Bet on Soldier has a pretty interesting premise that it never lives up to. It's pretty much just awful. The gameplay will immediately strike you as 'not bad', but you're going to have to put up with dumb AI, disappointing weapons, and a lot of bugs if you want to try and enjoy that. The boss fights against the enemy B.O.S. players, theoretically the main point of the game, are completely lacklustre. There's a time limit so even if you wanted a complex battle, it wouldn't last more than a minute anyway, and it's just a case of blasting the crap out of your opponent until they're down. The way armour breaks off is interesting, and I'll give it credit for that, but it's one of the exceedingly rare good points. Due to the way you can resupply in the middle of the level and just buy new ammunition, grenades and armour, you're pretty much invincible, even against the armoured walkers - which supposedly have a weak point, but are so easy to take down by simply pummelling them with fire there's no incentive to find it. The friendly AI is abysmal, and on the levels where you have to keep someone alive, forget about it - my last straw in the game was escorting an engineer through a horrifically designed level, only to stray too close to the invisible trigger that started a B.O.S. fight. That, of course, moved me into the new area to fight one on one with the enemy character, abandoning the engineer with no way back to him even after the battle was won, resulting in a lost level when the regular enemies killed him with no way to save him.
Just don't bother. To top it off, it ships with the infamous Starforce copy protection, which is always a negative.
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