In Soldier of Fortune you play John Mullins. You are the best there is. The only thing colder than the steel in your hands is the ice that runs through your veins. You had three tours in Vietnam and got three Purple Hearts for your trouble. Army Special Forces trained you as part of the controversial PHOENIX group to assassinate high-ranking Vietcong officers and, in the process made you a lethal weapon. You've seen things that would make the bravest of men wake up in the middle of the night screaming and you've lived to tell about it.
The war is over and so is your military career. You're in business for yourself, comrades in war with Aaron "Hawk" Parsons and Sam Gladstone - buddies from your days in the service. You get most of your business from a U.N. anti-terrorist group known as "The Shop". The pay is good and their cheques never bounce.
You have just received a communiqué from "The Shop". Something nasty is going down beneath the streets of New York City. Get your gear and get Hawk on your mobile.... This job's not going to wait.
You must use any means necessary to find and secure four stolen nuclear warheads. Track and stop the terrorist organization responsible for the theft before they can carry out their threat to national security. Dispatch as many terrorists, skinheads and enemy soldiers as necessary to complete your mission. Failure means more than just going home in a bag, it could mean global thermonuclear holocaust.