Resistance 2 is Sony's answer to Gears 2 News

/dons tinfoil hit

Resistance was pretty horrendous compared to Gears.

Resistance 2 could be amazing, you haven't even played it yet to say 'Gears Of Wars 2' is the better game....

Sorry but I would compare Uncharted to Gears of War and I would give the crown to Uncharted.

And then I'd compare Resistance to Halo and the crown would go to Halo.

Time for Sony to panic, with the announcement of GOW2 they are bound to come up with some shit like this. But as said above, until both come out and we have a solid comparison, anything could happen.

My money is on GOW2 though :)

I think the answer to GOW 2 is any 3rd person mod for PS3 UT3...except the mod will probably last longer.

"It just felt stronger coming from so many different high-calibre partners as opposed to self-congratulatory announcements from ourselves that the war is over and the standards battle is complete, and we have a standard and it is us," he said, referring to the recent HD-DVD discontinuation.

RAGH! RAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!!!

/lexx smash wall

Sony PR makes me fucking vomit.

So, I guess that confirms Killzone 2 is a big pile of shit.

I have no doubt that Resistance 2 will be excellent, the first one wasn't perfect but it was pretty good for a launch title. The feature list for the sequel is insane, and Insomniac are one of the few devs who I am confident can pull it off successfully.
I don't know much about GOW2 yet but from what I've heard it sounds more like GOW1.5. The first one was pretty but shallow in my opinion, and Epic are going to need more than new water effects to take the franchise forward.

"I don't know much about GOW2 yet but from what I've heard it sounds more like GOW1.5."

From what you have heard? No-one has heard much of anything! How can you say that? Fuck me I want to hurt these people sometimes.

Fall of Man had more charm, feel, atmosphere and place than Gears. Its not a better game stricly speaking, but I know which one I'd rather play.

Gears of War was'nt even that good.

Anyone who seriously thinks is Resistance is even close to as good as Gears needs to have their head checked. The fight may be more even this time around, though

But...but...

Resistance 2 could start ovff another war between gaming and the pope..

\o/

I thought Resistance Fall of Man was rather good and I really enjoyed playing it despite its complete lack of originally. It wasn't perfect but it was fun. It was also pretty good in co-op mode too. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I probably prefer it to Gears of War, although that doesn't mean that it *is* the better game, just that I found it more entertaining. At least Resistance has a decent length single player campaign and, IMO, a more entertaining online mode than Gear's dull one. Yes, I realise I'm likely in the minority, it's purely my preference but I'm looking forward to Resistance 2 far more than Gears 2. Sorry!

What a load of old rubbish.

I would like to see the VPs of product marketing for both Sony and Microsoft go 'toe-to-toe' with a mad elephant - that would be an entertainment spectacular.

....anyway I enjoyed RFoM an order of magnitude more than the shiny (but IMHO a bit boring) GoW. The less similar Resistance 2 is to the next GoW the better for me.

(edit: as Darren says above.)

R:FOM was fucking ace well under rated, single player was great when it got started and the multiplayer was ace.

GoFW was sooo over rated , no game should get the mark it did with the amount of slagging off it got in the reviews

I think Resistance will rock. I can't wait for 8 player coop and the 60 player deathmatch sounds sweet! Perfect for a good sized team not to get disadvantaged when a few noobs are around.

I think Gears 2 is going to be awesome. Didn't care much for the single player, but I think if they up the number of enemies as shown in that tech demo, it could be amazing. Multiplayer was awesome although I've developed a hatred for the torque bow.

Destructible environments in both? Sweet.

Sod it I'll get both.

EDIT: Companies fighting to give us the best possible games (and also make a bit of profit no doubt)... Why are people complaining on this thread?

So Resistance 2, a sequel to a drab, boring, generic shooter that only actually sold any copies due to it being bundled and being pretty much only 1 out of 2 games available for the console versus Gears 2, the sequal to one of the best selling, tightest, most visceral shooters and desputably the best looking game of this generation?

It's laughable to think there will be any competition.

And I thought PS3 was the "brain" machine, RPGs and classy stuff...
oh well...

Resistance Fall of Pants

"It just felt stronger coming from so many different high-calibre partners as opposed to self-congratulatory announcements from ourselves that the war is over and the standards battle is complete, and we have a standard and it is us,"

"It just felt like a keynote would be a little bit over the top"

Really? A keynote would've been more over the top than the above comment?

"We won the standards battle you know. Did you know we won? Yes, we won. Blu Ray is the new standard. HD-DVD is dead. Did you know that we backed the winner? I could swear we already told you that. Blu Ray is the new standard by the way. BLU RAY RULES!"

Bleedin idiot. Why can't Sony's idiotic PR just STFU.

@betahoven "The first one was pretty but shallow in my opinion"

Did you even play it?

Just wanted to point out that Epic have said that the Tech demo showing off breakable objects, hundreds of characters and the nice water was in UnrealEngine demo NOT a Gears2 demo. It just used the Gears1 assets. Probably will get implemented in Gears2 though, but just don't count on it.

"I don't know much about GOW2 yet but from what I've heard it sounds more like GOW1.5."

Someone shut him up as well.....

Seriously, while the chances of it being a revolutionary step up is minimal, it's still a stupid thing to say. I could quite equally say as well that Resistance 2 will just be 'Resistance 1.5', but then I'd be an idiot as I know fuck all about the game, just as we know fuck all about Gears 2.

Like Playstation, there are games that the name itself sells > 1000K, and Gears is one of those. Resistant the Fall of the Dulls clearly isn't.

Kato
25-Feb-08 09:35:38 @disc

I don't really know how you can compare Gears to Uncharted, I mean it's true that Uncharted stole alot of ideas from Gears but they really aren't particularly similar. Gears isn't a Tomb raider rip off for a start.
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uncharted has as much in common with gears as it does tomb raider, but more to the point gears and uncharted came along at similar times on there respective consoles so in that respect they could be compared, both how ever are excellent games, as is resistance which seems to get a raw deal from some quarters, its no graphical showcase of ps3 thats for sure but its tidy and both the single player and online are excellent imo as well as a lot of people who ve bothered to give the game time.

insomniac have a superb ps record and after the excellent ratchet on ps3 they ve shown they're really getting to grips with ps3, just take a look at the early screen of resistance 2 and you ll see how far graphically its advanced, i suppose sony see this as ps3's answer to gear and killzone 2 its answer to halo, we'll see.

I'm sure it will be good, but it's not actually going to sell anywhere near as many copies as Gears 2, is it?

Sony's answer to

About 3 years ago i never thought i would have seen that statement. How times have changed.

"self-congratulatory announcements from ourselves that the war is over and the standards battle is complete" IT'S A BLOODY GAMES CONFERENCE you dolt, i don't give a shit about your format war! tell me about the games.

They don't get it do they? They aren't going to make great games if the target is "beat a ms franchise". They tried it with Killzone and several others and failed.

Also: GoW sold what? 4/5 million? Wonder which sequel will take home the beacon.

Does MTV still do celebrity deathmatch? I would LOVE to see all those PR muppets in it. Better yet, make a game from it! GotY imo. :D

I predict Resistnce to be delayed until after the holiday period, making all your arguments void (hell yer!)

360 wins then

What the Gears2 anouncement did, was it put everyone playing the first one again. I wonder if Resitance is Futile has such charisma.

I love how more people are commenting on Resistance 2 being the answer to Gears 2 when that's not even what was actually said. He simply said they were competing this November, and so spawns so many hateful comments. It is a PS3 game so I shouldn't have expected some kind of maturity or objective comments, but still.

Basically what he said was.

"Bluray won!!!!!!!!"

no doubt, what he relay meant was:

"Who gives a fuck? Blu-Ray won! We'll be swimming in yens for the next 10 years, screw games!"

@DonnieDarko333

"Resistance 2 could be amazing, you haven't even played it yet to say 'Gears Of Wars 2' is the better game.... "

Well Sony haven't played Gears 2 either but it didn't stop them comparing it to Resitance 2.

Where did they compare it? They simply said it was coming out at the same time, that's not a comparison. Idiot. Learn to read.

I played R:FOM on launch and thought it was unfairly treated, as a launch title it was fantastic and I am very excited about the sequel.

Having said that I played GoW on PC last year and its fucking amazing frankly, I still feel its a much better game than Resistance, Uncharted or Halo; the combat is just so satisfying. Hopefully the sequel will get a conversion to PC in 2009. BTW it looks AMAZING on PC, there were some moments I had to pick my jaw off the floor.

wow chill, lots of "name calling", around here. Phil's gone, but don't take it so personally.

Resistance will be the best thing ever, the second coming! It'll be a brainy RPG, and shit, that PS thing we're used to... ok? Now, take this Valium.

And watch a Blu-Ray movie.

I'm not taking it personally, I'm trying to stop idiots from making stupid baseless comments, something you have quite a penchant for.

What's "penchant" ?

I don't understand people who compare Gears to Resistance, more logical would be to compare it to Perfect Dark Zero.
Sure they're both FPS released at the same time.. but Perfect Dark Zero was a X360 launch title, and that was a bag of shit.

I've got an X360, but I really don't get this nonsensical GEARS2 WILL BE THE BESTEST GAME EVER AND RESISTANCE2 WILL SUCK! logic. It strikes me as some form of minor brain damage.
I hope both will be good, both will have innovative features and both will take the genre forwards.
God knows there's enough games around that are stagnating.

Here we go again!

I am looking forward to both game, and have enjoyed Resistance and Gears, however Gears stayed with me more for some reason. Perhaps the excessive macho appeals to my caveman ego! There are still quite a few who considers Resistance 1 better than Gears 1, sure there are things to like in both titles, but to settle the playground argument just look at GameRankings or Metacritic to see which one edge it!!

As other here say we cannot know how the sequel of both would plays out so its only base prediction to say one will be better than other! Still going to get both and my Christmas 08 will be certainly be fun!

The thing with this "backfire" is, in a nutshell, that PS3 should obliterate any game ever. Take a trip down recent memory lane and see the comments pre-PS3 launch..., from its fans and from Sony PR. Then do the same about 360.
Completly different and very interresting...

I never played it... Although I have an unopened copy that came with my PAL Elite.

Bleh, theres games i'm far more interested in than either of these on both formats this year.

However, in the spirit of actually making a relevant comment, i believe Gears 2 will sell more and i have no idea which will be the better game, nor will any of you really till more is known (and ideally until you've played both).

It's all true!

headbog: The irony of your posts is a never ending loop. That you're a fanboy oke. It's only natural for humans to pick sides. But please for the love of god don't pose yourself above the rest by ridiculing the people who do the same as you do.

JMM: Quite true. I stand corrected. My point about celebrity deathmatch still stands though.

Resistance was a barely mediocre game at best. I suppose at least the second one wont be as bad, removing the auto aim feature would be a start. That took all the skill and fun out of the game.