PSU: Resistance 2 Review

ultimolu - 405 days 1 hour ago

Well said.

Insomniac improved on EVERY aspect of the original game. This game deserves at least a 9.

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Ju - 404 days 22 hours ago

I agree with what you said about the identity the first game created which gets lost a bit in the second. And it creates some disappointment, at first. But only at first. Do I want my old Resistance back ? The Weapon Ring (its actually a ring not wheel :), or the health system ? Hell, yeah, I would. Can I live without. Sure can. It doesn't change the quality of the game.

I can only assume R2 is a game you start to appreciate after you play it for a while. And that's not after you've beat the campaign. Play it again, then maybe. Play the MP also, and your getting closer. But it really makes it a unique experience with its CoOp MP.

This is the part, where just noobs like me can enjoy a great multiplayer. The ranking system is well balanced, XPs help you to progress. Even if you are not top of the list, it is just a pleasure to play with others in, e.g. a support role. It is quite satisfying to just be a medic and or a specialist to make sure the guys with the big guns survive. Because its a team effort. I have not seen a game on consoles yet, which implements this in a similar way. The result is quite surprisingly different. The bad thing about it, its quite addicting, too. But that part alone would raise it above anything available, and thus would deserve the highest score for a mile stone achievement.

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ultimolu - 405 days 1 hour ago

...That's not the point.
You missed the point, congratulations.

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Foxgod - 405 days ago

Hes right, even if its not the point, people laughed at the 9 that OXM gave to Gears2.

Now PSU gives an 8.5 to R2, but do you hear anyone laughing ?

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ultimolu - 405 days ago

"Hes right, even if its not the point, people laughed at the 9 that OXM gave to Gears2."

...I didn't laugh.

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Foxgod - 404 days 23 hours ago

perhaps you didnt, laught, but a lot of people did, and put down on GeOw2 for only scoring a 9 from an official Xbox magazine.

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Pennywise - 405 days 1 hour ago

This game did everything new... I dont get it. The gfx are not worse than say everyones favorite GeoW2... but it will get bashed for graphics.

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Dread - 405 days ago

This is amazing Sony fan boys are not satisfied on just calling a double standard on reviews. Every review done by a "neutral"web site that does not give high marks to a Sony exclusive is automatiaclly labeled as biased towards the 360 by the Sony defense force.

now a review from a Sony fanboy site gives it a review( which is very good by the way) and is not what the Sony fans like then, you guessed it, it is also biased towards the 360.

that is unbelievable. WOW.

Of course the possibility that this game deserves a 8.5 is unthinkable.

be gamers not haters

peace

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ultimolu - 404 days 21 hours ago

I love how people like you assume that just because people are saying that R2 should have gotten a higher score, that means they're implying that 8.5 is a horrible score. 8.5 is by no means a horrible score, but me and others personally felt it could have been a 9.

That's all.

I don't see why you're making it worse than it is.

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doshey - 405 days ago

well my review for this game is basically a nice 9.4, and i play this game like about every days now

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SL1M DADDY - 404 days 21 hours ago

Most of the folks that reviewed the game have little to no time in the multiplayer game and have run through the single player on casual only to get it out of the way and then post up mediocre reviews. IMHO, reviews are not needed for myself that is since I rent everything then buy the games that have legs and last a long time. I do however cannot stand when game review sites do not give a game a fair chance and rather than comparing it to it's prequel, give it bad marks when comparing it to another game entirely. I guess you could say that the game Resistance 2 is not the mediocre point here, it is just a mediocre review. I am playing the game right now and MHO of it is that the game is nothing short of a 9.5. Huge online and a good single player. What the game falls short on in single player, it makes up for in a huge online offering. The game has legs and it's well worth the 60 bucks.

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Foxgod - 404 days 23 hours ago

keep dreaming, with 2.5 M sales in one weekend, and an average score higher then R2, its safe to say that if GeOW2 wont be GOTY, then R2 wont be either.

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SL1M DADDY - 404 days 20 hours ago

I would hope that neither Gears 2 nor R2 make GOTY but rather that award go to a game that I personally feel is a bit more inovative and one that has some great life to it... LittleBigPlanet is by far my top vote for GOTY and if I had to pick two others for contention it would be MGS4 and Fallout 3. If there were a fourth place... I might throw Dead Space in the list just because I am still thinking about that game and have been done with it for weeks now!

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Foxgod - 405 days ago

thats because gears 1 set a much higher bar then R1, making R2 better then R1 wasnt so hard as making GeOW 2 better then GeOW1.

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Sarcasm - 404 days 23 hours ago

"making R2 better then R1 wasnt so hard as making GeOW 2 better then GeOW1."

Not you again.

So then it's backward. While Resistance 2 is 2 times better than Resistance 1, it should receive higher review scores.

Gears 2 is only 1.5x better than Gears 1. So it shouldn't receive all the praise.

So in other words, Gears 2 is overrated and Resistance 2 is underrated based on your illegitimate logic.

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Sarcasm - 404 days 23 hours ago

I beg the question, what do you think about Gears of War 2?

Depending on your answer which I can see two possible answers.

"Gears 2 is miles better than the first one! It features a crazy 5 versus 5 opposed to the pale 4 versus 4. It has a ground breaking stunning innovative cover system, that part 1 barely scratched. The graphics and lighting is 3 times better!"

or

"I think it's good."

If you say the latter, then I respect your opinion about Resistance.

If you say the former, then the bias is strong with this one.

My personal opinion which nobody really cares but I'll say it anyway. Gears 2 isn't that great over Gears 1. Everything's much of the same with different maps. It's one big expansion with a stupider ending. It's a good game, but a poor sequel.

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Foxgod - 404 days 23 hours ago

like i said in a comment earlier in this topic.

The bar for GeOW was already very high, and for sure higher then the bar of R1 was.

To raise the bar from R1 to R2 was less difficult then raising the bar from GeOW to GeOW 2, and still Epic pulled it off to make GeOW 2 better then GeOW.
Now that, takes REAL effort.

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demoneyeslaharl - 404 days 22 hours ago

You might. Resistance 2 boosts an extra graphical upgrade from R1, with a few hitches. It has pretty much more color, and the art direction is quite unique. Its 2 weapon system makes the pacing of the campaign faster, but can make it predictable at times. Animation is top notch... different reaction from different shots, AI is much better, and the multi-player is potentially awesome (havent gotten to it yet).

My only complaint with R2 is the narrative flow of the story. Not as good as 1.

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Aquanox - 404 days 23 hours ago

I was actually extremely surprised about this review. PSU is known for having quite marked bias in favor of everything surrounding the Playstation 3. If they give this game 8.5 after playing it quite a bit, it means that the game deserves that score at most. Earlier reviews couldn't properly evaluate the online portion of the game.

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Mr Fancy Pants - 404 days 18 hours ago

maybe playing Resistance 2? that's what i'm going to do now. i'm free tomorrow so i'm going to play the co-op for the next 12 or 15 hours. ;-)

hey PP what happened with GeoW2? already bored of it? lol

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Jason 360 - 404 days 18 hours ago

How can you be playing Resistance 2 while making comments up to 2min before my comment?

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