The majority of Payback is fairly easy to beat. Even the terrorists want to put the Havok engine to work by having their limbs go flying. Enemies run straight at you (and sometimes past you) without firing an enemy coming up from behind will attempt a melee attack rather than just cap you and these idiots turn and run back towards a grenade. If terrorists were really like their counterparts in Soldier of Fortune: Payback, then we would have nothing to fear. After a while the poor AI and cheap shots you take from enemies become too much. Despite being a fairly short single-player game (5-7 hours on normal difficulty), the high level of violence isn't enough to keep Payback interesting from start to finish.
That giddy fun doesn't hold up in the long run. I can't deny that there are many times I was laughing out loud. There are some guns so powerful that you can actually send bodies flinging sideways until they bounce of trees or buildings. There is something sadistic, but oddly pleasing, about blowing off limbs. This is the equivalent of the recent footage from the new Rambo movie.
Arms and legs blow off, heads explode like watermelons at a Gallagher concert - it's like a slasher flick with bullets. The fun comes in performing vivisections on every enemy on screen. That being said, there are few moments where my heart rate jumped. Though you are often surrounded by enemies (many of whom are often difficult to see), it never translates to intensity. To its credit, Soldier of Fortune: Payback is fun in certain moments. But, this is a shooter, so a story is often seen as a nice bonus. The story, like the on-screen button prompts and pre-game menus, is second-rate. All that matters is you have a moral justification for dissecting terrorists and guerillas with the insanely powerful bullets from your guns.
That's really about as deep as the story gets. In Payback, you play as a mercenary who has been double-crossed. In every other way it is an average shooter. But it is, unfortunately, only the excessive brutality that stands out for Payback. What remains is the gore - and for that, developer Cauldron went wonderfully over the top.
#SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 1 MODS SOFTWARE#
Be warned: Raven Software had nothing to do with this title and it shows in almost every area. Those who fondly remember Raven Software's first-person shooter may be excited to give Soldier of Fortune: Payback a try.
#SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 1 MODS PC#
The first two Soldier of Fortune titles on PC were excellent (and gory) shooters.
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