It's always fun to shoot limbs off.

User Rating: 6.5 | Soldier of Fortune: Payback PS3
Picked this game up for $5.00 and think I got my monies worth.

As background, I was a fan of the original game on the PC, didn't think that much of the sequel and thought even less of the PS2 version.

The only expectation I had for this game was that I could shoot peoples limbs and heads off. I wasn't asking for much.

I played the game to the end and I liked it for the most part.

I probably finished it because it was fairly easy and every now and then it's nice to be able to finish a game and not get stuck at some point and give up.

The game is pretty short, there are 14 missions and there are checkpoints that save at frequent intervals. It's not the kind of game where you play, die and then have to backtrack a long distance.

Each level consists of you trying to kill some guy at the end and its pretty weak. You just shoot the guy about a hundred times or sometimes you can go cheap, corner the guy and just knife him to death.

There are some graphic glitches. A little bit of slowdown, nothing really horrible and sometimes you'll see limbs sticking out of the ground spinning around. However my saves never got corrupted and nothing stopped me from finishing the game.

Once you finish it, there's really no reason to go back and play the single player, unless you just want to shoot people to pieces. There's nothing to unlock besides the missions.

As of late February 2011, the game still supports online multi-player but you may have trouble finding many opponents. On the plus side, I'm gonna bet no one is hacking this game.

I didn't pay much for it, I had fun and I got to shoot people's heads and limbs off. I can't really complain about it.