Shockingly bad!
A Customer from Bushey, England,
27th October, 2008
The title says it all. This was supposed to be the PS3's answer to Halo and Gears of War, the PS3's flagship killer app. It could have gotten close, really it could. But it didn't. This is gonna be long, I'm afraid, I need to rant. Recipe for Resistance Take Half Life 1. Add Call of Duty 3. Mix in some PS2 standard graphics. Pour in some utterly moronic AI that (for your allies) fail to give any impression of being anything other than animated polygons and (for your enemies)...well yeah, the former too. Then take down from the shelf the box that says 'Incredible Story' and burn it. For good measure, incinerate 'Plausibility' and then remove 'Emotionally Impressive Characters'. Then hype it all up, and charge forty quid for it. I'll start with storyline and plausibility, because they've always been important to me. The storyline is appallingly bad. It lacks any [shiver down your spine], never fails to be bland and boring, and contains no sort of engagement with any character. The characters are either marines that run at the Chimera and die, all while shouting 'Fall back!' or 'Take cover!', some random British woman who also makes no impression upon the player or Sgt. Hale, who has not a single line of dialogue, no backstory, apparently no emotions, and for some inexplicable reason is able to do what hundreds of marines cannot. Gone are the engaging characters of Halo and Call of Duty, where people have rich emotions tht actually make you want to help them rather than abandon them to the Flood...oh sorry, they've renamed it the Chimera. Plausibility. As I was saying, Hale has some sort of special ability that means that he can survive dozens of shots that would kill any ally of his, can take on countless Chimera, apparently has the super strength required to carry a dozen HEAVY weapons at once, and forces him not to say a single word throughout the whole thing. Now, the Chimera. It occurs to me that they need all those tubes and power cores to survive. Two questions, because the backstory of the Chimera is never explored. If they are from our planet, then how did they evolve if they require technological life support? If they are extraterrestrial, how did they evolve on their planet? If you are a Sony fanboy and know the answer to one of those, please tell me. There are more stupid improbabilities, but I don't have all the time in the world. Graphics now. Is the PS3 not supposed to be...you know...good at that? I've seen better graphics on a PS2, and definitely on an Xbox 360. They fail to impress in my opinion. Damned terrible. I won't even go into multiplayer/online. THEY SUCK. End of. When you consider that this slightly better than a game two years previous to it's release (Halo 2) and infinitely inferior to the mother of all games - Halo 3 - released a year later, you can realise that this is a rent only. Seriously, if you bought the PS3 for this, sell up now. Buy a 360. Play Halo 3/Gears/Bioshock/Call of Duty 4/Fable. If this is Sony's response to Halo, they are screwed. PS3 owners, we (360 owners) are the ones who are laughing :) Two hundred pounds down, for this. Have fun. And I'm a kind person. For your sake, I hope that Resistance 2 comes anywhere close to Halo 3 / Gears 2, but I simply don't think it will. Rent this, OK, but stay away from it in shops. Only a killer app in that it kills your expectations.
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