“Choose Your Teammates Wisely” this is an advice for the players entering the arena of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation or better known as SOCOM: Confrontation. It is one of the most famous third person shooter video game, sometime compared to Max-Payne and Gears of War. Developed by Slant six Games, it is published exclusive for PlayStation 3 by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was earlier launched on PlayStation Network, will be launched on Blue-ray Disc in North America, and will be released in Europe in 2009. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation is the fifth installment in the SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs series. It is the first game of the series to be launched on PlayStation 3. SOCOM: Confrontation provides you the chance battling up against the best of America, Europe, and Asia.

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation was officially announced during Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Gamer’s Day on May 17, 2007 by Scott Steinberg Vice President of Product Marketing. Instead of the original game developers of SOCOM: Confrontation Zipper Interactive, the task was handed over to Slant Six Games. As the website of SOCOM was release, it was stated that it would launch in September 2008. However, SCEA’s director of development Seth Luisi cleared announced that the release would be delayed for short period. The delay was justified as to deliver “the best SOCOM experience possible.”

It was featuring a new engine built for PlayStation 3 with advanced lighting, physics, and ballistics. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation will deliver the most furious and justified high definition Modern combat action. Players have a choice playing as one of the five special teams each loaded with customized facial features, load out weapons and gear. Players will have access to seven game modes. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation’s feature of experiencing online combat on global scale makes it unique and appealing.

Just like the previous games of the franchise SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation’s focus is online playing. Special operation teams included in the game are U.K’s Special Air Service (SAS), U.S‘s Navy SEALs, Spain’s Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE), Germany’s Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK), and France’s 1er Régiment Parachutiste d’Infanterie de Marine (1er RPIMa). You are given a chance to change facial features of the character. After you customizes the facial expressions next step is to organize your soldier’s kit by selecting primary and secondary weapons as well as an extra gear slot, usually used for grenades. Choose your gear carefully as it directly affects field of movement and speed. Both commandos and mercenaries have their own set of Assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns and sniper rifles. Confrontation’s serves weakly as supplying a nice starting selection of weaponry, but offers no chance to unlock any more gear through the advancement of the game.

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation’s gameplay once again focus is on tactics with no respawns in any ranked games. If you wanna win a match most important factor is communication between players. Six modes of gameplay are included in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation. Like Breach in which commandos must destroy a series of targets and mercenaries, have to defend the target.

Even though it was loaded with many different features, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation received mostly average reviews. It was mainly because, the game was missing several features mentioned on the cover. In addition, it was launched without single player mode. It was also criticized because of technical issues. However to cover the missing features a patch was released later as 1.30.

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