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[Black Heart]

Why should I eventually decide to buy Socom? What's so good in it?

[jjmoohead]

Well its good for 2 great reasons

1) You can play online with the adaptor. Once the game and adaptor are purchased the gaming is free as long as you have internet of course. The online features 8 on 8 game play with 3 game modes (that i cant think of) and 12 maps to play. Along with the head set it makes the game very entertaining with a Counterstrike type feel to it.

2) You can play single player which is not exactly an easy thing to do. You get 4 guys on your team. yourself and 3 computer controlled players. Each one is a expert marks man and the AI is rather good. There are 12 mission that I know of and each one takes about 15 - 20 minutes on average to complete if your lucky to make it throught the mission. More times then not you'll find yourself dead rather early if you dont play the mission with stealth and good shooting. There are no power ups or healing kits so once your almost dead chance are good you will die. Dealth depends on where you get shot aswell. Snipers can take you with one shot as they tend to hit your head but up close pistol battles often result with 2 or 3 shots to the limbs that although takes your health down doesnt always kill you and I like that.

I have had the game about 2 weeks now including the rental time and I am only on mission 9 but that is mostly because I only play online, I don't think I will get sick of it any time soon.

There are many other great things to boot like the weapons. All real life weapons and you can only carry a primary and secondary making it more real life. The head set that you can get with the game also works in single player as it has voice recognition and you can command your seal team by holding down the button and telling them what to do "BRAVO STEALTH TO POINT ECHO" or "TEAM FIRE AT WILL" and they will acknowledge you. Tell me another game that you can do that with.

HOPE THAT HELPS!

[Black Heart]

That sounds interesting but I'm not sure my connection is good enough to play online games like Socom... It's too slow most of the time...

[jjmoohead]

I thought the same thing at first, but with most games like socom there are different servers for different areas of the world. For esample, east, west and central USA. My connection is still a little slow cause i have to play on a central USA server and im in Canada, but its still fun, and like I said there is a great single player game too.

I just got Tony Hawk 4 and NBA Live 2003 and both a great online games too, im not sure what can be done with 56K modems on the two games yet though

[MakgSnake]

Its the best team based army action game on any system. Its beautiful too. The movements are soo real. I even love the MUSIC which is there!