soldier of fortune returns to monitors the worlds over and we aint too happy :( *Contains 1 spoiler!*
You play the role of a mercenary who seeks revenge for having his partner turn on him, after being coerced by wealthy underground individuals. this leads to a series of levels that take you on a global game of cat and mouse.
The story to the untrained eye sems solid. However it tangents so much you practically ignore why you started all this in the first place.
Anyhow this game is beautiful visually and people with a mid range system will love it on directX 10 compatible PC's. The controls are fairly standard so no need to sit over a manual trying to find "crouch". and the weapon customization you get to play around with before every third level is crisp and simple. However, thats all the game has going for it. The AI for your standard enemies is fairly easy to outwit consisting of the need to get up close and pistol whip you while throwing down supresive fire.
The boss AI on the otherhand is far too clever for its own good. and relies on many cheap tactics such as the ability to hit you in the most awkward angles imaginable, spamming powerful attacks when u get to close, and not going down after taking what logic would dicate to be a killing bow.
*spoiler alert*
my case in point being the younger of the two irish brothers. i attempted to rush him and reduce his skull to nothing using a shotgun. to try and render his greande launcher ineffective. i got four shots to the face at point blank off before of all things he fires his gun killing us both. now this would seem to make sense if not for the fact that his head was a piece of bone attached to a body at this point.
finally the allied AI is exceptionally stupid as it gives you at most 1 warning that it needs help before it dies. It also has a bad habit of running off ahead of you while your busy dealing with 6 or seven guys close enough to kill you both.
multiplayer is thankfully 100% dead.
all in all i would probably torrent this game if you MUST have it, or wish to try it out. so on the whole it recieves a 6 out of 10
lesson from this game: smarter AI makes players happy campers :).