Been playing the beta lately.
Well , trying to i should say.
First off let me just say im no fanboy of any series , i love shooters and ill play whatever i think is good.
The motion controls work very well , thats a +.
Blowing up walls to get to new spots is really cool.
Gun customization is also well done.
As for the minuses , lol..
The graphics are pretty weak , the levels themselves aint bad , heat effects are a nice touch. Some parts the textures are really sad , and the character models are freaking pathetic.
The animation is god awful , its almost exactly like the ps2 games where it looks like people are always dragging their feet running around.
Hit detection seems pretty off , i burst fire with single shot or with automatic , with the same results. That could just be me so i'll let that slide.
The load times are unbearable though.
I've been in Bad company , Cod4 and red faction betas lately , each one was an almost exact copy of the retail version , since socom is only coming in a month im assuming not much is going to change. (red faction had some disconnect problems , but was quickly fixed). This needs much work imo.
Its also incredibly glitchy , sometimes ill go into a match , and hit respawn too quickly , and instead of spawning ill be stuck in spectator mode until i quit and go back in , which doesn't sound all that bad , until you factor in that it literally takes 5 minutes at the least to get into a game. It freezes my ps3 sometimes , gotta manually reset it , only had that once and it was the first time i played motorstorm (launch ps3).
Also , i see everyone saying how this game is so realistic and blah blah blah.
I say MEH to you , sir. Any game where you can swing the camera around a corner without actually poking your head or being AROUND the corner is freaking dumb. Ive played socom 2 quite a bit , and its the same deal , people just sit around corners waiting for people , you can't see them , but they can see you. Lame.
The guns don't seem terribly well-balanced and some of them just seem off.
For example , the grenade launcher seems incredibly weak , you have to basically direct impact the guy to kill him.
If they fix all the glitches and horrible load times i might pick it up , the headset is quite tempting.
From a shooter fan's perspective , this game ,far as the beta goes, really just isn't that great at all.
My 2 cents for those wondering what the game play is like.
