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 wonÂ’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..."