SOCOM 4 and PlayStation Move Motion Control

[Outlaw__Rebel]

They forget that most of us are drunk while we're playing. This ain't going to work out at all.

[meauxpack]

honestly, i just want them to sprinkle some crack on it. It's impossible to catch lightning in a bottle twice, so they absolutely need to push the SOCOM brand forward. As long as they bring back fast-paced, addictive gameplay, i dont care how they do it.

[[BOUr]thunder_fist]

Headshot! :-\

[Crusty_Demons]

meauxpack ]

honestly, i just want them to sprinkle some crack on it. It's impossible to catch lightning in a bottle twice, so they absolutely need to push the SOCOM brand forward. As long as they bring back fast-paced, addictive gameplay, i dont care how they do it.

 

The rumor is it plays considerably faster than Confrontation which will make at least two of us happy.

[Crusty_Demons]

Mr. Luisi makes his come back.

 

GDC 10: PlayStation Move Gameplay Walkthrough (Cam) HD - SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs

[Crusty_Demons]

Lead designer interview. Yes I am all over this like white on rice. ;D

 

http://g4tv.com/videos/44704/SOCOM-4-Lead-Designer-GDC-2010-Interview/?quality=hd

[shane]

Beat you to it CD its on the blog already

[Crusty_Demons]

Good stuff. I used to have a blog.. :'(

[shane]

we are always looking for a good writer you know crusty... nemesis is all by his lonsome in the news room

[Nemesis]

Shane ]

nemesis is all by his lonsome in the news room

 

and it's dark and scary in here :'(

[shane]

hey scoot over your touching me again ;D

[UNCLE-SID25]

Playerdown ]

SOTG_Marauder_ ]

Motion thing doubles as a night light. Oh and is gay.

 

When they combine the Move with the Fleshlight, I'm in there like swimwear.

 

That thing does look like a magic fairy wand. LOL.

 

I fell out of my chair reading this shit lmao

 

How about they show me some increased frame rates and smooth menu options in game... The "move" will be a fun party favor but there is no way some kid is going to snipe me with that shit lol

[IRISH BULL]

I'm equally excited about SOCOM 4 and the PS Move.

[[SoW] Lucky_Saint-]

UNCLE-SID25 ]

Playerdown ]

SOTG_Marauder_ ]

Motion thing doubles as a night light. Oh and is gay.

 

When they combine the Move with the Fleshlight, I'm in there like swimwear.

 

That thing does look like a magic fairy wand. LOL.

 

I fell out of my chair reading this shit lmao

 

How about they show me some increased frame rates and smooth menu options in game... The "move" will be a fun party favor but there is no way some kid is going to snipe me with that shit lol

 

o i beg to differ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D i see them coming out with gun shaped thingies to place the controllers in and such

[Nemesis]

IRISH BULL ]

I'm equally excited about SOCOM 4 and the PS Move.

 

Me too, but especially after reading this: ;D

 

Motion-Controlled Teabagging: Why SOCOM Fans Shouldn't Fear Move

 

Zipper Interactive has a lot to prove with SOCOM 4.

 

It will most likely be the first solidly hardcore game featuring the ability to play it either with a standard controller or the Playstation's motion-sensing Move controller.

 

But that doesn't mean the experience has been in anyway dumbed down to accommodate Move. Ed Byrne, creative director at Zipper, assured me that there is no reason to worry about that. In fact, he said, the game was originally developed for the Playstation 3's standard controller. They later added in the ability to play the game with Move.

 

Taking the Move controller in my right hand and button-packed sub-controller in my left, I took the game for a short test drive. As McWhertor laid out in his write up of SOCOM 4 with Move, the game uses a thumbstick on the left controller to move around and pointing and aiming with the right to look around and shoot.

 

Various buttons let you throw grenades, zoom in, reload, fire and sprint. Almost no motions are used besides for aiming. But there's a good chance that could change before release.

 

Byrne said that the team is looking at a lot of options for adding optional motions into the game to do things like zoom in, run or even... "victory dance."

 

To be specific, I asked Byrne if they would be adding motion detection for teabagging. As I said this I demonstrated the idea for the concept by holding the controllers at my waist, pointing them at the floor and repeatedly squatting.

 

Byrne laughed and said that there have been "lots" of conversations about that sort of motion control detection. Like allowing players to do the robot to trigger an in-game, over-corpse robot dance. Or perhaps do some arm waving to do a chicken dance. And yes, even deep squats to pull off a teabagging.

 

Motion-controlled victory dances or not, SOCOM 4 felt like a fairly solid shooter when played with Move. I was able to pull off quick headshots, snap in and out of cover effortlessly and zoom in on targets located several blocks away.

 

The only thing I wasn't happy with was the turning speed. This would only come into play if I was flanked in a match, something that can happen quite a bit. But Byrne said that the team plans to tweak that. Perhaps, he said, they'll allow gamers to tweak the settings themselves so they can control the turn speed and how far a person has to point away from center of screen to start turning.

 

I asked if the team had thought about playing around with the colored ball on the front of the Move controller. Perhaps using its ability to change colors in-game. You could, I theorized, have the color of the ball tell players there current health.

 

Byrne nixed the idea, pointing out that players usually won't be looking at the controller itself while playing the game. But, he added, the ball can change colors up to once a second, so perhaps they could do something with it.

[RNG187]

went to gamestop, asked a guy there...he said they're taking reservations for socom it's release date? early 2011...

[shane]

There has not been an official release date set by Sony...

 

SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs

 

Format: PS3

Out: TBA

Publisher: Sony

 

So even Gamestop does not know for sure... When we get an official release date, we will be happy to share. We have access to the official Release Date Schedules.

[Pathogen-]

I'm not excited about this wii thing. I won't buy it, and for those who think that it won't "dumb down" socom, you have to be kidding me. Look at the wii...its bs.

They even market it as taking a hardcore game and making it more accessible to mainstream. um....that is developer code for "we are making this retarded"

Auto aim..have you guys noticed that? if I want to play Uncharted, I'll freakin go buy that game.

But then, I really don't give a rat's ass about the single player at all.

If they have this auto aim stuff and the cover system in online play, then I'm very worried that socom will finally just go into oblivion, and we'll be stuck with halo/cod first person respawn noob fests