There are three major releases this week, Mortal Kombat, Portal 2 and SOCOM 4 but outside of the SOCOM community the silence over this game is deafening.

Ever since it was announced the Mortal Kombat boards on GB have been vibrant with discussions over topics ranging from debates about the game's content, speculation over unnanounced features and long threads about everyones favourite ninja.

Similarly Valve have been true to form over the promotion of Portal 2 getting people all giddy out there over things like Steam for PSN and potatoes.

With SOCOM 4 though... silence.
Outside of the SOCOM community tearing each other apart on the official forum and SOCOM-centric boards, the lack of interest seems really odd for a game that used to be relatively huge.
Even Jeff at one point said that he's had the review copy of this game for the past couple of weeks and never got around to playing it but I bet the second that MK arrived he dropped everything to go and play that instead.


Just what is going on with SOCOM 4 that is making people outside of the SOCOM bubble not care or even be aware of the games existance?

& Is the SOCOM community large enough to make this game successful without the wider gaming audience's involvement?

Maybe people just don't get as excited about modern military shooters in this post Call of Duty world? I dunno that's my guess.

That game also looks average as hell. If that game were Spec-Ops though I'd be a lot more interested. 

probably

Why they are choosing to release in the same week as Portal 2 and MK9 is totally beyond me. These are two of the biggest games of the year, people.

They haven't made a good SOCOM game since 2 on the PS2. Thats why nobody cares.

I care, I'll be getting it. All Socom games have been enjoyable to me in one way or another, this one will be no different. MK is a tempting choice but I would be done with it within a month.

The Socrack addicts will still eat it up since it's really their only choice (unless they want to go back to Confrontation... lol).

With that said, I did enjoy the beta for what it was, so I certainly plan on picking up a copy when it drops down in price.

After the beta and the reviews, it's a pass.

Honestly, because it doesn't exactly look...that good.

" @DaemonBlack: 
Battlefield 3 and Brink are getting a lot of interest and they're pretty shooty and modern.

@Gabriel: I played SpecOps Stealth Patrol for the PS1. That just made me hate games. "

Not at all, Socom has a loyal ass fanbase.

Socom is a game that if you don't understand it you never will. I love it with a passion. Its the only online shooter that I find remotely fun. The tacticalness and teamwork are something that is rare in videogames. 

" After the beta and the reviews, it's a pass. "

Well, we can all agree that after one week of release, NO ONE is playing this game online.  That should say something, right?

Right, guys?  Hehe.

" Well, we can all agree that after one week of release, NO ONE is playing this game online.  That should say something, right?Right, guys?  Hehe. "

It's hurtin' on Metacritic; only a 66 overall.

SOCOM 4 confuses me to no end. It was mostly what Jeff said that brought it up. I forget tee hee who asked, but Jeff said something along the lines of "It feels a lot like the older SOCOM games", and in such a negative way. SOCOM 2 in particular was the orgasmatron multiplayer game of the PS2(Or so everyone with a mind tells me), and in that one interview with the Zipper dudes, Jeff said he was glad to see SOCOM go back to its roots to the older games... And... I mean, I'm so confused here.

SOCOM fans know what SOCOM fans want and no reviews are going to get in the way of that. People take the game very seriously. But, I don't know.

Also, there was only, what, 33 reviews on the SOCOM 4 page on Metacritic? Well Killzone 3 is one of the worst games to come out this year and it's got a pretty solid score on Metacritic due to its 80+ reviews. I'm assuming that most people are waiting for the PSN to go up to finalize and publish their reviews. I played the beta and it had an intricate level of tacticalism and teamwork that I haven't seen since MAG, and it was a really good experience, so I refuse to believe it's a 66. I'm not even a SOCOM fan but the game looked like it was more of an "8". It's not all there, but it isn't bad and does well with what it has.

Aside from how the maps look like they were ripped straight out of MAG, the beta seemed like, if it was going to keep doing what it was doing, there's no way it's going to be as bad as that 66 makes it look.

That's the impression I got with it.

" @Bucketdeth: But seriously, the game would be doing fine if PSN was up.  I heard it sold well enough with the week it was in. "

I haven't gotten Portal 2 or MK yet, but when people go on about how this generation is only brown and bloom shooters, it's always nice to be able to point to a week like this and say that the two biggest games was a puzzle game and a fighting game that outranked a sequel to a popular shooter game.

PSN being down is surely killing sales and it coming out after COD has been the staple for shooters for such a long time now isn't helping either. on a personal note 2 things have kept me from buying socom 4. 1 PSN is down and i hear the campaign is pretty standard in the not fun kind of way and 2. Im a bit disappointed zipper chose the safe route with another socom then working and tweaking MAG. Now maybe thats a bit harsh of me to say (taking the safe route) a studio could have more then 1 game in development at a time and maybe MAG 2 has been in the works? I just felt MAG was fresh and exciting. the excution of the game it self was a little lacking and the balance felt a bit off. but the whole "shadow war" concept was really fucking cool and needed to be more focused on... Ok sorry this is not a MAG discussion its a Socom one. point is, yes. i think Socom is DOA.