
Bet On Soldier is a French FPS released in 2005 and a sequel of sorts to the developer's very love-or-hate it previous FPS, Iron Storm. The game's big gimmick is money management: forget regenerating health or scavening medkits and ammo from slain enemies, replinishing everything from reparing your armor to replinishing ammo must be paid with in-game currency. $$$ are obtained by killing enemies and doing s1ck headshotz and killing them with explosive barrels will earn more cash. Even saving at checkpoints cost money! Further tying into the "money" theme, you can hire set your loadout before each missions, hire from a variety of mercenaries and select which mid-boss you will fight in a televised battle midway through the level (a very neat but rather underused idea).
The plot is that something something dystopain future something blood sport something amnesia somethin something revenge. It's not terribly interesting or original.
BOS doesn't do a great impression what's with its low production values (this was the same year as FEAR and Resident Evil 4), abundance of bugs and poor English localization (although being a dirty frog, I can experience the original French writing and acting which is not too bad). The gameplay gimmick outlined above will scare away most observers as a lesser-skilled player can easily end up in an unwinnable situation. The game does offer some mitigating factors (changing map restore ammo and health, after the first level you get allies who can repair your ammo for free, etc) but if you're the kind of person who feels the need to compare Crash Bandicoot to dark souls, Bet On Soldier probably ain't for you.
As someone who likes money management in games though, BOS fills a niche and I'm rather enjoying it so far. And it's literally One Buck in the Steam summer sale, so...