

It’s the most popular mode by far, mainly because it’s the most team-oriented. Slower, Faster, Kill, Kill, KillĪt the slower-paced end of the spectrum is the Infiltration mode - in which one team must infiltrate the opposition’s camp and retrieve a briefcase, while the other defends it.

Which is the best way to attract two very different sets of audiences. With no pretensions of rewriting multiplayer shooters or offering a sophisticated, thinking fragger's battlefield, SoFII inhabits the middle line between Counter-Strike's subtle, teambased 'realism’ and Quake Ill’s fast-paced killing-frenzy. Although it’s far behind the online popularity of Half-Life and all its modded incarnations, it’s in the same tier of popularity as the other main contenders -just behind Medal Of Honor and Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and catching up all the time.Īnd it’s not difficult to see why. It might not have been universally loved as a singleplayer game, but Soldier Of Fortune II is making a killing online.
