From my experience, it worked *okay*. Not that well though, because I bought a pair of USB headphones seperatly for about $20-25 and found quite the astounding difference in quality. I gave my ones that came with Socom away. Havne't played socom lately because I had a bad streak of hackers (yeah, they're in PS2 games as well

). They go 20 feet below the ground or so, and shoot up at helpless people that can't do anything about it. *sigh*. It's a little too counter-strike-ish for me to really enjoy, but it's still a pretty OK game.