Sony's SOCOM II Gets Cheat Patches

An anonymous reader writes "According to an email reprinted on the GameBattles.com forums, it seems that Sony has released the first mandatory downloadable patches for the Playstation 2 online game SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs. This is nothing new in the PC gaming world, but is relatively novel for PlayStation 2 gamers - there's no official word on what changed, but there's a list of perceived changes on the official SOCOM II boards." 1UP also notes that the patch "occupies some space on your memory card in the blocks already used by the game", but doesn't need the forthcoming PS2 hard drive in any way.

Comments

Re:Sounds Cool

[lubricated]

The hard drive will allow you to download extra maps, but patches and updates will be released to the memory cards. The people with hard drives will be able to download new levels but they will still be able to play with people that dont' have hard drives if they don't play a new level.

Patches aren't new to PS2 games

[jvmatthe]

Everquest Online Adventures (my initial impressions) also has mandatory patches, and they are also stored on the memory card. You even get a changelog with them that tells you what's been updated and why. It was pretty neat, even if it does take forever to do sometimes. Also, just like a critical Windows patch, it requires a reboot of the machine to finish.

I presume that Everquest Online Adventures: Frontiers has a similar system.