History VideoGame / SoldierOfFortune

* SemperFi - ''Soldier of Fortune 2'' featured the Marines. Hawk is an ex-Marine himself.

** EliteMooks - The Order soldiers in the first game who appeared in the last few levels and were equipped with body armor and automatic slugthrowers. The second game has elite Prometheus soldiers wearing a blue suit of full body armor (making them look exactly like ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' operatives), which allowed them to withstand multiple assault rifle shots (in a game where 1 or 2 shots is usually sufficient to kill) and even allowed them to survival a few headshots from lower-caliber firearms.

* FourEyesZeroSoul - Nachrade.

* PacifistRun: Hard to pull off but quite possible (with a few exceptions where you have to kill) on lower difficulty levels in both the 1st and 2nd games thanks to you being able to [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot the weapons out of your enemies hands]].

** EliteMooks - The Order soldiers in the first game who appeared in the last few levels and were equipped with body armor and automatic slugthrowers. The second game has elite Prometheus soldiers wearing a blue suit of full body armor (making them look exactly like RainbowSix operatives), which allowed them to withstand multiple assault rifle shots (in a game where 1 or 2 shots is usually sufficient to kill) and even allowed them to survival a few headshots from lower-caliber firearms.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Michael Clarke Duncan and Earl "[[TheTerminator Dr. Silberman]]" Boen in the first game. Lots of HeyItsThatVoice moments in the second game; your boss is Liquid Snake(Cam Clarke), and your mission is to save Skeletor(Alan Oppenheimer) and Duke(Michael Bell) from [[strike: Luke Skywalker]] The Joker/Fire Lord Ozai(Mark Hamill).

* [[spoiler:TheMole]] - In ''Soldier of Fortune 2'', Taylor is suspected to be one. Turns out it's [[spoiler:Assistant Director Wilson, who established Prometheus with Nachrade as means to get rich by blackmailing the world governments to pay them for Romulus' antidote.]]

* NintendoHard - ''Soldier of Fortune 2''. Full stop.
** Especially on the hardest difficulty.

* DevilInPlainSight: The second game. Let's see, who could the BigBad TheMole possibly be? Is it our wise old mentor, our heroic captain, our plucky female sidekick, or the [[LeanAndMean creepy thin guy]] who hates our guts, constantly gives bad advice, always acts negative whenever good news happens, and is voiced by Mark Hamill?

* AKA47

* RefugeInAudacity: In the first game, in case the LudicrousGibs and weapons like the Microwave gun weren't a clue, the part where you fight your way through a ''nuclear base under a slaughterhouse'' is the point you realise the game doesn't take itself the slightest bit seriously.

* SemperFi - ''Soldier of Fortune 2'' featured the Marines.

* ShoutOut - During the Helicopter Extraction level in part 2, for a little "mood music", the pilot puts on "Ride Of The Valkyries", an ode to Film/''ApocalypseNow''. The box gets destroyed by gunfire shortly after.

What happens when you take VideoGameCrueltyPotential and LudicrousGibs to their [[RefugeInAudacity extreme]]. The main selling point of the SOF series by RavenSoftware is the extremely detailed damage system that simulates many areas of bodily damage (and gruesome deaths to go along with it). You are given many tools to play with said damage system, from Shotguns for full limb chopping action to Pistols and other such weapons for those precision groin shots, along with extras like Flamethrowers and Microwave guns (pretty much as insane as it sounds). The game apparently had the real-life mercenary John Mullins (who also starred in the game) make sure the game was as realistic as possible. The storyline and weapons like the microwave gun puts the extent of his guidance under serious dispute, but [[RuleOfFun nobody cared]]. It also stood out for being a surprisingly decent FPS even without the gore system, as well as having some interesting ideas like the possibility to customise your difficulty setting ("stock" options were provided that scaled up, but you could also have stuff like very limited inventory space but easy enemies, or vice versa, along with other options like the save system).

''Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix'' attempted to build on everything from the first game, with more detail to the gore system, a longer game, more weapons (but with the crazier ones removed) and a very advanced graphics engine for its time. Some say further focus on realism makes the gore system less amusing (despite the higher detail level) and that the weapons and locations being less OTT (despite there being more of both) causes the game to be nowhere near as enjoyable as the first. On the other hand, the multiplayer is said to be incredibly good and suffer from none of the issues the single-player side does. The detail of the damage system in both games still beats the majority of games made today. It also has a random mission generator which worked quite well.

''Soldier of Fortune: Payback'' was made by another company whose traditional focus was budget games. The results are pretty much [[{{Sequelitis}} what you'd expect]].

* BadassBystander: The security guard standing outside Sam Gladstone's room in the Hospital mission of the 2nd game. Genre savvy players will think ''"[[{{Redshirt}} he's toast!]]"'', but he is actually quite capable of defending himself against the attacking mooks despite only being armed with a regular handgun. He may still die, but it's not unlikely that he'll survive either.

* [[BannedInChina Banned In Canada]]: It's classified similarly to a porn movie. [[{{Gorn}} Not surprising]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: Wilhelm "Saber" Dekker suffers this fate affter he is shot by Mullins.

* [[MoralGuardians MoralGuardians]]/[[MurderSimulators MurderSimulators]] : Oddly averted, considering its nature. While the games have gotten a bit of notoriety, they'll haven't been able to muster the same level of controversy as other violent games.

* ShoutOut - During the Helicopter Extraction level in part 2, for a little "mood music", the pilot puts on "Ride Of The Valkyries", an ode to ''Apocalypse Now''. The box gets destroyed by gunfire shortly after.

* GunsAkimbo: The second game allows you to duel-wield pistols and SMGs.

''Soldier of Fortune 2'' attempted to build on everything from the first game, with more detail to the gore system, a longer game, more weapons (but with the crazier ones removed) and a very advanced graphics engine for its time. Some say further focus on realism makes the gore system less amusing (despite the higher detail level) and that the weapons and locations being less OTT (despite there being more of both) causes the game to be nowhere near as enjoyable as the first. On the other hand, the multiplayer is said to be incredibly good and suffer from none of the issues the single-player side does. The detail of the damage system in both games still beats the majority of games made today. It also has a random mission generator which worked quite well.

SoldierOfFortune 2 attempted to build on everything from the first game, with more detail to the gore system, a longer game, more weapons (but with the crazier ones removed) and a very advanced graphics engine for its time. Some say further focus on realism makes the gore system less amusing (despite the higher detail level) and that the weapons and locations being less OTT (despite there being more of both) causes the game to be nowhere near as enjoyable as the first. On the other hand, the multiplayer is said to be incredibly good and suffer from none of the issues the single-player side does. The detail of the damage system in both games still beats the majority of games made today. It also has a random mission generator which worked quite well.

SoldierOfFortune: Payback was made by another company whose traditional focus was budget games. The results are pretty much [[{{Sequelitis}} what you'd expect]].

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Ridiculously overdone in SoldierOfFortune 2.