I was an owner of SOCOM 2 and played online quite frequently.
I got rid of the game... I couldn't take it anymore with all the people using and promoting glitches, constantly using only the best weapons (IW 80 A2) and for the most part people lagging out and destroying the servers by making a private game with a password and putting a title like "gone for a few hours".
Although I found that the loading process online to be a bit long, (this is probably why people became lazy and just left their PS2's on cloggin the servers) it just became to not worth playing.
My friend has recently bought Halo 2. Looking at how well and organized Halo 2 online is compaired to SOCOM 2 just amazed me! Everyone had a green ping. Loading times were fast (I know this was because of the XBOX's HD) but also it was clean because there is no way for people to idle in servers.
Unfortunately in SOCOM 3 there will be glitches that will not be discovered until the game is already popular... There will be people that make the game unpleasent and there will probably be server problems. I hope I am wrong and I hope to be proven wrong on this, but if SOCOM 3 could fix problems such as the ones I have stated a create a clean environment for online play, then this game along with the awsome single player campaign might just be one of the best games I will ever played.
Thank you for reading...
