Socom 4

[Shojin]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/...-its-official/

In-game screens. (Spoilered for huge)

Spoiler: show

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Zipper has announced that they will be working on the next installment of Socom, taking back over from Slant Six who made Confrontation. It's been in development for a while, and they say they will still be supporting MAG 100%, they have 2 teams with some crossover.

- Aiming for a Fall 2010 release.
- The singleplayer campaign is set in South East Asia, among jungles, cities, small towns and mountains.
- The campaign will be 14 missions and will contain around 12 hours of gameplay.
- Possible campaign coop but nothing confirmed yet.
- The environment will be destructible. (I guess like BFBC2?)
- 32 Player online, with 5 man squads.

Not sure if there is an official site up yet.

[Insanecyclone]

Yessss

[Qalbert]

mine was first by timestamp

[*Shinzon*]

I was just going to post this. I'm curious to see how people feel about Zipper taking back over the franchise considering how poorly slant 6 did. Socom 3 really wasn't appreciated by the Fan base and with the advent of Modern warfare's being fired and Activision planning action adventure cod rofl, I'm hopping this gets enough attention that they take it seriously.

Hopefully their mag experimental helps out with their online play.

[Sarial]

- 32 Player online, with 5 man squads.

I'm no math major, but this doesn't make sense to me?

[*Shinzon*]

I'm no math major, but this doesn't make sense to me?

It's too early to speculate, but I'm assuming it might have something to do with the structure of the lobbies, or it could be something similar to the commander style game play of mag.

[Kyo]

I hope this wasnt their huge announcement for a sequel today :l

But to add, thats 17 exclusives this year.

[izembo]

this is the sequel, look at the post on the blog, says about gt having the trailer up later

[Kyo]

Yeah I skimmed over it and didnt see it, thanks for pointing that out.

[Kaisha]

Not sure how I feel about this given how badly Socom: Confrontation stained the series for me.

People buy it for the multiplayer, but at this point MAG feels more like the obvious choice for a team-based shooter for me just due to the ongoing battles between the three factions, rather than just hopping into a random 8/16/32-player ranked match and calling it a day.

Unless the single-player campaign is all sorts of awesome (was never really a strong point in the series for me), it would take a fair bit to catch my interest.

[Insanecyclone]

Slant did Confrontation and Zipper did the previous games. Zipper will make this version much better than confrontation.

[Sepukku]

I FREAKING -LOVE- SOCOM. OMG THIS IS LIKE CHRISTMAS IN MARCH FOR ME.

I still regularly play Socom:Confrontation (despite its mediocrity, the DLC and patches made it a playable game eventually) and hearing its returning to its amazing Zipper roots makes me -PUMPED-. When I go to pick up FFXIII I'll inquire about reserving my copy already xD

[Lucavi]

Just give me some kind of cover mechanic and I'll buy it.


Its as simple as that. ARE YOU LISTENING, DEVELOPERS?!

[fren.]

This is gonna be bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4z51mrX_sE

^ Best shooter ever. Then they decided to go down the path of Ghost Recon and essentially fuck up the series. If MW2 implemented that sort of hit detection the game would be tits.

Edit: I didn't realize they got rid of those Slant 6 retards, some hope, even though Socom 2 was the most unbalanced shit ever. Who remembers Breach on Enowapi?

[Sepukku]

SOCOM 2: NEVER FORGET!

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

just read about this, f'n stoked man

[Insanecyclone]

GameTrailers TV is showing the trailer tonight right?

[Shadowhusky]

Socom 1 and 2 online were the best things ever. Nothing will ever come close to them again.

[Kaisha]

Did Socom2 ever have a means of cheat protection or vote-kick? People GameSharked the fuck out of #1 a couple months after release.

Slant did Confrontation and Zipper did the previous games. Zipper will make this version much better than confrontation.

Already well aware. It just bugs me that I'd have to basically rebuy my 'game' just to get a non-shitty version of something I paid for.

[Insanecyclone]

GT TV started