1ST Official World Release Screenshot of H-HOUR"

The spiritual successor of the original SOCOM; H-Hour has released its first screenshot of the game (pre-alpha). The Developer; SOFStudios is headed by some of the original S1/S2 team with David Sears at the helm. Looks at lot like SII.

[FullMetalTech]

Looks great so far and thats its in Alpha a year off still.

[PoSTedUP]

:,D looks like everything i hoped it would be. im nothing without socom. props/kudos/respect/Thank You to david and his crew.

[SynGamer]

It's not flashy like newer shooters, and that's what I love about this screenshot! Still early days, but it's nice to see a shooter that is stripped down to the basics, for now. Can't wait to see what the team has in store for us next year :D

[Abash]

Sony should just publish the game and call it SOCOM: H-Hour

[telekineticmantis]

People can get mad at me all they want, I really liked confrontation, but I came in after a couple patches though.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

@telekeneticmantis

Now the gen is almost over we can say Confrontation ended up being the best multiplayer experience for Socom fans on PS3, so I don't think many will disagree with you... It was not perfect, not even when patched to exhaustion, many couldn't get past the point it wasn't Socom II, but it was definetelly good enough afterall (it even was the most played multiplayer on PS3 at some point).

[mikeslemonade]

Ehhhh.. every iteration after Socom 2 is dissapointing. Honestly just take the PS2 version update the graphics, update matchmaking, enhance the gameplay but don't alter it, add new modes, update stat tracking, and add new maps.

Sony has made HD remakes of PS2 games. Why can't they make SOCOM II HD??

Current shooters have messed up rankings. SOCOM had it right where your rank goes up based on skill instead of the amount you play.

To my fellow SOCOMnites Foxhunt>Crossroads. I spent like 400 hours playing that map.

[static5245]

Ah the good old days of "IDUB SCRUBS" and the "NOOB TUBES"

[InMyOpinion]

"It's not flashy like newer shooters, and that's what I love about this screenshot! Still early days, but it's nice to see a shooter that is stripped down to the basics, for now."

Not criticizing the game, but how can you tell all that from just one screenshot? We know nothing about it yet. It might be flashy and full of options as far as we know.

[JBaby343]

I'm with you Mikeslemonade. I loved Socom II and played it to death. Just put the same game with PS4 graphics and trophies. I played the Brazil missions to death and would love to do it again as well as eat the MP up. It makes me happy that a lot of the Socom I & II team is present for this game.

[SilentNegotiator]

Wow, how deceptive could a title be?

This game is NOT "SOCOM II HD"

[yellowgerbil]

The title isn't deceptive. It is saying that you like socom 1 and 2, this is the game for you. Unlike confrontations and that awful socom 4 this is back to the old style by the old team.
Personally never liked socom, wish they would do the same for mag which in my oppinion was the greatest game ever made (had 2000hrs into it before the servers went to crap)

[DinoNYC]

David Sears, the creative director of socom 1 and 2 is making this game. It is made to be a spiritual successor to socom 2, so it's Socom 2 Next Gen/HD.

[harbie]

It is SII HD, look at it! lol... That said, sure it'll expand beyond the horizon of the old SOCOMs. However, it's is indeed the spiritual successor to SOCOM and shares a lot of the same devs & artists- now free from their Sony over-lord and free from Sony trying to chase COD...

[SilentNegotiator]

"The title isn't deceptive. It is saying that you like socom 1 and 2, this is the game for you"

Title invented by submitter: "First SOCOM II HD Aka: H-Hour Screenshot Released"

Please, do tell how the title says that.

[BattleAxe]

If you're a fan of the early Socom games, and you're in the loop at all, then the title makes perfect sense.

[Tapewurm]

@silentnegotiator I do agree that the title is deceptive and could have been written better, but this game IS the spiritual successor to Socom 1 & 2. I am hoping Sony will be the ones to publish it. SoF's vision is to basically make this game a next gen version of Socom 1 & 2. Can't wait myself :)

[SilentNegotiator]

"If you're a fan of the early Socom games, and you're in the loop at all, then the title makes perfect sense"

Why should fans of the good SOCOM games be expected to be "in the loop" all of these years later of a "spiritual successor" created by some company not even associated with Sony at all, and has only released a single screenshot??

[dcj0524]

For those of you unaware checkout the now closed Kick starter page. It has a EXTERMLY in-depyh clan system. Over the top data recording (think battle log but way better and in game) and assymetric map design. It behaves a little LiKe Unit 13. Third person for situation awareness. First person for perscise shooting. No cover system and right now for PS4 and PC.

[gigoran]

So... a kickstarter page for people that made a game that wasn't their original idea, was already made, was already popular and had a decent group of fans, and all they had to do was update the graphics and add a few new features? Yeah, totally not taking money for hard work that other people did before them.

[Tapewurm]

This is going to be awesome when it launches. Can't wait. H-Hour will hopefully be what us Socom fans have been longing for. They need to hurry though lol. If they come through with their vision, this will be huge.

[Ps4Console]

It was great on the Ps2 one of my favs let's hope it can be the same game it was then fantastic .

[deecee33]

Never owned a PS2 oddly enough- my friends all got really hooked on the SOCOM games though. One even joked that it was like crack in video game form. This might be one to experience for the first time- will definitely be keeping an eye on this.

[harbie]

Hence "SOCRACK." Only video-game in history to be considered crack :)

http://www.urbandictionary....

[FunkMacNasty]

Looks cool, now my mouth is watering for classic SOCOM action!!

Please don't let H-Hour become a casual-friendly run-and-gun explosion fest like Socom 4 was!

Aww.. man, I can remember spending HOURS on the each mission in the old SOCOM games 1, 2, and 3 on ps2. I would meticulously crawl around the maps, ordering my team into tactical posiotions for recon and stealth ambushes. Remember how cool it was to wear the ps2 headset and issue squad commands through it!? Miss those days!

[MrCrimson]

I loved Socom and Socom 2 and even Socom 3; but that was because it provided something that wasn't existing in the market at the time. Online-competitive gaming.

Fast-forward to 2013: This type of gameplay is clumsy, latency is also seemingly an issue. Would it change if we get a locked in at 60FPS high performance oriented version of Socom...maybe. But I still think there is a lot to say about the clumsiness of the "Third-Person Tactical Shooter" when stacked up to other games in the same niche.

[Majin-vegeta]

Can not wait for this game.This will separate men from the boys. http://youtu.be/bxZASSqP0h4

[USMC_POLICE]

Cannot wait this game was my teenage years! I won't buy another shooter except kill zone once this is out.

[Ma1nframe]

Same here bro!

[cell989]

looks a little outdated but still lots of development to go. Now we now its more real than ever, looking FRWD to this

[Commodore]

That's why SOCOM was great. We don't care about how good the game looks because the gameplay spoke for itself. I would take a SOCOM HD on the PS4 over CoD, BF, or Killzone.

[cell989]

I see your point of view, I played SOCOM on PS2 and it was fun as hell, but in order to stay on top it needs to meet today's standards (which Im sure it will) theres really nothing out there like SOCOM but I still love BF and Killzone.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

Been waiting forever for this. Glad the kick starter brought this further along. Anybody got their stuff from SOF yet for contributing? I'm still waiting.

[Omegasyde]

Yea I got the SOF badge from the kick starter a few weeks ago.

[StockpileTom]

I get the feeling I will be tearing up with joy by the time this thing is done.

[PoSTedUP]

i was tearing up with joy just seeing this screenshot, lol :,)

[SilentNegotiator]

I was going to groan about another title having a letter (in this case "H") hyphened into a word, but upon some research, "H-Hour" was apparently an airborne assault.

[Elwenil]

"H-hour" is simply a particular time of day. For example, the D-day invasion started on H-hour on D-day. H-hour is the time, D-day was the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[SilentNegotiator]

I see. I assumed it was in reference to H-Hour of D-Day, I think.

[Ma1nframe]

WoooHOOOOO.

So stoked to be a part of the H-Hour / SOFStudios Community. THIS is the SOCOM we always wanted for Next Generation!

Amazing. So exited for this project. BTW guys you can still donate to this project. For a measley $45.00 you can get guaranteed access to the Beta.

Check out their website at www.sofstudios.com

SOF brining Tactical Shooting back to the Playstation!

Come meet up with old school SOCOMERS!

[porkChop]

The game looks great, though I'm sick and tired of the Socom piggybacking. Stop talking about Socom, and stop comparing the 2. Just let H-Hour be its own game with its own identity, not just "Socom II HD".

[solid_snake3656]

Well the developers are calling it the "spiritual successor to socom II" so that's why people are comparing the two.

[porkChop]

I know that. That's what I'm saying though, they're trying to piggyback on Socom II's success and popularity. The game looks great and the developers should let it stand on its own.

[Omegasyde]

Looking forward to this. I hated Socom 4 and Seth Luisi for turning the game into a wanna-be 3rd person Call of Duty.

The maps were crap, the cover system broken, and the over the sholder pointless. AND to release DEMOLITION as DLC was the ultimate sin.

As bad as Socom Confrontation was, it was better than Socom 4.

[BitbyDeath]

I never played the old Socom games but a lot of people seem to love them, is it at all similar to Warhawk?

Vehicles, Medkits (no crappy regen health), ability to jump, crouch, run, have split-screen, large maps, small maps, multiple ways to play like stealth, no weapon loadouts, variant of weapons at your disposal etc?

[FullMetalTech]

just youtube socom 1&2 vids. youll see some how the gameplay was

[PoSTedUP]

warhawk w/o the vehicles (socom1&2) socom 3 and CA had vehicles. but more squad based and very tactical; the terrorist team would hold the hostages (moving them to a strategic locations, planting mines, and even standing behind them using them as human shields tryna get the seals to kill them etc.) while the seals had to breach doors and gates with C4, secure the hostages and extract them.

but many different modes. no crappy health regen (very accurate health e.g. head shot is a head shot, getting hit in the toe would take away little damage, shot gun would sometimes blow you off your feet etc.)

prone, climb, crouch, jump, crawl, run was joystick analogue, run and gun, stealth etc. and the great part about it was the community would come up with games like paintball (secluded part of a map with only sub machine guns on single fire mode) etc. snipe no crossing, shotguns only etc.

just your one loadout for the game but can pickup anyones gun. seals had their weapons (m4a1, hks etc.) and terrorist team had theirs (ak47/74, 552 etc.) good ammount of weapons.

clans, clan wars/battles, good times, bad times, socom 4 Life!

[BitbyDeath]

Thankyou have a bubble.
If it has split-screen then i'm in.

[Meep]

Nope. very different from warhawk. Socom 2 had no vehicles, no regenerating health, you could jump but its was very limited. crouching and running were vital. No split screen, maps were not that big, big enough since there were no vehicles in Socom 2. loadouts are possible, a variety of weapons, and most of all yes it is mostly a tactical stealth game. The type of game where you have some teammates in the high ground calling out enemy position, and every time an enemy was spotted it would be called out.

Socom 2 did tactical stealth very well and didn't half-ass it. You had 1 life per round, and it was I think best of 7 or 12 rounds (don't remember how the rounds were set up). Also having a variety of game modes.

Suppression - which is just a team death match.

Demolition - had both teams fight over 1 bomb in the middle and plant it at the enemy base.
(the next were my favorite.)
Breach- Seal team have bombs and must plant them at enemy base, although to get to the enemy base the Seal team have to blow up certain points of the enemy base to get inside. Seal team can't just walk in there.

Escort - Seal team have VIPs (NPCs in the game) and must be escorted to certain points on the map to evacuate them to win. Terrorist have to prevent that from happening. Either kill the Seal team or kill the VIPs.

Extraction - Terrorist have VIPs and must prevent the SEAL team from extracting them. I remember that VIPs could not be killed by either team. Whichever team kills two out of the three VIPs automatically lost.

Game was awesome.

[BitbyDeath]

Thanks, I can live without vehicles the main thing for me would be split-screen, no health regen and freedom to play how you like.
+Bubble

[PoSTedUP]

no problem. no split screen in the older socoms, but it was so good that 2 ps2s and 2 tvs in the same room was more than worth it (it was like $108 total for the network adaptor, ethernet cable and head set just to play socom XD) but the best hundred bucks iver ever spent... i doubt Hhour will be split screen but who knows.

[Totao923]

Finally looks like the original console tactical shooter will be getting its well deserve showing in the next gen

[InTheZoneAC]

lol this is not socom 2 hd

this is H-Hour, with the influence of a real Socom game.

[SilentNegotiator]

Yeah, I reported it. That isn't even the article title, it's "1ST Official World Release Screenshot of H-HOUR"

Judging by Harbie's submission history, I'm guess that he's an SOF studios employee or fanboy community organizer trying to get this more hits than it merits.

[LUKENBACHER]

That is what happens when people treat N4G like its FB or Twitter.

[MajorGecko]

vita version pls

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

Get it on ps4 and remote play it. Realize it's not totally portable but all ps4 games remote play like a champ

[dizeestl]

Very glad I donated to this game. It looks pretty good so far!

[Majin-vegeta]

Hopefully this influences Sony to release a socom 2 HD.

[xc7x]

NO.

[LUKENBACHER]

"Like many fans of the early SOCOMs, you may be among the legions asking for an HD version of SOCOM II. This isn’t that. We’re not here to simply deliver the past in a prettier package. We’re building the spiritual successor to the early SOCOM games from the ground up. H-Hour: World’s Elite is immediate, realistic, multiplayer-oriented and team-based. It is an experience directly inspired by the SOCOM series because those games were the starting point. H-Hour is several miles down the road that we traveled with SOCOM, the kind of shooter that SOCOM would have become if I had continued to helm the series beyond the second release." -David Sears

http://www.kickstarter.com/...

H-Hour is not going to be "SOCOM II HD". Just wanted to clear up any possible confusion. The screenshot looks great for a very early alpha build.

[bonafide732]

Cant wait for this game. Seems like they are trying to make this for socom fans Cant wait to see the final product

[Radza82]

Any chance this will come to PS4 some day???

[StockpileTom]

Yes... somewhere near 100%

[harbie]

It is a PS4 game & PC as well.

[bonafide732]

think its for PC and PS4

[HappyWithOneBubble]

Is Sony funding this game too? If not they should so they can get it out soon as possible.

[PoSTedUP]

no david and SOF want to stay independent, they dont want anyone controlling how they deliver the game so they can bring socom fans 100% what they want.

[xc7x]

no,we dont want Sony's hands on this game whatsoever,except help with online aide,they ruined Socom,leave this all up to SOF completely!!

[DanielGearSolid]

Cannot wait

[XabiDaChosenOne]

I'm hype!!

[oODiRtYOo]

HOORAH, about time!!!

[Deltaguy]

damn them ps2 graphics is on point!

[Back-to-Back]

You will get disagrees for stating the truth.

As a socom fan myself this screenshot leaves alot to be desired. With next gen hardware we should see huge improvements. Thankfully this looks like just an early build.

[dcortz2027]

The game is still in pre alpha and like a year away from being released. Nice try though :)

[Studio-YaMi]

You don't know what the term "PRE-ALPHA" means,do you?

[MidnytRain]

I've seen better pre-alphas.

[harbie]

It is still about 1yr away, this is VERY early, and certainly not disappointing. It looks exactly like the camera perspective and art style any true SOCOM fan would desire!

[kingduqc]

:/ look like a ps3 game with a res bump really

[mopground]

the day this comes out is when i purchase a ps4. I supported the kickstarter and simply just cant wait.

[xc7x]

me too,sort of,will get a PS4 somewhat sooner but H-Hour is primary reason for me wanting a PS4.

[sandman224]

I can't wait till it comes out. Day one purchase for me.

[ChipChipperson]

One of my most anticipated games. Hopefully this will reach the PS4 soon. I just want more tactical TPS/FPS games compared to what we have now.

[PS3gamer4life]

I love s2 and s3...this game will be the best shooter im quiting cod and getting ready.for the socom days...ATR=AboveTheRest we go knock shit down

[p-dub25]

Glad to see the majority of you pumped for this game! I know I am!!!

[frankiebeans]

hopefully this game works out and has us all hooked like the original SOCRACKS on ps2, best games ever I still play with people from my socom 1 clan and sadly just found out that my clan leader passed away we were like an online family.

[Ma1nframe]

You can still support the project financially and get cool stuff in return also.

Go to www.sofstudios.com and donate to their holiday bake sale. I'm choosing the 'vanilla cupcake' option which is $45.00 for GUARANTEED access to the Beta!

I missed the Kickstarter so they gave us 'late to the game' another shot at donating.

SOCOM FANS UNITE! THIS IS THE GAME WE HAVE BEEN CRAVING FOR 10 YEARS NOW.

[jahfen83]

With games like The Division coming out, they really need to step their game up.

[Newbold3d]

So awesome to see a classic socom type game return!

[Afistnu]

Thank you all for supporting this game. Can't wait to dance all over you. :D

[Ulf]

So... this is a PC game, and not PS4?

Seems like Sony should be reaching out to help these guys in bringing back SOCOM to their platform, with their big helping hand for indies.

[Ohai]

It will be for ps4 and pc

[Ulf]

I suppose that, without a publisher, it will be an indie game on PS4... which is cool, but I wonder how they will host MP games, without some server support from a larger entity?

[Afistnu]

Gameplay>Graphics. If you're concerned about graphics, go play Crysis and see how terrible of an online experience that is.

[Hanuman]

Should not have been released.

[Ohai]

Yes!

[harbie]

Lol... looks like someone came through and disagreed every comment, wth? Must be an Xbox fan who is sad he's not getting a true SOCOM: H-Hour lol.

[SniperSaysWhat]

or goodfella jay lol "GOOGLE ME BIOTCH!"

[s2Celerity]

No doubt, cannot wait for this game, not just the gameplay, but the community and chilling in the lobbies for hours on end. getting messages and getting rung in for clan wars and creating a clan in itself.

[SniperSaysWhat]

G^^^ You noobs lol. I can not wait for this freaking game!!!!

[s2Celerity]

Hoping they can pull through with the in game playername system...since someone a long time ago registered my name on PS3...-_- was informed it was someone that i played socom with too. If they can do the whole friendlist ignorelist message ingame commands "/w" and such...i think it will provide allot smoother communication and classic feel ;)

[eyeDEVOUR]

i agree 100%
MAG done something similar by having 3 character slots tied to your psn account...but sadly you had to pay for the 2 extra slots and you couldnt name them seperatly..

Then again, it would be good not to have in game names/alias's in order to crackdown on cheaters and glitchers much easier... we all remember the glitched names everywhere...lol i always gave them my vote..lol

[PAUL-AWOL-]

I like the picture and yes this helped me feel better in buying the PS4.

Videos do tell all and that will be my judgement post.

[kquigs]

cant wait for H-HOUR but why wont sony put socom on the ps4 PSN until then?