First Timers Only

User Rating: 2 | SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs PS3
If you are a fan of SOCOM I and/or II single player do not buy this game , you will be disappointed. Rent it.
What was great about the earlier games were the fact that you could control your fireteam using various commands. "Breach, bang, clear!, "Go silent etc." That's all gone. Basically you can point where you want your team to go and thats about it. By being able to control the team you were able to accomplish the mission in a variety of ways. It's almost like playing on rails in SOCOM 4. One fireteam is heavy , the other is silent. It's awful. It takes all the aspects that made the first two SOCOMs have that sense of immersion and throws it out the window. Basically you're just working to finish the game. My best guess is that they are marketing it towards a demo that is less interested in the tension of playing a stealth game and more interested in spraying and praying. Which, by the way, gets a suprising number of headshots.

No sidearms. Mods for guns are earned during combat so you left wondering what improvements have been made to your weapon during a gun fight.



Boring, typical story. Jungle, warehouse, jungle, ghetto, jungle. etc. Overall a major let down.