The body-specific damage indication on NPCs is still present, so it is possible to blast off limbs and heads with constant gunfire or close range shotgun blasts.
In-game gun models, whether you're holding the gun or the NPCs are, they still look much more like real guns than the goofy blocks from the first game. Character models are much smoother and more human, and while NPC movements may look goofy, they at least function.
From the game's prologue in 1980s Prague to the jungles Colombia to the mountains of northern Russia to a warehouse district in Hong Kong to an airport in Switzerland to a cargo freighter in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and even The Shop's home office in Dallas, Texas. The environments look even more detailed than in the first game, the variety in lighting is rich and realistic, albeit not quite as varied as Thief: Deadly Shadows, and the variety in locales is just as diverse as the first game.
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While the first Soldier of Fortune runs on a modified version of the id Tech 2 engine, Double Helix got an upgrade to the id Tech 3 engine, the very same one Raven Software used for Star Trek: Voyager-Elite Force, Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Eliminating Prometheus isn't gonna be easy, but saving the world never is. Their agents know his every move, leading him to believe there's a mole in The Shop. Everywhere Mullins goes, Prometheus is expecting him. What he discovers soon into his investigation is a link to a shadow organization called Prometheus, the virus in question is a bioweapon called Romulus, and Prometheus has created a computer virus-Remus-to delete any and all computer files The Shop has concerning the organization and its weapon. The Shop has learned of a mysterious viral outbreak in a small Colombian village and has sent one of their top operatives, John Mullins, to investigate. It was only natural that publisher Activision would commission a sequel from Raven Software, and while an imperfect game, Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix is still a solid enough effort worthy of the Soldier of Fortune namesake.
The original Soldier of Fortune was a solid enough success both critically and commercially, which is really something when you consider that it was based off of, of all things, a magazine. While Raven Software and Activision's Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix is also available on the Xbox, this review focuses on the PC version of the game. Title: Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix.
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