Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune (Chaos Engine in the EU) is a run-and-gun overhead shooter. Sixteen levels (in four groups of four) await the players in the game. The basic gameplay is in an open air setting, with bridges…
Soldiers of Fortune is an adventure developed by The Bitmap Brothers, released 1 February 1993 on Game Boy Advance, Amiga CD32, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Soldiers of Fortune is
Soldiers of Fortune is an adventure game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and released in 1993. It was published by Amiga, Inc.. It is available on Game Boy Advance, Amiga CD32, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, BlackBerry OS, DOS, Legacy Mobile Device, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on J2ME. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The setting is a steampunk Victorian era England. A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in the England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society, led by Baron Fortesque (based upon Charles Babbage), a grand inventor. Fortesque then retro engineered many of the futuristic contraptions, creating an entirely different, alternate timeline. Baron Fortesque then succeeded in his greatest creation yet: the Chaos Engine, which was able to experiment with matter and the very nature of space and time. Unfortunately for the rest of the proud kingdom, the Engine then proceeded to become sentient, captured and…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 34 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Soldiers of Fortune holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 (minimum 2.5 GHz), 1 GB RAM and GeForce 6200 or ATI Radeon X300. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
Official trailer
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