Lock And Load: Announcing The New SOCOM

Socom if i remember was never a fps, but a third person tatical shooter game or am i wrong

Cool, make sure you add the ability for groups/clans of players to teamkill and vote to kick the dead players and ruin the entire game for random players.

I hope no one stupid enough to buy this after lousy post release support of confrontation and likely looking the same for MAG.

yes DNAtlantic it’s not a fps, it’s third person but it’s always the same thing, we are tired of those games

i just hope sony arent going down the 360 road with making shooter after shooter otherwise thats it for gaming and me , dont get me wrong i knw sum love shooters bt its been 4 years now of at least 10 to 15 shooter games a year its time to get bk to old school game that invole story and action

dante mag is a fps tactical game so whats difference between mag and this really when u think abt it , a camera view lool

Hopefully a 4+ player co-op mode. I`d love to see something like the old Conflict:Desert Storm games but with online play

wait it says its out 2013 in another post off n4g ,

Another rubbish game by Zipper…great !

Yawn, boring…………next?
Where’s my Dream Zone remake, god damn it?!

i hope for the people who want this actually get more than 4 hours out the 15 missions its got lol . has 5 player coop

This sounds very promising!

great job zipper weth MAG , now SOCOM OMG you make my day

Was kinda hoping for a good game rather than a rubbish one.

But y’know, either way.

What is everyone going on about!? This is the best news for PS3 yet (for me anyway as a SOCOM veteran) I’ve owned every SOCOM since SOCOM 1….. Slant Six ruined the franchise with confrontation. I can’t wait for this now!

Oh and IT’S NOT A FPS IT’S A 3PS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KillZone 3? screw that! it’s all about SOCOM.

I’ve only ever played a demo on psp of socom, looks good hopefully a good starting point.

Oh, okay then. TPS.

Still, doesn’t seem appeal me at all.

I would have FAR preferred SOCOM 4 to MAG or SOCOM Confrontation, hopefully ZIPPER will stop listening to the over-vocal MP crowd and start supporting campaign based gaming again.

Good for those who like Socom.

aww thats great news. Socom was amazing on ps2. I can’t wait for a fully fledged Socom made by its original developers!

GOOD they realised slant six ruined socom.
Cant wait for it

Please release a demo for it. I haven’t played any SOCOM before, so I want to see if Im any good at it

great and wow there is a lot of noobs online today and it wont be a fps you stupid noobs

i dont beleive people are saying its crap already umm its been announced in the last 2 hours youve seen 4 screenshots and you think its crap…. even with zippers old reputation for making the best online shooter on ps2 some people need to get there priorities straight and asking for uncharted 3 is just pure stupidity of courese it will be made but whining that it hasnt been anounced is idiotic

Zipper making SOCOM 4? That is really awesome news.

I’d be more than happy with a SOCOM 1 HD re-release. That would be *ace*.
So long as SOCOM 4 doesn’t have tanks and vehicles – and sticks to what the original game (and perhaps the sequel) did best – i’m there

Well, at least it’s Zipper doing this. But Sony no more FPS from any other of your first party developers.

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I think this whole genre is pretty well done to death on PS3 now.
Something a bit different would have been nice.

It’s a little late for this region to update, but Zipper posted about the game to the US blog. They assured that MAG definitely has a long, assured future, alongside Socom – there are dedicated teams and plans ahead. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/socom-4-its-official/comment-page-2/#comment-348397

Take a look there, for a relevent boosted headstart, over the Pond.
All the assets are in-game, they’ve said.

lets just hope they keep their word and dont leave over 700k mag owners without regular updates

Will everyone and their wives stop making so many FPS!!

Another one comes out quicker than a EA FIFA game!

@ 80 lol agreed m8 but its the gaming world as we know it now people sit playing the same type of game over and over thinking they are badazzz lol just join the army i say if u like it that much lol

Complete anticlimax. Reminds me though, I still have to trade in SOCOM: Confrontation.

WOW….a nother SHOOTER game! WOW!! Give us something “new”! Getting sick of all this shooter games, they start all to look the same on consolles…

Seems a bit weak if you ask me. No-one can really deny that the market is in no shortage of military shooters, and there’d be very little to differentiate SOCOM. Jak 4 or Sly 4 would stand out a lot better.

wow,really. this whole genre is played out

After reading here, and on other sites the avrage feedback is that we have ENOUGH military shooters now. About time people get creative and start making games, not clones that we have seen 1000032 times before.

Socom 4 may become a nice game, bit is it a game we would miss if it never was announced today? Nope….

..SOME REAL ZIPPER STUFF!!! well done guys thank you…..!!

Zipper making a new SOCOM!!! My heart skipped a beat. So happy to see a full on SOCOM game coming to PS3. I hope it has some sort of 4 player co-op online mode too

In Zipper we trust.

If this has co-op for story mode then im buying, otherwise its just candy in the shop window

thank god it’s from zipper this time!

Finally! Zipper is back! Please, never let Slant 6 touch any more of your games. They really ruined Confrontation. That game could have been much better. The players and supporters of Socom deserve alot more than what we delt with on Confrontation. Sorry to knock Socom but I expected more from that game. Hopefully you don’t let us down on this.(I know you won’t) Too bad Playstation Network has so many downfalls, if not this game would be one of the best ever made. Too much lag on the PSN. Other than that, thank you for giving us awesome entertainment and good luck on this new release!

WOOOORRDD,Free us from our misery of confrontation..

so is socom now going to be an annual release with rotating developers?
like a certain other series.
oh goody.
are we back in the bad old days of last gen when the only original idea was to make an fps that WASN’T set in WWII, and dna, this is an fps done with a first person viewpoint, the gameplay will be virtually the same.
still, people keep buying them so you can’t fault developers making them.
i hear some of the developement staff of GOW3 actually wanted to turn it into an fps.

So hold on a minute… A surprise sequel was going to be announced and people expected it to be KZ3, UC3 or some other this-will-definitely-come-sooner-or-later sequel? How stupid can you be? Not to mention you’re disappointed by that it wasn’t one of them. How much of a surprise would it have been if you were expecting it? *astounded by the sheer stupidity of it all*

I hope this will be a great title, never got the chance to check it out on the PS2. Good luck Zipper ;D .

man, I was sure this was no Resistance, Killzone, Uncharted or inFamous. And that was OK for me. But Socom? Come On! We just got MAG and we have so many other Tactical Military Shooters! This could have been a better one, sony.

We heard about a Surprise Sequel! I was hoping for MediEvil, Primal oder damn, maybe the greatest of all – Legend of Dragoon! But this… this is just so.. lame.

Please Sony – give us a real Surprise!

To all those ppl saying here we go, another fps. First of all, it isn’t. 2nd of all, aren’t you paying attention at all to all the other great games we’ve been getting, and will get directly from sony? I mean come ON ungrateful much. We’ve gone from uncharted 2, to Heavy Rain in just a real short space of time with TONNES more to come. To those saying sonys just going to go down the path of the 360, u have absolutely no clue what ur talking about.

SOCOM 4 it is then. Well at least it was a surprise to me, I’d never have thought about this game.
As others stated already here, it’s not like we’ve haven’t got enough shooters already out there, not even counting the inevitable KZ3, Resistance 3 and stuff like Medal of Honor and CoD.

I’m still hoping we’ll see a new COLONY WARS on PS3 one day, that would not only be a huge surprise, but a truly pleasant and more than welcome one! Unlike the shooter genre, space opera is absolutely non existent on next gen consoles.

apart from a third person viewpoint socom is just another fps, and you cant deny the market is kind of saturated with those right now, after how much money mw2 made everybody and their dog are bringing out an fps, this’ll be zipper’s second in a year.
i wasn’t expecting infamous, uncharted or killzone, i was expecting something that would be a genuine surprise, yet another fps is not a surprise, maybe a title we haven’t seen for a few years that was enjoyed on previous consoles but is due for a current gen sequel.
i guess if the game was just announced without the pre-announcement announcement to hype it people might not be so dissapointed.
i guess gametrailers is to blame, not zipper.
i was interested in god of war, but scee’s total mishandling of the series recently has soured me on it.
looking forward to heavy rain but there are a couple of rpgs i really want too, and i’m a slave to a great rpg

Love the irony of Seany1 complaining about FPS’s and having a Raven (from MAG) emblem as his avatar.

Personally, I loved the original SOCOM and very much look forward to this. The screenshots look very impressive.

mag was out in january , bfbc out today , new cod out november ,new moh is out this year too not to mention theres millions that just do not stop playing mw2 for any other shooter , im sure more army shooting gaes will be out before years end aswell so in my view yes do something original on a more often basis . heavy and uc2 are amazing yes as was infamous but 3 original games dont make up the fact about 65 percent to 70 percent of games these days are most shooters. just my view but judging by comments im reading on here and u.s blog and all different sites loads are getting sick of this churning out shooters too .