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Payback For Payback

By John Walker on January 29th, 2008.

A review of mine snuck up on the PC Gamer website last week, without my noticing. If I paid attention, imagine the things I’d get done!

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So, for your unbridled pleasure, here’s the not-truly-at-all wonderful Soldier Of Fortune: Payback.

An excerpt:

Payback is remarkably awful. In fact, it borders on the territory of gaming’s most bugged FPS ever. Tyres hover in midair, vehicles float two inches above the ground, severed limbs spin in a crazed dance above their former host. It’s laugh-out-loud terrible, interrupting any chance you might have of being offended.

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Bullet In The Head. And Groin.

By Kieron Gillen on October 21st, 2007.

A little late with this, but we’ll post it as it reminds me of the time I interviewed Comics/Novel/Games/Whatever Writer and drinker of fine Whiskeys, Warren Ellis, and he idly tossed out the quote “No-one’s playing Soldier of Fortune for the story. They’re playing Soldier of Fortune so they can throw knives in people’s dicks”. Wise words.

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