GameTap have to confess: SOCOM wasn't a game that zipped through their PS2's Ethernet connection. It's a damn admirable franchise, in that it proved that team-based, real-world tactical shooters could be successful on the PS2 as well as the PC, but it's a franchise that they don't have intimate familiarity with. However, GameTap recently got some playtime with the new PS3 installment, Confrontation, and it looks like they might finally join the SOCOM party--albeit six years after SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs' debut on the PS2 back in 2002.