Resistance 2 Comments by Dan Whitehead

I might be wrong but I've a feeling that the Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War is going to be this year's "big" FPS disappointment, especially if the mixed comments on the online beta are anything to go by.

Could have scored 11/10 for all i care. Just sooooo tired of shooters. LBP and Valkyria Chronicles for me.

Great to see both this and Gears getting excellent reviews. Here's hoping Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War can continue the trend.

Has there ever been a better time for gaming than 2007/08?

Widge,

I'm looking forward to seeing that video of you eating your PSP on youtube shortly.

Mmm, crunchy

:)

Nice review and nice score. Can't wait till the 28th...

Dan, do the Cloven make an appearance in the sequel or are they mysteriously absent yet again?

They're mentioned - the Russian scientist who created them plays a large role in the story - but they're not actually in the game.

The mutiplayer beta is truly excellent. I loved the first Resistance's online play, and R2's is even better. The sense of chaos in 60-player Team Deathmatch is wonderful.

Excellent. Will wait for my free copy to arrive.

/waits

PS3 has this and LBP.

XBOX 360 has Gears 2, Fable 2

Every multplatform game will probably be better on the 360.

And i almost forgot LEFT4DEAD.

The competition between the 2 HD consoles is closer this year though.

Might have to get this then. I found the first bland but this seems hugely improved. doh.. more money to spend.

"Furies are indestructible aquatic creatures that patrol submerged areas killing anyone who lingers in the water"

FURRIES. Do they yiff you to death?

"I might be wrong but I've a feeling that the Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War is going to be this year's "big" FPS disappointment, especially if the mixed comments on the online beta are anything to go by."

That would be Far Cry 2. Nobody can be expecting a Treyarch developed CoD to be much good.

EG Xbox Bias Confirmed?

More like casual gamer/shooter bias confirmed.

Seriously even those RPGs who get get more than 8 usually have heavy shooter or slashing elements - Fable 2, Fallout 3 , ME .

I haven't seen any proper RPG or strategy go over 8 here for a long time.

You see PS3 owners your games can get good scores if they merit it, y'know just because lots of Fanboys on forums tell you how much better your games are than on 360 doesn't make it so.

Darren! I wasn't singling you out there man, sorry! I actually started typing that before I saw your post and it was in response to TheBigW.

I reckon Dan had this pencilled in as an 8 and changed it to provide PSP food amusement to all

"nsidering that both Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War took me less than eight hours to complete"

On the easy difficultys right? Gears on Insane and COD4 on veteran is another story my friend.

@ Darren

hopefully, at its worst, COD5 will be COD4 in a WW2 skin, but then again people would see that as very dissapointing i guess, seeing as its not really trying anything new. Apart from the zombies!

OMG ....Yet another hole waiting to be burnt in my wallet - Christ..... I actually dont remember when the harvest was this fruitful and with such great product on offer all at the same time!

@ dr faulk
i didnt write that it was a reply

@simakperrce

Im not a troll moron.
Wait for the face off then. The game they played was the 360 version. Kristan said so himself in the comments section. The websites that have tested both gave different scores for the 2 versions.

It's been a good year for the PS3 really... Devil May Cry 4 (multiformat granted but I preferred the PS3 version), Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (a tech demo for sure but still pretty decent), the superb Metal Gear Solid 4, MLB 08: The Show, Siren: Blood Curse, WipEout HD, LittleBigPlanet and now Resistance 2, a nice mix of genres there. Oh and add in the improved MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is that's your "thing"... most of the major bases are covered as far as exclusives go. I only really bought my PS3 for those exclusives so I'm delighted. I think the PS3 is a great all-round console and compliments my Xbox 360 nicely. That's more than I can say for my increasingly underused Wii however! :)

The online beta of WAW is disappointing to me while the maps are a bit better offering more places to fire from and are a bit bigger in general. The weapons are a let down mp40 does more damage than a tommy gun which makes no sense the rifles aren't very powerful either even though they fired huge bullets back then with the cost being high recoil. It just seems that they were trying to copy COD4's multiplayer in a WW2 setting and that isn't needed as we already have that game it's called COD4. Really the best I can say about it is that it's competent but nothing that a mod to COD4 wouldn't of achieved.

If I had it, I would munch through Gears on Normal (or whatever), enjoy the 8 or so hours and then move onto the next game or the multiplayer. I'm sure R2 will have greater difficulty levels for those who like it, but my memories of playing through Halo 2 on the highest diffulty was that it wasn't enjoyment. Made the game longer I'm sure but the pay off was no fun.

As I say though, no problem with games about 10 hours long.

Seriously. There's no reason why true gamers shouldn't own a PS3 now. That is if you can afford one, I was lucky enough to get one for free. Christmas is around the corner, beg and plead like there is no tomorrow! :))

Indeed. I'm lucky enough to have both a PS3 and 360, and whilst I've owned the 360 longer and played it more, I'm on it less these days (that's also got something to do with a little PC title by the name of Warhammer Online), but also because of the stellar titles that are coming out on PS3. I still don't prefer one console to the other, but I feel in order to enjoy a lot of the great exclusives coming out, it's wise to own both.

Killzone 2 was a great hoot in beta, so I'm desperate for the full release, and the same can be said for Resistance 2...also LBP is out today... (as well as having Dead Space, Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 to complete) so let the good times roll! That being said GOW2 is also on my list for the 360 at the end of the week :P

So, Xbox 360 has Gears 2 and PS3 has Resistance 2. Both good systems, both good games.

This comments thread shouldn't run longer than 100... :o)

This is the nicest thread EVER!

/hugs everyone

Excellent lack of trolling in here.

Obama is President elect, and the end of trolling in EG comments? It's a new dawn!

If PS3-owning trolls let us down in the Banjo review, whatever the score, I'll be most disappointed.

@muscleblade
"On the easy difficultys right? Gears on Insane and COD4 on veteran is another story my friend."

Yes, just like the Resistance 2 of course will be longer on harder setting. You annoying little trollish boy.

They're mentioned - the Russian scientist who created them plays a large role in the story - but they're not actually in the game.

Shame, was hoping they would crop up. Would add some spice to the mix, but maybe in R3 then. Cheers for the reply.

@evilfoxhound
"Saying that though, the average score on Metacritic isn't that good."

Thats the users review of it right? I noticed that on Gears 2 the other day, 3.5 average review? Based on over 3500 reviews? Do not understand...

>"I might be wrong but I've a feeling that the Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War is going to be this year's "big" FPS disappointment, especially if the mixed comments on the online beta are anything to go by. "

Why would it be suprising? It's by Treyarch, afterall.
As for this? I am a bit suprised, but what's even more suprising is that this got/is getting less hype than KZ2. Insomniac are a much better team, with a better history of quality.....unlike guerilla.

@cthulhu_steev : Just wait till the 13 year old Xbots and PS3-fanboys get home from school ... ;)

@muscleblade "Considering that both Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War took me less than eight hours to complete"

On the easy difficultys right? Gears on Insane and COD4 on veteran is another story my friend.

True but just because it takes you three times as long to complete a level, doesn't actually make the campaign itself any longer IMO. It's still the same five shortish Acts, they're just harder to get through. Resistance felt like a much larger game to me as there was more variety and more levels. Maybe it wasn't but it felt twice as big as Gears of Wars campaign and took me a good 15 hours to finish off. That's why I said I was happy with Dan saying R2 has a 10 hour campaign, that's likely to take me longer to get through.

To be honest, I've always thought that difficulty levels in FPSs were wasted in that replaying the game doesn't give you anything new to see or allow you to take a different route through the levels. They don't even randomise enemy placement for goodness sakes so you know what is coming and when on a second playthrough. If they did then there'd be more reason to replay these kinds of games. As it is I feel a lengthy campaign is a must although there's a danger that they can be *too* long and you'll grow bored of them before the end. Hopefully R2 like the first game has the length just right.

RE: Metacritic. Basically the 360 Attack Force are marking down PS3 exclusives while the SDF are marking down 360 exclusives.

Its all really worthwhile.

"Seriously. There's no reason why true gamers shouldn't own a PS3 now"

Even though i can afford both (i have two 360s). I dont have time to play all the games i really want to play on the 360 alone. I wouldnt have that problem if i only owned a PS3 though. No need for more than one format. And if i had to choose to spend my time on Gears 2, fable 2, R2, L4D and LPB i would have picked Gears 2, L4D and Fable 2 anyway. Ive also bought Dead Space and according to EG the 360 version is superior. so there. PS3 is getting better and better though.

Finally a reason to actually take my PS3 off the shelf.

Well I preodered this today, and will be collecting it launch day I suppose! But sure I won't get to play until christmas!! I'm hoping for 7 of my friends to not have played this to death by then! I love my co-op I do!

I know its not an FPS, but I believe the harder difficulties on MGS4 placed more guards on the map and erratic patrol routes...

"Seriously. There's no reason why true gamers shouldn't own a PS3 now. That is if you can afford one, I was lucky enough to get one for free."

Assuming that this comes from the 'you must play all good games' sentiment. Money has never been an issue but I still don't own one. I've always had one console until one year before the end of a generation, that has suited me just fine. I don't play games just to play good games, I play good games to entertain myself. You can do that perfectly well just owning a pc, 360 or ps3.
I have enough time to play roughly one game every two months. I've bought 5 games over the past 2 months and some more to come. If you want to own more than one machine, good for you but I've never felt the need nor had the time.

Good for all the people that don't mind 10 hour games, but that is NOT 'hefty' by any stretch of the imagination.

I liked R1, but I wasn't that interested in a sequel. Seeing EG hand over a 9 is quite a shock, and I may just have to make a purchase...

"it wastes no time transporting him from the rubble of Britain, via an unscheduled stop in Iceland, to the new battlefront: America."

Strike 1.

"The campaign mode is hefty in size, at least for the genre, offering around ten hours for an averagely skilled player on normal difficulty."

Strike 2.

"Resistance 2 saves its most innovative ideas for co-operative play, however."

STEERRRRIIKEEE 3 - your outta here!

'NO SALE'

For the person who said to be hoping for a PC release, forget about it... insomniac work for Sony, and RFOM 1 and 2 are Ps3 exclusives... this is a great game, AAA all the way. The multiplayer will be insane and the camapaign co-op is pretty amazing too... instant buy for me.

@Aggesan

Of course its the same with R2 and most other games too. My point was that 10 hour games can last alot more than 10 hours if you like a good challenge. Idiot!!! And im not a boy btw. Too old for being that. And im definantly not a troll either or little for that matter LOL.

fs muscle, give it a rest. You're making yourself look pathetic :/

10 hours = absolute bare minimum, it's not hefty. Do you really want to have to buy two games just so you can play all weekend?

I'm talking in general, R2 obviously has worthwhile other modes to make up for it.

@Xerx3s

"If you want to own more than one machine, good for you but I've never felt the need nor had the time" etc.

Very good post.

I really hated the first one and I doubt I'll be getting this one.

RFM2 due to multiplayer alone will be played even months after release... GEars2 wont, nontheless, they are both good games.

“For the person who said to be hoping for a Ps3 release, forget about it”

I thought it was on the PS3 to start with?