Soldier of Fortune 2. A Forgotten Masterpiece.

Played it when it first came out and after checking it out recently, I think it still holds up quite well. It's one of the most violent shooters of all time; Blood, Broken body parts, Screams, Big explosions, Terrifying dying animations and so on. Combine that with excellent gunplay, variety of different levels (ranging from streets to jungles) and a compelling plot and you get Soldier of Fortune 2. The series is forgotten and there wasn't any new one after SOF 3, which I think wasn't as good as the second one (never played the third one but didn't hear praise either). Would love to have a new one in this era when Shooters are slowly going back to their roots.

Have you played this game? If yes, then do you want the series to continue? If not then, it's highly recommended for any Shooter fan.

I quite liked it. I mean, I know everybody goes on about how gross it is, but I thought it was a legit fun FPS.

Whenever I think of this game, I think of my childhood self being wowed by the fact you were able to shoot the limbs off people.

Fun times they were!

Soldier of Fortune 3. Now there's a forgotten game. People hardly know that game even exists !

Yeah, but I very much enjoyed Soldier of Fortune 2. I even liked the first one but the second is just a way better shooter overall.

Both games had pretty insane gore for their times. But the second one even had grass technology where the grass would sway in the wind. Still remember seeing that. Mind = blown.

Nowadays I'm looking at hundreds of trees swaying in the distance in The Witcher 3 as just a normal occurrence in a game.

what year is it from?

SWAT 4. Now that's a forgotten masterpiece

I was about to say the same thing.

I used to love this game, dissecting people with guns never got old.

I remember in the first game blowing the guys legs off with a shotgun while he pissed in the urinal, for my younger self at the time that gave me quite a laugh.

Loved that game

Would spend hours just blowing people to bits

Soldier of Fortune 2 is pretty good, don't know about masterpiece, and don't need a sequel.

Do something new or more of a spiritual successor.

Killing Floor 2's gore system was inspired by Soldier of Fortune it would be awesome if Rising Storm 2 Vietnam gets the gore system.

I'm revisiting SWAT 4 right now along with Deus Ex. Excellent games.

Do you recommend Soldier of Fortune 3? I didn't play it. Is it as good as the second one?

Yeah, I heard them mentioning that. KF 2 has easily the best gore system I've ever seen in a shooter (if not every game).

I remember I bought this game solely cause of the violence and it didint disappoint.

Amazing game! Loves performing shotgun surgery

Good times in those games.

Soldier of Fortune 2 was a brilliant game. I remember be wowed by the gore and how pissed of my mum was at me playing it (I was rather young)

Good series.

Only played the original Soldier of Fortune game many years back (indeed I haven't though of it for a while), remember blasting people in the guts and watching their entrails spill out while they tossing around on the ground writhing in pain... brutal shit, heard they catered to the interests of overprotective mama bears and toned down the violence in later games, is that true? This certainly doesn't look as violent as the first game.

Meh, even through nostalgia glasses i still vividly remember those awful stealth sections.

Technologically this game was dope. As a game, it was all over the place.

Raven did make a masterpiece game back in the day, but it wasn't called Soldier Of Fortune.

It was called Jedi Outcast.

raven software now work on COD multilplayer as they dont make games anymore. activision ruined them

Nice to read, so many positive comments.

Yeah, that's sucks. COD ruins everything it touches.

I tought that the first one was better but on the other hand I played SOF 2 more. Awesome games indeed.

Never got too far in this game, only a little after a helicopter truck chase level. I thought the first game was better, if only because the bloody dismemberment was such a novelty at the time. That butcher level in the first game was truly disturbing...

One of the best games when using grenades... something satisfying about someone turning into meat and blood and chunks up the walls and on the ceiling.

Why has no other game tried to copy it?

I didn't like the first one so I never tried the second.

Played a lot of MP in that game... Loved to look at my head shots and examine up close the wound.

Nah, gamers chose to play COD, Acti just gives them what they want.

It's what Bethesda should incorporate in Fallout 4

Like if you hit someone in the face with a shotgun blast in VATS from 10-15 yards away, it rips off half their face instead of blowing off their entire head.

My buddies and I played SOF MP in college for about 2 years. Played in a great community called Quakeshit. Did some clan stuff as well. Was a great game for a while. That and Wolfenstien MP got me through college!

Delta Force, No One Lives Forever, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Star Wars Republic Commando, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, SWAT4 ..... all are forgotten masterpieces.

@Cloud_imperium:

I don't really remember but I think I really liked the first and I played the second but I'm not sure if I finished both. For sure a great game back in the past. The mp was interesting too I remember I wanted to play SOF2 mp but I was playing MOHAA instead.

This.

Also like someone else mentioned above Soldier of Fortune series went on with a new entry and it was mostly shit.

@Cloud_imperium:

Can't say I've ever played 3. It was made by a different studio and it was made in a too short time. Critics didn't really like it. Doubt many people ever bought the game, and less even played it.

I also miss its developers, Raven Software - top notch devs and a seal of quality back in the day. Now they're relegated to making DLC for CoD. Btw SOF 2 is the very reason why using a shotgun in Resident Evil 4 onwards has been so spineless and devoid of power with just one big hitbox. To me there was nothing as satisfying as hearing the tissue being torn down as you blew somebody's head off.

I'm sticking out with Thief 2 currently. Let's see if I can come around to it. I'm kind of tired with 'modern' games. BUT THE WITCHER 3 WONT END!

Played this on the original Xbox. I remember feeling like a badass because it was R18 but the video store guy still let me rent it at 14 years old :P.

I remember a really cool feature where you could load random single player maps with your own custom settings?

Have you played The Dark Project? All 3 games come together as trilogy. First one has better plot and atmosphere than Thief 2... But Thief 2 has bigger and better levels.

I'm only playing Thief 2. Been a long time since I've played an 'old' game so its definitely requiring some 'getting used to'. I'll see if I get around to playing all of them.

@FrozenLiquid: I have the first one on Dreamcast, LOL.

I loved it best in the series but apparently many people hate it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50kFDnb_gRg&spfreload=10

Thanks for bringing up SoF & SWAT, great gaming memories !!

Yeah man, if anything: It's Raven that has been forgotten. Not this game.

They made some true classics like Jedi Knight, Soldier of Fortune and RTCW. But because their last two games failed to meet sales expectations, Activision shrunk down the studio a lot and they only thing they are allowed to make anymore is maps for the COD game Activision wants to put out every year... Ugh.

Thought the thread was referring to a long forgotten game, Soldiers of Fortune aka The Order 1886

This game is not actually "Soldiers of Fortune" but Chaos Engine. Maybe it was renamed for the Genesis but that's not its original name. I played it over 20 years ago on Amiga and I revisited it again like 10 years ago - held up very well.

Have you played it @freedomfreak @jg4xchamp ???

@Salt_The_Fries:

I was unaware of that. I'll have to read about it. This game was released on snes and genesis. Played it last week and remembered it--I had completely forgotten it. Then I'm thinking to myself, "geez, this looks just like that ps4 game."

@Salt_The_Fries: Can't say I have. It looks alright though.

I see you are US-based, so that's why there is this difference in names.

It was first released for the Commodore Amiga, with a version available for AGA Amigas, and later ported to MS-DOS, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari ST, Amiga CD32, RISC OS and Sega Mega Drive platforms. In the SNES and Sega versions, the character The Preacher had his clerical collar removed and was renamed The Scientist. The U.S. versions of these two ports were retitled Soldiers of Fortune.

It was the second game for the RtCW clan I was in, must have put a god couple of hundred hours into it.

It replaced Kingpin when that ultimately died.

YES OP YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

It truly is a masterpiece. I loved the multiplayer, probably best corridor fps mulitplayer ever imo.

One of the best fps's for sure.