Resistance Fall of Man

Well, at first I was confused, and not a little intimidated at the prospect of mixing it up with people who are far better than I am at this game. Though I love to play Resistance I do not delude myself with visions of gaming grandeur.

First, it took me four hours to download 2211 MB of the R2 software onto my console. Perhaps it would have been faster with a hard-wired connection, but I felt it necessary to attempt the download with the connection I use for gaming. Other than the long wait there has been no other glitches to date, though it has only been a few days I have played at least 8 to 10 hours with no problems while on line. That includes checking my stats, as well as that of others, with no lagging and no lost data.

The game play itself was excellent really. The team aspect of this game is awesome, because it shows the absolute need to work together in a combat situation. Having hero's is great and all, but in the Real World heroes do indeed rely on others in order for the events to come to fruition that make them hero's.

By installing medics, soldiers, and special ops personnel Insomniac have given regular folks a taste of how it works when in combat. Other companies have done this before I'm sure; not least among them whoever created the software for the U.S Army game used at all their recruiting events. Sorry, I'm not up on gaming software and the companies that create them. It never seems to be that high on my priority list other than to know who makes the game I am most recently interested in.

I suppose what you are more interested in would be the different classes in which you would participate while in the game. The first class I will discuss is the Medic. You might think the medic would be the least heroic right? You would be wrong if you did. You are given this neat little device that sucks the life right out of your enemies by pressing the R1 button. By pressing the R2 button you can heal friendlies. When a comrade is killed, you can resuscitate him faster than others can, after all, that is your job. As you progress and gain XP points you also unlock more advanced weapons and medic equipment.

The same goes for the other two classes, which are the Soldier, and the Special Operations, or Spec Ops soldier. The Soldier does the obvious things; he kills, he dies. The Spec Ops soldier is responsible for equipping everyone with ammo throughout the missions. And as with the medic, you gain XP points as you progress and achieve great things throughout the game. Unlocking weapons and other gear you become the soldier, or civilian, or whatever as you gain more and more XP points.

It is a bit more complicated than RFOM, but if a 45 year old (decidedly non-gamer) can figure this out, I guarantee those who are use to these types of games will figure it out with ease.

Resistance 2 is going to be a huge success as long as there are not many glitches to contend with. The gun turrets are absolutely murderous, (at least for me and everyone I've played with so far) and they have introduced a rank structure into the Chimeran horde. Above the ranking Chimeran you will see a bar with the number of stars representing the individual's rank, and subsequently the difficulty in taking it down.

Of course there is more, but I haven't reached it yet. As I do I will report it here.