Forgive me i've never played a Socom game before, shameful I know but I'm loving this beta, it controls well, the maps are great and the visuals are decent. Day one for me. Love it!
My fault has been with the community on the beta, a lot are quite hostile, not towards myself so far but to others for no good reason, mainly those with clan tags.
Serious players are serious.
It's why I stay off headset in online games. I know it's anti-social, but I really can't deal with people who have their 'game face' on.
wont stop me from buying the game though, cant stop people being pricks so its no major concern
@daytripper
I had played the original SOCOM as a Beta back in the PS2 days and then the SOCOM Confrontation beta earlier in the PS3's life. This one just felt very good when I played it though, so I have it pre-ordered.
the weapons feel good to handle/shoot, lot of snipers about but its fun finding them and tearing them a new asshole.
the game is not called socom 4 in europe, its called something else i think., socom and a codename
SOCOM Special Forces. Yeah some snipers but the maps are very well designed to stop that being overpowering. Lots of areas have cunningly placed scenery and foliage spoiling the spot for sniping - or at least making it less advantageous.
I like the more tactical nature of the gameplay and the classic modes are also good fun if looking for more tension.
@ onlineatron.
Same here I mean some of these morons think you have to play a certain way ie there way.
I tend to just jump in and do my own thing.
Its why I think ffa should be mandatory in any game.
1 on 1 and thats it baby make my fu**ing day. LMAO.
On topic.
I am glad to hear the positives on this one so far.
Arent the same crowd behind mag the developers?
Zipper or something like that I think.
yep, zipper interactive who made mag have done this, vastly improved over mag aswell imo, saying that dont take what i say as gospel, i'm known to much prefer 3rd person over 1st person. give it a try, as drdamn says, snipers yes but there are ways of dealing with them.
I enjoyed Mag alot more then most seem to, I bet Zipper does a bang up job on SOCOM.
Yeah funny that I found uc2 a bit tough online.
Maybe the tps view was part of it.
Obviously it could also be my crap aim.
Will give it a go alright as I have been interested in this one for a while.
Edit.
Hey OG we will have to team up on this one.
A couple of old fogeys. :)
i found uc2 online piss easy at first, then i left it for a couple of weeks, got slaughtered something like 6 kills 18 deaths 0_o and had to cope with higher rank players but it was still great fun!
i'm really surprised a game like socom isnt on the 360, i tried spec ops the line beta but that was seriously turd -socom would be perfect for Xbox Live but PSN will be alright. Might actually be tempted to buy a Move for this aswell.
I always find TPS view a bit confusing and if it's there then there needs to be a good reason - like a cover system. This one seems to work pretty well though - and the cover mechanic is a good enough reason. A number of people have commented that they could do with zooming the camera out a bit - which would probably help - and may well get implemented. The full game should support party's too - which the current beta doesn't.
SOCOM has always been a Sony franchise - actually one of their most successful shooter franchises - though largely in the US. This one is a full boxed release not a PSN title and has a proper SP campaign and 6 multi-objective co-op missions too.
Move implementation I found similar to KZ3. Great at mid to long distance, a bit trickier than a pad in enclosed areas. Here there is lots of control over dead zones though. You have three views, the default stoating around view, the aim mode and the down sights mode. The Move config allows you to set the dead zone (where you can point without turning at the centre of the screen) to be different for each view. So you can have a small dead zone for moving about and a big one for down the sights.
Pad for me I reckon.
I imagine move would take a bit of getting used to.
i tried move for kz3 and it was very smooth but i got a bit tired. i'll probably stick with the pad.
I wasn't impressed at all. Uncharted 2's multiplayer mechanics and graphics are better than this for a 3rd person. Just saying.
I couldn't even get it to download properly. It got stuck for me at 98% no matter if I rebooted my PS3, exited the game etc. I may try to download it again, but it also downloaded super slow for me and my internet speed is quite fast.
Also had trouble signing in to PSN itself, yesterday morning.
PSN is scrappy at the moment.
They reckon its those hackers.
Yeah, yesterday was when all the hacker trouble was. I didnt have any problems with PSN earlier today though, and the hackers have meant to have stopped now.
Seems to have gotten better now but they are a pain in the butt.
Just played a bit of it there now.
Man I could not get my head around the controls.
I mean I was looking up in to the sky.
I was pretty much unable to defend myself lol.
Yeah I thought, the other guys are using the same thing but no way could I get it,
Looks good visually and I may yet return but those controls. :(
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