The Escapist: Resistance 2 Review

PoSTedUP - 415 days 15 hours ago

lololo hahahahaha oh man that just made my day.... funny stuff man and a good way to lose credibility, i understand you love the 360 but im just thankful your ass doesn't count on metacritic lol. have you ever played a fps with this much action and enemys on screen with good AI? or have you ever played a fps on a console with 60 player online? with NO lag? F-ing clowns...

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ultimolu - 415 days 13 hours ago

Well PS3 fans.

The sh*t has literally hit the fan.
Reviewers have reached an all time low.

Do me a favor and play the games for yourselves and not listen to these biased, irrational reviews.

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BobDog - 415 days 12 hours ago

my recommendation

buy this game

it prolly means just as much as their recommendation after their statement lol

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PoSTedUP - 415 days 12 hours ago

lololololololol aw man now THAT was funny XD. thank you : )

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Halochampian - 415 days 11 hours ago

The escapist hates on every game. He isnt biased. He points out flaws in games that many would never.

Now I may never always agree with him but he certainly isnt biased and doesnt deserve the hate.

I always watch his reviews because they are funny. Yes.. they are very funny and mostly true. I cracked up with the Mercenaries 2(Airstikes 2: hooray for airstrikes!) review.

Now he totally went off on Fable 2 but no one went around saying "he is biases." What makes him biased now?

Now you may not agree with him. But respect him and his opinion.

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yanikins111 - 415 days 10 hours ago

dont confuse the escapist with Zero Punctuation, which is hosted by the escapist. Yahtze is biased towards the 360, but more so in a "i prefere console x over console y" kinda way than a "I HATE CONSOLE Y" way. and his funny as hell. everything else on the escapist website is full of fail.

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Halochampian - 415 days 10 hours ago

my bad. I wasnt able to watch the vid. And assumed it was Zero Punctuation.

So yea.. Disregard my first comment. Unless you never heard of Zero Punctuation, then you should defiantly watch it.

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yanikins111 - 415 days 9 hours ago

lol. i just watched the review. i seriously hope the guy is trying to be funny. i really dont have the time to counter all his retarded and non-sensical points, but oh my.... fail much?

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Cliff_BleSHITski - 415 days 8 hours ago

Please make a new name and spell CHAMPION right!

It's with an 'o' not an 'a'

wow that must be embarrassing

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ultimolu - 415 days 7 hours ago

...*sighs*

Another comment deleted.
I didn't even say anything inflammatory?

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StephanieBBB - 415 days 5 hours ago

Like the lightning and textures are bland at some places and they don't give an example of it. They just say it without any proof.

Same with the "Alien" type eggs that grows from the ground. I don't think they are as much ART as they are LORE. If you can't explain how the parasites can create aliens from humans then how is the world any more credible with large amounts of aliens in hordes?

He picks of things that doesn't make sence if they weren't there, and that just shows that this reviewer is more of a casual gamer than anything else.

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Mozilla89 - 414 days 23 hours ago

Reading the comments over there I seriously saw someone write "Its nice to see a generally negative review". haha Anyways if you want to talk linear and having scripted events, all COD games are like that and they're amazing and so is Resistance 2! And for the art style well I'm not really sure what they were expecting houses to look like, I mean the 50's weren't radically different than right now in terms of houses lol. Whatever though its his opinion, I doubt majority of the people are gonna read it.

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Halochampian - 414 days 18 hours ago

why dont you back the hell off. Only thing embarrassing is how you try over and over again to bash me because of my name. You got owned on your other try... so why continue.

I dont need to defend my name. It has been my tag for many years and wont be changing anytime soon.

All you are doing is harassing me and it's very childish.

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MNicholas - 414 days 15 hours ago

I'm curious what the escapist would consider an innovative shooter.

If the review is to be taken seriously then surely the derivative gameplay of Gears, Halo, COD, etc would be equally distasteful to the reviewer.

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Jenzo - 415 days 8 hours ago

Maybe if you had played Halo 3 before you would understand his points better. Resistance 2 does nothing original at all. I bet Insomniac are working on a Gears of war copy atm.

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god_o_war - 415 days 6 hours ago

yea im pretty sure M$ is working on a singstar, buzz and mii copy atm

ohh wait....

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SaiyanFury - 415 days 5 hours ago

I find that Ben Cronshaw rarely has a favourable opinion of a game. About 98% of what he says is nitpicking great games to death, and he rarely has anything good to say about them. I find him funny, don't get me wrong, but most of what he says is meant to make you laugh and not meant to be a legitimate review of the game. Resistance 2 not worth buying? Well I liked the single player campaign and I love the online. Insomniac has once again delivered a solid game, both in visuals and in gameplay. Most people who play the game will reach the same conclusion.

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badz149 - 415 days 5 hours ago

what else you can do about it in this age of gaming? Why can't they review the game for what it is? if it's not original, so it's not great? can you tell me what is so original about other games like CoD, gears, halo etc? they are all like R2 - they are shooting games! they should score it based on how well it is executed the in whole game not based on originality!

the review said "Bottom line: You've played this game before - many times before" - R2 is a new game and nobody played R2 before R2 was released!

jenzo said "Maybe if you had played Halo 3 before you would understand his points better." - are you telling me if I played Halo 3, I'll understand what ever happened in Resistance 2?

both FAILED!!

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StephanieBBB - 415 days 5 hours ago

It's kinda hard to make an game in this time of day when almost everything has been done before. Especially in the FPS genre.

I think resistance2 has set it self apart from other fps games pretty good with ALOT of enemies on screen at the same time. Having both Co-op multiplayer and being the first to have 60 player competetive multiplayer on consoles. The weapons in R2 is also very uniqe to other shooters. They all have character and are very different and that's more than I can say for other shooters like COD4.

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Ju - 414 days 23 hours ago

Jenzo, how much R2 did you actually play, if I might ask ?

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Ju - 414 days 23 hours ago

You're a moron, how could you do that! You should have read this review before. How dare you are liking this game. </sarcasm>

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Bits-N-Kibbles - 415 days ago

I like super mario 3. Cool icon.

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TruthBTold - 415 days 13 hours ago

Its the most fun Ive had. The way you each can choose a specialty just makes you work and depend more on each other and really work as a team. The enemies just keep coming at you and the bosses are fun to kill. The story was good too, long enough for a good fps story and the trophies just add to it. This guy is just a pathetic fanboy who doesnt make any real points as to why this game is bad. How sad really has it become to play games when other extreme fanboys just want to try and ruin the fun experience of playing games for others with lame comments like these. Regarless of the console "reviews" like these are not needed and should not be posted.

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mrdxpr2 - 415 days 12 hours ago

Soo true the co-op is great love it is what im mostly playing is so adicting..the only flaw in R2 is no singleplayer co-op

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Ju - 414 days 23 hours ago

You can spot new comers, though. LOL.

Me: "Watch out, there is a wave coming from the right". Response: "OK. Whatever.". Me: "Hey, its not over yet". ... 2 minutes later, everybody is dead ... Me: "LOL. Believe me now ?". Oh, yeah, no response after that, everybody is busy collecting their jars.

ha ha.

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shawnsl65 - 415 days 13 hours ago

better off buying the 80gb for the 65nm chip and upgrade the hard drive for a better buy.

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Ju - 414 days 23 hours ago

I would guess the 160 has a 65nm Cell, though, but just a bigger hard drive. But I agree 80GB+2" USB2 enclosure + 320GB HDD = ~$460.

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ultimolu - 415 days 13 hours ago

And this is why it's good to play games for yourself.

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ultimolu - 415 days 13 hours ago

...You missed the point, congratulations!

This review could have at least point out some positive aspects about the game. Instead, it proceeded to curbstomp the game to death. If this was Gears 2, I'm sure 360 fans would have ganged up on this person.

And you don't tell people to 'don't buy the game'. What kind of f*cking bullsh*tting journalism is that? You review the game, point out the positives, the negatives, and let the gamer decide for themselves whether they want to play it or not.

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OnslaughtX - 415 days 13 hours ago

Oh I'm not crying, I realize there are plenty of opinions out there, both agreeing and disagreeing with my own.

But telling someone not to buy a game, even though they may enjoy it? Journalism is supposed to be unbiased, presenting the facts and letting the reader/consumer decide. Instead, gaming "journalism" is the ultimate expression of fanboy bias and politics. If only people knew how much went on behind the scenes, and how utterly uselss it is to stand by a review as a fact. Especially one as vindictive and poorly written as this.

Sadly, it seems people would prefer others to think for them.

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Traveler - 415 days 12 hours ago

I agree that the reviewer was overly harsh (from my perspective), but in the end he is entitled to his opinion. I should also point out that he was extremely harsh on the first Gears of War. He just seems like one of those tough-to-please sort of critics.

Oh, and in case you guys aren't aware, reviewers often give recommendations like "buy", "rent", or "don't buy". It's quite common.

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The Lazy One - 415 days 12 hours ago

are you serious?... are you seriously being serious?

You know what... you're right. People shouldn't expect a review they're probably using to choose to buy/rent/pass on a game before spending $60 on it to actually recommend them to buy it or anything.

Go buy barbie horse adventures right now. You might like it...

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OnslaughtX - 415 days 12 hours ago

Reviews are opinions. People have different opinions, that's what makes it AN OPINION. Why should I listen to his opinion on the purchase, if it may differ from my own? I'd rather read a bunch of reviews that present positives and negatives to the game, instead of a poorly written bashfest from someone who clearly doesn't like the title from the outset.

THIS JUST IN! FORD SAYS BUY FORD TRUCKS! DODGE TRUCKS SUCK!

Yes sir Mr Ford, I will!

You must truly be a "Lazy One." There are these things called demos, and rentals, and this little idea of trying things yourself and making up your own mind. If his "review" weighed the pros and cons, maybe I'd take it seriously. But hey, if you want to listen to someone else and let him tell you what to play, well crap, YOU better go play Barbie Horse Adventures because I said so.

Grow up.

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HighDefinition - 415 days 12 hours ago

And I`m SOOOOO glad I did cause this is one of the best lines of the day...........

"But hey, if you want to listen to someone else and let him tell you what to play, well crap, YOU better go play Barbie Horse Adventures because I said so"

LOL, I`m gonna be laughing about that one for a while. Your the man, Onslaught.

Don`t reply Lazy One there`s nothing you can say to that.

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The Lazy One - 415 days 11 hours ago

from the review:
"Recommendation: Don't buy this game. "

definition of recommend:
"to represent or urge as advisable or expedient: to recommend caution."

It's a written review with a video summary. Read the review instead of just watching it next time. FAIL

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Ozzyb - 415 days 6 hours ago

that's kind of what the comment section is for... leaving your opinions on other people's opinions or work. As far as this game is concerned, I think anyone that has played it should make a huge fuss about bad reviews on it. Mainly because, if this crap review might sway someone away from buying this game, maybe the fans of it on here can counteract that garbage. I am generally sick of first-person shooters, but this one I am willing to make an exception for. You should do the same thing for people hating on a game you know to be very well done (ie. Gears). This game is SERIOUSLY fun... This is not Vampire Rain he's telling you not to buy here, this is a really great game.

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GrandTheftStreetcar - 415 days 13 hours ago

Best curse I've seen in a while!

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Irishrocket69 - 415 days 12 hours ago

AAA L4D comes to mind!

Have a nice day!

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xlx-russ_92 - 415 days 12 hours ago

ur mom sux 2

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Narutone66 - 415 days 12 hours ago

retarded brother. PP's already retarded and he's even more retarded. Just ignore him or else your IQ will drop to moronic level.

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Hi-def freak - 415 days 11 hours ago

Look in the mirror dude....thats trash

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Irishrocket69 - 415 days 3 hours ago

Then why, math genius, is it scoring less than a 9 on meta? Oh wait but.... you fail like this game did, not a AAA sorry!

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Amnesiac - 414 days 23 hours ago

LOL.

I stopped breathing after this article. I've done it so many times before. It's just pure mediocrity now.

It's gonna catch up to me sooner or la

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