Difficulty:

Very Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Broken"

Buy, am I glad I didn't buy this... ummm... "game"!

The first thing the game greets you with is... A bunch of Move warning screens. I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MOVE!

OK. The next thing is... Update. 45 megabytes. OK, fine. Installed. What do you know - again the Move warning screens! Then - game install phase. Then - it tells me I need to sign into PSN. Wait, I thought it has a single-player campaign mode in it, no? Why in the world do I HAVE to be signed into the PSN in order to play single player campaign??? Anyway, turned out, there was again a new PlayStation 3 firmware update (the last one was just a bit over a month ago) - these updates will never end!

OK, installed the PS3 firmware (3.72, which brings... absolutely nothing). Started the SOCOM 3 again. Wait, what??? "Receiving updates" again??? Didn't we just install a 45 megabyte update? But this time it's 4 updates, total size over 0.5 gigabyte, downloading at a snail pace (on my 30 megabit internet connection). 25 minutes later, it starts... Installing something. Again. After having waited for about 5 minutes (at which point it reached about 20% completion) I quit the game, and restarted it again... What the hell??? It's "receiving updates" again, only this time different ones - 2 updates, first one being 362 megabytes...

ARE YOU FRIGGIN SERIOUS??? 40 minutes after popping the disk into the PS3, I'm STILL unable to play the damn game! To hell with it - returning back to GameFly.

Zipper has started this stupidity with their Mag game, I believe, which also was "Receiving updates" pretty much every time you launch it. They continued it with SOCOM 4. Really? There wasn't enough space on the Bluray disk to fit all the content that 1.5 gigabytes need to be downloaded on a regular basis, or is the game just this crappy that it needs such huge updates so often?

Anyway, unfortunately I can't tell anything about the game, since I simply can't play it - I don't have all day to wait for all the crap to download and install. There are plenty of other games, more deserving my money and my time.

I've wasted $60 on Mag, and wasted nearly an hour of my time trying to start SOCOM 4. Never again will I pay a dime, or spend a second on anything that comes out of Zipper Interactive.