Resistance: Fall of Man

[Reotyzini]

I really wish more people had PS3s so they could experience the joy of Resistance.
Here's the plot synopsis from Wikipedia:


Resistance: Fall of Man follows an alternate history where the world did not experience World War II, the Great Depression, or the rise of Communism in Russia. An era of peace and prosperity follows the Great War, ending with the revelation of a ruthless and destructive race called the Chimera. The Chimeran virus originates in Russia, which quickly falls to the threat. The Chimera begin to build their army and invasion infrastructure. The world can only guess as to what has happened in Russia. In 1951, the year in which the game takes place, England finds itself under invasion. Both Asia and Europe have already fallen to the Chimera by this time. Very little is known about the Chimera and their origins remain unclear

The game follows the story of U.S. Army Ranger Sgt. Nathan Hale. Hale's Ranger Unit lands in York to trade supplies for a captured Chimeran "Angel." However, the british convoy carrying the angel is ambushed. The British have no way to warn the Americans that they are walking into a trap. Hundreds die in the air or shortly after landing. a few soldiers manage to secure a bus depot for use as a landing pad. But the Chimera launch "Spires" infecting everyone. Hale appears to have some sort of immunity to the virus, as he is the only one that manages to awaken. He becomes the key figure in a desperate operation that is launched to try to halt the invasion. The next four days are chronicled in the game as the U.S. and British forces band together in a last-ditch effort to save what is left.


You can probably guess that the gamer plays Nathan Hale. It's really awesome fun! It's like Gears of War for PS3 (I think so, anyways..)

[Sirharper]

This is a great example of fanboism gone wrong. All you hear around 360 circles is now lame this game is.

...I dunno, everytime I've seen it it has looked pretty darn good.

[DeaconBlade]

if they ever have it in the kiosk, i'll play it but my pockets can't take PS3 lol

[Sirharper]

Really Deac?

Thats usually the only game I see in the kiosk's around here.

[DeaconBlade]

not in my area. it's just the demo disk i think..with Madden, Motostorm and some videos.

[Reotyzini]

This is a great example of fanboism gone wrong. All you hear around 360 circles is now lame this game is.

I don't get it. But yeah it is a great game. It's major fun.

[Darth Doomsday]

Resistance looks more fun than Gears imo. I really dont care about graphics. Resistance just looks like it has better gameplay.





I have not played it though so maybe im wrong.

[Sirharper]

I'm not sure the graphics aren't completely equal to GoW's.

What's supposed to be so impressive about GoW anyway? Looks to me like everything else we've seen so far that was natively developed on 360.

We've seen the future already...and it is Crysis...no console currently can produce that level.

[Reotyzini]

Oh I wasn't talking about graphics at all. It's just got a good storyline and the gameplay is fun. I hate games that are so complicated that they're not fun to play. That just sucks.

[Mason Parrish]

I'm with you Deacon, they only show the stupid demo disk. I would like to give Resistance a shot.

[pvsurfer03]

Resistance looks like an awesome shooter! Best Buy had PS3's a few weeks ago and I was half temtped to pick up a PS3 and a copy of Resistance right there. But, I can't justify that 600 dollar price right now. The game looks really cool though.

[Reotyzini]

Resistance was the first game my sister and I bought for the PS3. And we've been addicted to it ever since.

[Sirharper]

Honesty among Xbox 360 owners.

Refreshing to see!

[GreenLantern4]

I'm really surprised to not see 'Resistance" in the demo machines. Instead we get a demo of "MotorStorm" or "COD3". I wonder if "Resistance" would have gotten the press/hype if it came out later in the PS3 life. I feel like it wouldn't have gotten the attention it got and would have been just another generic fps.

[Sirharper]

So under that secnerio then will GoW be "just another generic fps (tps)" once Halo3 comes out?

Did GoW only get hype because it was the first "real" game to come out for 360?

What if Halo3 had been released first?

The point is we can play what if games all day.

[Reotyzini]

Lmao I don't care to critically anazlyze probabilities and what if's - If I like the game, I like the game.

[Sirharper]

Everytime I've seen it and have seen it reviewed it comes out impressive. Go figure.

[UNSCleric]

I'm really surprised to not see 'Resistance" in the demo machines. Instead we get a demo of "MotorStorm" or "COD3". I wonder if "Resistance" would have gotten the press/hype if it came out later in the PS3 life. I feel like it wouldn't have gotten the attention it got and would have been just another generic fps.

Well since it's really the only game the PS3 has for its first year and then some, of course it's going to get hyped.

[kmillard92]

Well since it's really the only game the PS3 has for its first year and then some, of course it's going to get hyped.
Except for it semi lived up to the hype, unlike our main launch title, PD0:evillaugh:

[UNSCleric]

How are we going to decide if it lived up to its hype or not? I personally felt they didn't hype it enough, it wasn't even an official launch title until about a week before the system came out. If we're going to go by personal hype levels and expectations, then there's no point in debating, but if we're going to go buy overall reviews, here's two links that are interesting.

Perfect Dark Zero (http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/516508.asp)
81% (94 media outlets) with a 7.9 User Review Ranking (460 reviews)

Resistance: Fall of Man (http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/928399.asp)
89% (52 media outlets) with a 7.8 User Review Ranking (318 reviews)

Now since PD:Zero is supposedly a let-down to most Xbox 360 gamers, and Resistance is the only game the PS3 fanboys have, don't you think it's ironic that PDZero has a higher user review ranking (along with a bigger voter pool)?

Resistance is a rip off of an Xbox launch title and Xbox 360 launch title (Halo & CoD2) and it seems that even most PS3 owners realize it's nothing new. There's a small number of people that will spend $700 to play a rehash FPS, and the sales numbers are showing that.

[Sirharper]

Except for it semi lived up to the hype, unlike our main launch title, PD0:evillaugh:



Perfect anology!

[Sirharper]

Here comes the fanboy brigade to shoot down anything PS related, just because.

...we had a pretty good dialogue going here up until that point too.

It's a shame really.

[UNSCleric]

If you have nothing to contribute besides biased personal attacks, keep your mouth shut. Also, no, you didn't have a good dialogue going on. It was just you posting every other post with some kind of anti-Xbox flame bait.

[Sirharper]

Your resposnse is laughable. I am a 360 owner that is not threatened to admit Resistance looks more than decent.

The commentary about PD0 being overhyped and underdelivered is universally accepted.

Who has the bias in here?

If you cannot contribute to a meaningful dialogue about a competing product (which we all know you cannot) then do the community a favor and don't post here.

[UNSCleric]

The commentary about PD0 being overhyped and underdelivered is universally accepted.

I already showed that as false, try again.

[Sirharper]

I already showed that as false, try again.

Where?

Based on a user ratings that was fractionally higher and Resistance having fewer votes to date? The real tale about PD0 came when everybody put it down in record time and bashed it in the forums. It's really hard to find somebody that liked PD0.

[UNSCleric]

So if Perfect Dark Zero failed so miserably, but has a higher user review rating (that would be actual gamers, not paid reviewers) than Resistance, what does that mean for Resistance? Wouldn't Resistance being reviewed worse than PDZero show that it did not live up its hype?

This is the problem with trolls like you, it's double standards 100% of the time. Any time you can try and contradict someone, you do it, but you always end up just contradicting yourself. Welcome to my forum ignore list.

[Sirharper]

There you go with the hypocricy again and just like always, if you can't take the heat...you ignore it. Pathetic.

Here we had a thread where 360 users were engauged in a meaningful dialogue about another console, everybody was complimentary, and then you showed up and tried to tear it down because it wasn't your console of choice. How sad your life must be.

Sorry guy you're not going to attack kmillard and get away with it. That is what you did. You even dropped the fanboy bomb. Fortunately though thanks in part to my efforts most everybody know what you're about.

I'll say it again, being pro-360 doesn't make you any less a troll.

[Sirharper]

For the record...

In a composite score of various PROFESSIONAL ratings.

PD0 - 85
RFoM - 89

http://www.gameratio.com/xbox360/games/Perfect_Dark_Zero/index.php

http://www.gameratio.com/ps3/games/Resistance_Fall_of_Man/index.php

[Reotyzini]

There's a small number of people that will spend $700 to play a rehash FPS, and the sales numbers are showing that.

There's a small number of people who have the money to play the game and don't give a crap about user reviews etc. I.E- me. Now, I don't understand a lot of the techno talk or whatever, so I can't really argue with what you say. I just play games that I like. Games are like movies- there's going to be a lot of similar movies but no one really cares! Fast and the Furious vs. Gone in 60 Seconds? Same idea. Are there people who will watch both AND enjoy both? Yes. Same story with romantic comedies. And how many guys out there think chick flicks are all the same? BECAUSE THEY ARE. Girl meets guy. They fall in love. Tragedy ensues. They live happily ever after. Games are the same way. One survivor after the world is attacked by aliens? How many games are based off of that storyline?

Games are going to be similar. Call it a rehash or a rip off, whatever you want. It's just going to happen.

Resistance is a fun game. I love it. I wish more people had PS3s so that they could play this "rehash FPS" with me. :rolleyes:

[Reotyzini]

If you have nothing to contribute besides biased personal attacks, keep your mouth shut. Also, no, you didn't have a good dialogue going on. It was just you posting every other post with some kind of anti-Xbox flame bait.

Biased personal attacks? :wtf:
How is it biased? Some of these people are sticking up for a system they don't even have! I don't know. I'm not going to argue anymore with you.

[Sirharper]

:coolguy:

LOL!!!

*good karma given*

*adds to friends list*

[Darth Doomsday]

I liked PDZ (1 in a million I guess lol) but Resistance looks like a much better game. At least Resistance looks like a complete game. PDZ had a horrible singleplayer. The multi was fun but thats only half of the game.

Hopefully when im out today I can find a PS3 demo station with Resistance. Too bad the only demo I ever see is NBA 07.

[GreenLantern4]

I'm coming into this convers for a response later than I should have, SirHarper. I do see your point. "GOW" was hyped, but it did bring some new things to light for video games that put it higher up than previous games. Mainly, we have a 'non-fps' that does't promote 'run-n-gun' methods, but instead 'cover-n-shoot'. Yes "GOW" has pretty graphics and a new character that we can envy to a level like Master Chief, but I'll admit the game was short. The 'world of GOW' seems to be a good one and I wish we would had more details of it in the first game. The multiplayer game is enjoyable with 4 v 4, but it is pretty basic and has flaws.

To me I think I would enjoy "Resistance' as a fps, but sadly it doesn't lift itself up to be a 'better known' fps. We have an alternative world around the era of WWII where we fight aliens. However, even with an alternative history, we have seen many WWII type fps already. True it adds aliens, but didn't "Wolfenstien" have its own twists on WWII fps's? I'm not dishing "Resistance" saying it is a bad game. My other post was to simply say "I" believe the game wouldn't have been as popular or hyped if it came out later in the PS3's life cycle or we would have seen better PS3 launch titles. Nothing really comes out of it to lift it far above other fps's. Case in point, "Prey" is a fps decent game that has a Native American fighting aliens. However, it wasn't really hyped and also got lost to a point in the flood of numerous other fps's. It had a nice twist to it, but not to the point to lift it higher than fps's of the past and now.

<edit> On another point... "Perfect Dark Zero". This was a very hyped launch game for the 360 that I enjoyed. However, it was disapointing and got most of its attention due to being a launch title and a sequel to a good N64 game. I enjoy the multiplayer aspect, but nothing that continues to draw me in.

[UNSCleric]

Biased personal attacks? :wtf:
How is it biased? Some of these people are sticking up for a system they don't even have! I don't know. I'm not going to argue anymore with you.

I don't remember arguing with you to begin with...

Anyway, to those calling Perfect Dark Zero a very hyped game, what was the hype campaign exactly? The only thing I can remember of PDZero hype was the website and the TV commercial which I never actually saw on TV. Like I said before, PDZero wasn't even a launch title until a week or two before the system came out, when MS announced it had passed certification at the last second.

There were no commercials or trailers of the game more than a year before it came out like there was/is for Gears of War, Halo 3, Saints Row, Mass Effect, Huxley, and many other Xbox 360 exclusives. The only thing that could make the game be considered hyped on a non-personal level is that it had been so long since the original Perfect Dark.

I personally don't read reviews of games unless it's from some unpaid, regulary gamer in the forums. I'll check out the scores of some of the bigger games of the year just out of curiosity, but usually I disagree with them, since they tear through the games so fast they don't even enjoy what makes the game fun. Gamepro for example said Condemned is three hours long...that is only possible if you ran full speed through the entire game, which is not how the game is supposed to be played.

My point is bringing up the reviews for both PDZero and Resistance is because someone said Resistance lived up to its "hype" and PDZero didn't live out to its. I showed the reviews because it shows that overall, the people who were infected by the "hype" of both games rated them nearly identically, whether they were paid reviewers or regular gamers. The fact that Resistance is comparable to what some of you are calling a disappointment just goes to show that PS3 is a joke when it comes to quality games, and that you're praising the PS3 just to be a contrarian.

It's ok to play devil's advocate every now and then, but at least be consistent.

Edit: I personally believe both PDZero and Resistance were and are non-hyped, average shooters. PDZero does have a lot of weird, innovative things in it, but the control and feel of the game is lagging, and it seems like there was just too much dreamed up, and not enough things polished. Resistance is just more of the been there, done that, neither game is worthy of being a system-seller.

[Mason Parrish]

I played it for the fist time last night at a friends house. I had a blast playing online. 40 people in one map is chaos.

[Reotyzini]

Ha maybe they spent too much money on the system to promote their games.

[Practorian]

Resistance is a great game. I play it almost everyday and haven't gotten sick of it yet.

[Digilearner]

I have Resistance: Fall of man. I'm not that big of a fan of it...

Gameplay is ok, but no rumble...-_-", also I don't want to play a game based in the 1950's...Other than that, sure, its a good game.

[Reotyzini]

So you don't like any Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, or Brothers in Arms games? As far as I know, World War II is one of the most popular historical topics used in video game storylines.

[Kinjutsumaru]

Resistance is a good game, I play it at my cousin's house all the time. The only thing that kills my enjoyment sometimes is the controller. I've never really like playing FPS with Sony's gamepad, that's why my PS2 collection has no FPS. But that has nothing to do with the quality of Resistance.