It was Christmas morning, in 2003, when I opened up SOCOM II and a PlayStation 2 headset. Later that night, I fired it up for the first time. loaded into the lobby. and scrolled through a bunch of games until I just randomly picked one. My first map was Blizzard as a SEAL and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I spent most of the match just running around. But the more I played, the more addicted I got. I remember I spent most of my Christmas break that year playing SOCOM. That was the best Christmas break ever.

There were so many days I would come home from school and the first thing I would do is fire up my PlayStation 2 and boot up SOCOM. I couldn’t wait to play. Whenever I had friends sleeping over my house, we would always play SOCOM. We would each take turns playing a round and we would always play well into the night until we all fell asleep. When we got bored of regular games we would go chill and play some respawn games, or pistols/shotguns/snipers only matches.

I'll never forget the endless clan battles in Desert Glory, the amount of cool people I met, the teamwork and communication with others, being outnumbered on Crossroads as a SEAL and sneaking into the tents to defuse the bomb winning the game for your team, the many, many late nights where I would fall asleep while playing only to awaken several hours later to the [lobby music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxV6c4Hg2s) blasting from my TV. This game has created so many great memories for me that I will forever cherish.

What is your favorite SOCOM memory?