U-Games has a preview of Raven's upcoming Quake2 engine game, Soldier of Fortune. This is based on a meeting with Raven and Activision at the ECTS, and contains some screenshots. They talk about some of the technology and realism incorporated in the game and how Raven employed an ex-military consultant to get the game as close to a simulation as possible.

After the bloody horrors of Kingpin, you'd wonder if the world could be shocked to any greater degree by sheer bloodthirstiness in a first person shooter. Step in Soldier of Fortune, then, with an incredible array of corpses dancing to the tune of a hundred bullets ripping through them with deadly precision. However, the slightly depressing bloodbath of Kingpin here gives way to the intrigue of a genuinely well constructed simulation of mercenary warfare.

GameSpot UK has a new preview of Soldier of Fortune from Raven Software.

Stomped has scored a couple new screenshots of Soldier of Fortune.

The 3DUnlimited guys send word of a new Q&A session they have posted chatting it up with Bobby Duncanson of Raven Software discussing Soldier of Fortune, world politics, and the ever debated boxers or briefs question.

3D Action Planet has a preview up of Raven's Soldier of Fortune. They demo'd this at QuakeCon, and I played it a good amount. There is this one weapon you can use to shoot people, and it grips them, a la the Quake lightning gun. That's pretty smooth. It's pretty real to life, you get popped in the head, you're down for the count. But the action is fast... faster than Q3 - I think they said you are actually running around at 50mph.

When questions about the depth of the storyline and possible rivalry with Half-Life were brought up, he responded with the notion that "Soldier of Fortune is VERY story intensive and won’t disappoint the Half-Life fans." He was quick to add that "In fact, in Half-Life, the player was mostly a bystander in all of the action. In SoF, we drop you right into the middle of everything..."

NGN has done a preview and interview combo of Soldier of Fortune, Raven's mercenary game. The interview features a few questions with Kenn Hoekstra about the usual stuff, and the preview is much the same with three exclusive screenshots at the very end. Here's a clip about their rendering system:

NG: What are some of the features of the GHOUL rendering system?

Kenn: A brief feature list includes:

- 26 “Gore Zones” On Each Enemy And Player Model
- Bolt-On Models And Attachments, Such As Gore, Weapons And Accessories
- Multiple Skin Support (Character Variety – Over 100 Mix/Match Enemy Skin Pages)
- Accurate/Improved Lighting
- Animations Greater Than 10hz
- New Networking Model
- Per-Poly Physics/Collision Detection
- Lights Inside Ghoul Models

Still itching for more? There are 13 more screenshots and weapon info in the Shack SoF hands-on.

Marcus Whitlock of Raven Software has a pretty lengthy .plan update talking about progress of Soldier of Fortune. I actually got to check out the game a bit at QuakeCon99 which was really cool looking. At any rate here is a bit of what Marcus talks about, be sure to check out the full .plan

On the Soldier of Fortune front... I'm implementing the various deathmatch mods we're going to be including straight out of the box. Apart from standard deathmatch, there will be variants like assassin and arsenal (those of you who played TNP [Take No Prisoners] may recall these two). There will be other variants/mods but I won't go into them here just yet.

Also, there are 4 high res-ish Soldier of Fortune screenshots over at 3DU again, mainly showing off a great looking snowman.

GameFan has slapped up a new interview with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software talking about the Soldier of Fortune title. Thanks VE

The Quake2000 page has an interview with Jarrod Showers, an animator working on the Soldier of Fortune title from Raven Software using the Quake2 engine. While on the Soldier of Fortune tip, Kenn Hoekstra talks about pre-ordering SoF and John Scott has a work log of the latest progress of SoF.

The Pels Interactice page has slapped up a couple of new screenshots of the Raven Software Soldier of Fortune title.

AGN3D has scored a quick AVI with footage from the Raven Software Soldier of Fortune title. It's a pretty violent clip so if that is your thing, make sure and check it out eh? While you are at it they also have a few new screenshots.

The B4Itsdone guys do it again, this time around they interview Kenny Hoekstra of Raven Software. Speaking of Raven, there is a chat log over at Rust of the recent online chat-fest they had with Raven employees.

Some Raven stuff going on: There's an edited chat log over at Rust's (thanks loony), and 3dap interviews Kenny.

FGN has a quick cinematic clip of audio (which they think they own the rights to or something) from Soldier of Fortune...I better shaddup and link it before they get their panties in a bunch :)

A .plan update from Wiliam Mull announces an IRC chat tonight talking about Soldier of Fortune.  John Scott and Nathan Albury, Programmers on Soldier of Fortune, will be doing the IRC chat thing, answering some of your questions, this Thursday at 7pm cst/8pm est in #gamedesign on irc.3dnet.net. Head to Rust for more info. While on the subject of SoF, Dan Kramer over at Raven has a brief report of SoF deathmatch in action.

UGN3D has a new interview with Kenny Hoekstra of Raven Software, says it was posted yesterday but I don't know how I missed it. Oh well oops.

While at GA-Source you should check out the new Soldier of Fortune screenshots they scored.