It's a very good game, but despite a good selection of campaigns, the single-player mode feels like a training tutorial to what the game is mainly all about... the on line multiplayer mode.  The graphics, character models, and menue system are all good, but during the single player campaign, the friendly and enemy AI do a lot of dumb things that will send you back to the reload screen, and considering a game of this nature, the story and motivations of the enemy deserves a bit more explanation.

Killing enemies such as talking flowers, bazooka weilding houses, and giant mutated teddy bears in a game such as Final Fantasy is ok. (no one's gonna question the enemy and their motives in a Final Fantasy game).  Killing enemies such as terrorist in a modern day game however, is a bit more tricky of a subject matter for game developers to handle and dish out.  For games like this one, game developers should try to present intelligent material in their games that helps people make sense out of these senseless times that we live,(or in this case play in). Instead, they are possibly giving ammo (literally and figuratively) to kids (who play games such as this one) that are prone to believe that Islam (and other "un-American" beliefs) and all its followers should be shot. In the game, something drives these men to do what they do. Something moves men and women enough not only to kill, but also to die. Unfortunately, that something is never fully explored or explained in games of this nature.  I don't think, "just shoot and kill" is the message that the game is trying to present to gamers, but subject materials like killing terrorist in a video game should be more fully explained, since this is a very sensitive part of life nowadays, just so that people don't get the wrong impression of the game.

It doesn't take long to get through the SOCOM games (I finished the single player campaing in SOCOM  1,2,3 & Combined Assault in 14 days) but the meat and potatoes of the game is having fun destroying all of your friends in on line multiplayer matches. This is what the game is mainly designed for.
It's a very good game, but despite a good selection of campaigns, the single-player mode feels like a training tutorial to what the game is mainly all about... the on line multiplayer mode. The graphics, character models, and menue system are all good, but during the single player campaign, the friendly and enemy AI do a lot of dumb things that will send you back to the reload screen, and considering a game of this nature, the story and motivations of the enemy deserves a bit more explanation. Killing enemies such as talking flowers, bazooka weilding houses, and giant mutated teddy bears in a game such as Final Fantasy is ok. (no one's gonna question the enemy and their motives in a Final Fantasy game). Killing enemies such as terrorist in a modern day game however, is a bit more tricky of a subject matter for game developers to handle and dish out. For games like this one, game developers should try to present intelligent material in their games that helps people make sense out of these senseless times that we live,(or in this case play in). Instead, they are possibly giving ammo (literally and figuratively) to kids (who play games such as this one) that are prone to believe that Islam (and other "un-American" beliefs) and all its followers should be shot. In the game, something drives these men to do what they do. Something moves men and women enough not only to kill, but also to die. Unfortunately, that something is never fully explored or explained in games of this nature. I don't think, "just shoot and kill" is the message that the game is trying to present to gamers, but subject materials like killing terrorist in a video game should be more fully explained, since this is a very sensitive part of life nowadays, just so that people don't get the wrong impression of the game. It doesn't take long to get through the SOCOM games (I finished the single player campaing in SOCOM  1,2,3 & Combined Assault in 14 days) but the meat and potatoes of the game is having fun destroying all of your friends in on line multiplayer matches. This is what the game is mainly designed for.