All Articles: SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs

Before Halo would take players to Xbox Live, SOCOM introduced the console demographic to online multiplayer shooters, giving them a headset with the game to encourage tactical play. Yesterday Sony detailed the Full Deployment Edition for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals, which regrettably is missing a mic. On the bright side, this is actually a really great Move bundle, considering SOCOM 4 was one of the first games announced with Move support. Along with the game, the bundle includes the PlayStation Eye Camera, a Motion controller, a Navigation controller, and the PlayStation Move Sharpshooter. $150 is kinda steep, but it’s everything you need, and a little more (Killzone 3 plays fine with Move without any plastic gun peripheral), to get in on Sony’s take on motion controlled gaming.

Also, your SOCOM 4 Beta information should be coming next week for all of us who’ve already picked up Killzone 3 or plan to. SOCOM 4 is oscar mike April 19.

The long awaited SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals is getting closer and closer to release and the official blog assures us the multiplayer beta is imminent. Today, we’ve gotten some information on the co-op mode, which will support up to five players in two modes: “Takedown,” where you search for and eliminate enemy VIP’s, and “Espionage,” where you gather intel and sabotage enemy communication infrastructure. Instead of playing through the single player campaign, you essentially make your own, selecting from a list of maps and designating enemy density at different areas. SOCOM 4 is releasing April 19 on the PlayStation 3.

Stay tuned to Warp Zoned for beta impressions and other info as the launch draws nearer.

The good folks at Zipper Interactive have finally come clean in announcing SOCOM 4‘s release date, after a long wait following the third game (but with the Zipper-less SOCOM: Confrontation and MAG in between). Really? It was released way back in the PS2 days? Well, now the wait is over. SOCOM 4 will be available in the US on April 19th.

It’s been a LONG time since I’ve personally played SOCOM, and I’m unexpectedly excited to get back in on the action. Hopefully everyone else will remember the SOCOM series for the awesomeness that it was, especially after seeing this multiplayer footage:

A small article on Sony’s quest to target core gamers with the PlayStation Move in the Wall Street Journal’s technology blog, “Digits“, has confirmed that SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs will be released in April. Well, perhaps “confirmed” is too strong of a word as the article cites no sources for the release date, but later says they talked to Travis Steiner, lead designer of SOCOM 4 at Zipper Interactive.

We’ll keep you posted on any official release date news from Sony.