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  1. BeenThere

    I started gaming in 1982-3 on a 64K Apple 2+ and started playing FPS with the very first Castle Wolfenstein and I have played FPS and RPG games continually since then. Yup, I am an old guy. I played the first two versions of this game and I found Soldier of Fortune one to be maybe worthy of 2.5 stars. The second version was much better maybe a 3.5-4 star game. It was a better game in every sense than the first. This new title “Payback” is appropriate… I really want my money back. This is one of the worst games I have played in 25 years of gaming. The word sucks shows up a lot in game reviews. This game warrants a rating of “perfect vacuum causing the complete implosion of the universe and the ending of time”. I didn’t even offer to give this game away. I was embarrassed to even own it. Its been gone and off my PC for months and my computer is still ticked off at me.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Douglas W. Adams

    As usual Amazon did thier job just fine but when the game arrived (I own the two previous versions) I eagerly opened it and loaded it on my computer only to find it would not run, it loaded fine but would not start. I immediately went to the internet to find patches or upgrades only to find there were none and no plans by Activision to put any out. Every forum was full of the same complaints I had. I threw it in the trash and will never buy Activision games again. Payback is an apropos title as they should payback all of the money they stole from loyal unsuspecting customers.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. raasnio

    Fans of the previous installments, especially SoF2, are very likely to be disappointed by this. RMG? Not here. Video options? Maybe, if you’re only planning to change the resolution. Fun gameplay? The enemy spawn behind you and whack you across the back of your head. In short, this is a budget title and it shows. Only it isn’t priced like one. At $40 this is way overpriced. If you were a fan of SoF2 you have two options. One, you can buy it knowing it is a sequel in name only, or two, you can ignore this release and find something of higher quality. Another game that has a cd key, that was developed to compete, and has the fans in mind at the development stage.

    The best scenario would have been to make it multiplayer only and to mimic the settings and options of the previous game with an upgraded engine. The second installment had the Random Map Generator which was certainly unique and would have been nice to see back for this one. As it is this is just a new game that is SoF-like but is a mess. No understanding of those things that made the previous game the success that it was is to blame. For that they will find that this game will have been a waste of time to develop.

    I would have given it two stars if they had better game options, such as audio and video, and if the game had better audio in-game. I’d have a hard time justifying more than one star with this overpriced, uninspired, empty game. Which is too bad, as I was really looking forward to it.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. J. Futchko

    What the heck is this crap? This is NOT even worth of soldier of fortune branding, but thats what you get when you have BUDGET in the production company. Maybe if they’d have stayed with Raven it would have been half decent.

    But I still tried it anyway, thankfully I got it in the new/used section for $19 bucks instead of $40, and I STRONGLY suggest you do the same, IF you ABSOLUTELY MUST try this waste of code.

    Yeah its fun to see the blood, but it gets old after the same baddie model shows up every third enemy. at least the rag doll physics were updated, but the dismemberment seems to have been toned down. Its too easy to blow off a leg, and in double helix, at least you still shoot of the foot or hand of the dismembered appendange, and remeber shooting the head bit by bit till the brain was out then, pop, it exploded on the next round? Nope, no more, a head shot turns the next into a crater from the chin up, no brain. which is about what I can say for the idiot who approved this game for release.

    Two thumbs down and a third if I had another hand.

    Save the cash and buy Crysis or maybe COD 4.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. F. Lind

    AI is horrible and overall it was not the greatest of games. I’d wait till it is in the 10 dollar bin.
    Rating: 1 / 5

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