Resistance 2 blows away Resistance 1. It's just that R1 had a lot more room, it wasn't competing with CoD4, CoD5 (meh), Killzone 2, etc.

The story is superior in R2, as are the bosses. It's just a shame they gutted out the two player split-screen standard campaign.

What the hell happened to RESISTANCE? Yes, this is another one of those posts ..
This is not about complaining or giving crap to Insomniac. I am writing this because I fell in love with R:FoM and the sequel has me scratching my head. I have been around since the beginning, over 50,000 total kills and over 1,000 kills with every weapon in R:FoM. This is only intended as feedback and opinion from a fan .I still consider Insomniac one of the best.

This is all feedback on Competitive play:

One of the biggest changes that I don t understand is the lack of identity for the Humans and Chimeras.
R2 is really just normal looking humans Vs ugly looking humans. What happened to the Chimera? Are they really just humans with different skins? What happened to the Rage? What happened to the weakness of heat? What happened to the differences in these two races?

R:FoM

-Human -************************-Chim era-
Resembles a Human***************Resembles a Creature/Monster/Alien
Moves like a Human**************Moves unlike a normal Human
Can run*************************Ha s Rage
Has Radar***********************Ca n See through Walls
Exploit Heat Advantage**********Weakness to Heat

R2

-Human-********************** ***-Chimera-
Resembles a Human***************Resembles a human with a costume on
Moves like a Human**************Moves like a Human
Can Run*************************Ca n Run
Has Radar***********************Ha s Radar
Has Improved Radar-Berserk******Has Rage-Berserk
No heat advantage***************No heat weakness

So basically in R2 the Humans and Chimera are EXACTLY the same except for that ONE berserk difference. And do many people even use those when there is invisibility, LAARK/Pulse, Ironheart, and Ring of Life at their disposal?

I am sure they changed it to make the game fair , but that makes it less fun. One of the best aspects of R:Fom was taking out a Raging Chimera who should have just kicked your ass. In R2 there is no satisfaction in killing a Chimera because they have the same exact abilities as you. In R:FoM there were two rounds, usually you played one as a Human and one as a Chimera. You got to play with the pros and cons of both races that way, and it was totally fair. In R2 there is one round where it really makes no difference if you are human or Chimera. This is boring and lacks the overwhelming feeling of being attacked by a creature who should be stronger than yourself.

Berserks suck, plain and simple. I don t understand how giving an advantage to a veteran player makes this game fun for newcomers. Shouldn t all players have the same abilities at their disposal from the start and let the skill of those abilities determine the better player?
Oh you are new to the game? Here let me blast you with my Pulse Cannon, slap you in the face while I m invisible, and laugh as your bullets tickle me while my ironheart or ring of life is enabled. You will have better luck once you level up enough to have these perks you noob

And really what is the point after all the players level up and have these perks? It just turns into a rock, paper, scissor game of who has what ability and when that ability gets activated.

Another thing that erks me is that you can t see if an opponent has the ring of life or ironheart ability activated until you are close to them. Two opponents can be in a gunfight at midrange distance and you can t tell if they have a berserk activated. Only until it shows the player that killed you do you see the ring or the ironheart bubble. Oh, so that s why I lost

Berserks only give a greater advantage to good players.

Im sorry, but the secondary fire of the Marksman has got to be the LAMEST choice for Competitive play. Releasing scouting shock orbs that take more than a ¼ of your health and require absolutely no skill is quite sad. What s worse is the orb will continue to kill you even if you killed your opponent. Sure you can shoot down the orb, but honestly is anyone really successful at that? I know the Splicer acts the same way with the secondary fire. It can still kill you after you have taken your opponent down, but your opponent actually had to aim and land the blade in the first place; not just hit the secondary fire button and watch the sparks fly.

Omission of the Arc Charger and Dragon. These were two of the coolest and most original weapons in R:Fom. They added diversity to the weapon set and were FUN to use.

The Grenade icon doesn t seem to be accurate, and the Hedgehog is the worst. One spike seems to kill you and the icon, when it shows up, is terribly inaccurate to where I am standing.

There are more LAARKS/Pulse Cannons and 40 s in R2 than in R:FoM. 40 s were one of the biggest complaints in R:FoM and now there are more of them. Also, why is there no stat tracking of the 40mm use???? This was asked for many times on R:FoM, thought for sure it would have made it into this game.

The weapon wheel this has been beat to death, but I miss it and it s a shame the two weapon system is used JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER FPS.

Using the sixaxis to view the map and stats. This feature was GREAT in R:FoM. You could check the stats of all the players and view the entire map just by tilting the controller in each direction. You could continue to run and aim while checking either screen. In R2 I have to use my thumb to hit select to check the stats. Sure this is a simple feature, BUT WHY OMIT THINGS IN A SEQUEL THAT WORKED SO WELL IN THE ORIGINAL?

Why is there no in game messaging system?????? In R:Fom after a game was over there were always good games flying around and communicating with new players. Now if I want to send a message I have to access the XMB, and type the name of the person I want to send a message to. The omission of in game messaging takes R2 a couple steps backwards. Yes, I know, I have a mic, but after the game is over I would still like to easily send a message.

Air Vents the new style is sad. There is very little control and choice about how to maneuver. If an opponent hits the air vent, I know where he is going. let me just prepare myself to kill you because I KNOW where your going to land. Free control air vents add tactical decisions, not predetermined destinations.

A lot of people are always proclaiming that the changes to R2 from R:Fom are progressive. Well, just because a change was made, doesn t mean it was in the right direction. I have no problem with change, but the changes made to R2 have created a game just like all the other FPS. To me, change means different NOT the same. All the original ideas from R:Fom are stripped away and R2 is just a skeleton of its predecessor.

Again, this may come off as complaining, but it is strictly feedback from a fan of the original game. I will still play R2 for a little bit, but I already know it will not infect me like FoM did. I really hope there is a R3, but I hope it takes more from FoM and just a small pinch from R2.

Thank you Insomniac for your outstanding track record, I know you can t please everyone. Just wish more of the originality from FoM was preserved.

Campaign Note:
I would rather have smaller bosses that actually put up a fight (R:Fom), than 300 foot monsters that look VERY cool, but are insultingly easy to beat and very unrewarding with a sense of accomplishment (R2).

R2 is missing Core Control, which was a really fun multiplayer mode in R1. Other than that I dig it. 5000 more kills for me for platinum in this game.

Some people have a piss poor view on what makes a good game, mainly because they dont care about a good game, they care about a game that cater's toward their "E-Peen".

The only (-) was the loss of co-op in campaign mode.

Besides that R2 was a far superior product and much more user friendly. It sounds like some SUPER UBER hardcores are upset there R1 skills didn't carry over to R2. I've heard that before:

*cough*COD4 lamers coming to KZ2*cough*

R2 was good, but I liked R1's single player over R2's and R2's multiplayer over R1's, combine both games single player and multiplayer and it would be absolutely perfect. R1's single player seemed more difficult too, and I'm talking about Superhuman on R2 compared to normal difficulty on R1...the chimera in R1 practically had perfect aim and only shot at you though so that might've been an AI thing, but I felt I got more out of R1's single player experience after I beat it. R2 seemed to cater more to people complaining and comparing it to Halo/COD4 in terms of multiplayer too and people complaining about R1 being too hard.

But I'm radign it as you maybe missed the point of 2nd player PSN login.

Basically it means you can have 2 people logged into their PSN account at the same time on the PS3, play Co-Op split screen and both of your online profiles will gain xp on your class and contribute towards any of your own stats for trophies and any other form of progression.

The co-op splitscreen. How hard is that to do when ONLY doing the campaign with a friend?

I've tried it with a pal of mine, not by a long extent, but it was freakin impossible for us to get past 300 yards of the first map without failing misserably. We aren't hardcore gamers but still liked R:FoM and hoped to be able to complete R2 as well.

I would very much enjoy
a new dedicated single player Killzone campaign. With a fun multi-player.

Tenchu and Killer Instict would be great indeed!

Unfortunately new Killzone game does not seem to be in the works

Virtua Fighter is going to receive a new entry!

https://www.dualshockers.co...

Splinter Cell is likely to be one of the remasters launching next year (not sure whether this has to do anything with the remake previously announced)

https://toronto.ubisoft.com...

Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.

i have the platinium too , 10k kills in online ranked matches was no joke . Took me 3-4 months straight grinding but it was fun . To put it in perspective you only got like 25 kills per match if you were 1st place every match that's at Least 400 matches in 1st

Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...

Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything

Honestly, Burning Skies was shit. There's no two ways about it. At first I thought it looked terrible, then I second guessed myself. Big mistake.

Retribution has this really cool feature where you could use a PS3 to link a controller to it and play. So if you had a 2000 or 3000 hooked to a tv, you can use a real controller. All of this predates the PSP Go's ability to sync a sixaxis to it via bluetooth.

Agreed. Until they do a new entry, I'd love to get the two portable games remade into console versions. Maybe in a nice compilation with the mainline titles.

Yes yes it was 😀👍🏻

I remember being put off by it because McHale wasn't the MC but it turned out to be my favourite campaign

Remember playing this through online co op with the move controller and gun attachment! What a game!

Great Idea. I'd play that version.

Resistance was a great game and of all the remasters.... I would play a great remastered version of resistance series as well

I loved all the Resistance games. But part 2 online was amazing. The Marksmen for the Spec Ops type class when it was fully upgraded was such an amazing weapon. Oh man I wish they release all the games again and let us play part 2 online again.