Why I buy this one ?
- Built to harness the power of next generation- Featuring an incredibly realistic modeling system allowing for accurate hit detection and detailed damage modeling. Enemies will not only react to the specific area they've been hit but also to the power of the weapon they've been hit with.
- One of the most lethal collections of weapons ever assembled - Over 30 of the baddest weapons including sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, projectile explosives, weapons attachments and futuristic prototype weapons.
- The world's most dangerous hotspots- Players will find themselves thrown into authentic mercenary situations in real world hotspots around the globe. Survive and ambush and rescue a diplomat, infiltrate a terrorist organization, go on a search and destroy mission and much more.
- Enemies around every corner- High intensity combat situations where players will need to take down over 15 unique enemies including terrorists, mobsters, insurgents, enemy soldiers and more.
- Online multiplayer- Play your favorite individual and team based online modes including death match, team death match, elimination, team elimination, capture the flag and demolition. Additional online options include maps tuned specifically for multiplayer action, and persistent stat tracking.

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What our customer's say!

"why all the bad reviews???", I really liked this game. I am working my way though it for the 3rd time. Though I have never played any of the other SOF games... I really like this one -alot of fun.

"Surprise", The idea is good, but execution is a little lacking. Plan on getting killed a lot; you pretty much have to play and keep trying different things to get through each level. The graphics are not the best, only passable and the plot keeps you guessing to the surprise ending.

"Ooh That Smell", I started gaming in 1982-3 on a 64K Apple 2+ and started playing FPS with the very first Castle Wolfenstein and I have played FPS and RPG games continually since then. Yup, I am an old guy. I played the first two versions of this game and I found Soldier of Fortune one to be maybe worthy of 2.5 stars. The second version was much better maybe a 3.5-4 star game. It was a better game in every sense than the first. This new title "Payback" is appropriate... I really want my money back. This is one of the worst games I have played in 25 years of gaming. The word sucks shows up a lot in game reviews. This game warrants a rating of "perfect vacuum causing the complete implosion of the universe and the ending of time". I didn't even offer to give this game away. I was embarrassed to even own it. Its been gone and off my PC for months and my computer is still ticked off at me.

"SOF Payback Review", This game is just average. It has a lot of techinical problems which distracts from playing the game. There is video garbage flashing on the screen while playing, making it hard to recognize the guys shooting at you and their location. This game will not play on Vista, but seams ok on XP. The fire fights are not bad, but the AI is just average. I would give it about 60 out of a 100 score.

"Far from the greatest", AI is horrible and overall it was not the greatest of games. I'd wait till it is in the 10 dollar bin.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Activision BUDGET says it all", What the heck is this crap? This is NOT even worth of soldier of fortune branding, but thats what you get when you have BUDGET in the production company. Maybe if they'd have stayed with Raven it would have been half decent.
But I still tried it anyway, thankfully I got it in the new/used section for $19 bucks instead of $40, and I STRONGLY suggest you do the same, IF you ABSOLUTELY MUST try this waste of code.
Yeah its fun to see the blood, but it gets old after the same baddie model shows up every third enemy. at least the rag doll physics were updated, but the dismemberment seems to have been toned down. Its too easy to blow off a leg, and in double helix, at least you still shoot of the foot or hand of the dismembered appendange, and remeber shooting the head bit by bit till the brain was out then, pop, it exploded on the next round? Nope, no more, a head shot turns the next into a crater from the chin up, no brain. which is about what I can say for the idiot who approved this game for release.
Two thumbs down and a third if I had another hand.
Save the cash and buy Crysis or maybe COD 4.

"A little outdated but a good follow up", I played the original game and was astounded by the gruesome effects such as blowing off someone's arm, leg or even head! It was awesome in the 90's. But with this new installment, the graphics seem a bit outdated and it's pretty linear.

I agree that it is definately overpriced.

It needs to give you a prebrief of each mission before you go in so you can select the proper weapons for that mission. You just get dropped into a mission and then the girl explains what you're up against. But..Somewhere in the map, you usually find a cool weapon that will be needed to do well in the mission.

Enemy AI is spotty. You sneak up on a 3 man team and peek around a corner. They see you immediately from far away. They see you very easily but they blend in pretty good to the landscape so you take damage from far away and can't see their location. Good thing it takes a lot to kill you.

The saving points for this game is the return of gore! Crouch down behind a truck and take out their ankles. They jump around and then you can pick them off. Also, a crotch shot is hilarious.

Once you finish a mission, new weapons are available in the next mission setup. You can also upgrade/modify your weapons.

PLEASE PLEASE stop putting escort missions in these games where you have to protect a moron who walks right into enemy fire!! This was one negative point.

Also Vista has issues with this game that makes it crash hard and fast. The support at the website has a working patch and it runs much smoother after the patch is installed. It's also a very easy to istall patch.

So I give it 3 ot of 5. Better than average but has a few issues.

Enjoy!

"Underrated", This game is fun to play, sure it has a few bugs but as far as fun factor, its just that Fun. I would reccommend to anyone, it has pretty good graphics. There is a few downsides tho, like no chat button is a pretty big one. O well i like it and there is allways someone online to play with. Dont let the bad reviews fool you, this game is fun bottom line!

"Will you like this game? It depends.", I had a lot of fun with this game. And frankly, I don't understand all the hate being generated at it. I've played the first two games in the series, and this doesn't seem to be much different, and in fact, is much better in the graphics department. The graphics and set-pieces are just stunning. Also, the dismemberment engine seems to work just fine, depending upon your weapon choice. I paid full release price for this game, and was not disappointed. Apparently, the biggest mistake the publisher made was in using the SOF license with this game, thus making angry a ton of loyal SOF fans. Although, as I said, I can't understand why, seeing as that the Single-player aspect plays very similar to the first two games. Maybe it's the multiplayer that's making everybody mad. I can't say, as I don't do multiplayer. All I can say is that I really enjoyed the single-player part.

There are some problems, but none that lessened my enjoyment. For instance, the levels are linear. Not as linear as the first two games though. The first two were extremely on rails. This one has opened things up quite a bit more in areas, although there are a lot of places I would have enjoyed exploring more. You can actually do some needless exploration in the cave system area, though never enough to get yourself lost. The enemy AI is nothing to get excited about either, but it gets the job done as long as you're not looking for too much realism. Gameplay-wise, I enjoy moving ahead, stopping, blasting a few baddies away, sniping a bunch more from far away, and moving on again. Enemies do spawn, which normally bothers me (in games like COD4 for instance), but here, they do not repawn endlessly, so eventually you'll be able to clear them out.

My favorite weapon to use in any single-player FPS has always been the sniper rifle. And here is where the game really shines. At the outset of every mission (consisting of a few levels each), you can choose your primary and secondary weapons. I always choose an assault rifle equipped with a scope (and silencer if you choose) for a primary, and a dedicated sniper rifle for secondary. There's a bit of tension in choosing this setup. Your primary scoped weapon will normally come with 200 to 300 rounds, and that's it. You won't find any more ammo for your weapons lying around the levels. When you run out of that ammo, you'll have to trade that weapon for an enemy weapon for the remainder of that mission. Ammo for the lesser enemy weapons is plentiful, though ammo for that weapon is exclusive to that weapon. So it's very important to make every shot count if you want to keep a primary weapon scoped. Conservation is important. However, I normally run out of my own ammo after a single level, and end up with an enemy weapon for the remainder of the mission, and that's fun too. I still had my secondary dedicated sniper rifle with 50 rounds for those emergency sniping situations. I just had to adjust to having no scope on the primary. I plan on replaying this game, this time trying to make it through with my original weapons.

As I mentioned earlier, the graphics are amazing. True, there are no advanced settings to adjust these graphics much, but it looks amazing the way it is. I'm playing it at 1440 x 900 on an Athlon64 3700+ with 2 gigs of ram and a geForce 7900GS/256, and I'm averaging 25 to 30 frames per second. My monitoring software shows only 50% of my ram is being used, so you should be good to go with one gig. I'm also using WinXp w/ SP2, so that may help too.

Continuing with the graphics, the set-pieces are incredible. Each level has a different setting and look, and are very memorable. Thus, I would have liked to explore more. Again, in this area, this game far surpasses its predecessors.

To sum up, each to his own. Gameplay-wise this game plays more like a budget shooter, while looking like a triple-A title. It's a little simplistic, but sometimes that's all I'm looking for. Did the job for me.



"Give it a miss", I was excited to see a new installment of the SOF series was being released...but sadly, this is not what I was hoping for.

As the other reviews have already mentioned, this is a budget release in everything but price ($40 is waaaay too high for a budget game!). The gameplay is very different to SOF and SOF2, and fans of the previous two games are highly likely to be disappointed by the poor quality of this third installment. The enemy AI is non-existent, and the game as a whole is very boring and repetitive. This probably would have been a good game if it had of been released 10 years ago...but against todays games it just doesn't stand up.

Also, if you have Windows Vista then you will need to get the 1.1 patch for this game (yes, there is a patch already). I found the game to be completely unplayable on Vista without the patch (super super slow, and crackly sound).