The Frenchies at Overgame have posted a preview of Soldier of Fortune 2 (linked through Babelfish) which features quotes from Activision's Matt Morten. There's also a mix of new and old screenshots included. Thanks Blues News.

If you care about these sort of things, Gaming Groove has posted a list of voice actors used in Soldier of Fortune 2, along with 7 character renders which look pretty cool.

HomeLAN Fed has an interview up with Rick Johnson, asking the Raven programmer about the recently announced multiplayer mode in Soldier of Fortune 2. There are questions about the late start of the MP project, the possibility of CTF being included, how many maps will ship, if there will be any MP-exclusive weapons, bots, and a few other things.

HomeLAN - Currently how many multiplayer maps will be in SOF2 and how would describe the maps in terms of settings and types?
Rick Johnson - We are looking to ship around 6 maps, possibly more, depending upon time and CD space (we are really squeezing to get the game onto 2 CDs right now). Maps range from outdoors, to city streets, roof tops/buildings, etc. We've tried to add in as much variety as possible.

CVG has a new preview of Soldier of Fortune2 that you might want to take a look at. The article includes some bits from Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software talking about the project in development.

Gamespy has posted a new Soldier of Fortune 2 sound diary, penned by Raven's Zachary Quarles. He talks about the sound feedback from John Mullins, the hour worth of music they have right now, working on EAX support and other tweaks and mixes.

To follow up on the announcement of Soldier of Fortune 2's multiplayer support, here are five screenshots showing some of that deathmatch action. We have both 800x600 and 1280x960 versions of the five screenshots.

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I also asked Raven programmer Rick Johnson about the possibility of a random map generator for the multiplayer game (as there is a random mission generator for the single player game)

rmg stuff won't be in for multiplayer (just not enough time for us to do it). it would be a matter of just sending a bunch of seed numbers to generate a map, so there would not be any downloading sort of speak, if we were to do it. It may be added later though.

In a move which will certainly be appreciated by online gamers, Activision and Raven have announced that Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix will include multiplayer support. For a long time it was unsure if SoF2 would have any multiplayer modes. It will ship with Free For All and Team Deathmatch multiplayer modes.

Multiplayer mode in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix features over 100 unique model/skin combinations so players can pick the perfect avatar, and with 12 - 14 in-view weapons the action is guaranteed to be fast and furious. Additionally, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix's multiplayer code is designed to be easily modified by the mod community. [...]

Soldier of Fortune 2 should ship sometime early next year.

I see on Blues News that CG Online has posted a brief Q&A with Raven's Brian Raffel, who answers questions about Soldier of Fortune 2. The questions are about a new sidekick, the storyline, new features, the violence, multiplayer and the expected game length.

Computer and Video Games is reporting that Raven's Soldier of Fortune 2 is on track for a mid to late February 2002 release in the US, according to an Activision spokesperson. Until now, the release date was just "Winter 2002". Saw that on Blues.

Computer and Video Games has posted an interview with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven, who chats about Soldier of Fortune 2. Though there's not much new info in this interview (questions are about the missions, weapons, multiplayer, mods and gore), there are eight screenshots to be admired.

Gamespy has posted the 7th installment of the Soldier of Fortune 2 Sound Diary. Raven's Zach Quarles talks about work on voice-overs and localization tasks, as well as the EAGLE tool for the Creative Audigy card and insights from John Mullins about the game and current events.

PC.IGN has whipped up a new preview of Soldier of Fortune 2, Raven's up and coming mercenary shooter. It's based on some demoing of the game by Raven and Activision. The preview discusses all the features of the game, such as weather effects, the enviroments, weapons and models, changes to the gore system, mission structure, AI and all the other things you could think of. If you're not too big a fan of reading lots of text, there are several old and new screenshots from the game too.

There's a new Soldier of Fortune 2 preview on Gamespot, based on some time playing the game at a recent Activision press event. Four new screenshots are included as well as quotes from Raven's Kenn Hoekstra.

Raven's Kenn Hoekstra has been interviewed on the Armchair Empire, talking about the upcoming Soldier of Fortune 2. There are questions about the GHOUL tech, new weapons and equipment, the Double Helix subtitle, scripted events and more. Thanks VE.

Raven's Kenn Hoekstra has been interviewed on Voodoo Extreme, answering questions about Soldier of Fortune 2. Apache asks about an ETA for the game, changes to the game since the WTC attacks, lack of footage showing the GHOUL2 model system, multiplayer, how long it takes to finish the game, SDK release, and more.

AVault has a Q&A with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software discussing Soldier of Fortune2 which is of course being worked on over there at Raven. SoF2 is apparently in the alpha stages.

GameOn has an interview with John Mullins, responsible for consultation with Raven Software on the Soldier of Fortune projects. (He's a real ex-special forces dude). Thanks Blues

The Adrenaline Vault has posted three more screenshots from Raven's upcoming Soldier of Fortune 2. Unfortunately these three aren't as good looking as the screenshots released last week.

Seems that everyone but us is getting the Soldier of Fortune 2 screenshot reach-around, as Voodoo Extreme has posted two more screenshots from Raven's upcoming FPS in addition to three previously published.

Over on PC.IGN are two more new screenshots from Raven's upcoming Soldier of Fortune 2. In related news, there's a new tweak guide for the original Soldier of Fortune.