Sony fans and Shooter fans Socom 4 is what you should be really looking forward to next year as its really looking like being an great AAA exclusive for the Sony console.
Sure Socom 4 from what we have seen (we have only seen the first level god mode in an 12 hour game) is looking different from the past socoms but that doesn't make it an "Bad" game.
Zipper Interactive can be labled an Underrated developer, they are always been pushing Innovation with Socom being the first console game to have voice commands and have such an robust online multiplayer comparable to that of pc games. And lately with MAG boosting 256 player games. So my point is that Zipper is no second class studio here.
From what has been revealed is that Socom SP is going to be 12 hours long. Now you might say "thats not that long" but in Shooter games terms thats VERY long. Shooters now days are shamelessly short ranging from 4-8 hours so and on top of getting 8-4 more hours of SP we have Online multiplayer which Zipper being Sony's Online multiplayer leading studios will more than likely be very robust.
But onto SP news which Zipper has only revealed is that the game is more challegening and requires team work. you are given control of 2, 2 man squads and according to Zipper you wont make it not even 1/3 through the campaign not using them. Also keeping with the Socom tradition there is no Run directly into battle guns blazing like games like Call of Duty but instead will have to play more tactically. They were speaking about this on there podcast that during testing one of the testers in the focus groups were constantly charging in and dying each time before finally playing more tactically. So the SP will be an breath of fresh air for the tactical fans.
Really i am very excited because Shooters have been my favourite genre but they have been such let downs over the past years that i have basically given up and moved to different genres but socom is really setting up to be an great game. And Sadly i bet its going to be overshadowed.
Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong
