Socom FTB, at first wasn't hyped uped (or was it?) but it is by far one of the best shooters for the PSP. Zipper has the succesful internet enabled socom series on the ps2, and yes Socom FTB is online for PSP. If you do buy the $20 headset you can communicate with teamates which makes the experience so much better.
Single player consists of you, Sandman, and your partner, Lonestar, which makes up the fire team. On the PS2 Socoms you have 4 teamates, but it's not that different at all from the original. The game takes you across the world to places like Chile and 12 missions in all. The AI is not as hard as Halog Legendary, but it is made up for by solid gameplay, and overall fun killing terrorists. The game has wepons ranging from frag grenades, every wepon I can think of starting with M, shotguns, RPG's, and you can also accessorize the weapon to a certain extent. This meaning sights, and grenade launchers.
The controls have a 15 minute learning curve, and once you have it down, it's great. Analog controls movement, D-pad controls various actions (zoom, switch wepons, etc..) and face buttons control othe ractions. The camera control is natural in the movement and aim is put to the right trigger. With a hostile in sight hold are and press X to fire. The accuracy depends on stance, movement of you and the hostile, and so on. This allows the game to be more fair.
Online play is done through WiFi on worldwide play, and action is intense. No stupid A.I.s here, regular dumb players now (jusk kidding). When you fist go on, you are prompted to make your own account and that's about it. Online play modes include suppression (team deathmatch), captive (like suppression but your teamates can heal you), demolition (your teams tries to blow up the enemy's base with a bomb. Your team has to get the bomb first), and the favorite and classic free for all. Working with your team to win is even easier with the headset, even though there are a few problems. First, you have to change some options on your ports, and at times you can't hear a person, or your headset doesn't respond. This however never happened to me, I'm lucky, and on a side note, you need the included remote to us the headset. A big plus also is that there is no lag that I could find, and the game always ran smoothly.
The graphics in Socom FTB are nothing to laugh at, or praise for that matter. Not beautiful, but gets the job done. They are comparable to Socom 2, which is not bad but not great.
If you haven't picked this game up yet, it's solid and fun so consider it.
Thanks guys, but the 93 was because of the graphics. overachiever, it's a 3rd person shooter, and is quite fun. Have fun with the other genres if you don't like shooters altogether, though.
Oh yea Chance, I'm sorry if I'm revivng this for no reason but I say this review is pretty long compared to all the other reviews on this website like "crap, don't buy it!"
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