
SoF also goes one step further to capture the cinematic spirit of shooters like Half-Life.

With fast thrills and big kills, it plays and feels a lot like a pure-action shooter, but the weapon damage is much more akin to realistic shooters such as SWAT 3 and the Rainbow Six series. SoF is a semi-realistic shooter, treading the line between games like Rogue Spear and Quake II.

Like Raven says in the intro, "This game is for mature audiences only." But before I go any further with the praise, let me go ahead and say that Soldier of Fortune is NOT for the kids. There's no doubt that SoF is the most horrific, bloodiest, and goriest games I've ever played, and although I'm not into perverse ultra-violence, this game really is a lot of fun. Creating a game like SoF took a lot of guts (no pun intended.okay, a little pun intended), and the title was so over-the-top that Activision decided to ship two versions of the game: one with full gore and a more "sensitive" edition with no blood or chunks.

When I first laid eyes on the ultra-violent Soldier of Fortune (SoF) last spring I thought to myself, "Well, that job in the games industry sure was fun." I couldn't believe that someone was actually creating a shooter that was so realistically brutal, especially in light of the numerous debates over video games and violence that had begun to spring up in reaction to recent youth shootings.
