Incredibly, there's hardly any lag on an ADSL line even with full servers.ĭeathmatch is good but not quite as much fun (as is Elimination, a team last-manstanding mode), while Capture The Flag suffers from random generated maps. Its greatness lies in running around with up to 63 other players -that’s right, 63 - in a frenzy of gunshots and grenade blasts. the maps are well balanced and the action can still get quite frenetic despite the emphasis on tactical play.Īt the manic, oh-my-god-there-go-my-brains-again end is the Team Deathmatch mode, where you’ll find yourself respawning every other minute, sprinting like crazy in search of a weapon and generally cackling with glee before dying. It’s the most popular mode by far, mainly because it’s the most team-oriented. Slower, Faster, Kill, Kill, KillĪt the slower-paced end of the spectrum is the Infiltration mode - in which one team must infiltrate the opposition’s camp and retrieve a briefcase, while the other defends it.

Which is the best way to attract two very different sets of audiences. With no pretensions of rewriting multiplayer shooters or offering a sophisticated, thinking fragger's battlefield, SoFII inhabits the middle line between Counter-Strike's subtle, teambased 'realism’ and Quake Ill’s fast-paced killing-frenzy. Although it’s far behind the online popularity of Half-Life and all its modded incarnations, it’s in the same tier of popularity as the other main contenders -just behind Medal Of Honor and Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and catching up all the time.Īnd it’s not difficult to see why.

It might not have been universally loved as a singleplayer game, but Soldier Of Fortune II is making a killing online.

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