Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix PC Game Review REDUX
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Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix is a video game created by Raven Software, a sequel to Soldier of Fortune. It was developed using the Quake III: Team Arena engine. Once again, Raven hired John Mullins to act as a consultant on the game. Based on comments and criticisms of the original game, Raven Software developed Soldier of Fortune II to be a more "realistic" game, with tactical shooters like Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six as inspirations rather than Quake. A sequel titled Soldier of Fortune: Payback, made by Cauldron HQ was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2007.
This game is now available on GOG.com!
www.gog.com/game/soldier_of_fortune_ii_double_helix_gold_edition
About damn time.
Was about to comment this, nice work GGG
Official remaster maybe incoming :
Step 1 : Release on a platform the original game.
Step 2 : Force content creators to remove their free content bringing extra features, fixes and quality to the remaster you are planning : like SOFplus for SOF1
Step 3 : Remaster quickly the game with retextures, settings tweaks. Not too much effort, and funds come from the nostalgics who bought the edition on step 1.
Step 4 : Release your remaster and remove the original game.
Process was made for Duke Nukem 3D, Baldur's gate 1&2 and Icewind Dale 1&2. For SOF1, Step 1 and 2 were done at this day.
Furthermore, SOF1 and 2 were free for download on abandonware sites. It's not the case anymore for SOF1. Right now, still accessible for SOF2.
Edit : SOF 2 also removed from myabandonware
fun fact: if you cheat weapons in the ingame story sequences where you are able to move around, you can use these weapons to shoot at other NPCs and when you trigger any cutscenes, the NPCs will act out these cutscenes without limbs or their head blown off :D :D :D
Who cares black ops 4 is coming save money for that instead of this crap
Played this when I was 9, still remember dismembering baddies with a shotgun while my dad watched on in horror
Badass dad hehe
Shit it was the exact opposite for me lol dad played while i was amazed about the carnage
"Daddy daddy watch me make gibs!"
My god... my son is lit fam
@@deadjuice1880 son...Alpha is you
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I'll... get your next BF5 kit too... please be safe... safe sex...
I think the fact that you're willing to go back to older reviews to change your opinion is really awesome and shows the depth of your integrity as a reviewer. Thanks for all the hard work!
What i really liked in both SoF Games was how depending on where you are in the world the enemys chatter is in different languages. That helped the immersion a lot.
they put a lot of effort do get voice actors to speak those different languages. russian, chinese, spanish, japanese, arabic, serbian, etc.
Ain't nothin' hypocritical about changing your mind after some more exposure.
Exactly. Peoples views and opinions change all the time. I used to hate call of duty ghosts and infinite warfare because it was the popular thing to do then I realized most of those haters were retards and gave those games a try to make up my own mind. I grew to love those games mostly infinite warfare over ghosts. While full of flaws and problems infinite warfare has one of my favorite singleplayer campaigns of all time.
1:24 holy shit! It's H3H3!
Haha this killed me 😂 SLAAAAMMMMINNNNNNN
*[COUGHING INTENSIFIES]*
That actually looks exactly like him 😂
I’d love to survive this climate
-the H3H3 Scientist
@@metrohunter-qy4fz "I can't even curse bro"
While this isn't a bad game at all, I do think the original is the best in the series.
I definitely agree. The faster paced nature of the first one is what makes it really fun. If only it had the damage system of its sequel then it would be perfect.
Wow, this one takes me back, your channel was less than 1k subs, there were no Sonny Jims or Ruben Sandwiches and you had a terrible ratio for your videos...Those were the dreamy days of 2013...
Haha, I know right.
Salokin Sekwah Good days where the potato filter was always over youtube.
Soldier of Fortune series are often overlooked, especially nowadays, and it's a real shame, cause the first two games are pretty damn good first person shooters. The original game is my favorite, and I consider it to be the best one, mainly because it didn't take itself as seriously as games do now. It's like your typical 80s /90s action movie in a video game form, on steroids and with tons of blood, gore and explosions on top of it. Cheesy as hell, yet so much fun. The game you're gonna be looking at next, though... oh boy. OH BOY. I don't know what kind of asshole could have shat a piece of shit that grand.
When I first played this as a 8 year old around 2003-4 I was completely blown away. It felt so far ahead of its time.
my mom kept me away from those games as a kid. I didn't start being exposed to those games until I was a teenager in 2005
I remember when you literally had hundreds subs and coming across your Blood video.
Now your subs are gradually closing in on 100k
Glad to be a part of the Journey Of Sonny Jim.
Now look at him hahah
I can respect someone who is willing to admit they might've made some mistakes, much less re-examine their previous work and redo it. 10/10 my favorite gaming review channel.
The M3A1's firing animation has 2 frames..
2.
Look up Poe's law.
***** Except there are people that believe that low frames = cinematic, so it could go either way. Hence Poe's law.
Back and forth back and forth back and forth...
I don't know if that would break your shoulder or make the recoil hilariously easy to manage...
Shit made me laugh
The game was rushed, it has animations that are left unfinished and look worse than what was in soldier of fortune 1
The multiplayer demo that was released back then was played more than the full game. Who thought that one perfect mp map could give so much enjoy. And I believe it was the game that learned me to "code" cuz you could type in in chat box in different text colors which was awsome:)
SOF 2 Double Hellix Gold Edition is one of the best shooters ever. Q3Arena engine is so great .
that moment when you start to remember a great memory so you look it up on youtube to find out someone just uploaded a video about it the day prior
The weird thing about SoF2 is that it is possible to run the singleplayer in widescreen
however the multiplayer remains locked in 4:3 due to an anti cheating measure that flags the commands used as not being allowed. Which is unlike all of Raven's other games.
The only way to run the multiplayer in widescreen I remember was to use this patcher program that patched the .exe for the multiplayer.
The multiplayer was also capable of bots however you had to download a mod for it. There are also still people playing it however you need to update your files for it.
Interestingly enough they included a level in SoF2's multiplayer where their office rendered in the Quake 3 engine. So you can go postal in Raven's software's offices.
Oh man, I now recall downloading that mod so that we could have a real frenzy ... Good times.
We need more people to join multiplayer in this game.... Would be so much fun. Used to play MP sooooooo much when i was younger.
2003 -=TpT=-
I've been bingewatching your videos for the past 12 hours. You have such a good voice, and the way you formulate your reviews are just perfect. Please never stop making content! Godspeed gggman!
I still remember the first time I blew out a window in this game and the glass shards stuck into enemies on the other side. 18 years on and I'm yet to see another game that can pull this trick.
Just FYI there are 3 console commands that you can use to eliminate view bobbing
cg_bobroll 0
cg_bobpitch 0
cg_bobup 0
These work for any Q3 engine game BTW
Thank you for redoing that review. SOF1 was really a legendary game amongst the FPS gamers. Everyone wanted a sequel. SOF2 was/is an amazing game. It doesn't age well but thats not the games fault. You have to look at the timeline. Raven simply wanted to outdo SOF1 in every single way and had great ideas for SOF2 but the technology at the time, simply wasn''t there. I mean, we're talking about geForce3 required to play that game. It was one of the first "nvidia, the way its meant to be played" games at the time. geforce 2mx and TI struggled to play SOF2 at higher-res. Yeah, SOF2 looks pretty dated now, but at the time, there wasn't any other engine that could do what Raven wanted. FarCry was like 4 years away with its Havok physics. SOF2 at the time of its release, was a very good game in every aspect.
The multiplayer on this game was really fun.
Best times ever. There is still something going on...
@Frederick Röders Demo is still played sometimes at Tea Hitmans server
Infiltration on demo was hardcore but had endless fun on Team Deathmatch OMG it got retarded at times on the shop map lol
Play on pc all day download is cheap I heard?? Still playing
my highschool used to have a huge lan party with this game. we would individually have to find a proxy that worked, download a p2p program, then download the game on 2003 internet speeds. generally by the last 10 mins of class the game would finish. i got detention so many times because of playing this game lol
A review of the Hidden and Dangerous series would be awesome
Just woke up, hungover, 9:46 AM in Germany, switch on my pc, see this, smile, get a rescue beer, press play.
Mollensittich Guten Tag :D
Hair of dog. Good man.
Nazi.
YO ITS JUST A PRANK
SOF2 was on of my favorite games back in the days.
SOF3 was pure sh*t though
Wait there is a SOF3? Well good that i didnt get the memo if its so bad i guess.
@@derPetunientopf well sof3 tookthe gore to the next level, graphics was better than the first two, but other than that it failed. bad story, bad, gameplay, bad acting, just bad. shame, it had some nice ideas going for it.
I don't even consider that one to be 3.
One really nice thing about game is custom difficulty setting, where you can pick your own prefered durability, number of allowed saves, size of inventory, or replace spread increase with screen recoil.
The beginning of this video actually hit home with me. I've been going back and playing games I originally didn't enjoy and with a lot of them I've had a blast after giving it a second thought.
I really want to play this now. I've been meaning to play one of these games for years, but never got around to it. That automatic shotgun seems like a beast of a weapon.
The death animations in this game look satisfying as all hell.
God dammit you are EASILY my favorite review channel. You're thorough and fair. The fact that you went back to look at this again because of all of these comments means a great deal. I've been subscribed for a while and intend to stay that way. Please keep it up!
3:24 one could not put better how it felt to experience violence in this game. SoF2 was my my first lection of anatomy I think, where I used a knife on a dead body's head to see what happens, and how curious I was to actually see individual pieces of skull being thorn apart and later the brain itself. Never have any game impressed as much in this aspect as this one.
3:25 man that was me at the age of 15 i will never forget this game.
I made the mistake of letting my nine year old brother play the copy of this I got from the thrift store.
The cruel and frenzied laughter that came after when he shot someone in the crotch then knifed their head off is still horrifying to me, I'll get him some therapy for Christmas this year.
Game looks fantastic for a 2002 title. Some environments hold up really well.
because the game SOF2 is running on Quake 3 Engine hahahahah
This games multiplayer was a highlight of my adolescent years thanks for the review
I only watch your videos so I can hear the beautiful way you say: "SHIEEEEEET"
I remember when this game released. Such a good shooter. The airport level with the civilians was so tense because your loose if you killed any.
Could ya' take a look at Area 51? A forgotten gem. I believe you can legally grab up a free copy, too!
I had great fun playing the multiplayer with my buddy in middle school - forgotten gem indeed
Swat 4 Review. Please. I beg you
holy shit I was just writing that then i saw this comment
Grant Pate fuck yes. classic ass game definitely underrated
***** Yeah it's super unfortunate that the game is out of print. Fortunately it's still possible to download it or maybe get it on eBay. But yeah super awesome game, it's got some sweet ass mods as well.
Grant Pate yes good game
And Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Ahhh the legendary Raven Software... Developer of unique, fun games that have technical aspects ahead of their time. The GHOUL (responsible for all the blood, guts and rolling heads) engine implemented in id Tech 2 (Soldier of Fortune) and improved in id Tech 3 (in this game) is a great example.
Today Raven is bound to develop Call of Bugs (Oops... I mean... Duty) for eternity!
"Thank you" Activision for spoiling a developer whose artistic ideas were endless they were so superb! What remains for us (players) is the memory of a distant past of glory.
We played this game hell a lot on LAN parties for many years. Good fun
I loved this game back when it was released, and remember spending a lot of time with the MP. Just an overall very fun shooter to play. The first game is pretty good too.
soldier of fortune 1 and 2 always stuck in to my mind they was a true classice fun game i loved it back in the days
re: the grenades
They never were THAT much of a problem for me, as long as you pay attention to the enemy chatter you soon or later pick up on what they say when they're about to throw a grenade. "A cubierto!" has become ingrained in my mind for that reason
I remember the multiplayer mode of SOF2.
It was such fantastic game.
I played the MP for SoF 2 for YEARS and loved it to death. Got into a great clan and made friends for life from that time of my life. The SP was fine, I just don't get the hate this game gets compared to the original game. The fact that people still play the MP for this game (albeit not many people anymore sadly) makes me happy still.
We still hea Boyeee!!!
Ah, I remember Soldier of Fortune Payback, I managed to get a copy of it the day of release because I was visiting Canberra at the time, and it was taken off shelves the very next day... but when I showed it to my friend, he told me Payback was in reference to the refund you are gonna want after playing it. He was right.
Still think SoF1 was waaaaaaay better then SoF2
I think Soldier of Fortune 1 is waaaaaaay better than Soldier of Fortune: Payback.
Also, you can shot the enemy's ball, it is the quickly way to disarm the enemy.
The second Soldier of Fortune was amazing in multiplayer.
Grenades in the Stalker Games were awesome. You hear it, you suggest where it landed, you run 😊
watching these videos one after another some years after the fact, I wanted to say I appreciate the time you took in both videos; I bought, or tricked my parents into buying at least, both games when they were out and have always had a soft spot for this one and I'd honestly agree with points in both videos, and being able to see how your viewpoint's changed at a later date is a very cool thing to be able to do; so yeah, thanks!
20 years ago this was the cutting edge.... the multiplayer game was fantastic and the forerunner to COD & PUBG etc.
I played hundreds of hours SoF2 but never played the single player game. Jungle maps works great in multiplayer, one of my favorite maps.
best multiplayer game ever made
Changing your mind doesn't mean you're an hypocrite at all, it just means you have re-evaluated your previous opinions, which is perfectly fine. Thanks for the re-review by the way, it was great.
It's always nice to look at things another prospective and GGGmanlives did a great job on this review. Thumbs up!!
Are you going to do Solider of Fortune: Payback?
Watch the sodding video ?!
Please watch the video before commenting...
He said so at the end of the video...
Gggmanlives Whoops :P
+Mr. Mojo Risin' if he watched the video though he'd have gotten his answer...
There is an active facebook group still dedicated to the multiplayer. Even as of 2020. SOF 2 Multiplayer is not dead
This game is so great, played it a shitton as a kid. Loved the review
+Kishy, I've never been one for the mindless gushing over someone simply because they are a 'girl that games' but if you're a girl and played this shit out of this we might have to get together, holy shit. But no, seriously, that's rare and cool.
I don't know if it's that rare, i was raised on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, it just depends on if someone in your family starts playing games while you're at a young age i guess.
+Kishy, No, it is rare, believe me. But luckily you grew up on those so you're fine with trying out what came next. Hell, at this point it's even getting rare for guys so that's good.
Haha cool cool
I remember the first time I played this game was one of my longest gaming marathons. 12 hours without a break just playing. Beat my previous record of 7.5 hours playing anachronox uninterrupted.
Played this when I was 6 years old. (I was born in '96). I still remember that annoying last mission where you have to destroy the helicopter flying around the rooftop of the headquarters.
I still treasure this game to this day.
Childhood memories. Nostalgia upon hearing the main menu theme. 😥
Raven Office - back in the days spent countless hours playing this map over and over again via LAN
Man I remember playing this back when it was first released. The first level where you can see the rain splatter on the ground just amazed me graphically. I thought at the time that was the best graphics could get. Haha
Will you ever do Brothers in Arms games? Would love to hear your take on Road to Hill 30
Yes.
Gggmanlives You should do the killzone series too. Really good games imo. I feel like I've been asking you to do that and the brother in arms series for awhile. :)
Gggmanlives Nice! Looking forward to it.
Gggmanlives
So how about Devil Dag- *shot*
Fair review. First game (IIRC) to have leaning around corners. The later missions become easy once you have the see-behind-walls goggles. I remember being addicted to them, because I felt blind, not knowing what's behind the corner :)
Played this for years from 2004, but not for the last 5yrs. Was a lot of fun. Our Clan =OSS= was No.1 Deathmatch for about 2 years (Csports). Server was BLOODRAVE. Ahhh the good old days.
The answer is yes. Also I always thought SOF 2 was a little like Goldeneye for the PC. Very tactical for it's time.
Now this was a game I played for countless hours as youngling.
Finally my request is being done :D
I've always enjoyed this game and thought the random mission generator was an amazing concept. Though the environments would be too simple. Good luck with Payback. I just couldn't finish it. Maybe one day.
The bit at 3:28 is funny to me because my father is the one who introduced me to SoF2 and we played it all the time together.
I was about five.
glad for the redux. this was one of the few reviews I disagreed with you
We are all soldiers on, now all we need is 3 helixes
Can't wait for the Payback review.
Had Soldier of Fortune 1 for the dreamcast. Cracking fun, stupidly long load might give this a go.
The AK-74 might actually be a Norinco 84S since it's 5.56. It's less likely to be an AK-101 with retro wood furniture. I recall deathmatch being kinda fun in SoF2, though it doesn't offer the variety of Half-Life: Opposing Force. My typical loadout was an M-4/M-203, a Micro Uzi, a Mk.23 SOCOM, and thermal goggles. If we decided not to use grenade launchers (this was long before the use of "n0obt0obs" in deathmatch was frowned upon), I'd go with the M-60 or the AK-74. I recall the AK-74 having a bayonet.
*Note:* Intermediate calibers like 5.56 don't kick much, even on full-auto.
7:48 Now you have to say, "My hypocrisy knows no bounds," in Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday voice from Tombstone.
8:02 Those iron sights are just terrible! What is it with certain FPS games with ADS being like that?! Why do you aim *over* the rear sight instead of *through* it?!
8:11 Why is there no rear sight on that flat-top M-16?! Why have we been seeing this for that past decade in movies, TV shows, and video games?! If it lacks a rear sight - or both a front and rear sight - then you're expected to supply your own. Ideally, the rifle should come with folding iron sights as per standard (or fixed front, folding rear).
I still really prefer the first game though I do still enjoy this one and it's good to know that you came around to it. I have more fond memories of the multiplayer though, I even got back together with some of the folks I used to play it with and we had an old fashioned LAN tourney with this game. Good times. I really miss Raven Software... It sucks royal that Activision has more or less shackled them to CoD and forced them to do nothing but churn out multiplayer mappacks for all eternity. :(
On the subject of obscure first person games on consoles, ever heard of a game called Jumping Flash?
It's believed to be one of the earliest attempts at 3D platforming and it's a first person platformer, it came 1 year before Super Mario 64 and Quake.
It was on the PlayStation 1
Both of your reviews are really good for what it's worth.
ooh ooh did I spy Hexen in that intro ? I got SoF1 when it came out and was floored by how bad ass it was. The second game was MEH! This was a good review brother, I subbed but only because of the Hexen thing ;)
I remember when I played this for the first time and I didn't know how I was ever going to play a shooter without the dismemberment feature again. Fortunately, I was able to and quite often still do play shooters. But to this day, I still think the over the top violence in this game is a masterpiece.
Had the same frustrations with the stealth in tall grass.
Columbia was nothing but pain.
Anything to do with our opinions on games aside; You're the fucking man, dude!! You've got real thoughts regardless if they're right or wrong and you got the balls to admit when you may have been incorrect. Respect daawwwggg.
Awwww.This game brings back memories.Columbia stage was so good and a bit hard
Greetings from HaXoR player from Finland!
it sucks your not allowed apparently to have your own opinion about something on UA-cam. I look forward to these vids man,they make my day. cheers
I played so many hours of this online back in the day. Such an awesome game.
SOF2 was amazing. I remember having a great time plain gen multiplayer as a pre teen.
Have you ever considered doing some more reviews for non Fps games? You might enjoy exploring some other genres of games. Btw great review as always
We really need to realise that this awesome game was released back in May 20, 2002!
(14 YEARS AGO!!!)
Compaired to the games from that time it was simply to good to be true in many ways.
And even today i have to say that this game has a solid place in my top 3 of all times.
Leon
Changing your mind on something ain't really hypocritical. Glad you realized why some people really love this game. :D
You know what really helps the cinematic scenes? Glitching the game during those test-firing portions so that you keep the OICW with a grenade. If you aim it just right you can kill everyone in the conference room and walk in, then watch as the main character has a conversation with himself and a bunch of dead mangled bodies. The best part is that the camera pans to them and there's no dialog... It just stays fixed on a dead body then pans back over to John carrying on the conversation. It's one of the most disturbing and hilarious things I've ever seen.
Love that good old, ultra violence!
The REDUX in the title is a reference to Apocalypse Now, because SoF 2 had the colombia mission made as an homage to the movie
I remember the Multiplayer demo for this game being insanely popular. It had a very good map, we played it for years. Also love the gore in this game :)
oh yeah, I got to play some of the multiplayer back in 2007
the thing that stuck to my mind the most is that enemies don't do the jiggle dance when shot with uzis and their bodies don't spasm after their death animations
Nice review. I remember reading about the Soldier of Fortune games back in the day, and their damage model in particular, but I never got around to trying any of them. I might oughtta give 'em a shot now :)