For your eyes only, the official trailer for the upcoming Soldier of Fortune: Payback shooter. Hell of a kicker. The Activision folks told me today that the game will be hitting the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and that it won't be a "Value" title in either spirit or price.
Tomorrow Activision launches the site, which has the above trailer, the below screens and some more details. Hit the jump for a quick description of the plot.
Soldier of Fortune: Payback is the long-awaited third installment of the Soldier of Fortune videogame series. The saga continues with the organization known as "The Shop" where players take on the role of a hired mercenary. Players will experience all the thrills and dangers of authentic mercenary combat blasting their way through high intensity combat situations in the world's most dangerous hotspots in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Using any means necessary, players will need to uncover a complex plot and defeat an extremist organization determined to throw the world into global conflict. Failure is not an option.
Check back tomorrow for our feature on the game including hands-on with Payback and some time with the man behind the magazine... behind the game.












Comments
Panzy-ass pussies need not apply. Brilliant!
I think that game trailer just called me a pansy ass pussy. Which I guess implies that I won't be applying, because my foreign language skills are shot.
Pansy-ass Pussies need not apply? Best line in a trailer. Ever.
Dumbest question ever, but does the Soldier of Fortune series have anything to do with the magazine of the same name?
The ridiculously cheesy and over-the-top voice work makes me want to buy it. I don't care what kind of damn game it is.
Why does he look like the guy from Total Overdose?
I need some gameplay footage, STAT!
I can see the PC is not dying! As a matter of opinion, it seems to be the best choice for gamers wanting both PC exclusives, and the best of the consoles. Oh, and the controls rule. That last sentence reminded me of how I sounded in 1982!
woah
+100 hype points for this game
lol , i wonder how long it'll take for someone to come and mention the "word" that begins with G and ends with C
"Pansy Ass pussies need not apply"
I guess that disqualifies anyone who reads Kotaku.
Just kidding.
Anyone who cuts a video game trailer without gameplay footage is a pansy ass pussy and need not apply for my attention.
i wonder how long it'll take before i heard that word again
Seems rather cartoony compared to the last iteration of SoF. Hopefully they don't get rid of the hyper-violence that was so prevalent in the series. Otherwise, why bother making a third?
I gues anyone from Australia need not apply either. Damn the ratings system here. Damn it.
I like the trailer but everything I've seen of this game so far screams budget title. I think it'll be a bad move on their part if they release this at $60. There's no way this game could possibly compete at full price with everything else coming out in the next few months. Especially with Call of Duty 4 already getting a perfect 10 score in the first review I've read (OXM).
It bothers me that developers make mediocre games that go out of there way to get banned just so they can garner publicity to sell copies...
Granted the poster that was seen, I'm thinking Activision thought their IP had no more value in the market until they saw the overwhelming response from the audience after the info got leaked.
Quite an interesting direction they're going with the game.. I suppose it's easy to get lost in the fray of the archetype FPS. Good to see them going the way with a more open and less serious tone for the game (and in the character models too).
Ooo, I hope I'm man enough to play your video game. Pfft.
I dont see how this game could be anything but awful.
Not worth 60 bucks. nuff' said.
Pansy ass pussies?!
I'm fucking reserving this shit.
Sorry....someone needs to say this...
[www.gamespot.com]
lol...Chaos on the PS3 forums since Gamespot was the only site that gave RC a 7.5
Funny for real. I'm Symphonycometh there. :)
[www.gamespot.com]
Hehehe...wrong link on my original post.
@Sabre_Justice: Yes.
I love the final line
That's interesting. I'd like to know how it plays, though. That trailer makes it look like just another generic shooter. I have yet to check out the storyline, though, so that opinion may change.
The character is a little generically extreme, but that voiceover is pure brilliance!
How do you play it if you're always looking at yourself and not the shit you're supposed to be shooting?
Forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but I had no idea there was a "Soldier of Fortune" series of games before reading that plot synopsis. I stand by my original statement, though. That sounds like a generic shooter to me.
*shrugs*
Urge to kill.....rising....
SO another FPS! And just when I was starting to worry that the world had forgotten about this genre. :)
Man does that guy look so full of hatred in that clip. There really is nothing but nonstop killing in the trailer too. I'm not quite sure why people seem so enthusiastic about this game, to be totally honest. The thing even makes a big deal about calling you a pansy ass pussy if you get anything less than a hard-on from the action. Seems like a totally pointless game to me. I've already pretty much written it off
@dv8godd: Soldier of Piss-Poor Camera Angles! :D
If that is actually gameplay or in-engine footage... I think I like the stylized touch... it kind of looks like a graphics novel polished soft ambient shaded effect.
@armchairnixon: Exactly! I mean, seriously... wft?
@dv8godd: "wtf" too!
I just wet myself a little bit, with a big cheese eating grin on my face. I've played SOF at least 50 times, cover to cover. I've played SOF2 possibly 30 times, again, cover to f***ing cover. No other game series has given us real men who like to blow shit up a similar make believe experience like this one has. That's a wordy sentence - deal with it, pansies :^)
There has been an online petition for this game for 2+ yrs now. I thought all hope was lost. You guys do NOT know Activision, if you think this game could suck even a little bit. This game should be their flagship game. This is what PC gaming is all about in my books.
Look, you sit at work, bored and nervous all f***ing day long, and you want to kill your boss at least 20 times each day but you sit there and you take it, and you keep your civility up ALL day long because that's the kind of guy you are. But when you get home, you want to pop in some SOF3 and when you shoot the bad guy's head with a 12-gauge, you want to see it disappear in a vapor cloud of blood, see the headless corpse crumble slowly to the floor.
In your head you're thinking "this is my dick of a boss", so you shoot the corpse a few more times for good measure, pleased that the designers made it so realistic that each time you shot his leg, for example, a new wound appeared, and after 4 or 5 shots from the 12 gauge, the leg is just a blood stain on the ground. It's not really your boss, and your boss is in no danger of dying in such a horrific manner. But you feel a little bit better, and you sleep a little bit deeper that night.
*sigh*
Just found this video on Youtube...
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Looks like the gore is present and even more detailed than previous games! /glee
Boring trailer.
Minus the voiceover, this has to be one of the worst looking trailers I've ever seen. O_o
I think I am too much of a pansy ass pussy to subject myself to this crap.
Now excuse me, since I'm such a pansy ass pussy, I'll just go beat faces inside-out in Streets of Rage.
... did they use the same clip of the guy walking around and shooting at bad guys six times?
I liked the earlier gameplay trailers. This one made me NOT want the game.
I can see this game becoming a huge sucess in Japan
"Failure is not an option."
Don't you wish this applied to games and not just players?
@adamonfire: Thank you.
@tr0n: Damn it indeed.
@banmojo: If I knew who you were in real life I would call your boss and warn him that he has a ticking time bomb in the office.
Thank you God. The senseless violence... mmmmmm.
Yes! Another shooter game for us to go and kill people in 3rd world countries. Woohoo!
I'm really tired of these senseless games.
yeah the trailer was okay, but i loved that last line! :D
I will apply right now...
Hey there Salem. Rios on break for the week?
I actually HAVE a pussy so I guess this game isn't for me, huh?
@TheDollHouse: in that case, you suffer only the lesser, universal insult of "pansy ass" which, coincidentally, can be interpreted in a flowery way :)
I'd feel better about it if he were holding the rifle properly.
VIOLENCE + GUNS! :D
Ooo and thats a FN-SCAR I see in the first picture!
Did the trailer just insulted us?? That's it, I need to prove the trailer wrong.