SOCOM Confrontation's Special Forces organizations revealed

by Griffin McElroy on Mar 22nd 2008 11:30AM

Fans of Sony's popular militaristic 3PS series are probably already keen to the fact that the upcoming May issue of EGM will blow the doors off of the highly secretive next installment, SOCOM Confrontation. 1UP recently added to the meager pile of info for the game in the form of a correction for their ink-and-paper counterpart -- the list of Special Forces organizations featured in the game is apparently incorrect in EGM's upcoming feature.

As it stands right now, clan-bound players can join up with and enjoy the unique equipment options made available from five different, actual military units: U.S.'s Navy SEALs, U.K.'s Special Air Service (SAS), Germany's Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK), Spain's Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE), and France's 1er Régiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine (1er RPIMa). We're sure this will make for some realistic, intense firefights -- still, we wish there were more eccentric units we could sign our digital soldiers up with, like the Michigan Militia, or McHale's Navy (the Tom Arnold remake regiment, of course).

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Tags: 1er RPIMa, 1erRpima, clan, ksk, PS3, sas, seals, socom, socom-confrontation, socomconfrontation, sony, uoe

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lol more like killzone 3 lol

lol more like your an idiot lol

Killzone 3? Are you on something there mate?

SOCOM is an FPS?

I saw that to and thought it was weird...the last Socom I played was Socom 2 and the first PSP Socom and they were 3rd person.

Its still third person.

you can tap up on the dpad, and then it´s kinda a FPS
;D

is the screen above from socom?

Its from Socom yes.

Whether that what the graphics look like is another question.

Screenshot my arse.

It is a bullshot from SOCOM3, yes.

That is not in-game graphics.....just like the trailer from Killzone2 was not actual gameplay, though we were told it was.

Speaking of Killzone2....where the hell is that game? How long has the PS3 been out now?

They are still working on it, one level takes up like 2 gbs apparently, so you can imagine how much several levels takes, hopefully all this memory will be worth the play.

hopefully some of that space is being used to incorporate more than the colors black grey and dark grey.

also fix those goddamn fire effects they looked like pure shit in that last trailer.

Yeah lets attack a pre-alpha Killzone 2 trailer that smoked anything in complete form on the 360. Nice try but just watching the gameplay trailer ends an assault on the game easily. Score? PS3 - 1, rabid 360 fans jealous of Killzone 2 - 0.

Of course it's only natural to sit around and attack Sony since you can't game until your 360 refurb arrives from 1-800- BEN-DOVER.

Socom is third person, not first person.....

Thats not a screeshot.

I'm a huge socom fan and the new factions are cool, my only question is what stops a non clan member from just making their own clan with themselves to get the extra uniforms?

Someone mentioned customizable uniforms for clam members, you make a clan and add customize options.

Even if it doesn't come out standard, any chance of it doing a warhawk and coming out through expansions,

bullshot

Avit lads!

This is gonna be fun :) Can't wait! ^^ Bring on the Socom!

is there anyone else out there who happened to enjoy the McHale's Navy movie, not so much for tom arnold but more so for tim curry?

Sorry you are all alone on that one...

forget tom and tim it's all about bruce campbell

Every time I see a screenshot from Sony that seems too good to be true, it usually is.

Marketing really need to stop using target renders..

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22219.html

Gameplay from back in E3 07, so I'm pretty sure the graphics look better and also that the game runs more smooth than it does in there, still, not a la par with the picture shown above...

Whatever issues they had back then, they've used the time to fix.

Doubt the final product will look or play like that, then again, they are trying to aim at the warhawk style market. Downloads for PSN ^^

I don't think anyone is claiming that's a screenshot.

It's probably from some animation for the intro title sequence... What? Did you think that 'Mad World' Gears of War ad was 'in-game footage' or that playing Mario Galaxy was going to look like the cover? Probably not. Same thing here.

Replying to Shmil (which is not working Joystiq):

It was okay. I liked Down Periscope much better. That movie is a classic.

Down periscope is a classic love the fart scene...

down periscope, i completely forgot about that movie you're right it was quite the classic

Making a 50GB+ game? Kojima is such a bad ass.

Wrong story, dick.. >_

Did you just....reply to yourself and insult yourself?

I did, it's how we do it here in Wales.

that mario image is win.

Can you take a bath at the bathhouse?

No, but you can shit in the urinal.

I don't see a urinal in the pic?

That trailer didn't look too bad. I'm sure it has improved and will look alot like GRAW in the end. If I had a PS3 I'd hope to god the framerate is better than it looks to be in that old trailer.

SOCOM can be played in first or third person modes...unless they changed it since SOCOM III.

Speaking of which, its still third person, but they have added a first person option, from what I remember. You have a choice. PSP did, think it was up button to switch to first person mode. :S

Finally we Michiganders get recognized. Two hurrah’s for our militia ;)

Woot, I recently got a year subscription of EGM for free. Can't wait to check out the article!

me too, how do i cancel?

Wait...who told you people that this is a screenshot?

Does all art/pictures for upcoming games have to = screenshots nowadays? (for the PS3 at least I guess for you guys) Even when the only people making these absurd assumptions are...fanboys? Since when does a company release a single in-game screenshot?

Wow...you people are really lost these days.

Link me to the article where ANYBODY (besides rabid idiots) says/confirms/makes an assumption/rumors that this is supposed to be a screenshot. I'd love to read it.

@Justin

Exactly my thoughts! The same people bitching about the look of that image being a screenshot probably don't even own a PS3.

Compare the graphics os the top PS3 exclusives and you will find they are some of the best around and top notch. I am not saying they are the best in the industry but games like Heavenly Sword and Uncharted certainly boast some of the best graphics in any video game. To top it off the games are also extremely fun unlike say Lair who has some of the best graphics EVER in a video game but suffers from a terrible control scheme. I am probably one of the few people who actually liked Lair and found it a fun game. Sure it wasn't the best ever and it was a bit short but for a 1st year game I found it enjoyable. Just as enjoyable as games like Kameo and Perfect Dark for the 360. To me the graphics are 1/5 of the equation for a good game with control mechanics, story, design and AI rounding out my most important factors. I enjoy multiplayer but it is not important if the game is awesome (see Bioshock).

I liked the PSP games.

I don't know if it can be a contender for COD4 throne but I like more Socom than GR:AW

rainbow six is here now this game doesnt matter...oh and COD4 is still hot..

I cant believe no one in here mentioned the typo in the title...organizatons?

What, no Force Recon?

looks like no Force Recon
http://www.i-guide.ro

I remember when Stargate had two of the guys playing SOCOM.

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