SOCOM 4: It’s Official!

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I wanted to drop in and deliver some truly exciting news – on behalf of everyone here at Zipper Interactive, I’m pleased to announce that SOCOM 4 is indeed in development and is slated for release exclusively on PlayStation 3 this fall.

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Of course, as with any new announcement, what you really want to know are the details: Who’s in your squad? Where have they been deployed? What kind of threat are they up against? Though we’ll be revealing the answers to all these questions and plenty more throughout 2010, we don’t want to leave you completely in the dark, so what we will tell you is that a militant revolutionary has unexpectedly seized control in an important South Asian country. As the Ops Com, your mission is to command an elite five-man squad charged with stopping his aggressive agenda before it’s too late. In only six days, you must lead your team through a hostile jungle and urban environments against an army of well-armed rebel insurgents that completely outnumber you.

If that setup doesn’t whet your appetite enough, you should also be pleased to know that in addition to the SOCOM’s single-player operation, players will also be able to enjoy a 32-person multiplayer mode that boasts more Special Forces units than ever before!

If you crave even more information, then the guys at IGN have you covered with their exclusive first-look preview at what we’ve shown so far. Editor and shooting game fanatic, Ryan Geddes, dropped by our studio earlier in the week to check out SOCOM 4 for himself, so be sure to read the full IGN article to find out what he thinks.

SOCOM 4 screenshot Team Running

But wait! There’s more! As part of our continued announcement celebration, the folks at GameTrailers TV will air the world premiere trailer for SOCOM 4 tonight at 12:30 am EST/PST. All you have to do is tune in to Spike TV when the time is right and let your eyes and ears do the rest. Don’t miss it!

Oh, and before we let you go, we wanted to send a message to our SOCOM and MAG fans all over the world. First, if you play MAG and wonder what this means for the game’s future, wonder no more – we’re still fully committed to supporting MAG for a long, long time and the addition of another game in our lineup doesn’t change that. Second, it’s been great to hear from SOCOM fanatics located in every corner of the globe as we led into today’s announcement. We’re extremely excited to be attached to this beloved franchise again and knowing that so many people wanted us to return to something that already meant so much to us has been both inspiring and touching – so thank you to all of you who wanted it to happen! We look forward to living up to your expectations.

SOCOM 4 screenshot Team Cover

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  • First of all love socom games but Hate cheaters that use Net/tools/5 to cause lagg and lagg switches seems to big problem on socom confrontation if zipper can fix this to keep the game clean and honest you will be a winner. “YOU GUYS CAN DO IT” be the first and the best in video game history to beat cheaters at there game.

  • Is this THE game also using Killzone’s 2 engine???Hope it has a GOOD single player campaign

  • I would first like to thank zipper for bring us MAG, and thanks foe bringing THE REAL SOCOM to the PS3. Ive played all of the socom games except for confronation(if zipper wasnt making it i wouldnt buy it)i think a lot of people complaining about the vehicles are sick in the head I loved them. I hope the single player is like combine assault with co-op and has co-op missons, nut thanks again zipper looking forward to it.

  • People need to stop bashing this news especially if you are not an old Socom player because if you were one you’d know how much of an impact this game had for Sony. It was the single greatest achievement of online multiplayer for the PS2. It pioneered the way for other multiplayer games and most importantly, Socom sold consoles. I just hope Zipper brings back the glory days of Socom 1 and 2. So everyone else should stfu.

  • Jeremy

    I got a quick question for you if you are still reading this. Is there any way to put out socom 2 on the ps3 with new servers? I am shocked that some people commenting on here actually liked the additions of vehicles and other stuff that were in socom 3 and CA so I’m sure that you will have to compromise with the wants of fans for socom 4. I simply want a game that is the exact same as socom 1/2. Is this possible?

  • This is incredible news!

    i cannot wait to get my hands on this. Jeremy i just wanted to ask a question, would you know anything of the games engine itself? there is a lot of speculation that this game is running on the same engine as of *MAG* ? would be great too know : )

  • Woah finally. Thank god its by Zipper they are true geniuses man jus make it like socom combined assault that game owned. WOOOO and its releasing thissss YEar. Will it be announced at E3

  • It doesn’t mater if people think this is stupid, cause so many people have been wanting this for so long. I’v been into Wii but now Sony has my attention with this and God Of War III. Wonder how many people will vanish from the Confrontation server Most of the real socom vets don’t even play that they’re on MW2. If they Love confrontation then thats there first socom played. Don’t know any Vets who like it enough to love it.

    Zipper, I know yall are focusing on new stuff, but if there should ever be a map pack release how about some more polls. We love VOTING… Like for have all maps and let us choose our favorite 3 or 5 maps, and go from there.

  • THANK GOD!!!!! WE CAN THROW CONFRONTATION OUT THE WINDOW..PLEASE HURRY WE NEED A GREAT 3RD PERSON SHOOTER.

  • Im a true socom vet and cant wait to see this new installment , and truly happy that zipper is bringing it back to where it should be..

  • Make the gameplay fast! That’s what was great about SOCOM 2. Confrontation is such a SLOW game.

  • I hope that the player models that im currently seeing in these newly released pictures aren’t final. It resembles a little like MAG uggh! It looks too rambo-iish with their tanktops. It would be way better if they looked a little more professional and have player models similar to Confrontations and the previous games.

  • This is GREAT, im so excited! It would be nice if you guys could include co-op for the single player campaign(both online and locally) So few games these days allow you to get a bunch of guys together and just play on the same consule. It’s all about online co-op, not locale >.>

  • Good deal! Zipper back at the helm! put all the maps from socom 2 please… i miss the 8v8 of the first two games. glad to hear about a deep singleplayer too! ..but seriously i want every map.. EVERY MAP from rats nest to crossroads and everything in between

  • I first bought my PS3 when i heard that they were releasing SOCOM. They pushed the date back about a few month so I kept my self busy with Ghost recon 2(good 3rdps). Then it finally came out, SOCOM my favorite game ever, the game that hooked me onto online game play with it’s socom1, 2, and 3 series… Then I found out it was made by a company that I have never heard of called /6. The game was horrible with crashes and glitches, with buttons us socom fans weren’t used to that we couldn’t change. And this went on for a good year till they finally released a patch that put things to where it is right now. A full year for the game to run right. The only reason I still play confrontation and stick with it is because of all the fun times I had with socom 1, 2 and 3. Zipper please bring us the old school Socom action. Us true fans don’t care about graphics, it’s all about the game play. It has always been about the game play. You guys know what we love. Make it happen. Also I don’t mind vehicles.

    P.S.- I was pissed about the fictional korean female combat soldier, but I realized there are alot of females that play socom, It’s about time they had their own skin.

  • Oh and please make Crimson Skies 2. It was the best Plane fighting game EVER. IT was the BEST.

  • Finally we will get a real Socom game and not that Confrontation that has been collecting dust. Welcome back to Socom Zipper I know you will do a great job on this game.

  • Hey Zipper/Jeremy, will there be an open mic or will we have to press a button to talk, cause if I may say so the open mic like (MW2) is really good for the fact of we don’t have to take our finger off the trigger button, and just make it to where we can mute the annoying people..

    Oh and PLEASE don’t make a button to run, just make them run all by themselves like the good old days…

  • Long time SOCOM fan here. Can’t wait to play the next.

  • BigDaddyWooWoo87

    This has got to be by far the best news i’ve heard since the first time I played confrontation. Slant 6 completely ruined socom. I am a socom vet and was extremely dissapointed with conf. All I want is the same old socom wih a melee better graphics and new bright maps not like the dark maps in mag. Zipper thanks for making this happen and you will bring all the vets back to the game they love.

    P.S Get rid of slant 6 all they did was make the socom name look like a game my 16 month old daughter should play!

  • for all you morons out there that don’t know how to be patient and use your brain in a game should actually try SOCOM one time. SOCOM was the greatest online franchise in ps2 history and was ruined by a poor showing from a newbie developer called slant six. The game might not have been rated so bad if they didn’t have to follow up on a game that was an online powerhouse. To Sony this is a major release because of the fan base of SOCOM. This game will bring a boost in sales for sure. I personally know people who haven’t bought a ps3 just because the lack of a good SOCOM game. SOCOM 4 will be amazing for sure.

  • Jeremy,

    I am not sure what some of these tools are concerned with, Combined assault had great reviews and units sold. People liked the vehicles, and there were convoy clans. I am in a convoy clan still! Awaiting a convoy to drive!!! Please Jeremy! Please tell me I have a tank, and 2 convoy trucks. MAG Acquistion is good, but not quite CONVOY! Homerun by the way on mag, I hate 1st person but again I hate Slant 6 also so I gave it a try. Modern Warfare just pooped themselves, MAG is awesome but Socom is the GODFATHER! I would be happy with a combo of all socoms and additions of new content as well! You guys know what you are doing, keep it up and don’t let the dozens of convoy clans down that are holding on in anticipation!!!

  • I hope it’s similar to Combined Assault.. I STILL play that game while S:Constipation collects dust. I remember Seth deleting all my Pro-Zipper comments while playing his crappy beta. Hard to believe the last great single-player SOCOM game for PS was released in 2006. I’ll be pre-ordering soon! Good luck Zipper.

  • I have bin a socom fan from the beginning,and i think zipper should have made socom 2 on the ps3.Same game play.Alot of fans quit playing socom 2 because of lagging,code 9,code majic,ect.Please keep up on this one.Keep this one clean.Ive spent alot of money on the games ,I have every socom game,even on psp.

  • @Jeremy Dunham,
    1st. are you guy’s taking any of these comments serious and doing something with them to make s4 a game the socom-fans would recognize in game-play or are you making the game as you(zipper)like it to be?

    2nd. if the game is releasing this fall, wouldn’t it be wise to get a beta started and get as many glitches out before releasing, take a look at confrontation(the game just became reasonable playable after the cf-dlc) and MW2 they pretty much f* up and loads of people are abandoning it before the game is 1 year old. if there would be something like a beta it seems logical to me to take a reasonable amount of time to fix things and listen to you’re community

    3th. when will there be more info on the game, you stated it would be released this fall but erverywhere i search it’s TBA.

    anyway’s great to see zipper is making a socom

  • Man i cant Wait ..!!!!!!

  • Plz get those graphics up to par with cod 2.Confrontation was alright,but now Zipper is back should be awesome.

  • thank god for zipper, i been playing socon since the first and i couldn’t be happier to see this i have never gave up on a socom game before confrontation, thank god mag came out..zipper has proved them selves time n time again so i think all us die hard socom guys will be real pleased to get the real socom back ,, thanx ZIPPER

  • im glad theres another socom game but I wish they would remake or just add alot of stuff from S2

  • Just saw the Socom 4 coverage at GDC ’10. . . . . . Jesus Christ do you guys not get it? Socom 3 changed the series and failed, Confrontation made more obscure changes and there are more copies sitting in gamestop than in people homes……

    Cover-system? OTS view? and now, motion CONTROL? What has this series become???? Mario!?!?! Yes, lets make socom the guinea pig of the PS3, don’t worry it will sell!!! It’s Socom, the fans eat it up like babies being fed anyway.

    Apart from MW2 and Uncharted 2 my PS3 was collecting dust while I hoped that you guys would do justice to this series and yet the same fat-heads are still trying to “change” and “innovate” and bring the “hardcore gamers” . . . . . .to what? To game play mechanics i can get in 30 other games/shooters? If I wanted a cover system, I’ll play Rainbow 6 Vegas or Uncharted, if I want OTS view I’ll go play Ghost Recon.

    This series has officially lost all identity and is DEAD to me barring some miracle that S4 is good for what it is, but alas NOT MY SOCOM. I never even go on these forums/blogs or anything and now this footage hit a nerve………….

  • i just hope they put co-op in the story mode (which their not)and have an off-line 4-player split screen for me and my friends

  • r_e_v has the best socom post I have ever seen (SOCOM 4: A Competitive Player’s View) on socom.com If you really love socom you need to check it out!!

  • I truly hope this socom will be more like combined assault then confrontation. I have been playing socom since socom 2 and have loved the games up until confrontation. I bought a ps3 for confrontation and was totally let down I understand another company made it just hope you guys stay clear of that game!

  • let me just say me along with about 100 others I play with would play socom combined assault or socom 3 if it was able to be downloaded at the playstation store. whats that say? we socomers miss the game play dont change the game to much or it will be like everything else not what we fell in love with!!!

  • Looks incredible, love the SOCOM series, what I really want to know is if SOCOM 4 will have an option to play through the campaign co-op? I just think this would be an awesome game to play through with your buddies.

  • If you want SOCOM 4 to be a success bring back vehicles and planes! Take a look at Battlefield 1943 very simple with tanks and planes in a small environment. If you leave them out you will have another Confrontation game(Epic Failure) Just make a room without vehicles!

  • @D1RTYRICE

    You have to be kidding me! Obviously you have not played Socom 1 & 2. Socom 1 & 2 is the best in the series and I’m sure zipper knows that and will stick to that type of game play without the vehicles. We understand Confrontation is a failure but are you saying that Socom 1 & 2 are failures? No disrespect but if you want vehicles than just stick with Battlefield. Zipper bring back the feeling of Socom 1 & 2!

  • I hope they do not mess it up like some the past ones

  • jeremy is there going to be a beta release?

  • All I can say is make it as close to socom 2 as you can. I dont think anyone cares how realistic the game is. It just has to be fun so forget about how good it looks and sounds make sure movement is good. Also can there please be a chat bar in the lobbies as well do the same lobby style as other socoms.

    Will matches be mainly 8 v 8 or 16 v 16? (8v8 is better)

  • do u think it could be a way to add like socom 1 2 and 3 campaings also for co op

  • Thank god we got the dam canadians out of there!!!!!!!

  • Well i perosnally cant w8 imma beast at socom so =) ill be top 100 4 sure

  • for offline make the a.i actually smart

  • playing offline will be cool, personally i will ONLY play the offline to see how wierd it is and to get all its trophies, but i think after the first mission ill go right online, nobody plays socom for the hundreds of hours that they do because of the offline, you guys really need to get this straight online or else many people will be very mad, hell on socom 2 i didnt even play the story mode till like a year after i startd playing it online, make online still the main focus, i can gaurentee more people care about the online aspect

  • and reading other peoples posts, socom is best with out vehicles, VEHICLES REALLY? if i want to shoot homos in vehicles i will play battlefield bad company 2, atleast its fun then, sorry playstation for the rudeness and ”vulgar” but i read all of this and just mad at what was said and how stupid other peoples opinions are granted they have the right to state them

  • Does anyone know if the campaign will be co-op?

  • @overwatch79 it most likely will

  • Mw2 has too many campers i hope SOCOM makes it hard

  • Thx for makin s4

    Hopefully the mp will be well covered since this is the cash cow of socom franchise.

    Been a fan of the serie since S1 I just cant wait to play s4.

    I just hope the team who work on this project will make an epic game, for that they will need to look back in time and bring the essence of the old socom feeling. Keep up the good work, I’ll play mag for now since I think this is a great game you guys delivered! Hope to see some mp info leak any time soon…

    ~ Stack

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