Gaming Socom

[No-Name]

I have seen all the videos and all the screens and all I can say is how hyped I am to buy this game. Of course I missed it on it's initial release, but the next shipment is coming in tomorrow or Sunday. I hear you can use the USB mic that comes with it on your comp. Can anyone verify this for me. Does anyone have it with the Network Adaptor yet? How cool is MultiPlayer Online, I'm dying to know.

[RicoTranzrig]

My friend had enough money for it so he's online...the graphics are okay, but the gameplay is fun. He tends to get killed a lot though. I doubt that you can use the mic on the comp without the proper drivers, unless your computer has an OS that supports USB mics.

[Kent]

the mic does come with the game and it hooks up direct to the ps2 so once you hook the ps2 up to the network you are able to use the mic with no extra stuff.
the game is great. but...
you do die alot. especially once you beat it.
you get all the weapons but all the terrorist are harder to kill and you become easier to kill.
still. all said. two thumbs up.

[No-Name]

Im pretty sure Win98 supports USB mics. Anywho, my official playstation mag said comps work with it, i just wanted some clarification

[ZeroBlade]

I had the game and the network adapter since the launch date. Single player wise, its good. Its really cool being able to talk to the computer to tell them what to do. Sometimes they don't listen which is a pain but its all good. Some of the missions are really fun and the weapons are awesome. My fav is the M16 with the grenade luncher:tasty:

Now for online play. WOW. This is awesome. The other players are really fun to play with and its really cool to talk to them with the headset. But there are some negative points. For starters only those with broad band connections can play (DSL or Cable mostly). Anyone with 56k's are out of luck, however I am hearing reports that somehow 56k's are getting into the network when they aren't supposed to. Even so, if you do managed to get in, you'll lag so much its not fun at all. The server problems are still being ironed out. As far as I know, the player rankings option is offline and sometimes during gameplay, the server might just boot you from a game or the voice chat feature goes down. This really isn't too bad since its the game that matters and not the other features. This is actually an improvement since the launch since some people at first couldn't log in or get booted off the game 5 minutes after they began! Lastly the biggest negative is that its been confirmed that cheats work online. Meaning people can use their gamesharks to shoot through walls, unlimited heath, etc. This one thing pretty much destroys the game. I haven't seen any yet but the possibility is there.

Anyway, besides that, this is really a great multiplayer game. Again the SOCOM team is working on getting those bugs fixed so they won't last long. Besides, its was expected since all online games do tend to have problems within its first month of release. (So expect FFXI to have ALOT of problems). Oh and anyone is wondering, I am ZeroG214 in SOCOM so if you wanna get fragged, look for me in one of the US East or EU West servers;)

As for the headset, I say it will work on any USB compatible computer.

[Kent]

Does anybody else feel like the makers of this should have just come out and called the enemys what I think they were meant to be?

iron brothers-soviets
riddah rouge-viet cong
and i dont remeber the last ones, but the muslim terrist... al queda.

[zidane11]

The mic. should work with it and the online feature is another reason that makes it a really good game.