The Terrorist team gets a nasty antipersonnel mine which is pressure sensitive while the SEAL team is able to use M203 grenade launchers in some of the larger levels. RPG-7s and AT-4 LAWs (Light Armor Weapon) allow the players to use highly explosive rocket based weapons, though you are not able to run and gun these suckers. We added in shotguns to improve the close range arsenal, including an automatic shotgun. We have a lot of new weapons in SOCOM II, both bigger and better. We learned a lot from the process and continue to improve the system. SOCOM I was the first game to utilise voice commands in this way, we invented it.

There are more voice commands, they are recognized at a higher rate and there are many more responses to the voice commands. We've also optimized the Voice Commands extensively. The AI programmer at Zipper was also able to really speed up the movements and reaction of the AI so they are much more deadly in SOCOM II. The AI in SOCOM II are much more expressive and it makes a world of difference. While an AI in SOCOM I had a 'surprised' state, it didn't have an animation for the surprised state, so it just stood still and looked stupid while it was surprised. We found that the big problem was that our AI did not have enough animation and reactions to show all of the different states it was capable of. We looked at what players' perception of the AI was and what our AI was actually doing. We've done a lot to improve the AI in SOCOM II.

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