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  Soldier of Fortune (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter game created by Raven Software and published by Activision on March 27, 2000 for personal computers.
Soldier of Fortune was developed to be based on the Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Soldier of Fortune was one of the first "real-world" first-person shooters, with modern weapons and human opponents, as opposed to more fantasy/sci-fi oriented games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(computer_game)   (607 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Soldier of Fortune is another term for a professional mercenary.
Soldier of Fortune (magazine), a publication purportedly aimed at this demographic
Soldier of Fortune, Inc., a 1997-1998 television show (later "Special Ops Force")
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune   (176 words)

  
 Blue's News: Activision and Raven Software Return to the World of Covert Operations with the Development of Soldier of ...
Soldier of Fortune is rated MATURE (17 and above) for animated blood and violence by the ESRB.
Soldier of Fortune 2 brings unparalleled detail to PC gaming with vivid damage modeling and animations, accurate reproductions of actual weapons and missions taken from international hotspots including Prague, Colombia, Hong Kong and Kamchatka.
Soldier of Fortune 2 will ship with a violence lock that enables players to filter out most of the mature graphics and audio in the game.
www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=135   (687 words)

  
 Apple - Games - Soldier of Fortune II
As you steady your arm, your attention is broken by a sudden outbreak of gunfire and the shrill scream of a bullet as it rockets past your head.
MacPlay’s Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix is an exhilarating new Mac OS X-only game that allows you to step into the shoes of a mercenary.
Soldier of Fortune II places you in the role of John Mullins, a professional mercenary with a distinguished career in the Army’s Special Forces.
www.apple.com /games/articles/2002/07/sof2   (1154 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Soldier of Fortune Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The reasons for our eternal discord are many, though it can be said that most soldiers raise a weapon out of allegiance to their country or a belief in a religious or political ideal.
Called mercenaries, these soldiers of fortune enter battle with one eye in their gun scope and another on the final reward.
The title and action are borrowed from the pages of the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine, a pro-military, pro-U.S. defense editorial voice dedicated to reporting on armed hostilities and intelligence operations around the world.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=sof   (1107 words)

  
 Gaming Illustrated - Soldier of Fortune 2 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But, Soldier of Fortune is THE game for all those of you who like to 'lock n load', as it were, people who can strip and re-build an M16 in under a second.
This is the sequel to the highly popular Soldier of Fortune, a game more famous for its real guns, violence and blood than the game itself.
Soldier of Fortune 2 picks up where the last one left off, you play as John Mullins, member of the Soldiers of Fortune, a secret anti-terrorist group, and owner of a stunning mustache.
www.gamingillustrated.com /sof2.php   (816 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune for Linux | Linux Journal
Looking at the Soldier of Fortune box, I was initially struck by the number of warning labels visible, each proclaiming such things as ``Violent Subject Matter'' and ``Animated Blood and Gore''.
Soldier of Fortune takes you on a series of missions against this organization and its leader to recover or destroy the nukes before they can be used against the world.
Soldier of Fortune actually runs on a slightly hacked version of the Quake II engine, and you can feel some of that old blockiness in the game environment.
www2.linuxjournal.com /article/4381   (1354 words)

  
 U.S. Bounty Hunter on Trial in Afghanistan
This article is courtesy of Soldier of Fortune, a military/adventure publication.
The badlands of Afghanistan have become a magnet for adventure-seeking "soldiers of fortune," private contractors, self-proclaimed counter-terrorism experts, and/or security guards.
Bennett was reported by the Fayetteville Observer to have been a soldier in the 82d Airborne Divison, a friend of Idema's who asked to come along.
www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0804_Idema,00.html   (3519 words)

  
 UGO.com Games - Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Had Soldier of Fortune come before the fighter, the ESRB would have probably quit their jobs to sell seeds door to door, just to avoid trying to rate it with a simple, one word description.
They are now nearing release of their next work, Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix, to swarms of hungry fans.
Soldier of Fortune 2 uses the Quake 3: Team Arena engine for most of its graphics, and boasts a highly superior version to its original character modeling engine, dubbed Ghoul 2.
www.ugo.com /channels/games/features/soldieroffortune2   (1400 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune - PC Game Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Soldier of Fortune : Let the carnage commence...
Soldier of Fortune, on first impressions is very much like the standard Quake/Doom/Duke Nukem type game (and being based on the dated-but-still-good Quake 2 engine, that is probabally not surprising).....
Soldier of fortune is an excellent first person shooter.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /pc-game/soldier-of-fortune   (274 words)

  
 Featuring Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix Review at ActionTrip
However, even though Raven's work is most deserving of praise, you might say that Soldier of Fortune 2 comes in a very inopportune time for the gaming industry.
Soldier of Fortune 2 is high on polycounts and higher on gore - a deadly combination for ratings boards I'd say.
He is given an assignment by a top-secret US government agency to track down the origins of a deadly virus, produced for the sole purpose of causing massive destruction on enemy troops and civilians.
www.actiontrip.com /reviews/soldieroffortune2doublehelix.phtml   (1724 words)

  
 Soldier-of-Fortune.com - Your first stop for official Soldier of Fortune news, maps, walkthroughs, interviews, files, ...
Based on the popular mercenary magazine of the same name, Soldier of Fortune is a hard-core action first-person shooter, based on a heavily modified Quake II engine, featuring Raven’s own state-of-the-art GHOUL rendering system.
Soldier of Fortune immerses the player in a fast-paced, story-driven roller coaster ride, from beginning to end.
Soldier of Fortune™ and any associated characters are ® ™ Raven Software &/or Activision, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
www.soldier-of-fortune.com   (182 words)

  
 Soldier Of Fortune Cheat Codes - Gameaholic dot Com
These are all commands accessable through the Soldier of Fortune console.
Once you have started Soldier of Fortune with the proper paramenters, you will be able to access the console by pressing the ~ key.
If you are looking for cheats and other commands in Soldier of Fortune Demo, click here for an extensive SoF demo console guide.
www.gameaholic.com /games/soldieroffortune/console   (235 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Features - "Post Mortem: Raven Software's Soldier of Fortune" [09.27.00]
The development of Soldier of Fortune was rife with questions and uncertainties right from the very beginning.
As soon as we got the Soldier of Fortune license, though, the groundwork for the game immediately began to fall into place.
In order to achieve a strong sense of realism, we decided to talk to a published author about the script and also to a real-life "military consultant" about how a soldier of fortune truly lives his life.
www.gamasutra.com /features/20000927/biessman_01.htm   (703 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Soldier of Fortune: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Soldier of Fortune is a conversion of an 18-certificate PC game infamous for its politics and excessively violent nature, a first-person shooter straight out of the Quake II school.
When Soldier of Fortune first hit the PC; the unabashed graphic violence was a large issue with gamers and non gamers alike.
Soldier of Fortune for the Dreamcast is the best first person shooter I have ever played.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004U4A1?v=glance   (1125 words)

  
 IGN: Soldier of Fortune Review
Though I'm not a fan of playing first person shooters on consoles, Soldier of Fortune is a solid Dreamcast title that, despite having a few nagging problems with controls and loading problems, delivers good bloody action...
When Activision released the PC version Soldier of Fortune, they released two editions: a "kids" version with no blood and chunks, and the uncensored bloody version that would make a vampire reel in disgust.
Soldier of Fortune hits a few bumps in the road when it comes to gameplay, but the overall experience is very good.
dreamcast.ign.com /articles/164/164594p1.html   (1402 words)

  
 IGN: Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
Soldier of Fortune II brings to gaming a vivid damage modeling and animation system for body destruction.
Level design in Soldier of Fortune II is flexible enough to allow for multiple styles of play.
Soldier of Fortune II Announced for OS X - June 10, 2002
mac.ign.com /objects/482/482840.html   (374 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Soldier of Fortune: PC & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Soldier of Fortune steers the first-person shooter genre away from the supernatural weaponry of Unreal Tournament and Quake 3, and towards the realistic tactical combat of Rainbow Six and SWAT 3.
Soldier of Fortune's single-player story line exceeds genre standards and rivals Valve's classic Half-Life for depth and excitement.
Soldier of Fortune uses a heavily modified version of id Software's Quake 2's 3-D engine, and the results are impressively realistic--perhaps even too realistic.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TBBY   (708 words)

  
 IMG Review: Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
The tactical action shooter Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix (SoF2) is the Quake 3 Engine-based sequel that brings the exploits of military/anti-terror expert John Mullins to the Mac for the first time.
Depending on your take on current events, Soldier of Fortune 2 is either very timely or totally inappropriate considering what is happening across the world these days.
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix brings a significant number of innovations to the Quake 3-based shooter space.
www.insidemacgames.com /reviews/view.php?ID=285   (582 words)

  
 Planet SoldierOfFortune Forums
You must have a valid installation of Soldier of Fortune Gold for the patch to install.
Soldier of Fortune includes links to the WON website in the Start Menu.
WONswap may be uninstalled if it is only being used for Soldier of Fortune.
www.forumplanet.com /PlanetSoldierOfFortune/topic.asp?fid=2866&tid=326691&p=1   (1464 words)

  
 IGN: Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune Interview - December 2, 1999
A recent decision put Soldier of Fortune among the ranks of Debbie Does Dallas in British Columbia.
New Soldier Of Fortune Screenshots - December 16, 1999
pc.ign.com /objects/012/012287.html   (699 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune Review
For better or for worse, Soldier of Fortune brings us 2 or 3 steps closer to the graphic reality of battle.
There were bullets slicing cleanly through the water, entering and exiting submerged soldiers as if they were nothing but sheets of paper.
Clearly it's not a game you'd buy for your 7 year old brother or son, but for those of us who are mature enough to handle it, Soldier of Fortune is fantastic.
firingsquad.com /games/soldieroffortune   (460 words)

  
 Hispanic Magazine.com - December 2003 - Cover Story
He is what’s referred to in the military as a “soldier’s soldier”—an officer who is capable of shouldering enormous responsibilities while never losing sight of the basic needs of the men and women he commands.
When I became a soldier, the ethics and the value system of the military profession fit almost perfectly with that ethic.
“It was pretty exciting to see all of those great young soldiers with all of our leadership present to understand the tremendous power that comes from the diversity of American forces,” he recalls of the gathering.
www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2003/dec/CoverStory   (1672 words)

  
 Raven Games : Soldier of Fortune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You're the world's deadliest Soldier of Fortune and your mission is clear: survive.
Track your prey across the globe in a series of secret missions to take down a fanatical terrorist organization...
Hollywood motion-capture animation by House of Moves adds realism and intensifies the visual impact.
www.ravensoft.com /soldier.html   (245 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Review - Xbox
As far as sequels go, Soldier of Fortune II didn’t change the way we play first-person shooters or revolutionize the genre, but as a PC release it was a step up in the series in every respect.
Soldier of Fortune has always been about flying limbs and blood-splattering fun and you’ll find that here--although it’s hardly what you might call realistic.
Soldier of Fortune II does exactly that by allowing gamers to set up a System Link multiplayer challenge using multiple Xbox consoles.
xbox.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r18523.htm   (2063 words)

  
 IGN: Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Preview
Soldier of Fortune II Hands-On We put our hands on The Shop and got inserted deep into a game without Michael Clarke Duncan.
Like Jedi before it, Soldier of Fortune II isn't afraid of dropping players into highly realized environments and then pitting them against handfuls of foes at one time.
Or maybe he saw Jedi Outcast as a "been there, done that" endeavor, while SoF II would at last afford him the opportunity to string together fifty instances of the "F" word into a long and incoherent but deceptively clever insult.
pc.ign.com /articles/358/358052p1.html   (1377 words)

  
 The Adrenaline Vault | Velocity Servers | Demos | Soldier of Fortune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Based on the popular magazine of the same name, Soldier of Fortune delivers the most realistic, covert-operative themed shooter ever created.
Soldier of Fortune is the all-new, explosive first-person shooter created by Raven Software.
Like a blockbuster action-thriller, Soldier of Fortune plunges players into the secret and deadly world of the modern-day gun-for-hire via dozens of real-to-life missions spanning five continents and innovative multiplayer modes.
www.avault.com /pcrl/demo_temp.asp?game=sof   (74 words)

  
 Xbox.com | Soldier of Fortune II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix ™ is the explosive follow-up to the acclaimed first-person action game Soldier of Fortune.
Armed with this lethal assortment of hardware, you can tackle a wide range of missions, including hostage rescue, intelligence gathering, and search-and-destroy operations.
You can also encounter up to 10 other warriors in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix’s multiplayer modes via Xbox Live.
www.xbox.com /en-us/soldieroffortune2   (82 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Multiplayer Test demo - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Multiplayer Test demo
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix is the ultra-realistic sequel to the ground-breaking hit from Raven Software.
Based on the popular military-enthusiast magazine, Soldier of Fortune 2 offers the most realistic covert-operative FPS experience ever.
www.download.com /Soldier-of-Fortune-II-Double-Helix-Multiplayer-Test-demo/3000-7452_4-10246057.html   (212 words)

  
 Soldier of fortune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the week I waited in Dubai, a few dozen soldiers, mostly American, lost their lives in rebel attacks.
The hotel in which I would have stayed, and indeed on whose roof the radio station I was buying had its transmitters, had gaping holes in the walls.
In this last week, a sombre ceremony counts the 2,000th American soldier to be killed in Iraq since the war of liberation began.
web.mid-day.com /columns/anish_trivedi/2005/october/122214.htm   (646 words)

  
 Soldier of Fortune Platinum Edition Review - PC
Soldier of Fortune (Platinum) is a typical first person shooter.
You’re a soldier of fortune who is on a mission to either retrieve or destroy terrorists and their nuclear weapons before they can be used.
Like wise C-4 was useless in Soldier of Fortune unless you’re using it as a grenade.
pc.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r19193.htm   (892 words)

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