SOCOM 3 is packed to the brim with new features, content, game types and more that will no doubt quench the parched thirst of SOCOM fans everywhere. Navy SEALs is a third person tactical shooter video game for PlayStation 2 and the sequel to SOCOM II: U.S. The game was developed by Zipper. Socom 2 is officially not available but still you can enjoy this amazing game on you PC. But make sure that you atleast have Windows XP OS installed on.

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Alone on a dark desert hillside, a soldier lies prone in a patch of scrub brush. In the distance down the hill, a black shape moves forward. Spotting his chance, the soldier pops up and hurls a grenade. “He’s about to go for this,” a commentator says, calling the play-by-play for online viewers. But he's revealed his position too soon, and midway through his grenade throw, the lone soldier is interrupted by a burst of machine gun fire.

The audience watches him fall as the momentum of the battle shifts. The world of esports is growing fast, and broadcast matches like this one happen every day. But what’s special about this match is that it didn’t take place in Counter-Strike: it was played in, a remastering of 2002 PlayStation 2 exclusive SOCOM. With as the base for now, a small group of fans is modding in SOCOM’s third-person perspective and crosshairs, rebuilding classic maps, modeling classic characters, and writing logic for their favorite game modes.

“Ever since SOCOM 2, I’ve always wanted to see a remastered SOCOM,” the mod creator, Redline, told PC Gamer. The 26-year-old freelance programmer from Chicago has pursued it as a side project.

“I know a lot of people who always wanted that, too. A little over a year ago, I finally decided to do something about it. Anyone in this community, you could ask them: What would you do if you won the lottery? For a lot of us, it would be, first, I would fund a SOCOM game.

These guys are very passionate.” How did a PlayStation 2 game come to be reborn as a mod for an indie shooter on Steam? The project began as a mod for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Redline had never modded games before, but he decided to learn and bring back his childhood favorite. “When I was a kid, I got high speed internet, so I went out and bought a high-speed game: it was SOCOM.

I played it nonstop. I skipped school to play it.” As one of the first games to demand modern internet speeds, SOCOM introduced a lot of staples of online gaming. Matchmaking and lobbies were new concepts at the time. In 2002, though, PlayStation 2 consoles didn’t have a way to support online communities. Websites sprang up to organize tournaments and connect people, and a competitive scene grew around these third-person action games.

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These sites didn’t have a way to talk directly to players’ consoles, so players had to sign on and report the results from any organized match manually. New players send him messages that read like they’ve found the promised land.

A few claim to be moved to tears. After SOCOM 2 in 2003, the series changed direction. The small squads and special forces missions were replaced in 2005 with vehicle combat and other changes that turned away the hardcore group as SOCOM sought the broader appeal enjoyed by games like Battlefield. The community that had formed around the games eventually evaporated. Millions of copies of the game were sold on PS2 and PS3, but servers running the online game modes were finally. No SOCOM game has been announced since 2011’s SOCOM 4, which in January 2014.

As far as anyone knows, the SOCOM series is dead. After Redline began his project, word spread and the community started to come back. Within a week of launching, he had. As the mod grew, it switched from being a Counter-Strike mod to an Insurgency mod, a move that gave Redline a better base to work from. New players send him messages that read like they’ve found the promised land. A few claim to be moved to tears.

One player told PC Gamer that he’s seen lifelong console gamers build or buy a PC just to play SOCOM online again.

SOCOM 3 is packed to the brim with new features, content, game types and more that will no doubt quench the parched thirst of SOCOM fans everywhere. The latest entry in the military shooter series offers new single- and multiplayer features, including up to 32 players in one game online, player-controlled vehicles, more than 900 weapon combinations, and new maps 'five to six times' larger than those of previous SOCOM games. SOCOM 3 features roughly 20 transports you can commandeer, like Humvees, tanks, jeeps, convoy trucks, assault boats. The list goes on and on.

Each vehicle has multiple ride points, many with mounted turrets or open weapons holes, meaning that other soldiers can hop and act not only as passengers but as a collective mobile unit of death.