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SOCOM Confrontation Marching Out on September 16

1UP has brought you several big stories on SOCOM Confrontation in the past month, but today Sony passed on one more important piece of information: a release date. The latest iteration of the popular online shooter franchise will be arriving on September 16.

EZCheez6638d ago

I was really hoping it would come out in July. Sucks.

It's probably a good thing Guerilla said KZ2 wasn't coming out then, because that would have been a serious confliction.

sonarus6638d ago

yea september is a little too far off. KZ needs to step up. I honestly don't know what the fvk sony is doing with their titles. They seem to be cramming everything to the end of the yr. Inevitably they will end up having to push some back

Peekay6638d ago

I think the word you're looking is "cannibalize". Sony has to make sure it's games don't cannibalize each other's sales.

sonarus6638d ago (Edited 6638d ago )

R2 is sticking to November cus it has to rumble with gears but i really don't see how sales won't get cannibalized. Worse it will lead to confusion if they launch too soon. Gamers will be confused with which fps to get and that is just stupid. It probably isn't their fault guess they can't control when the games get finished but how about injecting a sense of urgency into Guerilla. F'in ho's can't even commit to a sept release date. By sept this yr KZ2 will officially have been delayed for a full yr. Yet you see them prancing around the playstation forums. Get back to work you lazy bastards

EZCheez6638d ago

Thanks for the lesson though. It's called deconfliction, and it's key to keeping one main event from disrupting another. That's what us military guys say.

mikeslemonade6638d ago

This does not cannabilize sales because this is the only tactical 3rd person shooter on any console coming out at that time during the year.

Peekay6638d ago

for the hardcore gamer. The regular Joe has a budget of $x and if one of these games surpasses the other in class by a large margin then his money will go to the best game. If all of these games are just as good as one another then I think Joe still would be happier with the games being spread out over a time period to spend his well earned cash.

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AlterEgo6638d ago

aww man. i was counting on July too.

oh well.

i wonder what they have in store for the beginning of summer then?

*patiently waits*

EZCheez6638d ago

MGS4.

I would love having some Tekken 6 this summer but I don't know what the chances of that are. Didn't they use some sort of PS3 architecture to run the game in arcades?

AlterEgo6638d ago

ha

you're right. even though i'll probably be done w/ MGS4 by July...MGO should hold me over

and i honestly don't know about the Tekken 6 arcade units

sonarus6638d ago

yea tekken runs on the cell processor even in the arcade version. However bandai namco have soul calibur pinned for a summer release so we probably won't see tekken till the end of the yr at best

SRuN46638d ago

Open beta will probably be July.

Hagaf226638d ago

the second half of this year is going to be packed with huge shooters... kz2, this, and resistance 2. im broke already.

EZCheez6638d ago

But I thought that exact same thing when I put down preorders on KZ2, Haze, and Little Big Planet. Those had release dates in November and February, and I still don't have them.

Don't get me wrong. I want the games to "be all they can be," but I just wish publishers were a little more accurate with release dates.

Jandre026638d ago

Thats just stupid. That means it will be delayed almost a year when it had a release date of November(I think it was). Its a PSN title, what is the hold up?

I want Socom more than any other game coming to the PS3, besides maybe FF. This is a really douchebaggy move. Its like they had the game done last year, through the whole thing away and started all over again. This is BS.

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Games to Play if You Miss SOCOM

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LOOK_AT_THIS_I3204d ago

Baffles me as to why they have not done anything with this franchise. Seeing as how it was #1 on the official PlayStation poll.

With all the trash put up weekly on the App Store why has nobody done a clone of this yet. I've been playing Defiance as my go to 3rd person since 2013 but still nothing like that old school Socom/Socom 2 up all night gameplay.

ONESHOTV23204d ago

the only game on that list that's like socom is wild land if you want socom type games then you will have to invest in a PC

USMC_POLICE3204d ago

You are looking at the view point I.e 3rd person view. Rainbow six siege is probably most like socom aside from H-Hour

Majin-vegeta3204d ago

Army training grounds its F2P.

ion6663203d ago

Insurgency Socom mod perfect adaption. Play it

C-H-E-F3203d ago

RAINBOW SIX: is the closest you'll get to Socom.

Also, in response to @lookatthisi

They let go the creators, and I think socom is a game that's hard to clone even the creators had a hard time making Socom 2, Socom 3.

LOOK_AT_THIS_I3203d ago

No way man. The devs at Trion made Defiance. I know different genres different games but this could have very easily turned into a war game rather than a kill the mutants/aliens games. Ghost recon actual gameplay is about the closest to the old Socom feel due to the squad format and team commands but it was still clunky at times. Using the wheel was cumbersome to command teammates and strategies on how you approcahed a scenario.

FFS you could control your teammates with a microphone in the ps2 days. You can't tell me that it is that hard when people throw up mods on the pc all the time that mirror the original games using random game engines. These are professionals with money/tech that most people don't have access to.

(Seth Luisi was the problem at zipper, he tried capturing ghost recon/cod fans with Socom by slowly turning the Socom series into Frankenstein GR/COD lite games)

C-H-E-F3203d ago

Getting that feel, that rush being the last one alive, Rainbow Six is the closest I got to that feeling since Confrontation. And we all know that was a horrible Socom, but looking back at it, SC was a great game just had a horrible release.

I didn't play defiance, but ghost recon is and was trash.

InTheZoneAC3202d ago

A lot will defend Seth saying he was a puppet, but his inactions or actions didn't help. He helped ruin the franchise.

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Would You Buy SOCOM Confrontation for One Penny?

JM:
"Would you purchase a game you can’t play for a single penny? Video game retailer GameStop seems to think that it is worth trying to sell to this market."

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user74029314322d ago

no, but i would buy a socom ps2 remastered collection for $60.00

XBLSkull4322d ago

Yeah I would definitely pay for a SOCOM remaster. Easily Sony's best franchise by a long shot, too bad they've managed to ruin it.

morganfell4322d ago

Back to the actual question, I own SOCOM Confrontation. The game was attacked relentlessly when it appeared. Some of those attacks were warranted. However one of the big things they used to assault the game was, "It's multiplayer only"

Where is that accusation now?

How is that MP only games suddenly get a pass?

If you stuck it out with SOCOM Confrontation you know that it took a lot of patches and 6 months. But if you kept your course you know a great secret. Confrontation eventually became a kick ass SOCOM game. Plenty of people played it the first week or the first month and dropped it. But to those that stuck around you know the game, eventually, kicked ass. I am not excusing it's state out of the box. But in the same breath I will also say it evolved into something deserving the SOCOM name.

TyBREAKR4322d ago (Edited 4322d ago )

Morganfell is right. That game was the most fun I had had in a Tps in a long time after it got fixed. It was very tactical.

guitarded774322d ago

Yup. Confrontation turned into a much better game over time. Just as MAG did. Too bad they're useless to own now (Which I do). I'm just hoping Sony brings back SOCOM on PS4 in a big way. I'd also like a Warhawk game. The shooter market has turned into to many twitch run, shoot, kill, die, spawn games. I like the slower pace of SOCOM, and the openness of Warhawk... actually, I just really prefer 3rd person shooters. Can't wait for Star Wars Battlefront. DICE better make it 3rd person. It can have a 1st person option like the others, but what fun is it to turn into a super character, and you can't see them?

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JackOfAllBlades4322d ago

That's a remaster I'm down for!

Afistnu4322d ago (Edited 4322d ago )

Only $60? I'd HAPPILY pay $60 for each PS2 Socom game. Hell, make it $250 and I'd pay it! Socom 1 and 2 are worth more alone!

Socom is 12 years old and still has better online features than multi million dollar games of 2014! Lobbies, User Created Ranked Rooms, able to allow or disallow certain weapon types, no explosions, and guess what?! The community back then actually voted out the scrubs who used OP weapons. Now THAT you don't see now days. If you pulled out the M203 in Socom, your ass was voted out before you even blinked.

meatnormous4322d ago

You bring back so many memories. You are absolutely right about the m203, that shit didn't fly back then.

TheDude794322d ago

Wasn't the IW80-A2 another popular "noob" gun that got lots of people kicked out for using? The M14...now that gun took some time to master, at the launch of SOCOM 2 anyways.

incredibleMULK4322d ago (Edited 4322d ago )

Glitchy garbage. Why pay $60 for a ps2 game on a new console, just play your old ps2.

The reason it did so well is there were no other ps2 multi player games to play. Look at the ps3 socom games....they didn't do so hot because people had battlefield, call of duty, Killzone,.....lots of choices.....socom suffered when the fans found new games.

If Sony didn't waste their $360 million on psnow they could've kept zipper opened and made another socom AND mag.

creatchee4322d ago

@DirtyPimp

I put in over 3,000 hours of SOCOM II. I'd pay more than 60 bucks for a simple HD version. Just give me East 19, Central 7, the breach maps, and Foxhunt all in glorious high definition and I'll gladly revisit the early 2000's on a nightly basis.

C-H-E-F4322d ago (Edited 4322d ago )

The servers are down.. I wouldn't buy any.. on top I own all except Socom 4... I couldn't dare taint my collection any more.

BTW: H-Hour is the new Socom... supposed to be S2 all over again... with some S1 mechanics.

nunley334322d ago

For a collector to have it on the shelf i can see them buying it,it's just a penny.

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admiralvic4322d ago

Depends the situation. Usually if they have a trade in X and get Y bonus for preowned purchases, a store will let you have the excess credit if you make 1 purchase and 1 cent is cheap enough where I wouldn't have to bother returning it or eating the cost out of laziness.

iamnsuperman4322d ago

1p isn't bad if you want a complete collection even if it is unplayable

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Daily Reaction: Game Over, Man

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Foolsjoker4700d ago

I am going to miss MAG and the SOCOM games.

doctorstrange4700d ago

Help me H-Hour, you are my only hope.

pixelsword4700d ago

Where did it say that MAG was shutting down?

pixelsword4699d ago

It would have been nice if they added that to the actual article instead of the wannabe tear-jerker stuff.

fenome4699d ago (Edited 4699d ago )

@pixelsword

I know right, I was thinking the same thing. It was more of a read between the lines and pick up the pieces in the comment section..

I didn't even really try this game, I almost picked it up a couple days at my local gameswap though. Glad I didn't now, I'm gonna have to let those guys know that the games a bust now.

This is exactly why I don't want an all digital future. Once the servers go down that's it, game over. I like that I can still put my Super Nintendo games in the console and it'll work even after all these years...

pixelsword4699d ago

I own(ed) it, I got a platinum and once I did, I went on once in a while, but never like I did before; I might put it in once or twice before the servers go down, or maybe I'll sell it to gamestop before they realize it.

TheUndertaker854698d ago (Edited 4698d ago )

The game was very under supported. I got my platinum then put some more time into it after. I stopped playing after one of those "Play with the Devs" days. Damn Devs always were on SVER and screwing over the other teams.

I caught one dev so desperate to show superiority he was altering things in the background for himself. Caught him multiple times with a bunker rocket only for him to stand there unphazed. After a bit I wasn't the only one on my platoon catching the BS at work. Since I rarely bother to go back. I do play with my cousin when he gets the urge to go play, otherwise I avoid it.

Have a few of my PSN friends looking to play before the servers get shut down. Probably will join in on that. I'm hoping MAG 2 happens for PS4 more than anything, hopefully without Zipper in the background this time. I have my digital copy on PSN for the time being though.

pixelsword4698d ago

Dude, they ALWAYS play SVER because the balance is in SVER's favor, and people have been complaining about that since the beta, plus they do change the background. Once in the beta, I found a good spot to ding one of SVER's bunkers, and the next day, the put a tree or a bar where I was so I could not do it.

In that sense, I'm glad Zipper is gone.

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dbjj120884700d ago

So long Mag. You were a promise... sort-of fulfilled.

Dead_Cell4700d ago (Edited 4700d ago )

Ask any player who put any decent amount of time in and they'll tell you it was promise fulfilled. It may not have reached the top sales or following ever but for the community and the people who cared for it, it delivered a hell of a lot.

sobekflakmonkey4699d ago (Edited 4699d ago )

That's what I've been hearing, I really hope they return to that game and make it a franchise, bring it back on PS4 with updated graphics, fix some of those bugs, as well as some of the mechanics, that shit would be awesome, they could have had a HUGE following for that game.

TheSaint4699d ago

Until Zipper broke it.

It was brilliant for a while.

Wedge194700d ago

MAG, I loved that game once upon a time

0pie4700d ago

i hope they will stop selling retail copies of mag if they close the game servers.

Dead_Cell4700d ago

They already have, it's removed from PSN along with all DLC and now it's just up to the retailers to stop supplying online.

0pie4699d ago

Thank you for the info sir. :)

TD_hastetheday4700d ago

MAG will be missed, my all-time favorite shooter. They're shutting servers down in January.

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