Most recently, Zipper released SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs with PlayStation Move support in early 2011.
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In an open letter to SOCOM personnel published this week, Special Operations Chief Adm.
When SOCOM was inaugurated in 1987, the Marines chose not to include their own Force Recon.
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This Sniper Rifle will be compatible with all Move titles, including Resistance 3, Killzone 3, Socom 4.
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As of now, MARSOC has had to find its own niche in the already crowded SOCOM community.
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Sony purchased Zipper Interactive in 2006, after working with the game studio since 2002 on the SOCOM franchise.
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The United States sends its most elite operatives (SOCOM) into Afghanistan way before it sends in conventional forces.
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Zipper Interactive is best known for its bestselling SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs franchise, which sold over 12 million units.
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Zipper titles MAG, SOCOM 4 and Unit 13 will continue to be supported, including the new Daily Challenges in Unit 13.
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Sony's "SOCOM 4" is the latest in a third-person shooter series about Navy SEAL operatives, which heavily promotes its online-play component.
In many ways, they get the same training and equipment as SOCOM forces, but they are fully under the control of the Marine Corps.
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However, since the Marine Corps declined to have any units in SOCOM, no Marines are sent to Afghanistan during the opening stages of the war.
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Lag is less prominent on Socom 4, and we'd say we're pretty accurate with the controller already, though the framerate choppiness of this pre-alpha build obviously hampers that a bit.
As far as we can tell, the control scheme for Socom 4 is quite similar to dual-controller shooter setups on the Wii, with the camera moving based on your aiming cursor hitting the edge.
At the same time, we support the PlayStation 2 platform well into the 6th, 7th, 8th year, and will be until 10 years with products like God of War 2 and SOCOM, which will be out this holiday-- you know, core-gamer products.
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