That’s way too many capital letters for my liking. SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Confrontation is getting a new DLC pack soon on the PS3. The COLD FRONT pack promises to bring a shit-ton of new content for $14.99:
- New Russian / Eastern European Area of Operation
- Snow setting complete with snow effects, new snow gear and camo for both the Special Forces and Mercenaries, and thermal vision
- New ARMS RUN gameplay mode
- 5 New Maps: Uprising, Entrapment, Blizzard, Night Stalker, Vigilance
- All new mercenaries characters with new looks and new VO.
- New Special Forces squad, the Russian Spetsnaz
- Gun turrets emplacements
- New music
- All new character specialization/progression system
- Allows players to pick a primary and secondary specialization and unlock new equipment exclusive to those specializations
- New weapons, including: 3 new weapons, 6 enhanced versions of weapons available as part of the new weapons specialization system, 2 new weapon attachments (including the thermal scope), 5 enhanced versions of weapon attachments also available as part of the new weapons specialization system.
- 2 new grenade launcher ammo types (flash and smoke)
- New Trophies
I haven’t touched SOCOM since launch and I don’t know if new content will bring me back. There are plenty of other games out drawing my attention, like Uncharted 2, Critter Crunch, Halo 3: ODST, and the upcoming Modern Warfare 2. I will say that this is a lot of content for the money, so hardcore SOCOM players should be pleased. Given that up until recently, Confrontation was one of the most played games on the PSN, I have a feeling this should sell quite a bit.
SOCOM was one of ( and I guess still is ) my favorite games of all-time to play. But with the advent of CoD4:MW, SOCOM seems like a distant memory as far as a present-day FPS. Dang…. I’d almost forgot about it… may have to break it out for old times sake.