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Soldier of Fortune Platinum Edition - PC

Brand: ACTIVISION

Platform : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95

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Now updated with a wealth of new multiplayer features, Soldier of Fortune, Platinum Edition combines all the explosive first-person shooter action of the original and Gold Editions, then adds five new multiplayer modes, the BradyGames strategy guide disc, and a preview of the much-anticipated Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.

In Soldier of Fortune, Platinum Edition, you take on the role of a mercenary tracking down a fanatical terrorist organization in one of the most realistically gruesome games for the PC. Play through more than 30 missions from the original title, featuring sabotage, assassinations, and deadly assaults that challenge you to eliminate your enemies before they eliminate you. Fifteen multiplayer levels, new team modes, and character models from the Gold Edition combine with the Platinum release's five new multiplayer modes to create the definitive Soldier of Fortune collection. As with the Gold Edition, this title sports a new bot feature that plays the game for you while you're offline! (Ages 17 and older)

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ASIN

B00005OBQC

Release date

September 5, 2001

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26 ratings

3.6 out of 5 stars

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#114,086 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#7,257 in PC-compatible Games

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Package Dimensions

5 x 4.7 x 0.1 inches; 0.8 Ounces

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Video Game

Rated

Mature

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Item Weight

0.8 ounces

Manufacturer

Activision

Date First Available

August 21, 2001

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Mary Sue Holste

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2014

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very pleased with item!

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foxgrip

shooters

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2012

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A must have if you like shooters,one of my all time favorit games SOF for life "slip" get this game and start enjoying gaming]

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Alan G.

SoF Platinum?? shold be SoF Aluminum.

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013

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OK for a person that never played a vidio game before. Cartoon like action and graphics. The game is clunky and stiff. The bad guys just stand there and let you shoot them. No thinking involved just walk thru and shoot. Sound track is also stupid and stiff. bad guys say the same thing over and over. Total waste of money AND,,non returnable...How nice is that.

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The first daringly realistic first-person shooter

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2003

I wanted Soldier of Fortune long before it was released, but unfortunately I did not have a computer that could handle the game at the time. Once I upgraded to a PC that was ready to rock and roll, I rushed out to buy Soldier of Fortune Platinum edition. Killing virtual people with all manner of destructive instruments is fun, but the ability to shoot people in specific areas of the body and have them react in realistic ways to such hits was a dream come true for this gamer. Those people who go into conniptions over "violence in video games" just don't get it; they seem to think violence didn't exist in the world before video games were invented. Worst of all, they want to control our minds, allow us to see and think about things that they in all their infinite wisdom consider "safe." Our fragile little minds will just melt if we see a little blood on our screens, according to these censorious do-goodies. The purchase of Soldier of Fortune is not just the purchase of a great first-person shooter; it is an assertion of your right to make your own decisions about things in life.
Shoot a guy in the foot, and watch him dance around on one-leg; take out a leg, and watch him squirm on the floor; deliver a slug in the gut and listen to your victim moan in pain and even beg for mercy; if you're really serious about this thing, go for the head shot and watch it explode like a watermelon. That's the main attraction of SOF. I can perfectly understand why some parents would not want to let their youngsters see such gratuitous yet oh so cool violence, and there is a parental control lock that will take the realism out of the game.
Soldier of Fortune is much more than an excuse to revel in gratuitous violence. The game play is excellent, rivaling that of the Quake series and Half-Life. The fact that you must complete specific missions makes it much more cerebral than many a first-person shooter, yet the game is not so difficult that you find yourself getting hopelessly stuck every five minutes. Sure, there could be more variety among enemy actions, and strategy sometimes equates to little more than just blasting away willy-nilly at the bad guys, but Soldier of Fortune really has everything I want in a first-person shooter. The addition of "friendlies" adds a further little challenge to the game; as much fun as it is to blow away innocent, unarmed civilians, too many collateral damage deaths can make your mission a failure. Your weapons and equipment are the types of things a real soldier of fortune would carry, not some crazy science fiction gizmos. Your missions, while fictitious, are taken out of the pages of current world history, giving you the chance to take out vicious terrorists who represent a clear and present danger to basically the whole world. This is as close to becoming a hero as I will ever get (even though being a soldier of fortune is as much about making money as it is about taking out the world's bad guys).
The Platinum Edition includes all of the extra multiplayer features of the Gold Edition along with five brand new multiplayer maps, a video preview of SOF2, and the complete online version of the official Strategy Guide from Brady Games. The game has a little age on it now, but it's still a heck of a lot of fun to play. I would only ask that you make your own decision to play this very realistic game or, if you are a parent, you make the decision as to whether or not your child or teenager should take on these violent missions; don't let "them" tell you what you and yours can handle.

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punkviper

Gimmicky, but still worth it

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2002

The word-of-mouth factor for this game was off the charts when it was released due to the supposedly incredible level of violence displayed throughout the game. Is it violent? Yeah, but that sort of gimmickry really only works on the teenagers and Washington DC lobbyists. The excessive gore gets old quicker than you'll anticipate, but thankfully you'll still be left with an above-average first-person-shooter.
The developers called it GHOUL, translated it means the baddies react to wherever they get shot, sometimes hopping on one foot, sometimes covering their nether-regions, or simply revealing some blown-out intestines. It's interesting about the first dozen times, but afterwards it's just more same-old same-old. This GHOUL system isn't defined enough to really provide a wealth of anatomically correct reactions, only about 7 or 8.
The gameplay itself is based on the now-classic Quake II engine, and while not providing the depth of Rainbow Six, or the intricate plot of Half-Life, it still manages to give the single-player gamer a compelling ride. The story is fairly thin, almost non-existant, and the gameplay is linear to the point where any deep thought is rarely called for. Just kill everyone you see, except the occasional civilian, who you most certainly will kill anyway because the targeting cursor is so small that distinguishing green from red is practically impossible in the heat of battle.
The "Platinum Edition" is nothing more than the Gold Edition with 5 extra multiplayer levels, a preview of SOF2, and the Brady Games strategy guide which is provided on disc, not in book form. So in short, it is worth it and stands on its own as a derivative, straightforward, yet fun FPS. Just don't count on the carnage providing any long-term satisfaction.

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Knewace

Soldier Of Fortune

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2001

Soldier of fortune is a good fps with a story driven single player gameplay and a great multiplayer gameplay. You play John Mullis a soldier and he sounds like micheal douglas. The story a gang war has taken place in the new york subway and the cops have been beaten, Though it is not a military operation the captain let you (john) and your patner handle the situation, The leader gets away and you find out that something much bigger than the gang war has happened. Four nuclear weapons are stolen and you have to get them back and stop the terrorist organisation. The game includes lots of very intresting missions in new york, Iraq, sudan, japan ect. The level design is very good, It is fun and challenging to get through the level. The selection of weapons though not outstanding are very good and their effects are very realistic. The unique ghoul feature feature is superb, You can blast the bad guys into a dozen pieces. The game is very violant and there are loads of nasty sences, You could see a guys head blown to bits, arms comming off ect, In the sudan cow factory you need to travel through a whole place full of blood. I played sof on the default openGL video mode and it runs very smooth. It is built on a modified Quake2 engine with detailed textures, 32bit color ect. The graphics, charecter animation and sound recording are very good. Sof's main menu is very good, You can reduce the violance in the game. You can tweak the enemy toughness, enemy respawning, Inventory carrying capacity, save game limits. With those options you can make sof very hard or very easy. Soldier of fortune is a very good game for fps fans, but it is not as good as half-life or no one lives forever.

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