Oh goody. Playstaion 3 reviews.
Resistance looks like it will be Insomniac games’ next big franchise (Spyro and Ratchet and Clank were previously successful titles). This game’s story line is very dark and yes, there is humor but it’s pretty sick. (What’s funnier than watching zombie-like creatures spend ten minutes just to walk over to you then you just hit them with your gun with no great battle just a lot of moaning? The story is still VERY well written with exception to the normal plot-holes here and there but not nearly as bad as the plot-holes in “Lost”. The story starts you off with the story of the Chimeran (Main enemies) invasion and conquering of Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa but since there Chimera are blood-thirsty monsters (And bored), they decide to tunnel underneath the English Channel to attack England, which they quickly take control of. Then America decides to send some troops over to push the Chimera out of England, which they fail at like Vietnam but among the troops is one man named Nathan Hale who is whom you play as. But enough of the story; let’s talk about game play now.
The game play is very nice with some aspects similar to Medal of Honor and other aspects that are very Halo-ish. This game is probably one of Playstation’s best chances at competing with Halo or Gears of War. There are a ton of weapons and some of them you can only get on certain difficulties. The weapons range from the standard machine gun to rocket launchers to a gun that shoots gooey blobs of stuff that you can detonate to inflict massive damage on your enemies. And there’s also a TON of enemies to use all those weapons on ranging from the basic Chimera to a HUGE walking tank! And what is so great about all these enemies and weapons is that each has it’s own strengths and weaknesses, so it’s impossible to go through the game using two or three weapons even on easy mode.
The graphics are sharp and very well designed; there’s nothing repetitive in the landscape except for the occasional buildings which every game has a problem with. The characters are very realistic and the enemies look awesome. The cut-scenes are each very similar but also very different and well designed. The sound is also very realistic and it fits nearly everything in the game. The voices are really well done and no two people have the same voice except for the Chimera (But they are just grumbling strange sounds). The music is very nice throughout the game but the great weapon sounds cover it up but that’s perfectly normal for a FPS game. This game’s difficulty can get really challenging especially in story mode but it’s never impossible to beat.
The multi-player is where this game really shines especially with its nearly lag-free games in forty person rooms. There’s several game modes including the normal death match and team death match games and conversion which you have one life as a human and one life as a Chimera. But there is a problem, not all the weapons are online, but some of those weapons would lag the server so bad that it would crash every hour. There are a lot of game worlds online including ones that aren’t even in the story mode. There’s also a co-op story mode if you want to play with some else but not against each other.
Overall, this is a VERY good game and currently by far the best on the PS3. I give Resistance: Fall of Man a eight out of ten.
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