A poor effort with equally poor results
First, you insert the CD, click on the app and it loads the main screen. Thinking all is well it compiles a user profile for you. Next, it tells you that you didn't really "install" the game and have to go back and use the provided installer. OK, so I do this. After 10 minutes of download and install it finishes. I start the game now and it says that I need a system update. OK, another 15 minutes go bye and its updated. I relaunch the game and now it says that my user profile is corrupted, presumably because it created it before i installed the game. I have to go back, delete the old one and then reinstall. I do all of this and after a 1.5+ hours get to play the game. Two hours later, the servers go down.
What a joke. Didn't someone beta test this thing?
Graphics are fairly good. Not great, but good. Realism is very solid and the weapon selections are fairly diverse (not as much as COD though). Maps are huge. In fact, they are almost too big. I've gotten lost on a number of maps and since you cannot run with the night vision goggles ON, you end up wandering around in the dark half the time.
I liked the last SOCOM and I'm a fan of the series due to the higher realism, but this game is a total bust. The headset is the only thing worthwhile.