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SOCOM Confrontation
The SOCOM series has long been associated with online game play, but its first foray onto the PS3 has been touted as the ultimate next-generation online combat experience.
What we have here is a 3rd person shooter with seven maps, small and big, depending on how many players join the game. There is promise (from the developers) that new maps will be available for download, but seven maps do really look quite bare for a game that has absolutely no campaign mode. In simple terms: if your PS3 is not connected to the world wide web, you have absolutely no reason to buy the game, unless of course you decide to go online because of it. So, the question is, do you really need this?
SOCOM is a straight-forward deathmatch online multiplayer game which has you siding with the Navy Seals, Special Air Service or Kommando Spezialkrafte (Germany), to name but a few. Once in the lobby you are presented with the choices of a 4-on-4, 8-on-8, or 16-on-16 battle, which automatically changes the size of the seven available maps so that you don't have eight players running in a map so huge that you only see one enemy soldier every three minutes.
There is a nice selection of weapon choices, which is simple to access. From machine guns to shotguns and from claymores to C4s, they're all there. When in battle the weapons do seem to be a bit light in-hand, but it is really something that you can work around by selecting another set of weapons better suited to your style.
Stages are quite well developed, even though some of them are just re-painted stages from the online PS2 SOCOM games, but blending in with the surroundings is fun.
Problem is that this is a game that does everything right, but gives us nothing new to make it essential enough to return to.
In the midst of games such as Killzone 2, Resistance 2 and Call of Duty 4, all adding a campaign mode and a decent multi-player selection, it is very difficult to imagine why anyone would want to buy this instead. If you are a die-hard SOCOM fan or an individual that craves even more military warfare than what is there already, it might just be worth taking the bullet.
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