oh this is good marketing strategy

user · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:39 am

sony, the maker of socom navy seals, put a bunch of gamers into a bootcamp run by ex-navy seals

see what happens when gamers start to walk the walk, not just talk the talk

http://socomhellweek.com/season1/

Blackchocob0 · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 2840 **Location:** HIV, CA

Umm they fail. They're gamers, so most are probably relatively out of shape.

Eukanuba · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 171

I say this is probably a work. Why would Sony send their out of shape customers to a physically intensive camp? What's going to happen is the camp staff are going to yell and scream, but never really subject the..eh...campers to anything near the intensity required of real military service members (typical airmen and sailors excepted. Don't whine - you know why I singled you out). In the end, these guys are going to emerge as triumphant graduates, believing they are now combat ready troops, and they'll talk about how playing video games (and whichever game is being promoted in particular) greatly prepared them for the experience.

Sharp324 · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4383 **Location:**

Yeah real boot camp, wouldnt be fun. This is just a game anyway.

user · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:17 am

Eukanuba wrote:

they'll talk about how playing video games (and whichever game is being promoted in particular) greatly prepared them for the experience.

well, most said the opposite

Blurred · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 2894 **Location:**

user wrote:

Eukanuba wrote:

they'll talk about how playing video games (and whichever game is being promoted in particular) greatly prepared them for the experience.

well, most said the opposite

user.. did you play socom 2?

if so ever heard of socomcodes? (just wodnering sorry for offtopic)

user · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:38 am

Blurred wrote:

user wrote:

Eukanuba wrote:

they'll talk about how playing video games (and whichever game is being promoted in particular) greatly prepared them for the experience.

well, most said the opposite

user.. did you play socom 2? i did play one of the socom series at my friend's house, i personally found the game too hard as you take like 3 rounds and your dead

if so ever heard of socomcodes? (just wodnering sorry for offtopic) nope

Bakemaster · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 4732 **Location:**

Heheh, at first glance I thought Blurred said "Socommodes" and it still made sense.

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