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Quick Look: Shrink Wrap Tuesday: Part 01 - Socom 4

I know plenty of happy military personnel, but somehow they never make it into games...

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Apr. 19 2011

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs

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Those character models look incredible
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Saw this at the midnight launch (of socom4/portal2/mk) with the sharpshooter setup, seemed rather tough to control for a while until you get used to it. Probably not the best way to sell the game to the people who enjoyed the earlier versions on the game.

 

Victory dance seems a little silly in the game but could work if the dance actually looked like something halfway sensible.

 

Plus Ryan, I too remember the PS2 gem Lifeline. Mostly from the X-play video on it with the priceless command in the headset 'bark like a dog' & hearing her response to that.

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Doesn't look bad.

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@fox01313: Some people (PSM) thought Lifeline was at least decent. Others thought it was crap. I was under the impression that it was somewhere in between. what do you think?
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@Nettacki:
Interesting idea of a game yet rather flawed due to controls as the main system for controlling the character is next to fingerprints on being unique enough to cause problems (voice & microphone quality for registering it). If it used a keyboard of commands with a wait & see instead of relying on voice then it might have worked.

 

Agreed with others, wouldn't mind seeing a retro quick look of games like Lifeline to see how it seems now to the GB crew.

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Dam! I thought Jeff sucked at Gears, he's even worse at Socom.

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the game is good the problem is that Sony kinda killed the franchise by first releasing a very bad socom, sequel  and then taking this long to release a proper socom,  they probably lost most of their fan base

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My roommate only tried the Blops campaign because PSN was down.  Jeffs analogy totally works.

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Jeff doesnt have the competitive MP Shooter instincts ;). For example always when he gets shot he stops and looks around instead of running while looking around.

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single player actually looks pretty good. 

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bitch where's my pen

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@LiK said:
" single player actually looks pretty good.  "
My thoughts exactly. Pretty awesome action sequence.
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DAMN IT FISHER!

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