Among the Playstation Portable games on hand to check out, two really stood out from the crowd. Of course, God of War: Chains of Olympus looks brilliant, but I was pleasantly surprised to find SOCOM Tactical Strike taking up a lot of my time.

Unlike the Bravo Team games for the PSP, this particular title is essentially a real-time strategy game. You take command of a group of four SEALS (you can also play as units from other country's special forces) and command them through missions using the face buttons in real time. You can never actually take control of them and you can only see the action from above one of the four units, no sort of god view.

The game's stripped down commands make are built in a way that make issuing commands to the two pairs of men simple, but can stack up to get them to do some pretty intricate things. The game's pacing is perfect for play on the PSP and the nine maps are relatively huge.

While I didn't get a ton of time with the game I left pretty impressed with what it seemed to offer, a deep, handheld tactical game with a SOCOM flavor.

Second video after the jump. Brian Crecente

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