Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 10:14
Opinion and Analysis
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Both next-gen gaming consoles now have sequels to their most acclaimed exclusive shooters, so how does the first person alternative action of Resistance 2 stack up against Marcus Fenix and his blood soaked squad in Gears of War 2 ?
Is it fair to compare Resistance 2 on the PS3
to the Xbox 360 bound
Gears of War 2 ? Both are gritty shooters based
on a background of a hopelessly outgunned humanity, struggling to
survive and fight back against aggressive swarms of ugly and brutish
aliens.
Resistance 2
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Developer
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Insomniac
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Publisher
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Sony
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Rating
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MA 15+
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Both provide campaigns built on action-a-plenty and flesh out the story
lines of their predecessors with light, shade and a pacing that any
Hollywood director/editor would be proud to put their name to.
But in so many ways they differ from each other as well, and it is
these differences that make the job of a games reviewer that much more
fulfilling. There is nothing worse than trying to come up with a
different angle after sitting through a series of not-so genre spanning
titles one after the other.
So, though on the surface (including the box cover descriptions), much
of what Resistance 2 (the follow-up to the PS3 launch title Resistance:
Fall of Man) covers could be stored on the same shelf space as the
Epic Games title, Developer Insomniac have managed to inject their own
flavours into the game to spice things up.
The early parts of Resistance 2 are the weakest, as the obligatory linking of storylines must be played out.
After surviving the Chimera invasion of England, Nathan Hale (who’s
boots you fill) is air-lifted to the relative safety of U.S soil. All
this takes place in an alternate history 1953, where Communist Russia
never got off the ground, and an isolationist president has control of
the United States.
Nobody had planned for the alien Chimera invasion, and the subsequent
spread of the plague that turned ordinary Joe Public into abnormally
toothed raving creatures. So it is inevitable that after spreading
through Asia and Europe that the battle would catch up with Hale in the
U.S. This is where we pick up Hales adventures.
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