Veel mensen hebben gemengde gevoelens over de aankomende motion controller van Sony, de Playstation Move. Er wordt namelijk gedacht dat dit de hardcore ervaring gaat verknallen van veel games. Nu vertelt Elliott Martin tegen Eurogamer dat de Move ook voor een hardcore ervaring kan zorgen in SOCOM 4:
- “I would consider myself a hardcore gamer, so I feel I can have an opinion on this, but I’ve seen games in development which would be considered hardcore and which make very good use of the Move implementation — SOCOM being just one of them. It doesn’t ruin the experience, that’s the important thing. It may not be the exact experience certain people want but that’s why we’re being very careful to not lock it down. We’re trying to preserve the different playing methods to appease everyone.”
Ook vertelt Martin dat als je de Move gebruikt er veel opties zullen zijn om de gevoeligheid in te stellen aangezien niet iedereen een evengrote televisie heeft.
- “You basically have to define the screen area you’re mapping the control to. If you do very small movements the game will amplify that, so that any movement will be a very sudden, fast movement. If when calibrating you do very exaggerated movements, like if you have a massive telly, then a smaller movement is a much smaller movement on-screen.
Verder vertelt Martin dat de Move niet de hoofdbesturing is voor SOCOM 4, maar gewoon een optionele extra.
- The Move implementation isn’t being looked at as a core feature of SOCOM — it’s just an additional feature. The game isn’t being made for Move, Move is being integrated into the game. You can play the game from start to finish with either controller.”
Tenslotte is de vraag nog of de Move de game online niet uit balans haalt als andere mensen met de DualShock 3 controller spelen.
- “Those are good questions and they are things the team is perfectly aware of. They are in the process of implementing Move support into the game, and of looking into questions like that.”
Eind 2010 kunnen we zelf beoordelen hoe het is om met de Move SOCOM 4 te spelen.