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Soldier of Fortune: Payback review

Payback ain't much of a bitch in this tepid first-person shooter

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    Familiar controls

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    Mindless entertainment

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    The (lack of) difficulty level

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    Been there

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    done that feeling

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    Boring graphics

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    Buying the game instead of renting it

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Nov 20, 2007

If the original Soldier of Fortune games are remembered for anything - and let's be honest, they probably aren't - it's probably for being those first-person shooters where you could blow people's limbs off. Even though they were a lot of fun, with tight controls and reasonably intelligent enemies, they're still best known for being gory.

Now we have a new SoF sequel, and if it is destined to be remembered for anything -which it won't- it's that it too is a dismemberment-prone first-person shooter... and not much else.

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