Ugh, that article hit me hard. SOCOM got me into online console gaming. I still remember playing on Abandoned back in SOCOM I (by far the best iteration of the map).
Hell, I still remember the first time someone came into the game with their GameShark cheats loaded up and murdered everyone with a rapid-fire 50-cal sniper rifle on full auto while hopping around up in the sky. Of course, that was fixed for SOCOM II.
Crossroads, Desert Glory, Frostfire, they were all amazing. The games also had some pretty great clan support after a while, and don't even get me started on the lobby system. Need to warm up for a clan match? Hop into a "shotgun" room and run around no-scoping people with sniper rifles. Those were the most intense battles ever... I didn't get a PS3 because of how expensive it was, but I was always tempted to buy one just to get the newest SOCOM games. That is, until a friend who I'd played all of the PS2 games with told me how badly the first PS3 SOCOM game had been butchered. But still, I'll remember the good times, like getting the VIPs out on Fox Hunt or, conversely, simply waiting on the giant mountain in the middle of the map for the other team to bring them out into the open.
*wistful sigh*
Hell, I still remember the first time someone came into the game with their GameShark cheats loaded up and murdered everyone with a rapid-fire 50-cal sniper rifle on full auto while hopping around up in the sky. Of course, that was fixed for SOCOM II.
Crossroads, Desert Glory, Frostfire, they were all amazing. The games also had some pretty great clan support after a while, and don't even get me started on the lobby system. Need to warm up for a clan match? Hop into a "shotgun" room and run around no-scoping people with sniper rifles. Those were the most intense battles ever... I didn't get a PS3 because of how expensive it was, but I was always tempted to buy one just to get the newest SOCOM games. That is, until a friend who I'd played all of the PS2 games with told me how badly the first PS3 SOCOM game had been butchered. But still, I'll remember the good times, like getting the VIPs out on Fox Hunt or, conversely, simply waiting on the giant mountain in the middle of the map for the other team to bring them out into the open.
*wistful sigh*