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I've been playing this game for quite some time, and I have to say that Soldat is one of the best free games I've ever seen. I've spent countless hours playing this little shooter, and it only seemed like a few minutes.
This freeware game has a simple concept: shoot everything that moves. Your role is a little shooter, in an enclosed map (either one that is default, or a custom one you made and/or downloaded), equipped with two weapons. You can carry a primary firing weapon, and a secondary weapon. The primaries range from dual Desert Eagles and MP5's to miniguns and .50 sniper rifles. There are 4 secondary weapons that you can choose from, which are a USSOCOM pistol, a throwable/stab-able knife, a chainsaw (hellooo one-hit, brutal kills), and the meanest gun in the game: an anti-tank rocket launcher that requires you to crouch just to use it! You can't forget grenades, either. These little babies can save your virtual-life sometimes, if thrown at the right times, or kill the person that just took you down with a desperation-grenade.
The gameplay is very profound. There are 7 game modes, which are: Deathmatch, Pointmatch, Teammatch, Rambomatch, Capture the Flag, Infiltration, and Hold the Flag. Deathmatch is the standard shoot-everything-that-moves style. Pointmatch is similar to DM, but you go for a certain amount of points instead of kills. Teammatch is a simple team-DM style of gameplay. Infiltraion is a variation of CTF, except you must either defend your base from the enemy team, or run into the opposing team's base, steal their flag, and retreat back to your base. Rambomatch has you against other players, but you must find and weild a bow that shoots either super-powered arrows, or flaming/explosive arrows in order to receive points for kills. There is also a Realistic option, that allows you to have realistic effects in the game. These effects range from being hurt when landing from a high fall, to lower health and more weapon 'bink.'
Sound is very well done, also. The three soundtracks that come with the game are heavy-metal, which suits the game's style. The gun sounds are very realistic, and nothing sounds as if it was done by an ameteur.
There is a multiplayer, as well as a singleplayer gamemodes in this game, and best of all: the online multiplayer is free! There's always a multitude of servers available for play, and almost always have people in them. There's available filters, so you can find just non-password protected games, or even just Deathmatch games. Online play is very hectic, so the text chat that you are able to use, is rarely even used, or you'll be quickly shot down by your opponents. There are, however, pre-programmed taunts that you can do, as well as little 'emotes'. By setting up your keyboard, you can have your character say "Prepare to be terminated!" with a press of a few keys. And to do little emotes, you simply press '/' and then an emote command, which can be found in the manual, as well as other command lines. A very funny 'emote' is where you can hear your soldier unzipping his pants, and then seeing him 'relieve' himself... But I'll let you figure out how to do THAT one on your own ;). Even though online multiplayer can be hectice, I rarely have any lag whatsoever, and I'm using dial-up. So this game is very dial-up friendly.
The options available for customization are almost infinite. You are able to customize the colors of your character's clothes, helmet, and hair. You can even choose whether you want dogtags or a gold chain (which you can actually see)! There's an option to register the game (which is a $9 fee), which allows you to have Registered interfaces, a custom MP3 playlist, as well as more options. Now, the reason that the customizable options seem infinite are because there are custom mods (yes, they're legal mods) that are made by players, that change the entire look of the game graphically. You can mix-and-match mods, if you wish, by extracting only single graphics, or changing the entire game visually. You can also make your own maps with a mapmaker. The default mapmaker isn't as good as the most popular 3rd party mapmaker (which is called Polyworks). As well as making your own maps, you can also make your own bots, which allows you to create some interesting AI characters. One other interesting way to mod the game, is to change the weapon's specifications by modifying the game's Weapons.ini file (which is perfectly fine, because it will show up with (WM) in the server list, standing for Weapon Mods). In this file, it shows a legend with what all the values stand for and such. You can make a pistol shoot like a .50 cal sniper rifle, or even make the already-deadly MP5, into an unstoppable rocket-firing automatic weapon. Not many people do this, however, since it takes away from the fun.
You're able to download this game at the main website, which is located at: www.soldat.pl The file is 11MB, so it shouldn't take too long to download it, even on a dial-up connection. Now that you've read my review, I hope you'll feel the urge to get out and download it, and shoot up the other little soldiers!
