It’s a tough season to crack when you look at the competition of Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and Halo 3. Cauldron uses its own gaming engine to its maximum levels trying their hardest to compete in the graphic intensive genre of first person shooters.
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From the publisher, to the controls and subject matter, Solider of Fortune Payback is a unpolished, more linear version of Call of Duty 4.Ĭauldron HQ is at the helm this time around, changed from Raven Software who moved on to make a number of great games including X-Men Legends, and Quake 4. You would think these two games would have too many similarities, but they do. This benefited my time in Payback because I didn’t have to adjust to the controls because they are identical to Call of Duty. After running through the six hour adventure in Call of Duty 4, my skills where homed to take down more terrorists in Payback. I find it interesting that I have been scheduled to review Solider of Fortune: Payback right after I put down the controller on Call of Duty 4.
I expected a little more out of the plot developments for Solider of Fortune before I started and then once I ran through a few levels I understood, the plot is just an excuse to change locations and gun down more enemies. The plot in Solider of Fortune: Payback is horrible, but that doesn’t matter because most gamers are playing Solider of Fortune for one thing, the violent gunplay. The only thing you need to know in Payback is the location of the trigger and the direction to kill. Payback returns to simpler time of FPS gaming, before you had vehicles, co-operative single player missions and upgradable statistics. Solider of Fortune: Payback gives payback to its original roots that involved straight forward objectives without any strategy besides shoot before they shoot.
This is Solider of Fortune: Payback, the third game in the franchise from way back in 2000 and the first time Activision goes to a non-Quake gaming engine and new developer. When a routine escort mission goes horribly wrong, you find yourself battling an insidious enemy that knows no boundaries.