Whereas John came in relatively late on during the development of the original Soldier Of Fortune and didnвЂ™t get to influence design as much as he would have liked, the situation for SOF2 has been different.

The OICW carries an onboard computer that actually identifies potential threats by flashing up a warning message in the sight saying 'hostileвЂ™, or in the case of General Franks, 'bad guy' Jordan'S Digital Thrills For those of you who arenвЂ™t Guns&Ammo fibers, this real-life prototype pon has, according to Mr Mullins, been in development for 15 years but is not yet being used by the US militaryД«ecause of technical problems. The weapons in the game are all based on guns that are in use or you mid encounter on a mission - AK 47s, AK74s, RPG 7s and various other pons that the enemy might have.'ДЄlas, if you find it difficult to get hold of these particular guns to bark upon your real-life killing e, youвЂ™ll find it nigh-on impossible ing your hands on SOF2's star pon, the OICW, or Objective try Combat Weapon. There arenвЂ™t any proton guns - or whatever the hell it was in the first game. YouвЂ™re not going to slap around a 50-calibre machine-gun - not unless youвЂ™re Arnold Schwarzenegger. John Mullins, an ex-Green Beret I with 20 years service to his name, and whose exploits the game is looselyД«ased upon, believes realism is where Soldier of Fortune 2 wins out over its contemporaries: 'WeвЂ™ve tried to keep it as realistic as possible. When itвЂ™s finished it will be so difficult to differentiate between the game and real life that people will run out their homes and shoot each other in the head the moment theyвЂ™ve finished playing it. A game, like a film or even a book, may trigger an action in an already disturbed mind, but itвЂ™s certainly not the cause.ДЄnd so we come to the evil FPS I known as Soldier Of Fortune 2. On one side youвЂ™ve got those who enjoy gaming and the escapism it offers, and on the other side there are those who rarely play or understand them yet are quick to cite them as the reasons behind mass shootings and general moral decay. It may be crass to draw comparisons, but videogaming presents a similar cultural divide. OK, the acts of terrorism we all witnessed last September were completely deplorable and totally unjustifiable, but this current situation is also partly to do with the fact that two totally different cultures have little or absolutely no understanding of each other. Get a grip George - itвЂ™s not bloody Lord Of The Rings.

Meanwhile, President George W Bush is trying to convince the world that this is a war of good against evil.

Has anyone noticed that in press conferences the United StatesвЂ™ General Tommy Franks refers to al-Qaeda terrorists as 'The Bad GuysвЂ™? Why not just use the term terrorist? Maybe itвЂ™s a subtle reminder to us civilians that these people are bad because, after all, itвЂ™s easy to forget that flying passenger jets into skyscrapers and thereby killing thousands of innocent people in the process is actually wrong.

Soldier of fortune 2 gore