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Socom 4: is receiving many average reviews

Still buying can't live without new Socom! 22 12.36%
 
Won't buy now 36 20.22%
 
Will buy at reduced price 25 14.04%
 
Meh critic reviews don't influence me 28 15.73%
 
Why change what works Zipper! 25 14.04%
 
See results 42 23.60%
 
Total:178
Notorius.A.i.G on 15 April 2011

I was expecting Socom 4 to be in the 75 - 80 range in terms of reviews. This is disappointing. But the FW sales could still be quite suprising. ( Especially if it launches at around 500,000 ) I might pick this one up if it drops price.



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Chroniczaaa on 16 April 2011
AnarchyWest said:

I am a big Socom fan. I still consider Socom 2 the best online game ever over 500 hours of playing it back in the day.

Socom 3 was a let down, Combined assault was a let down...Confrontation was a return to Socom but the developers did a sloppy job, Socom 4 is a complete sell out it's Call of Duty in 3rd person. Zipper completely removed everything that was great about Socom and turned Socom into a generic shooter. I find it hilarious that they think that if they make it like Call of Duty a mainstream game people will swtich to Socom...sales will prove them wrong.

The ironic thing as bad as the reviews are and as disappointed I was with the beta, i'm most likely still buying it Tuesday

Hopefully Zipper will listen to their fans when this game bombs, it deserves the reviews its getting so far.

I couldn't possibly agree more.



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Superman4 on 16 April 2011

I actually think the game sucks. It looked good but the controls and veiwing ability are typical Socom. I guess if you like the franchise it will be ok. 



oldschoolfool on 16 April 2011

Socom just isn't what it used to be. I tried the beta and personally thought it was pretty bad. Maybe the single player campaign can save this game. I still hope it does well.



Troll_Whisperer on 16 April 2011
Gilgamesh said:

Thats not average thats bad!


69 average is bad? You know the game rating is broken when an 8 is average and anything below is mediocre at most...

OT: Let's see, bad reviews did not sees to affect Homefront sales too much. As for the game quality, I can't say anything because I've never been into SOCOM.



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non-gravity on 16 April 2011

I might have tried this one out for the singleplayer, but not anymore. 



Lyrikalstylez on 16 April 2011

I heard the single player was weak, Since Im not a big multi-player guy....Im gonna pass



Brutalyst on 16 April 2011
Lastgengamer said:
Gilgamesh said:

Thats not average thats bad!

 

Yeah, the destructoid review is especially harsh, which is bringing down the score on metacritic.com. I can't help but wander how badly this will effect sales.


Jim Sterling did the review, he is a prat and I pay no attention to his reviews anymore. I mean he gave Fist of the North Star a 9/10 for christ sake, I trusted him then and that game while a pile of dung (like what just about every other reviewer said).



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huaxiong90 on 16 April 2011
TT Makaveli said:

hmm...Sony really got it bad with some exclusives like Move Heroes, Motorstorm Apocalypse or Socom 4..

- Motorstorm's score isn't too bad. It's actually decent.

- I have yet to see a Move game that actually looks good. If they're not going to make innovative use of the hardware, then they deserve the reviews they're getting.

- SOCOM 4 aimed for mainstream COD appeal rather than what made 1 and 2 so great. Confrontation was back on the right track if it wasn't so broken.

I hope Zipper learned their lesson.



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Vekta on 16 April 2011

 

Troll_Whisperer on 2011-04-16 12:25

Gilgamesh said:

Thats not average thats bad!

69 average is bad? You know the game rating is broken when an 8 is average and anything below is mediocre at most...

OT: Let's see, bad reviews did not sees to affect Homefront sales too much. As for the game quality, I can't say anything because I've never been into SOCOM.

 

I disagree, because if you look at homefronts sales on the xbox within 4 weeks the sales have dropped dramatically, its not even registered at a million yet, only 995,000 copies, yes its near a million. Homefronts first 4 weeks werent as consistant as it was for killzone 3. Then for the ps3 version of homefront the sales are barely at half a million in the first 4 weeks. WHen your barely keeping up with a single platform game as a multiplatform game somethings wrong there.