I mean, the head literally disappears and is replaced with a 'spurting neck' polygon model. Shoot someone in the head, and it vanishes.

Every leg, every arm, blows off in the exact same way. See, the damage model doesn't seem to have changed since 2000.

And, as in the previous games, this gives the proceedings a certain ludicrous amusement factor. As in the previous games, your enemies are apparently made of plasticine and held together with sticky tape since they fly to pieces at the first hint of a bullet. Once again, the only reason people will talk about is.the gore. A similarly average sequel followed in 2002 and now, apropos of nothing, here's a third instalment. It wasn't bad, as such things go, but there were clearly better games around and they justifiably attracted most of the attention. A product of the late '90s FPS boom, the selling point of the original was that you could shoot the limbs off enemies using an arsenal of lovingly recreated weaponry. The Soldier of Fortune games have clung to the slender thread of infamy for one reason only - gore.

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