So I must confess, the only reason I picked up this game was because Best Buy had it on sale for $10 and it came with a free copy of the original Soldier of Fortune. The original SOF was ‘edgy’ because you could blow enemies apart using the right weapons. The series took a hit with the lackluster Double Helix. With the release of a new Rambo flick and the controversy over Blackwater, Activision figured it was the perfect time to capitalize on FPS games about hardcore mercenaries and warzones. This time however, instead of series regular Raven doing the development, Activision handed production duties to studio Cauldron HQ, makers of classics such as Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011, Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010, Jurassic: The Hunted and not one, but TWO first person shooters based on the civil war! With no less than the makers of crappy budget Wii titles and generic Civil War FPS games, then no doubt SOF would be on its way to becoming the biggest FPS franchise ever right? Well, lets see…

You play as a generic merc who gets betrayed by his partner, and now you’re out for revenge, hence the ‘payback’. You travel around the world battling generic looking enemies. For the duration of the game, you’re stuck memorizing patterns in pre-scripted sequences of trial-and-error. The game’s artificial intelligence comes in one of two varieties: fucking moronic (the enemy runs into your live grenades and bullets) or irritatingly cheap (the enemy spawns behind you and kills you with a few well placed cheap shots). Either way, the enemies exist only to test out the game’s dismemberment and goofy havok physics systems, which by the way, are the game’s only high spots. The game’s weapons can tear off limbs and make heads explode (thereby proving the theory that human beings are no more than animated pressurized sacks of blood), while grenades and shotguns make them fly off in the distance like Air Jordan wishes he could. While it’s fun at first, it eventually becomes boring, and since multiplayer sucks, you’ll want to turn this crapfest off and play some Call of Duty, which coincidentally, also happens to be published by Activision.

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