The addition of a “cover” button is excellent, except when you get stuck in cover while trying to aim at someone next to you. Pressing the aim button should give you the ability to look in 360 degrees and not just over the cover you’re behind. Although the grenade toss (after some getting used to) is accurate up to a certain point, bringing back the toss arc would be beneficial in gauging the correct trajectory and destination. Also in regards to explosives and other alternative R2 devices, a single tap of the button should suffice in deploying a device (it seems to take two taps to deploy devices most times.)

Being a veteran since Socom 1, I am used to the controls, I must say getting used to the Sharp Shooter will take some doing. It would be eaier however if the cross hairs would actually point to where I am aiming… I did calibrate and recalibrate the system in both the PS3 system set up and through Socom 4′s game mode and I was not able to get the accuracy to line up all through out the screen… It seems that the accuracy is okay around the center but is way off when you get to the periferal. I feel like I just wated a couple of hundred in this!