Here we have the thing again that sequels generally suck as hell. Whereas Motorstorm: Pacific Rift was alright, Resistance 2 is just as dispensable as a boil on the arse.
It’s just too obvious that Resistance 2 is not much more than a generic shooter. Even if you just can’t argue with the features: a stand-alone eight-player, class-based online co-op campaign (up to 8 players) and 60-player online competitive multiplayer, the gameplay is as crude that it only involves shooting at myriads of loveless designed aliens and hordes of not very intimidating mutations. Only the boss fights bring a little diversion as you’ve probably never seen and fought such big things in a game before. Frying supersized kalamari or roasting giant maggots sounds epic and fun but the tactics to defeat those bastards is just as lame as playing Ro Sham Bo with a retard. The story and the heroic role of Sgt. Nathan Hale are not worth mentioning. Fighting a chimairan virus and alien invasion sometimes reminds you of the motion picture Independence Day minus the humor. And I’m sure that the target groups match. In addition to that the graphics, presentation and direction just are far from ingenious. The game collapses on its epicly failing singleplayer campaign. Even the massive multiplayer carnage can’t turn the ship around as it is nothing more than a replaceable experience.
In the end Resistance 2 is not the flagship that Sony needs to establish the Playstation 3 system as outstanding console with great exclusive shooters. Besides the fact that shooters haven’t evolved over the past 5-10 years, the Sony console plays to their strength on games like Little Big Planet and the PSN titles as the Pixeljunk series and the escheresque Echochrome. Avantgarde instead of re-chewing old paradigms over and over again.
Resistance 2 is a game for bloodthursty and mindless teenager scangers or dumb-ass chavs and bowsies. Get a life dudes… or at least some dignity.
Developer: Insomniac Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Release: 28th November, 2008
