No Soldier of Fortune 2 Video
by Steve Gibson, May 06, 2002 3:40pm PDTVIDEO YANKED! In the spirit of underground guerilla marketing tactics, we managed to get a hold of this new Soldier of Fortune 2 video showing off lots of people dying. I guess it's appropriate in a way considering the news item this morning about Congress eh? This isnt an official Activision video or anything, so I guess this isnt officially SoF2. You could be downloading some random video with children eating puppies and wouldnt even know until you hit that play button. Imagine that, thousands of people watching kids eating puppies! But this is really SoF2, I promise. It's just over 14megs and you need DivX to play it btw. update: It seems that we just cant get away with what we used to. Activision came down on us and we caved like pansies asking us to remove the video. No word on why exactly they wanted it pulled, I'll try to find you guys a puppies video in place of it.
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And to those who got offended:
What were you expecting??
The gaming medium much like movies and has rating systems to alert consumers to their content..and before you quickly cry out “there was no rating on this video!!”…Don’t, you KNEW it was going to be a violent gory game, so why watch it and then start pontificating about how violent and gory it was? The solution is that you don’t watch videos about the game or buy or play it, plain and simple. Don’t whine and make insulting comments about a piece of work that some people have put a lot of effort into. Would you like it if we all came into your house and made fun of your fat wife or ugly children…no. This is a free country and you can say what you want of course, but grow up if something makes you ill DON’T stare at it. I think it’s great that developers come into the forums and respond and take criticism…but if your going to make comments insulting their work…we’d all like to see the ground breaking title your currently developing J
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We asked ShackNews to pull the SoFII video for a few reasons:
First and foremost: It is not an official trailer approved by our Marketing and PR departments.
Second: The trailer did not contain many items and logos which we are REQUIRED to have in. The most important one is the ESRB rating of M for Mature. Once this game received its rating, it is required to have that rating prominently displayed in ANY form of media (take a look at our print ads and you'll see). Our Official Trailer we released last week has it right up front for all to see. We all know this title is for adults 17 years and older, just as the original was. (And, no, this is not a statement saying "put that in and it will be OK!")
We are all VERY proud of this title and are rapidly nearing completion on it. The last thing we need to be doing is chasing down unofficial posts. We care a LOT about this property and will work hard to protect it.
On a side note: I was very pleased to see the fevered pitch that this trailer created, and rest assured, we DO read the boards. The was obviously some strong effort put into this video, and I hate to be the one to quash it (but DIVX 5.01?!? Man, stick with Alpha 3.11.... it's STILL the best compression ratio out there). Also, many thanks to Rodzilla for listening to my pleadings earlier today. Much appreciated.
Sorry to be the party pooper on this one. The game will be out REAL soon.. promise!
Matt Morton
Associate Producer
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
P.S. I'm STILL waiting to see the replacement puppy video....
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>>It seems that we just cant get away with what we used to. Activision came down on us and we caved like pansies asking us to remove the video.
Ya know...next time...you can always delay things a day or so and say you were out of town, or at the movies, or the parents for dinner etc, and just generaly out of touch! :)
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I know the Raven boys are good at what they do, but a bone sticking out of a guys leg while he gushes blood at my feet is not something I need nor want in a game.
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But it still rocks!
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I used to run around dark dungeons of monsters i had never seen before ... visiting hell or mars or something
now .. why should i buy SOF2 ? Only one kind of enemy (plus dog) , running around in a boring city .. and trying to kill humans as perversly as possible .
Excuse me , I'm gonna grab my shotgun off the wall and go into town .. might as well get the real thing
www.drac.org/sof2.zip
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ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/seriously/sof2.zip
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SoÂ… anywayÂ… when is it coming out?
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*pre-orders*
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http://stuman1337.homeip.net:1337/sof2.zip
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:)
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Oh baby I am so going to buy you.
I though this game was cool already (from other vids, pics, mp test) but this is just INSANE. Awesome shit, totally awesome!
Now they need to combine this level of goryness (sp?) and violence with GTA3 omfg!!!
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You realise of course that the most complaints will come from the people who were annoyed he shot the dog.
Lookin' forward to this one.
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