Publisher: Activision Inc.
Developer: Raven Software Corp.
Category: Action
Release Dates
N Amer - 05/21/2002
- Also available on:
- XB
GameZone's Review
9.0
GZ Rating
| Gameplay | 8.5 |
| Graphics | 9 |
| Sound | 8 |
| Difficulty | Medium |
| Concept | 8 |
| Multiplayer | 9 |
| Overall | 9.0 |
Reviewer: Kevin “BIFF” Giacobbi
Review Date: 06/11/2002
"Soldier of Fortune 2 Double Helix will blow you away!"
Full Soldier of Fortune II Double Helix Review
8.4
GameZone's Preview
Michael Lafferty - 04/26/2002
News
Soldier of Fortune II TO THE XBOX
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, will be migrating onto the Xbox(tm)
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix - #1 best-selling PC game in
the U.S., U.K. and Australia
The title topped U.S. PC sell through charts in both revenue and units for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2002 according to NPD Intelect and was the #1 game in the U.K. for the week of June 8, 2002 as reported by Elspa/Chart-Track
Soldier Of Fortune II: Double Helix Top s Worldwide Sell Through
Charts
Just five days after its initial launch in the U.S., the game debuted as the #3 best-selling PC title by revenue for the week of May 19 - 25, 2002, according to NPD Intelect.
Solder of Fortune II: Double Helix Ships to Retail
The sequel to the award-winning Soldier of Fortune, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix drops players into the ranks of America's elite covert troops in a gritty and intense battle for survival.
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix has Gone Gold
The sequel to the award winning Soldier of Fortune, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix drops players into the ranks of America’s shadow soldiers in a gritty and intense battle for survival.
Description
In Soldier of Fortune II players once again assume the role of John Mullins, a military consultant working for the top-secret agency known as The Shop. In the game, players must make use of stealth, as well as firepower, to tackle a wide-range of missions including hostage rescue, intelligence gathering and search-and-destroy. To fully immerse players in the experience, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix brings the grittiness of combat to the PC like never before with incredibly detailed skeletal animations that enable lifelike character movements and per pixel hit locations for ultra realism. Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix also advances the genre with the introduction of a new random mission generator technology for both single and multiplayer. By entering variables into to game’s random mission generator players can create millions of single or multiplayer maps on-the-fly for endless replayability. In addition to the RMG maps, multiplayer in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix offers nine professionally designed maps, more than 100 unique model/skin combinations and four different game modes including and deathmatch, team deathmatch, elimination and infiltration.
Hardware Requirements
3D Accelerator Card (with 16 MB VRAM) with full OpenGL support; English version of Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Operating System; Pentium III 450 MHz or Athlon processor or faster; 128 MB or RAM; 1.3 GB of uncompressed free hard drive space (plus 300 MB for the Windows swap file); 100% DirectX 8.1compatible true 16 bit sound card and drivers; 8X-speed or higher CD-ROM drive; 100% DirectX 8.1 compatible mouse/keyboard and drivers; DirectX 8.1(included)
Notes
Soldier of Fortune 2 will ship with a violence lock that enables players to filter out most of the mature graphics and audio in the game.






