PS3 owners: Please do not buy Soldier of Fortune: Payback

Matt2

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Jul 28, 2001
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What a piece of crap.

I liked the first two SoF games and almost bought the third installment. Luckily I talked myself out of it and rented it instead.

The graphics look like a really good PS2 game. Framerate is absolutely horrible, gotta be in the low 20s, maybe lower in a lot of parts with baddies and explosions. Controls are clunky and unresponsive. Enemy AI is incredibly stupid and overscripted. Last, but not least, the story is boring and slow.

I give it a 5/10 and that's only because it's very cool to blow arms, legs and heads off with an AK-47 (for about 30 minutes at least).
 

Krakn3Dfx

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Sep 29, 2000
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I think 5/10 is being pretty generous, but yeah, avoid at ALL costs.

Unfortunately, the team that did the past SoF titles went on to do Socom, and this title was worked up as a budget title. I'm in awe that it's like $30 on the PC, but they're still trying to gouge consoles gamers for $60 on it.