Sony Announces SOCOM 3

23 Feb, 2005 at 10:37pm ET Article published in Tech

Sony has formally announced plans to release a third game in the popular SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs series this fall.

The game, unsurprisingly called SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs, will take place in new theaters of operation, contain improved artificial intelligence, and an all-new weapon attachment system that will let players customize their weapon loadouts even more than they could in the past.

SOCOM 3 will take place in Morocco, Poland, and Bangladesh. All-new streaming technology will be employed here, which is said to increase the size of the game’s single-player maps by five or six times over what was seen in the previous SOCOM game. To help compensate for that size, single-player missions will have checkpoints, allowing you to save your game midmission. The missions will also have multiple paths to success.

The ability to swim is one of SOCOM 3’s new ability improvements. You’ll also be able to operate vehicles, including Humvees, light strike vehicles, technicals, T72 tanks, an SSCR assault boat, and a customized speed boat. Communicating with your AI-controlled team will be altered a bit–the game will now give you a context-sensitive button that will command your team to move to a specific location, breach a door, and so on. This will be in addition to SOCOM II’s already robust AI-control system.

Source: GameSpot

Comments

24 Feb 2005 ~ 12:46pm fudgam I used to be addicted to the first socom.
Socom on PC would be great.
2 Mar 2005 ~ 3:38pm Thrax We need to stop posting about video games. It brings out the rejects.
2 Mar 2005 ~ 5:18pm Thrax
2 Mar 2005 ~ 5:59pm AFI ok socom 2 was quite possibly the best game i have ever played second only to devil may cry 1. but im really looking foward to socom 3 its looking quite awesome.
2 Mar 2005 ~ 11:25pm SToRM> SoCoM 3 = Will PWN socom 2 was so good i cant beleive what this will be like.... im looking forward to the weapon hard points
2 Mar 2005 ~ 11:34pm Cyclonite He wasn't making fun of gamers. He was making fun of the fanboy retards that emerge when any news on a video game is posted.