SOCOM: Confrontation

Since my review of F.E.A.R., It's been a long time since I've come across a game that could fuel the fires of an irritated, annoyed, and soul-shatteringly abusive rant that I was almost able to forget how embarassingly aggrivating some games could be.

If SOCOM: Confrontation had to exist to give the world a balance of terrible games to good ones, Zanax, Paxil, Prozac, Hard Liquor, Pot, Cocaine, and Ejaculations all had to exist in order to help gamers cope with the excessively frustrating bullshit that this game spews out from every seam.

Guess I should have known better from the start when the game came bundled with a bluetooth headset just to sell a few copies but, I shrugged it off and popped the game in.

.....23 minutes later, the Initial install of the game was finished, and I was able to pl-...

...wait...no...sorry. Then, I was able to download and install the mandatory 525 Megabyte patch...Guess the game just didn't work out of the box! This was my first real sign of trouble.

so, about another 25 minutes, and the game was ready to go!

...Except that there was no "game".

Single Player:
None? really? Seriously? How the fuck do you expect a game to sell on the merits of shitty Multiplayer alone? It's not even that good!

Multiplayer:
First things first: The matchmaking system just doesn't work. To play the few online games I was actually able to play, I had to find the servers myself, then wait for the current game to finish.

Next, Once you're in the game, The camera controls are terrible. you get a generic over-the-right shoulder view, just like every game of this generation. You can either zoom in with your weapon, or look over the shoulder. You want to see what's on the other side of you? You can't. Unless you turn. All the way around so that it's over your right shoulder.

Finally, The levels! Wow, the levels. If i could use a word for them, it'd be "Uninspired" It couldn't have felt more like counter-strike if it tried.

SOCOM: Confrontation might get a better rap if it were sold as a bootlegged, Malaysian-designed copy of Rainbow Six: Vegas' multiplayer.

Doesn't even belong in the dollar bin, Just put it in a landfill somewhere, next to those ancient copies of E.T. and "The Break-up" on HD-DVD. Just try to forget that it ever happened.