Concerning recent news that all support on Bet on Soldier has been stopped, is completely false.

Both us (Digital Jesters) and Bet on Soldier Developer (Kylotonn) still will continue support for Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport with patches, compatibility issues and anything else that crops up in the future.

There has been a misunderstanding on the side of German Publisher, Frogster and there is to be an announcement by them very soon to clear up their position on the game.

To say again. Digital Jesters and Kylotonn have not stopped supporting Bet on Soldier and will not stop supporting for the near future.

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"Money is the root of all evil," or so says the clich?d monologue in Bet on Soldier. In spite of the uninspiring The Running Man storyline, the game adds a unique, bottom-line driven twist to the saturated FPS genre that, at least for a brief moment, conceals the monotony of headshots.

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Bet on Soldier is a sci-fi-themed first-person shooter that takes place in a crazy war-torn world where the primary form of televised entertainment is one-on-one gladiatorial battles that break out in the middle of an otherwise normal battle. While that might sound like just the sort of gameplay and plot hook that might drag in all of you people waiting patiently for a game based on The Running Man, Bet on Soldier is a collection of half-baked ideas wrapped in a buggy mess of an engine, and the end result is a very bad game, overall.

Each mission begins with a soldier loadout screen where you can purchase weapons, various types of armor, and mercenaries to assist you along the way. You'll also choose which champions you'd like to face in each mission. This is where the whole Bet on Soldier concept comes into play. When you encounter these champions, the game breaks into a cutscene that plays the intro of a TV show called Bet on Soldier. These battles are treated like a televised sport, but they boil down to your trying to win as quickly as possible to earn more money. The solo battles are dull and fairly lifeless, plus they're jarring and intrude on the rest of the game.

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Innovation in FPS’s has been slow the last few years as developers have struggled to make large leaps forward brought about by select elements from the past like mouselook and leaning. Lately it has seemed as if most games are made with the “bigger, better, more” mentality. Better graphics, bigger guns, and more players on a server.

But publisher Digital Jesters together with French developer Kylotonn Entertainment are betting that they do have the next big leap forward – The Casino FPS, officially called Bet On Soldier.

No, Bet On Soldier doesn’t feature gunfights amidst roulette tables, one armed bandits, or 38-year old cocktail waitresses with bad teeth; it takes place in a future of Running Man-style television shows where governments and citizens resolve conflicts and make fortunes through wagers placed on mercenaries like your character – Nolan Daneworth. I could go into more of the story, but I assure you, you won’t care or feel like it is anything new.

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Shooters sure have gotten pretty these days. Sometimes you can make it look really good and get away with mediocre gameplay, but a franchise doesn't get that luxury too often. Other times, you can have an average-looking game with great play value, but the demand often favors bells and whistles. With shooters being such a competitive market, and with increasing competition on the console side, a dev house really has to bust its butt to get some footing and hold onto it.

Enter Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport, created by Kylotonn, a Parisian developer previously known for Iron Storm, from which BoS draws inspiration here and there. There's none of the sniper aggravation, though, and the physics engine and character models have been completely overhauled. However, the normal mapping on the character models carries over the "plastic action figure" we've seen before, with an apparent layer of sweat that makes everyone gleam at close range. Overall, though, BoS is a good-looking game, with some fairly subtle light bloom, huge zones, and detailed terrain. Death is also gruesome, which may be good or bad depending on your tastes. The splatters of blood and the ragdoll death animations will probably be an acquired taste, but it's a taste most of us shooter fans have gotten used to by now. BoS is a pretty chunky game, in fact, but there's no dismemberment, just sprays of blood and falling bodies.

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