Review edited 3 times...true disapointment. No replay Value. A mix of Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell without quality.
2nd update as of april 30th!!!! I'm really tired of the enemy AI. Same movements, always on the phone, always rushing toward you. Some of them even attack you continously with ROCKET LAUNCHERS! I mean, WHATTHEFROCK!? So much for tactical shooter. I even had a battleship bombing my whole team ; I never knew sandbags were so resistant to heavy explosions. If you shoot a perched sniper and let's say you hit his leg, he won't die. You'll see him stumble and shoot you INSTANTLY with no need to aim. Some enemies seem to be invicible; you shoot 2 bullets, they fall and get up, one more bullet, fall and get up,2 more again, still gets up, and then 1 headshot! You simply empty your magazine, and then you run and pick a dead enemy's weapon. You spray everywhere. Stealth kills are very rare. Night missions with the female character are still very boring. I just skip every cinematic; story is that bad. The missions are always the same; boring. It really feels like a bad FPS. The game doesn't really require any skills. It's a call of duty meets gears of war, only worse! I wanted to try the online missions but I can't. This game won't last long in my library; it's not a keeper. And what's up with the mission locations looking all the same? This is an Arcade Shooter at best.
I pre-ordered the Socom bundle, the one with the PSMOVE and the gun. I was really eager to try it. As soon as I arrived home yesterday, I opened the box!!!!
WOOOOOOW, what a let down. I'm used to stealth, silent kills, team work, flashbangs, accurate shooting, crouching, big maps.
The campaign maps are VERY narrow. It' almost linear. You can't really hide. Whenever there is action, everybody is running everywhere and it's a battlezone. You just shoot everywhere. There is no stealth. It's run and gun. Even the way you control your teammates is bad. Socom 2 is the best Socom game to date. And what's up with the crosshair? They really screwed this game. What is the point of having health regeneration over time when you are supposed to play a ''realistic'' game? The enemy AI is bad also. The feeling I had when playing Socom died. This one feels like a bad FPS. I don't even want to try the online.
Socom used to be about skills and patience. Silence. Stealth. Team work.
IT DIED!
Oh and besides, I think the idea of giving the game a ''story'' for the solo campaign isn't such a good thing. The story is bad, and I personally don't care about a story in a FPS game. this game is for kids IMO.
Don't bother with the PS MOVE. It is really bad with this game.
I'm sad to say this, but Call Of Duty beats Socom.
NEW!!!!!!!!!!! I have now played 15 hours of the solo campaign...it's still very narrow, it's still run and gun. No pistols? No grenade arc when you throw them(meaning you never know WHERE they will land)? Cover system sucks. And the controls with the ps move are still clunky making it a hassle to do most of the moves you are supposed to(ie try throwing a grenade without pressing another button using the SOCOM gun). You have no freedom at all in this game. It's ''go to point A'', ''go to point B'', etc...You can't capture enemies. I find my buddies, team yellow and team blue, to be completely useless. Sometimes my character will simply not die after he has recieved 20 something bullets. There is no need to use strategy in the campaign. Sometimes(often), a huge gunfight starts, you kill all the enemies, then you continue for about 500 meters and you have enemies standing there as if they didn't hear the gunshots. The enemies simply run towards you all of the time. And expect snipers every 200 feet. The game truly is bad. This has nothing to do with SOCOM.