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.
I wasn’t into MAG so hope i like this one better.
Socom is Dead. Hearing 32 vs 32 shows that Zipper clearly hasn’t learned from the mistakes that killed the franchise. I will never, I mean NEVER buy a game that Seth Luisi has worked on. SONY do the right thing and kill this game now.
The last Socom I played was the 3rd one and heard lots of things that pushed me away from playing it on PS3, but I love MAG and can’t wait to see the trailer tonight on GTTV
PS3 RULES!!!!
As an avid MUltiplayer, please, please listen to the comments on SOCOM 3. Learn from them and make 4 leaps and bounds better. I was very disappointed with the latest SOCOM.
very good news. looking forward to the new SOCOM. especially since MW2 will likely be the last one of those. keep up the good work with exclusives.
Globox nothing looks as good as those games do. plus this is an announcement…not a final product. relax man i’m sure they’ll be just fine once the game is ready for launch.
this is an AWESOME ANNOUNCEMENT. IF YOU DONT LIKE SOCOM YOU NEED TO GET HIP THIS GAME PIONEERED ONLINE MULTIPLAYER FOR SONY AND WAS THE FLAGSHIP TITLE FOR YEARS FOR ONLINE USERS. DO YOUR RESEARCH TERDS THIS IS FAR FROM A FAIL BY SONY!!
YES I LOVE CAPITALS BECAUSE IM LIKE A LIL BOY ON XMAS RIGHT NOW LLS
So this is a single player game like the old SOCOMS were? with added multiplayer? IS that correct? I loved the old single player campaign of the original SOCOMS. . . this could be epic
It has both, yes.