it looks like it might just turn out to be really really, good. Soldier Of Fortune the game is being developed by Raven Software, the people responsible for politically neutral actioneers such as Hexen 2 and Mageslayer. The company’s track record is a befuddling mixture of peaks and troughs in which robust and imaginative 3D shooters such as the aforementioned Hexen 2 feature prominently.

Soldier Of Fortune is the latest addition to the fold. Soldier Of Fortune utilises the Quake II engine, and as you can see from the screenshots here the game looks disturbingly realistic. This provides more believable object physics in the game, for both wounded victims and pieces of architecture. Furthermore, as you’d expect from a game based on a magazine for gun fetishists, the weapons are designed to look and behave just like the real thing – nail-biting reload times and all.

It should be enough to have regular Soldier Of Fortune readers breaking into a sweat before the end of the first level. To this end, we’re promised plenty of ‘over the top violence’ coupled with authentic strategic elements, support for all leading 3D cards, and thrill-a-minute multiplayer support bunged in for good measure. The licence is neither here nor there – this game should turn heads on its own merit.

We’ll be reviewing SOF in a forthcoming issue. Now shut up, put the magazine down, and back away slowly. Or I’ll shoot your forehead off. On a normal day just like any other, a call goes out to a man of action. A man named John Mullins wakes up to an ordinary life filled with dilemmas, the same as any other man. However, this man may just save your life. Yes, John Mullins is a combat specialist meant to handle any possible terrorist scenario imaginable. He occasionally works as a freelance operative for a U.

His current objective is to deal with a secret terrorist organization that is bent on murder and destruction. Generally, John hates to stick his neck out, but the paycheck is outstanding and he gets all the free ammo he can carry. You may never hear me say this again, but before you start shooting it up with a terrorist you should go through the tutorial. Luckily the tutorial is actually interesting since it allows you to shoot all the guns you start with, including the sniper rifle.

Of course you could just fake it, but it may not be to your advantage later in the game. If you own the Keyboard for the Dreamcast, it may be useful to those of you who are veterans of games like Quake.

Another useful tip: you can adjust the controls to fit your playing style.

 
 

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Not only does GHOUL produce some of the most realistic looking character models out there, but it also incorporates 26 gore zones on the character models to make for the most realistically disgusting ballistic wounds you’ve ever laid your eyes on. All of this is extremely disturbing and extremely intriguing at the same time since this is the first time this type of damage model has been used in a shooter, and it ads an eerie yet sickly-satisfying effect to every landed shot.

Now a head shoot may yield a nauseating red spray while a shot to the leg with a large caliber gun may rip the appendage from the torso. Gory indeed, but impressive technology to boot. In addition to an excellent character modeling system, SoF features clever level design and layout.

The location feels extremely realistic and authentic. Although for the most part the levels are linear and keep you on a straight path to the finish, you will find a slew of neat and creative twists in every level.

Whether it be riding atop a speeding train, infilitrating a high-tech Japanese corporation, or trudging through a frozen Russian base in Siberia, you feel like you’re in a real-world location. And graphically, these locales couldn’t be much better. The environments are a bit square and the textures aren’t up to Quake III quality, but everything is well detailed and, as I’ve mentioned before, the character skins are to die for.

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Well, it has its highs and lows. While there are a few futuristic weapons in the game like the Microwave Pulse gun and the heavy-hitting slug thrower, the core of the game revolves around good-ol’ bullet lobbers. You have your small and large caliber pistols, your trusty shotgun, your sub-machine gun both a suppressed and non-suppressed versionyour sniper rifle, and your extremely versatile heavy machine gun Of this list, the shotgun and heavy machine were my favorite.

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In keeping check with the realistic feel of the game, you won’t find any speed enhancements or quad damage boosts. The power-ups in SoF are limited to grenades, C4, armor, flash paks, and the familiar health pack okay, so bundles of health aren’t so realistic They are basically just a way for you to live longer as an unarmored John Mullins is a bloody John Mullins, or gives you a means to gib your opponents easier with a well-placed explosive charge.

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It’s this attention to detail on the sound effects and music in the game which really add to the realistic and immersive feel of this title, as well as adding a little extra tension into the mix. Sure, the single player experience is great, but what about multiplay? Well, Raven didn’t let us down there, either. First off, I was very impressed at how easy it was to get into a game.

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Assassin is kind of like tag where you’re assigned a particular enemy to kill, and someone is hunting you as well. If you kill a bystander, you lose a point, if you kill the person assigned to hunt you it’s worth one point, and if you nab the person you have soldier of fortune pc game download assigned you receive a whooping three points. Be на этой странице, though, as the better you get, the more people are assigned to assassinate you.

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