- Publisher: Activision Value
- Release Date: Nov 19, 2007
- Also On: PC, Xbox 360

- Summary:
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- Developer: Cauldron Ltd.
- Genre(s): Action, Shooter, Shooter, First-Person, Modern, Modern, Arcade
- # of players: Up to 12
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 14
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Mixed: 9 out of 14
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Negative: 5 out of 14
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If you are a fan of the series and can handle some of the hang-ups found in this latest chapter then by all means snatch it up, I know I could use more people online to play with. However, most FPS gamers looking for the next best thing will find Payback a bit too much on the derivative side to warrant its full price tag.
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PSM3 Magazine UKIgnore the gore and this is an average shooter. [Feb 2008, p.78]
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Soldier of Fortune: Payback has one thing going for it: excessive dismemberment. Everything else is standard stuff for a shooter. Yet, I must admit, that I get a guilty pleasure playing Payback. Though it's not a good game, it's still fun to see body parts fly.
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What we don’t understand is why someone allowed this to soil the reputation of one of the best FPS series of the last generation.
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For some unknown reason Activision took a pretty respectable franchise (I still play SoF2 from time to time to this day, and it is still installed on my PC), and chucked it in the garbage.
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This shooter is a painful exercise in pattern memorization plus frustrating trial-and-error gameplay.
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When Soldier of Fortune Payback isn't being generic and shallow, its being utterly crap and thus does nothing to mitigate its gleeful and deliberate xenophobia.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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NotTellingFeb 21, 2008
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WolfeS.Dec 1, 2007
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ToddK.Jan 3, 2008
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TimD.Dec 4, 2007
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