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.
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.
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.
plz i love mag and it’s large amount of players 256 makes replay value way higher then any new shooter thay bring out even if there is clan support… i really hope thay keep mag fresh cause i can play any shooters besides mag it just feels like a downgrade 2 me so if thay dont support mag like every 2 months with new dlc it will be a big blow cause these new shooters comein out will never have the action like mag does valor all day hoora
I’ve never played any of the socom games until confrontation. I didn’t like it.
But I love MAG!! I hope the Zipper team continues to support Mag. Since Zipper is making the new Socom, ill give it a shot. But please dont forget about your MAG fan base!!
@ 310, Zipper does not develop RESISTANCE, INSOMNIAC does. IDIOT!!
Wow a REAL Socom with a REAL developer? This is very interesting. I will keep an eye on this one.
This shoulda been announced at E3 2010 though, it was really dumb to announce this a month after MAG came out, giving people the impression MAG won’t be supported long term (even if that’s not the case).
Looks very interesting though.
Jeremy, Thanks! Glad to hear there is a lot more in store for MAG.
I used to play Socom 2 online and it was freakin’ awesome so I’m really looking forward to Socom 4. And it’s out this fall too?!
This year is looking great for the PS3. :]
Glad to see a new SOCOM title from Zipper making its way to us soon-ish.
“32-person multiplayer mode that boasts more Special Forces units than ever before!”
Totally much more interested in seeing what Special Forces units I’ll be able to choose from!
Personally hoping for a little maple leaf love with some JTF2 ;)
*JEREMY DUNHAM PLEASE READ**
SOCOM 4 has to be about the best news I’ve heard in a while. I’ll admit the only reason I bought a PS3 was for SOCOM Confrontation.. to say the least, I was a bit disappointed.
I have a request for Jeremy and the Zipper dev team to think about though:
I know a lot of people are completely opposed to vehicles, but I feel that there is a huge fan base that loves vehicles. For example, the clan I was in DPG was strictly a CONVOY clan. Convoy was an extremely fun mode, so please consider keeping it in the multiplayer game.
So I propose a compromise. Have both types.
Anyways, thank you!
Remember…..MAPS MAPS MAPS MAPS MAPS!!!!!!!!!!! Pump out the content on this guys. A game launching with 30+ Online Maps would be mind blowing. I have 300 hours on confrontation with some clan members over 800. That was 7 maps….with 5 new ones? Make game modes for all and you will be make your ENTIRE fanbase happy!
CONTENT!!!! I will play the single player once, maybe twice. But I will always be playing SOCOM. 10 years strong Zipper!
IF I DONT SEE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS RUN AND GUN SOCOM 2 STYLE IM NOT BUYING IT. TIRED OF WASTING MONEY ON CRAPPY SOCOMS AFTER SOCOM 2.
SOCOM 2 BEST SHOOTER CREATED
SOCOM 3 WASNT GOOD
SOCOM COMBINED ASSAULT SUCKED
CONFRONTATION DOESNT EVEN GET SOCOM ATTACHED BECAUSE ITS A JOKE.
two request 4 player online co-op, and ps home support.
Great news, bringing it back home where it started… just PLEASE… don’t stray from the originality that is SOCOM. No TILLY… GLADYS… we don’t want a smaller caliber sniper rifle that is better than a .50 cal sniper rifle. I mean really? Go zipper go!
Please make #4 similar to Socom 2 (or even #3), if so it will be a big hit. It would also be nice to have 8on8 and 4on4 rooms. 16on16 is great too but not every one likes these and they tend to be more laggy!
Dont let /6 help you guys.
Great news! I wish you would have done this in the first place, but whatever it’s coming now.
MAG was amazing before 1.03 or whatever patch borked the gun feel.
Zipper, do us proud with socom.
ALSO…PUT REQUIEM IN.
Very nice, heading over to IGN right now.
i luv teh socomz
OMG, thank god. Zipper please do not dissapoint, no more confrontation, please no run button, please no bugs, please make like socom 1 and 2. oh please oh please, make us a real socom game. Cant wait 4 this game, make it addictive and super fun online while adding sum single player, THANK GOD thats all i can say and please dont dissapoint zipper, im uber exicted and am i long time socom player, make it the best socom ever! thanks 4 the update, god more info more info please!
shamk shama dhat teh confronsuktion iz ghon anz wez gotz our socomz bakz!!!!1
Please Jeremy do 1 thing for all of us die hard so com players-test vigorously for the soft spots and glitches, the minor problems (like the inabilaty to re load while standing on an inch of debris) that really hurt Confrontations fun factor. I’m sure if you youtube so com confentation you’ll see what I’m saying and fix these annoyances. Thanks!!!!
PS- Any $Ti member reads this I got the yellow light of death from way too many Confrontation hours and am fixing it.
If this game is in first person I’m all for it, can’t stand the camera views in third person.
Please make it so it doesnt take 4ever 2 reload, i mean cmon, no one like that..
YES!!!
@ the dude that mentioned valve, Do you not realize they dont support there games anymore? Look at ‘The Orange Box’ for consoles, no DLC and how they released Left 4 Dead 2 1 year after the first one!? Please!
Zipper all the way!
Socom is a series that I never got into but always wanted to, I think I’ll pick this one up!
Thanks for the news!
CANT WAIT!
do you think that the game will have graphics up to the stander of unchated or god of war, or even killzone on releas. and how long have you been working on this????
Cool, so Zipper is working on this one eh?
I hope its better then MAG, I didnt like MAG very much.
SOCOM: Confrontation was a really good game, even though it started out rocky, it turned out to be very very very very fun. I recommend to everyone who hasn’t played it, to play it! The non ranked matches are the best since you can respawn.
Also I guess that leads me to a question for you Jeremy, will the multiplayer in SOCOM 5 have respawns in ranked mode this time? Please please please have respawns in ranked more. Or ask the community which they would prefer, or have both modes!
Jeremy,
On behalf of the Socom Community I think its safe to say THANK YOU & glad to have you back Zipper. I just roughly spent the last 2 hours and 13min reading every post on this blog! I know we have to be realistic & can’t have every thing like Socom 2, but we would like to know since you guys have been in development for a while is it possible:
how much of Socom 4’s on-line play will mirror Socom 2?
can you please have it as seals vs terrorist?
can you please bring back maps like, Rat’s Nest, Vigilance, Sandstorm, Fishhook, Enowapi, Night Stalker, Crossroads & Cujo?
can you add 4-player split screen(off-line for co-op) with the option to go on-line with 4-players(on-line for co-op)
can you please bring back the pan mine for the terrorist?
cont…….
A lot of games now a days stress the importance of team work and try to incorporate that in their game the best way they can. If you guys think about it in Socom 2 when you had to extract the hostages or get the hostages from the terrorist base, that made the players on-line work as a team trying to figure out which route to take to get to the extraction point or how as terrorist were we going to stop the seals from getting in and planting a bomb in our base. These were maps and game modes that forced the players on-line to work as a team. I can only pray that you guys are going to mirror your great past work and incorporate that to Socom 4 for the PS3
woot, yay this is great news.. although i wanted legend of dragoon, but hey socom 4 is great, one thing though LOTs LOTs LOTs weapon(s) customization please yeah?
Jeremy,
If you would like to contact me YODA798907 is my PSN ID, feel free to hit me up any time. I have a lot of hard core Socom fans from the community that would like to get ideas to the developers to help Socom 4 live up to its potential.
Sincerely,
YODA798907
30\M\Ga
After having played SOCOM Confrontation for the past few weeks, and being a SOCOM 2 veteran, I feel that Slant 6 really captured the essence of the series. Great gameplay manifests within beautifully lit and designed levels, where materials such as marble, concrete, tile, wood and metal come to life. Particle effects suitably enhance the experience by obscuring vision, lighting at night changes up the gameplay requiring the donning of night vision and/or thermal gear. The HDR implementation simulates the iris effect, blinding players to dark areas while they are bathed in sunlight. Foliage rendering is among the best this generation, and shrubs animate as players past through them. Confrontation also makes very good usage of the Sixaxis, allowing the player to progressively lean/rise/lower the character as necessary by rotating the controller.
It is a very convincing experience while the engine behaves itself, but it does occasionally stutter, tear frames, or draw in textures/geometry. It still crashes about once a day (sometimes more) freezing the console, and configurations for characters and controls are frequently lost. I think Sony has an obligation to the SOCOM community to fix these major quality issues.
NICE been playing Socom since middle school enjoyed all of them for their own uniqueness. People just stop crying about what you think about Socom 3(personally my fav) or Confrontation. As a true Socom fan I know the up and downs of the series as well as the rest of you. As well as every other Socom fan.
Add a community thing like you did in Socom 3 with clan war and ladders and its a first day buy for me. Zipper is the best, I’m sensing more Thai terrorist? South East Asia again XD
I was very happy today when I found out Zipper is actually making a new socom and not slant six who screwed up confrontation. Ive been a die hard socom fan and have played every one since socom 1. One thing I hope you guys do for the online is fix the menu system and lobby systems. I have lots of friends that wont play this games because at times it takes 20 to 30 minutes to find a game to play. It never took a half hour to find a room and play in socom one or two. One thing I would also like to see is a way to prevent rank ups. Also it would be nice to have some sweet new maps, but also implement all the old maps from socom 1 and 2, didnt really like the maps in 3 or combined assault. But I will be reserving my copy of Socom 4 you can be guaranteed of that.
Oh I forgot one thing I hope you guys keep is using the six axis, I love to be able to throw grenades under hand and over hand.
I am lovin da story line and were its going. Can’t wait til they release da game,if zipper its behind this project. I know for a fact dat the SOCOM saga will come back even stronger this time!
THANK YOU ZIPPER!!!
we are hoping for the best for socom 4, best campaign, coop and MP.
i love you zipper! =D
*big socom fan
played socom 2, 3, combined assault, FTB, FTB2.
I hope a Ps3 headset bundle comes with this cant wait
OMFG CANT [DELETED] WAIT!!
FINALLY ZiPpER has come back to SOCOM!!!!!
can u smellllll what ZiPpER is cooking?
I think I’m dreaming! SOCOM 4 in the works! I’ve been waiting so long for a next gen SOCOM.
After so many years, nothing comes close to my SOCOM. I did enjoy Confrontation but it’s been such a rough ride on that game. I’m sure SOCOM 4 will fill in the blanks that Confrontation had and I’m going to have a hard time sleeping waiting for this to be released.
Thank you, Zipper!
Coop for this game is a must. No Coop = No buy.
ohmygod. great news. i was a fan of the old socom. back in the ps2 days. ive recently had appreciation for tactical games. such as bc2 and mag. but i know socom is best at these things. i am SO excited. i can already imagine myself skipping class for this. :p
I’LL RENT THIS FIRST EITHER WAY..I don’t care if zipper’s name is on it or not !!
If this game has “ANY” VIEW/CONTROLS/MENUS like CONFRONTATION….NO SALE !!
No text chat in pre-launch lobbies…NO SALE !!
No UCCR……NO SALE !!!!!!!!
No tie breaker round….NO SALE !!!!!
I could go on and on…YOU KNOW WHAT SOCOMERS
WANT…..JUST SEE THAT IT’S DONE RIGHT ZIPPER!!!
bigbirdqc eh?
I played Socom 3 and 3.5 (can’t think of the name) and Socom Confrontation a tiny bit. My brother brought me into the series after purchasing to play with some friends.
He became a true master of the game. Seriously impressive. He learned how to quick-snipe insanely good. yeah, I know… the game isn’t about quick-sniping/ eventually patched out, but it was fun to just play quick-snipe matches on Harvester… who is with me? My brother made a few accounts and got so into Socom and wanted a high rank so much that he learned how to use CodeMajik, a ps1 disk and a USB with some pre-loaded files to hack the game and be able to use all sorts of awesomely cheap cheats. (weird because he isn’t the computer ‘wiz’ and what he had to do for this was really confusing)
I’m semi-excited for Socom 4, depends upon whether or not it turns out good (according to word-of-mouth) and whether I can get a few friends to buy and play the game too. Good luck.
That GTTV teaser was horrible, better be something better lined up for E3,
YUPPP SONY PS3 IS BANGING WITH ALL KINDS OF NEW GOOD GREAT GAMES,LUV MY SONY.POOR POOR LIL XBOX LOL.I LUV MAG & I CANT WAIT 2 GET IN2 SOCOM.I NEVER THOUGHT SOME OTHER GAME WOULD MAKE ME BORE OF MW2,BUT MAGz HUGE MULTITASK WARz DID IT.I KNW ITS THE BIGGINING BUT I HOPE 4 THE FUTURE IT ONLY GETZ BETTER.I JUST WANT 2 SAY,ZIPPER U GUYS DID A GREAT JOB WITH MAG.I LUV THE IDEA OF LOOKING OUT 4 UR SQUAD ASWELL AS HELPING OTHER PLAYERS,HOPE WE GET COOL DLCz.
And I must add…THIS SERIES DOES NOT NEED TO COMPETE WITH OTHER SHOOTERS…..
Leave GHOST RECON , RAINBOW 6 , CALL OF DUTY
OUT OF THE PICTURE…..THIS IS SOCOM !!!!!!!