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Soldier Of Fortune: Payback by Activision
Product SummaryBrand: ACTIVISION Release Date: 2007-11-13 Platform: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP Publisher: Activision Product features: - Built to harness the power of next generation- Featuring an incredibly realistic modeling system allowing for accurate hit detection and detailed damage modeling. Enemies will not only react to the specific area they've been hit but also to the power of the weapon they've been hit with.
- One of the most lethal collections of weapons ever assembled - Over 30 of the baddest weapons including sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, projectile explosives, weapons attachments and futuristic prototype weapons.
- The world's most dangerous hotspots- Players will find themselves thrown into authentic mercenary situations in real world hotspots around the globe. Survive and ambush and rescue a diplomat, infiltrate a terrorist organization, go on a search and destroy mission and much more.
- Enemies around every corner- High intensity combat situations where players will need to take down over 15 unique enemies including terrorists, mobsters, insurgents, enemy soldiers and more.
- Online multiplayer- Play your favorite individual and team based online modes including death match, team death match, elimination, team elimination, capture the flag and demolition. Additional online options include maps tuned specifically for multiplayer action, and persistent stat tracking.
Video Game Reviews of Soldier Of Fortune: PaybackCustomer Review: Not stunning, but not bad. Summary: 4 StarsI found SOF:Payback to be a reasonably enjoyable game for the money. It can be had quite cheap, so that factors into my review. I paid $15 and it's available much cheaper from third party merchants.
The game installed fine and was easy to set up. Video options allowed for all of the newer screen resolutions. There is a patch that you will want to install if you're running on Vista.
The graphics seemed to be quite comparable with other FPS games from the 2007 time period. Weapon selection was good, movement smooth, HUD was very basic, providing directional ques, ammo usage, and health feedback. No surprises here. One thing I found interesting is that you can assign the same key to more than one operation. For example, I was able to assign the space bar to engage the site and select alternate fire, although I I wouldn't recommend doing that. I've just never seen a game that would allow that except those that changed the function of the keys based on control groupings or context.
Overall, the game was not ground-breaking, but it was competent. Story line was so-so at best. The biggest negative for me was the fact that it doesn't have user controlled SAVE capability. The game self-saves at checkpoints. That wasn't a terrible downside, but it was annoying especially when fighting the level bosses which sometimes required several restarts after getting almost all the way through. I played on the normal difficulty setting which was only moderately challenging.
I thought the game was on the short side, although that's not particularly uncommon these days. I don't consider the gore to be a factor worth mentioning. If you want a competent traditional FPS with fairly modern (although not bleeding edge) visuals this is not a bad game. It's a perfect candidate for bargain hunting since it can be had NEW for substantially less than the price listed on the main product page.
Description of Soldier Of Fortune: PaybackRelive history's most unforgiving battlefields!

When a routine mission goes horribly wrong, you find yourself battling aninsidious enemy that knows no boundaries. It?s up to you to terminate anextremist plot aimed at throwing the world into global chaos. Only anunderground gun-for-hire can succeed in a war this dirty! The saga continueswith the organization known as the shop where players take on the role of ahired mercenary. Players will experience all the thrills and dangers ofmercenary combat blasting through high intensity combat situations in theworld?s most dangerous hotspots in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and EasternEurope. Using any means necessary, players will need to uncover a complex plotand defeat an extremist organization determined to throw the world into globalconflict. Failure is not an option.
 - Built to harness the power of next generation- Featuring an incredibly realistic modeling system allowing for accurate hit detection and detailed damage modeling. Enemies will not only react to the specific area they've been hit but also to the power of the weapon they've been hit with.
- One of the most lethal collections of weapons ever assembled - Over 30 of the baddest weapons including sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, projectile explosives, weapons attachments and futuristic prototype weapons.
- The world's most dangerous hotspots- Players will find themselves thrown into authentic mercenary situations in real world hotspots around the globe. Survive and ambush and rescue a diplomat, infiltrate a terrorist organization, go on a search and destroy mission and much more.
- Enemies around every corner
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