It was also interesting to see that during our playtest each enemy exhibited not only different levels of Al (the LICH system apparently), but different grades of strength and endurance too. The variety of enemies is equally diverse, ranging from coke-addled drug lords to terrorists (sorry, 'bad guys’), as well as America’s erstwhile foe, the Russian soldier. There are also some snazzy Q3 Arena-powered environmental effects like snow and rain, and some very authentic-looking mist and fog. Still, the Colombia levels offered their fair share of titillation with amazing jungle landscapes (designed using the TORR terrain system) featuring fantastic swaying grass and superb foliage that you can use as cover. Jordan? Exotic? We asked if she ever got her wobblers out at all, but nobody seemed to understand, least of all John who slipped into one of his 1,000-yard stares. The James Bond-esque race against time encompasses ten exotic locations including Colombia, Prague, Kamchatka, Hong Kong and Jordan. The result, rather surprisingly then, is an all-action thriller where you must destroy a group of bio-terrorists before they can unleash a deadly virus and annihilate humanity as we know it. I gave some ideas of real world places that I’ve been and places that we have operated, what they were like and what kind of things we faced." "I’ve been on this project from the start and I helped develop the scenario. Whereas John came in relatively late on during the development of the original Soldier Of Fortune and didn’t get to influence design as much as he would have liked, the situation for SOF2 has been different. The OICW carries an onboard computer that actually identifies potential threats by flashing up a warning message in the sight saying 'hostile’, or in the case of General Franks, 'bad guy' Jordan'S Digital Thrills
For those of you who aren’t Guns&Ammo fibers, this real-life prototype pon has, according to Mr Mullins, been in development for 15 years but is not yet being used by the US militaryīecause of technical problems. The weapons in the game are all based on guns that are in use or you mid encounter on a mission - AK 47s, AK74s, RPG 7s and various other pons that the enemy might have."Īlas, if you find it difficult to get hold of these particular guns to bark upon your real-life killing e, you’ll find it nigh-on impossible ing your hands on SOF2's star pon, the OICW, or Objective try Combat Weapon. There aren’t any proton guns - or whatever the hell it was in the first game. You’re not going to slap around a 50-calibre machine-gun - not unless you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger.
John Mullins, an ex-Green Beret I with 20 years service to his name, and whose exploits the game is looselyīased upon, believes realism is where Soldier of Fortune 2 wins out over its contemporaries: "We’ve tried to keep it as realistic as possible.
When it’s finished it will be so difficult to differentiate between the game and real life that people will run out their homes and shoot each other in the head the moment they’ve finished playing it. A game, like a film or even a book, may trigger an action in an already disturbed mind, but it’s certainly not the cause.Īnd so we come to the evil FPS I known as Soldier Of Fortune 2. On one side you’ve got those who enjoy gaming and the escapism it offers, and on the other side there are those who rarely play or understand them yet are quick to cite them as the reasons behind mass shootings and general moral decay. It may be crass to draw comparisons, but videogaming presents a similar cultural divide. OK, the acts of terrorism we all witnessed last September were completely deplorable and totally unjustifiable, but this current situation is also partly to do with the fact that two totally different cultures have little or absolutely no understanding of each other. Get a grip George - it’s not bloody Lord Of The Rings. Meanwhile, President George W Bush is trying to convince the world that this is a war of good against evil. Has anyone noticed that in press conferences the United States’ General Tommy Franks refers to al-Qaeda terrorists as 'The Bad Guys’? Why not just use the term terrorist? Maybe it’s a subtle reminder to us civilians that these people are bad because, after all, it’s easy to forget that flying passenger jets into skyscrapers and thereby killing thousands of innocent people in the process is actually wrong.
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