Video Games : SOCOM: Tactical Strike

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0711719864929
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Platform: Sony PSP
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: November 06, 2007
Sales Rank: 3428
Studio: Sony

Features:

Compelling single-player campaign featuring a contemporary narrative based in Panama.
Authentic, reality-based combat, where tactics determine the outcome of each encounter.
Guide your team of four through nine non-linear missions
Enhanced enemy intelligence and behavior through sophisticated AI and the ability to communicate with each other.
Improvement through replay is rewarded with command equity, allowing players to upgrade skills, weapons and equipment.

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Product Description:
Created in association with the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command, SOCOM Tactical Strike brings you the most realistic portrayal of special operations team combat and strategy seen to date. In this game, you assume the role of an entire elite team of Elite Special Forces, four soldiers (broken into two smaller fire teams), to whom you're able to issue commands directed to either team, an individual soldier or all four guys at the same time. Set in the midst of rising instability in Central America, your team has been called in to rescue the ambassador to Panama who has been captured by radical insurgent forces. With the consent of the Panamanian government, guide your team as they are drawn through Panama's urban and industrial centers and out into the deep jungle surrounding the Panama Canal. Evaluate your situations from the SEAL's perspective, and plan and execute your strategy using the innate experience of your team. Play as International Special Forces from the U.K, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, South Korea and the Netherlands, all supported with native languages. Building on the legacy of SOCOM online play, SOCOM Tactical Strike also offers multiplayer games of up to four players in both ad hoc and online infrastructure mode. With its innovative team gameplay format, SOCOM Tactical Strike delivers an online experience unlike any other. New gameplay format makes it easy to pick up and play. Play as any one of 9 special forces with unique loadouts and weapons 2-4 player Ad Hoc mode and online infrastructure with voice chat ESRB Rated T for Teen

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- The Most Challenging SOCOM
This game is the best, most challenging SOCOM game. I really enjoy working with 4 players instead of 2. It opens up options and makes completing objectives easier.

I really miss the finer level of control I had over the main character. For example, in previous versions of SOCOM, I could control when the sniper shoots. Sometimes I could hit targets that were farther off than recommended. In Tactical Strike, the computer takes the sniper shot. Sometimes the computer rejects shots that look possible.

Other than getting used to working with 4 players, my only other problems have been related to missions where both teams have to work at the same time. I haven't been able to find a solution to this dilema yet.

Nevertheless, I have invested hours into this game and enjoy the mental challenge of developing tactical solutions to the problems posed in it.

Rating:

- Great Strategy Game...Realistic...A Great Change to Socom Series
Most negative reviews are coming fron die-hard socom gamers. This game has a main purpose of Strategy. This is not a run and gun game...its about commanding. The graphics for Socom Tactical Strike are by far the best so far or close. The gameplay with commanding is a ton of fun if you take the time to master the commands...the multiplay online is also cool many may think having only four real life players on at a time is ok...but commanding and setting up ambushes changes the total landscape of the game with ranking systems and clans. This all makes online play great! I give them alot of credit for developing something varying very different from the standard socom game, this game packs alot of fun with single player and online play. Just take the time to master the controls and the fun will start filtering in fast...

Rating:

- A fun game minus a few camera issues...
Presentation: 7/10

The menus are nothing special but are thankfully are not difficult to navigate through.

Gameplay 8.2/10

The gamesplay is the biggest and most obvious difference from previous Socom games. If you have played Full Spectrum Warrior then you already have a taste of the gameplay. you never directly control your character, you have them move through the use of a "skimmer" and have them them attack. lay suppression fire, etc..., through a square shaped reticule in the middle of the screen.
Also the amount of options availible to your squad of four men are quite vast. You can order them to lay down some suppression fire, fire at a specific target, stealthly kill someone, breach doors three different ways, breach windows, move, move stealthly, move with cover, and thats roughly half. You can een break your team into two groups of two or four individuals.

The worst thing about the game may be the camera. The camera is very cumbersome at times and difficult to manage around things, especially in tight corridor spaces.

Graphics: 9/10

This game has some of the best graphics seen on the PSP system to date. Huge, higly detailed environments and characters combined with interesting lightning features make an amazing looking game. The technical prowness of the game puts way above previous socom games on the PSP and more than half of the PSP library.

Sound: 9.5/10

Sharp, dead-on weapon sound effects make this game as immesive as any before. Since you can play as many different countries, your men speak their native language.

Lasting Appeal: 7.5/10

This game is worth playing again taking into consideratiion of how many different strageties can be put together to complete an objective. The online multiplayer component is and awesome component which adds a little extra life to the game but it's extremely difficult to execute strategies the same way in multiplayer like you would do in campaign mode.

OVERALL: 8.5/10

**note**
If you are still a bit skeptical about this game then download the demo from the online Playstation store at store.playstation.com
Have fun!

Rating:

- Waste of time
This game is a waste of time and don`t mention the money. The only whom enjoy the the game are the bots. The developers screw a game tradition in tactical shooters.
The main statement is Socom Tactical , but this game is like a movie, you want to make some shoots but you cant.

Rating:

- SOCOM by name only!
I am very disappointed in the changes that were made. The first two SOCOMs were excellent. I do not know what would make them change the entire style / methods of gameplay. This game has little in common with the previous SOCOM games in that you do not individually control - move any of the characters directly. Its almost like a fancy version of chess with numerous cut scenes as the AI carries out your orders. I have already sold mine for less than half of what I spent for it.


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