it was the first to have more than 20 body damage zones (a real record for that time and for most games nowdays) and imho it was also its weak point... comparing to Quake 2 it was not so fun to play.
Picked this game up at the ripe age of 12. Had to convince my dad to get it for me and he did. Played it for a solid 16 years. Made a lot of friends who I still talk to today (Im 33 years old now) The community was one of the best in gaming....Getting goosebumps writing this as the memories are flowing back. Long live the king of FPS shooters. This needs to be remade. John Mullins for life
For me this game holds up pretty well- the bodies and faces are more blocky, but the look of the scenery is pretty much as I remember. That memorable first bit of walking down into the subway, the first enemy peeking around the corner and then the dismemberment :) It still looks and sounds good!
Yeah haha it's funny like going back to Quake and "What are we waiting for? Christmas?!" Duke nukem 😂 the graphics are so good memorizing the game until you see it for yourself it's all square blocks of enemies running around 😂😂
At the time, it was top of the line. But top of the line has changed so much since then. So when you look back on it, it's surreal. I remember seeing goldeneye 007 in a demo at Costco back in the day and man it looked so real to me back then.
Definitely not. At that time, yes it was. In fact the gore and shooting limbs off was what was selling this game. There are plenty of games that have done it better since, although that shouldn't be much of a surprise.
This game is timeless classic. Lighting, physics - its still looks good today. I've spent hours playing this metro level (best in all game) and hours of multiplayer in beta. You could throw knives, and multiple of them stick in enemies
@@rabbitsontherun Well do they sell it somewhere ? Would be good if it appeared on Steam, probably have a small community. I got this from a magazine early 2000's. That would be fun.
When I was about 7 years old my grandma was the first person to introduce me to shooting games on PC and this game was the first game I played. Lol brings back a lot of memories 😂❤️ I loved when, and whenever I would get stuck on a level she'd take over and help me get through it lol
It's true. Back then these graphics were sick. Same thing is said about ocarina of time. I remember the first time changing into adult link at Hyrule temple being in absolute awe of the graphics. My whole family was like this is crazy.
Fond memories. The shooting limbs off was just next level at the time. A few games I remember from back then was this, Deus Ex, Hidden And Dangerous, Kingpin, No One Lives Forever, Project IGI. Man, back then I didn't care about loot, I didn't care about stats, didn't care about good story or good characters. Everything thing was new and impressive. But these days every time something isn't perfect in a game I get disappointed. I wish I was back in those simpler days.
I used to play this game in year 2000 with Hercules 3D Prophet II GeForce 2 and Pentium iii cpu, the graphics were at least 1 generation ahead of console gaming.
I came in to say THANK YOU for reminding me of my childhood. Watching such videos helps me to relax from my daily troubles and trauma that is affecting my mind. i feel a little happier after watching this. Thank you so much.
I can't believe my pops got us this game lmao the memories!! If only it ran as smoothly and as clean as this back in the days hahahah Very select few who actually got to play this game. Let alone knew about it. Thanks for the flashback
remember playing this game in like 2003 or 2004 at my neighbors house. I was super young. Didnt even have dial up internet at the time. This game both scared me and amazed me at the same time.
Best Game ever made, from my childhood...No more fun games today and specially with missions this good! If you forget about the graphics, this is the shooter you must play!
Perhaps give Robocop: Rogue City a try? The shooting there feels really amazing and the gore is plentiful and everything kind of reminds me of the best memories I have of Soldier of Fortune for some reason.
This was the first game my brother and I ever played online back in 2000! We started with a 56K Modem (and a very high ping). This game brings back incredible memories. My name was either PRODIGY, SE7EN or NuT^CrAcKeR and my brother was either Furious, Wookie or Bob.
This game was revolutionary back in the day. The amount of time I spent playing this game as a kid is incredible thinking back on it. What an amazing trip down memory lane. Thank you.
Played this game when I was little, after seeing how gory it was, I thought I was going to get in trouble with my parents, so I freaked out and hid the game somewhere never to be seen again
I remember my brother getting this as a present and my mum was angry cause she didn't know it'd be that violent. But 6 year old me loved it. I remember playing through it so many times
God I loved this game. Both of them. One of the greatest FPS games. To this day I’ve yet to see a game that has a realistic type of gore than SOF II had.
i remember playing this. my PC then couldn't max it out, but i was in awe of the graphics and how you could dismember enemies. I loved when john broke out the shotgun and flipped it around
I loved this game for many reasons, but especially for the sound design. I still remember cowering behind a desk in the battles vs the Yakusa and hearing the sound of bullets hitting the wooden furnishings. A really solid FPS for its time!
Ill never forget being 12 years old, finding a cracked copy of this game somewhere and being absolutely blown away by the gore physics. I would spend hours just see what I could shoot off someone. Great memories and I still look for this type of mechanics in games today. Feels like I've been chasing a high hahaha
Yeah... On sof 1 the coolest thing @lan was.... The PC with internet connection host a Onlineserver... And the others pc @lan can join the server 👍 this was grandios @1998 😁
Back then I used to go to my cousin’s place to play this masterpiece game. I can’t believe it has been 23 years and life was so simple yet beautiful that time. #nostalgia
Boy!! Those were the days..... My 2nd PC game back in the day after finishing Quake 2... I bought the original RavenSoft pack in 2001 I think.. Then I did RTCW
Damn this video brings me back, one of the first video games I ever got when I was around 10 or so and ended up playing in an online clan, for years, making a bunch of friends from all over the world, back when Xfire was a big deal
Techinal achievement is what springs to mind. Especially the gore, I really wish modern games would evolve this further but most don't even come close. It never got its due credit and today it's largely forgotten but this is a landmark game for me and i think it's criminally underrated. Was in the middle of a doom eternal dlc and got a nostalgia urge for this. It really is the gore that I miss most. I mean most decent games now are made for adults and age restricted anyway so it's just lazy not to have gore but some lame ass countries ban over gore, so limiting your game's market might factor in but it didn't stop calisto protocol
Played this game for the first time when I was 8 or 9. The family PS2 went to my brother and me because our dad got a ps3 in 2006. With that transition came all the PS2 games our dad had acquired since 2002
This game was the friggin best! My first real exposure to FPS aside from Bond on SNES. The multiplayer community was tight. I used to go by Wreckz. If there are any drunken soldiers, CK, or Bearded Bastards out there, hit me up. Let's play some COD!
@@QuantumNash SAME, i was used to play cod 1 and 2, when my dad buy this game for me and i install this thing scared me when i shoot a foe. And i didnt understand english at that age so the game was weird and terrorific to me the first day, later i get used to it
We used to kill Hawk by reflex every time at 6:08. Sometimes I played the whole segment again and I killed him again instantly. A timeless masterpiece.
@@rabbitsontherun shit man, i only had the demo version when I was a kid. Never played the first one. I was just feeling nostalgic and watching old game footage lol
I remember playing this game as a Teenager. Here in Germany it was hard to get because it was on the Index (not allowed to well openly) which was practically a Selling-Ban. But i got it anyways and was just stunned about the gore but also the gunplay. Had a lot of fun with it...
it was a great game - put more online time than any other game after i joined an Australian clan DFH. Used to have time off work just to play it i was that addicted to it (-:
Não acredito... depois de anos de busca...o jogo da minha infância eu achei ele cara meu deus que nostalgia...eu tinha uma lembrança muito forte com uma doze que arranca perna e eu achei ele nunca mais vou deixar ele ir embora ❤️
Habe es geliebt ! So viele verschiedene Trefferzonen an den Körpern mit abschießbaren Körperteilen, einfach herrlich. Habe das erste Level so oft sinnlos wiederholt, einfach nur aus Spaß am rumgemetzeln 😁😁😁
i remember mates bringing there kit over to my place on a friday night and i would set every one up with cat5, lan, settings, these games and dedicated servers for a lan party weekend. great times!
what a nostalgic trip! its not that many games that made such a mark for me like SoF 1 & 2 and definitely not many games that impressed on the gore side which is a real damn shame! some injuries, like the face spikes of blood pointing out or the guts dripping out where real nasty ones xD
I remember playing this on Windows ME when I was a very little kid. Had to download (OpenGx?), my first learning experience with installing software, and it ran abysmally slow on the family computer. The explosion sequence at 13:10 seriously ran at about a 2 frames a second and took over a minute to fully complete lol. Still loved every minute of playing.
This was the first game that allowed you to shoot legs off the enemies :) what a memory
In 2000 maybe, but before it was implemented in games for years.
Turok 2 already had this mechanics in 1998
Definitely not the first.
SoF was built using the Quake II engine (which should clue you in).
and playing multiplayer at internet cafe.. game looked like Call Of Duty 2020 ( in memories ) when i looked at it now.. it doesn't really :)
it was the first to have more than 20 body damage zones (a real record for that time and for most games nowdays) and imho it was also its weak point... comparing to Quake 2 it was not so fun to play.
Picked this game up at the ripe age of 12. Had to convince my dad to get it for me and he did. Played it for a solid 16 years. Made a lot of friends who I still talk to today (Im 33 years old now) The community was one of the best in gaming....Getting goosebumps writing this as the memories are flowing back. Long live the king of FPS shooters. This needs to be remade. John Mullins for life
The fact that he heard you out and eventually trusted your judgement and the resulting impact it had on you is awesome
Yes ☺️👍 I loved this game and we need a remake soon! Would be epic 😍
Yes the engine is one of a kind when it came out. I always have to shoot off all arms and legs I know I’m a bit gory playing this 😆😆😆😆
Hell yea this game and the 2nd one were epic
had the most epic LAN parties till the early Morn
Captain Price when he wasn't famous
the difference between what you still have in your head graphically and how it really is is really amazing.
For me this game holds up pretty well- the bodies and faces are more blocky, but the look of the scenery is pretty much as I remember. That memorable first bit of walking down into the subway, the first enemy peeking around the corner and then the dismemberment :) It still looks and sounds good!
Yeah haha it's funny like going back to Quake and "What are we waiting for? Christmas?!" Duke nukem 😂 the graphics are so good memorizing the game until you see it for yourself it's all square blocks of enemies running around 😂😂
Especially since this video is about 4x the resolution than how you would have seen it back in the day
And how great it is to play to this day even with the graphics it has, I personally am replaying the 2 as we speak and it's pretty badass
At the time, it was top of the line. But top of the line has changed so much since then. So when you look back on it, it's surreal. I remember seeing goldeneye 007 in a demo at Costco back in the day and man it looked so real to me back then.
23 years later and it is still the game with the best enemy hit feedback out there
no it's not e
@@VitariusLaszlo Yes, it is.
lol. no its not. not even close.
Resident evils remakes
Definitely not. At that time, yes it was. In fact the gore and shooting limbs off was what was selling this game. There are plenty of games that have done it better since, although that shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Oh the excitement I felt when starting this up for the 1st time 12 years old.
Same, but at 6 years old.
@@schweppes4156 no 1 year
Same bro
still have one of the most satisfying shotguns in any game
On jesus sandals bruh😂😂😂
This game is timeless classic. Lighting, physics - its still looks good today. I've spent hours playing this metro level (best in all game) and hours of multiplayer in beta. You could throw knives, and multiple of them stick in enemies
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
I sign on regularly just to see if anyone's playing. C'MON!!!!
@@rabbitsontherun Well do they sell it somewhere ? Would be good if it appeared on Steam, probably have a small community. I got this from a magazine early 2000's. That would be fun.
@@elasolezito I had the disc, but my new computer wont load it so I got it online for maybe $6 bucks. GOG Galaxy
@@elasolezito GOG Galaxy sells many games to download. I got SOF for maybe $6 bucks!
When I was about 7 years old my grandma was the first person to introduce me to shooting games on PC and this game was the first game I played. Lol brings back a lot of memories 😂❤️ I loved when, and whenever I would get stuck on a level she'd take over and help me get through it lol
If there was ever a game that deserved a remake...
I swear I remember this game having wayyy better graphics than this lol we have came a long way when it comes to technology
The graphics were extremely impressive. That's a clear memory from back then!
It's true. Back then these graphics were sick. Same thing is said about ocarina of time. I remember the first time changing into adult link at Hyrule temple being in absolute awe of the graphics. My whole family was like this is crazy.
We all do bro. It's a really strange phenomenon being absolutely sure the graphics in current games cannot improve lol
Also the crappy CRT TV's actually made graphics looks better because they weren't as sharp.
@@felixf4378 Yes!! Not enough people know this.
Back in the day I was blown away by the graphics. And I still absolutely love them. I actually like them more than the graphics we see today.
Fond memories. The shooting limbs off was just next level at the time. A few games I remember from back then was this, Deus Ex, Hidden And Dangerous, Kingpin, No One Lives Forever, Project IGI. Man, back then I didn't care about loot, I didn't care about stats, didn't care about good story or good characters. Everything thing was new and impressive. But these days every time something isn't perfect in a game I get disappointed. I wish I was back in those simpler days.
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
OMG the nostalgia feeling! Amazing videos here!
I used to play this game in year 2000 with Hercules 3D Prophet II GeForce 2 and Pentium iii cpu, the graphics were at least 1 generation ahead of console gaming.
Deam, I play in this game some 20+ years ago, in childhood. But I didnt know how it calls. Old good ultraviolance. Now it is time to finish it.
I came in to say THANK YOU for reminding me of my childhood. Watching such videos helps me to relax from my daily troubles and trauma that is affecting my mind. i feel a little happier after watching this. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
I remember it like it was yesterday.. the dismemberment was crazy, me and my couisn were hooked, replaying it for a whole year
I can't believe my pops got us this game lmao the memories!! If only it ran as smoothly and as clean as this back in the days hahahah
Very select few who actually got to play this game. Let alone knew about it. Thanks for the flashback
i played it as well just because they made a big deal about the gore. didn't care for the game too much though
remember playing this game in like 2003 or 2004 at my neighbors house. I was super young. Didnt even have dial up internet at the time. This game both scared me and amazed me at the same time.
Best Game ever made, from my childhood...No more fun games today and specially with missions this good! If you forget about the graphics, this is the shooter you must play!
i agree!!
@@reverendterminator true
thanx@@Alina-gz1zp
Perhaps give Robocop: Rogue City a try? The shooting there feels really amazing and the gore is plentiful and everything kind of reminds me of the best memories I have of Soldier of Fortune for some reason.
@@Koelebig thank you
This was the first game my brother and I ever played online back in 2000! We started with a 56K Modem (and a very high ping). This game brings back incredible memories.
My name was either PRODIGY, SE7EN or NuT^CrAcKeR and my brother was either Furious, Wookie or Bob.
One of the best fps ever made. Loved that first level, played it so many times
It's been 20 years since I played this game but I played through it so often, I could do all the quotes that came up in the video.
AHHH those were the days! Maximum GORE with minimum PC requirements!
This game was revolutionary back in the day. The amount of time I spent playing this game as a kid is incredible thinking back on it. What an amazing trip down memory lane. Thank you.
When this came out it was next level gaming experience. Had great memories with this one
Played this game when I was little, after seeing how gory it was, I thought I was going to get in trouble with my parents, so I freaked out and hid the game somewhere never to be seen again
Ahh I used to play it when I was little too lol but I played with my cousin and grandpa!
We all loved this game as kids and played a lot of multiplayer. I'm really surprised how much I remember from the game, thanks for the video :D
I remember my brother getting this as a present and my mum was angry cause she didn't know it'd be that violent. But 6 year old me loved it. I remember playing through it so many times
That damn shotgun and the effects it had on people is honestly blazed into my memory, very few games have bothered to have something so visceral.
God I loved this game. Both of them. One of the greatest FPS games. To this day I’ve yet to see a game that has a realistic type of gore than SOF II had.
I really really really hope that Nightdive or some studio gets a chance for a remaster of this game.
This.
The game has been a favourite of mine for a long time. I have soo many hours in this game both off and online
nicht in der original version.. :(
@@sbenzdagamer
I played this game so many times as a kid that I could beat it blindfolded.
These games we played as kids and young adults. Never once did I go out and want to murder. Good times
i remember playing this. my PC then couldn't max it out, but i was in awe of the graphics and how you could dismember enemies. I loved when john broke out the shotgun and flipped it around
Games nowadays cannot hold a candle to this. the mechanics of shooting and reaction by different body parts. It’s amazing.
I loved this game for many reasons, but especially for the sound design. I still remember cowering behind a desk in the battles vs the Yakusa and hearing the sound of bullets hitting the wooden furnishings. A really solid FPS for its time!
THOSE WERE THE GAMES those were the years!!!!!!!!!! opening like SIN 1998
Ill never forget being 12 years old, finding a cracked copy of this game somewhere and being absolutely blown away by the gore physics. I would spend hours just see what I could shoot off someone. Great memories and I still look for this type of mechanics in games today. Feels like I've been chasing a high hahaha
3:22
Terrorist:Call 911🙏🏻
John Mullins:*Shot*
Lol this is the game I played in my early teens and got a WhatsApp group with my clan mates 20 years later.
Loved how crazy this online game was
Awesome back in the day for a teenager. You could mag dump someone and they looked like they were dancing.
Still better than most games released today
Really 20 years ago?
This was our first Multiplayergame with six Pc's, we had no internet.
I loved it!!!!
Yeah... On sof 1 the coolest thing @lan was.... The PC with internet connection host a Onlineserver... And the others pc @lan can join the server 👍 this was grandios @1998 😁
Back then I used to go to my cousin’s place to play this masterpiece game. I can’t believe it has been 23 years and life was so simple yet beautiful that time. #nostalgia
I love how we were all playing this 18+ rated game at like 6 years old lmao
If this gets raytracing mod, that would be epic
Boy!! Those were the days..... My 2nd PC game back in the day after finishing Quake 2... I bought the original RavenSoft pack in 2001 I think.. Then I did RTCW
My first shooter game i bought on pc, thank you for upload, bring back memories 👍😁
I want the remake with 2021 grafics
I hate remastered games, but I would probarly buy this one, if they don't fail on blood & gore. ^_^
Damn this video brings me back, one of the first video games I ever got when I was around 10 or so and ended up playing in an online clan, for years, making a bunch of friends from all over the world, back when Xfire was a big deal
Played this as a kid so much nostalgia and is it me or was this game the shit? Needs a remake
I got a used copy today and now i play it again after 17 years
Techinal achievement is what springs to mind. Especially the gore, I really wish modern games would evolve this further but most don't even come close. It never got its due credit and today it's largely forgotten but this is a landmark game for me and i think it's criminally underrated.
Was in the middle of a doom eternal dlc and got a nostalgia urge for this. It really is the gore that I miss most. I mean most decent games now are made for adults and age restricted anyway so it's just lazy not to have gore but some lame ass countries ban over gore, so limiting your game's market might factor in but it didn't stop calisto protocol
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And thank for finding you XD
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Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
I can't think of one game other than this that allows you to shoot off limbs of humans.
Fallout, Red Dead 2, Dead Island, GTA 3, COD BO2, TLOU2, Cyberpunk...
Fallout was very specific with what damage you caused
Played this game for the first time when I was 8 or 9. The family PS2 went to my brother and me because our dad got a ps3 in 2006. With that transition came all the PS2 games our dad had acquired since 2002
Remember playing this game with my friends on PC doing LAN parties. Good times 😊
this licence need a remake !
I swear the way the bad guys screamed in pain disturbed the hell out of me as a kid. Lol
This game was the friggin best! My first real exposure to FPS aside from Bond on SNES. The multiplayer community was tight. I used to go by Wreckz. If there are any drunken soldiers, CK, or Bearded Bastards out there, hit me up. Let's play some COD!
I need a full reboot of this franchise.
Almost forgot that this existed !That was the first gory game I played if I recall correctly.
fr I was like 6 years old when i played this and it scared me
@@QuantumNash SAME, i was used to play cod 1 and 2, when my dad buy this game for me and i install this thing scared me when i shoot a foe. And i didnt understand english at that age so the game was weird and terrorific to me the first day, later i get used to it
I remember that if you crouched the whole game, the enemy could barely hit you. What memories, played through many times.
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
We used to kill Hawk by reflex every time at 6:08. Sometimes I played the whole segment again and I killed him again instantly. A timeless masterpiece.
I like how he just fingers the shotgun to get it to shoot more
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
@@rabbitsontherun shit man, i only had the demo version when I was a kid. Never played the first one. I was just feeling nostalgic and watching old game footage lol
I loved this game back in the day. Blocking doors and changing my name to the doorman. I nearly died laughing during those heady days of innocence.
My first orignal game on pc ❤
What a beautifull time of gaming 😊
The dismemberment mechanic was so cool at the time that I thought about it 2 decades later and had to search for this on TH-cam
This game was my introduction to pc shooter games.
Captain Price never gets old
this takes me back.... when life was simple
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I remember playing this game as a Teenager. Here in Germany it was hard to get because it was on the Index (not allowed to well openly) which was practically a Selling-Ban. But i got it anyways and was just stunned about the gore but also the gunplay. Had a lot of fun with it...
I still have this game in storage 😂
it was a great game - put more online time than any other game after i joined an Australian clan DFH. Used to have time off work just to play it i was that addicted to it (-:
This game was way ahead of its time
It was my first PC game when i was 6, one of the best memories playing it
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
Não acredito... depois de anos de busca...o jogo da minha infância eu achei ele cara meu deus que nostalgia...eu tinha uma lembrança muito forte com uma doze que arranca perna e eu achei ele nunca mais vou deixar ele ir embora ❤️
😂😂😂
Irmão era de pc mesmo ou de um console específico?
@@badgui1lançou para PlayStation 2 e Dreamcast também.
I played this more than any other game. My first days playing in online matches too
This game had online?
I first played this game on the Dreamcast lol
better then the MW3 campaign
Captain Price’s first appearance
Is that real? I'm so took back lol
first online multiplayer I ever played and it was so much fun online.
Nobody plays anymore. Can we get players again?????
My first introduction to pc gaming was with this game. not even sure how i got it but i was fresh out of highschool.
Oh the hours I spent in multiplayer custom maps in this game… fun memories indeed!
Habe es geliebt !
So viele verschiedene Trefferzonen an den Körpern mit abschießbaren Körperteilen, einfach herrlich.
Habe das erste Level so oft sinnlos wiederholt, einfach nur aus Spaß am rumgemetzeln 😁😁😁
If I was a high end game developer, I'd def remaster this fun FPS game time has forgotten.
Thanks for making me hit up memory lane! :)
That interactive menu. I will never forget. The game, i was shocked, how burtal was, but i really liked it back then. :)
Thé sound of this shotgun is just amazingly huge 😅. I remember this game. I was 20 in 2000. Love this.
i remember mates bringing there kit over to my place on a friday night and i would set every one up with cat5, lan, settings, these games and dedicated servers for a lan party weekend.
great times!
what a nostalgic trip! its not that many games that made such a mark for me like SoF 1 & 2 and definitely not many games that impressed on the gore side which is a real damn shame! some injuries, like the face spikes of blood pointing out or the guts dripping out where real nasty ones xD
Ow the memory's. In my mind it looked a lot better. But this was one hell of a shooter.
Grammar.
2:38 totally walked past the bit where the bad guy is taking a leak against the wall! I always would go down there and cap him lol
Good to see Old Age Pensioners in fishing hats taking rough justice to the streets. Like a cross between Death Wish and On Golden Pond.
Same for a lot of people on here I got the game around my pre-teens and it set the bar for me especially the multi-player aspect
I remember playing this on Windows ME when I was a very little kid. Had to download (OpenGx?), my first learning experience with installing software, and it ran abysmally slow on the family computer. The explosion sequence at 13:10 seriously ran at about a 2 frames a second and took over a minute to fully complete lol. Still loved every minute of playing.
I remember this game being burnt on a CD for me to play. Damn, that was so long ago.
This game deserves a remake !!!
The level of nostalgia i feel right now lol
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I was 10 y.o. And this was my first game, big love
I was so impressed by this game in 2001.