The First Thirty: Socom Confrontation

By Richard Windsor | November 18, 2008

Sometimes I forget the games that I put in my Gamefly queue. This is a problem because sometimes I end up buying a game and then 2 days later I end up getting it in the mail as well. I never planned on buying Socom Confrontation, so luckily I was not upset when it arrived on my doorstep unexpectedly. I was however upset after playing one of the worst excuses for an online shooter I have played in a long long time!

Socom has been getting some press for issues with online stability and glitches, but for me these are the least of its problems. Almost every aspect of Socom is mediocre and drab. The controls feel 10 years old, the inventory system was designed by a retarded baboon, and some of the maps are way to big to be fun at all. The game is just mediocre in almost every regard. If this was 1999 then maybe this game would feel fresh and new, but with so much better on the market I don’t know why anyone would want to play this game. It pained me to even play this game for thirty minutes, but to be fair and see if the game would eventually grow on me I gave it much more time then that. But at the end I was never so happy to seal up a game in its return envelope.

This all is very depressing because there is no single player, which means they actually spent all there time working on this piece of garbage. How could an entire development team spend over 2 years working on a game that feels this outdated? It just boggles my mind that they would let this happen, but I guess that it all comes down to money and time. Speaking of money…don’t buy or even rent this lame excuse of a game. Save up your money and buy Gears 2 or Resistance 2.