SOCOM 4 kinda sucks....yeah
Just the mechanics and interface are nightmarish. Probably the worst cover system in years, and worst third person camera, and best sense of "what the fuck is going on."
I became bomb tech at one point and I had a grenade launcher and shotgun, so I head to the remaining bomb. I stand stand there and no prompt comes up and I can't tell if it's a proximity based thing and I'm mashing all the buttons because the game can't express jack shit despite a billion hud elements all over the place. I eventually somehow killed myself with a smoke grenade and turned off my PS3.
The controls don't make sense neither. Tap L2 = change to alt weapon. Hold L2 brings up weapon change interface; d-pad switches between weapons, right analog stick switches between grenades. In play the d-pad doesn't do anything yet). When you run out of grenades, it doesn't automatically change to your other type, so you manually need to go in and change it.
So tap R2 is grenade and if you hold it down you aim, but L1 is aim and R1 is fire. Wait, triangle is stance change and X is jump, but if you're crouching or prone and press jump, it's still jump instead of raise stance.
When you die it gives you the option to change spawn or change load out. You accidentally press spawn when you want to change your gun, so you press circle because that's natural; that gives the option to quit the match instead of go back in menu options.
The camera is so bad that you're literally just watching a floating reticule because your guy is lost off screen somewhere. The cover system is downright baffling and you're utterly annihilated trying to use a four foot high piece of wall. And when you're running around normally, the guy is in the center of the screen. When you aim, he goes to the faaaaaar left of the screen with no option to switch sides. But when you click R3, it puts you in iron sights and you're back to aiming at the center of the screen.
So there is a jump button but the character can't clear two feet of cement. wait, why doesn't it function as raise stance again?
to be fair, it's a beta. but I had some fun with the MAG beta. this one is straight up busted, and this is like the public public beta and the game releases in 10 days.
