Socom Confrontation (PS3)

[myghty]

I cant wait to play Confrontation after being away from the Socom series for a long while. It's looking pretty good so far.

[SocomAddict91]

Originally Posted by Negative Creep

Vehicles didn't ruin things enough for you in Socom 3, I take it? Adding something as lame as that (bicycles) would make me sick... sick to my stomach.

It obviously wont happen. But say there was a bike laying by soem boxes in the market square. You grab the bomb with 30 seconds left on the clock, run to the biek and haul *** to get the bomb planted. Not like sitting in the spawns at the start. But I see what you mean. Yeah vehicles really screwed up SOCOM 3.

[Scuba Steve]

Supposedly they will bring back vehicles through updates.

The only thing that would make me happy about this (in comparison to S3/S:CA) would be if passengers could shoot out of windows.

I've always believed the best defense is a strong offense and if you're not the gunner in a vehicle, you're helpless.

[oxfordfreestyl]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

the best defense is a strong offense

X-men much?

[Scuba Steve]

Umm, no... common sense. If you're sitting in a vehicle and not shooting, you're going to get hit. If you're sitting in a vehicle and shooting back, you're chances of living just went through the roof.

X-men did not invent that saying, lol.

By the way, I've never even seen an X-men movie.

[oxfordfreestyl]

The only thing I quoted was "the best defense is a good offense" because Wolverine says it in the 3rd movie. And even if the movie didn't "invent" that saying, they sure are the ones that made it stick in my mind. So eat it :smile:

[OME6A]

Like lambs to the slaughter...

I'm disappointed to see so many of you frothing at the mouth for this thing. I'll admit, the customization sounds really great, but I'll bet hard earned money that it'll be more of the same. By that, I mean an utter disappointment.

I don't care what anyone says, these graphics are horrible. The PS3 is supposed to be the super graphics machine, and the big next-gen socom is sporting horribly textured environments that look worse that some PS2 graphics.

Good graphics:


Bad graphics:


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I know one of you numbskulls will point out the obvious, that gameplay is more important, but there's still no specifics out about even that.

Originally Posted by General_Gregory

Yes you do. You will have the option to switch between Over the Shoulder, and Classic Socom third person

Correction, you MIGHT have this option:

"Luisi stated that a “classic view” is a definite possibility and that the game may support a player option to choose which of the two views you prefer."

The movement looks horrible. All prior Socoms had a flawless jumping movement, and in Confrontation your character shoots straight up in the air like you're David Blaine. The spider walk looks terrible and am I the only one that notices that there's never any character movement from the waste up?

Just watching this video, I'm excited to see a new Socom, but I'm disappointed by what I see.

I'm waiting for a good reason to get a PS3, and I still don't see this as being it.

[RickTheRipper]

There's just one thing you're forgetting, those are finished games and this is still work in progress. Supposedly all those images of Socom are Alpha, so there's still quite a ways to go before it's finished. Go look at games in their Alpha stage (usually first images released), then compare them to the final product, notice the big graphics leap?.

So until they say the game is out of it's Beta stage (or gone gold, whichever you want), then there's really no point in comparing images.

Also, those images are from offline. Whenever a game goes online, they have to dumb down the graphics (to prevent framerate drop or maybe something else, I don't know). So a better comparison would be online images of those games compared to the Socom images (since it's online only).

But as I said earlier, either compare Alpha to Alpha images, or wait until the game is finished.

[ModernCombat]

Yes, you never know what to expect. I don't think they would release a product that is much worser then the past versions.

[OME6A]

Originally Posted by ModernCombat

Yes, you never know what to expect.

Wrong, the perceptive should know what to expect.

It's another Sony issued Socom title. The only wildcard here is that it's not being touched by Zipper.

Originally Posted by ModernCombat

I don't think they would release a product that is much worser then the past versions.

Hello, and welcome to Socom. It's obvious that you're new here...
Socom 1 was better than Socom 2
Socom 2 was better than Socom 3 and Socom CA.

So, YES, they have, could, and possibly will release a product that is worse than its prior versions.

Also, those images are from offline. Whenever a game goes online, they have to dumb down the graphics (to prevent framerate drop or maybe something else, I don't know). So a better comparison would be online images of those games compared to the Socom images (since it's online only).

You've got a PS3 right? Go hop on R6V, play some Bordertown, or Dantes, or pretty much any map and then tell me the graphics are dumbed down.

Maybe you're right, Rick. Maybe these are just basic alpha images and the graphics will improve tremendously by the time of the release, but I think it's goofy to be promoting this game with crap graphics then.