Resistance 2 vs. Gears of War 2

VideoGamer.com writes: "Before we say anything else, let us say this: we expect both Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2 to be superb games - graphical showcases that will push the Xbox 360 and PS3 respectively to their limits. We will, fingers crossed, love them both to bits. With that out of the way, let us say this: both games are going head to head this November as the next-gen consoles' exclusive flagship titles for the Christmas period. This fact is indisputable. While one is a third-person shooter and the other is a first-person shooter, comparisons are inevitable. And thus, this special edition of VideoGamer.com's Versus series is inevitable. Read on for our head to head comparison of the console war's two biggest weapons in 2008."

[Fishy Fingers]

Comparing games still in development and different genres now huh.

Next week, DM: Forever Vs Alan Wake.

Either way, both will be great, if you have both systems, get both. If you don't, get the one thats on that platform and dont concern yourself with a game you cant even play.

Games strive to be fun, how do you quantify fun? It's all opinion, there is NO right or wrong.

[jtucker78]

Both games look excellent.
I'll be getting R2, but that's only because I only own a PS3.
60 player multiplayer looks great, but I want to see some single player footage. I want to see if it can live up to the high quality screenshots released.

BUT if I had a 360 I'd definitely buy GoW2.
The gameplay footage looks amazing. That will be a great game.

Great times ahead for both consoles. Yeehaaaa!

[pharmd]

yeah man i agree.... its pretty ridiculous... i know im gonna play what i want to play, actually BOTH but who cares what someone else thought about them.....

this is gonna heat up fast!

[Hellsvacancy]

u mean push the 360 to its limits res2 will only scratch the surface of wot the ps3 will/can do!!! PS3FTW WOOT WOOT WOOT

[Sir Ken Kutaragi]

Is 'Gears of War 2' coming out on the xBox 360 then???
Why did they show it running on the 'N64' then!!! ;-D

@Hellsvacancy Your right;) - 'res2 will only scratch the surface of wot the ps3 will/can do!!!' ;)

[christina aguilera]

why are things always compared like rihanna beyonce burger king mc.

me and britney..

this makes me sad and i will write a hit single about it .

[cmrbe]

Christina and yes you are beautiful.

[PS3ROCKS]

day one if it is good

[meepmoopmeep]

With the evidence of the released Gears of War 2 trailer and screenshots it is proven that after 2 years from a company that created the Unreal Engine and upgraded it, that the Xbox 360 has hit its graphical limit. all because of the lack of a standard HDD, poor hardware architecture and a last-generation optical disc found exclusively on the Xbox 360.

Gears of War 2 would have benefited from the power and hardware only found on the PLAYSTATION© 3. A standard HDD, The Cell processor and the capacity of the Blu-ray disc would have significantly brought the Gears of War franchise to a level higher. The poor hardware limitations of the Xbox 360 has now begun to hinder the great Gears of War franchise and will continue to do so unless Epic Games comes to this realization and in future decides to leave this bottlenecked platform to pursue the power of the PLAYSTATION© 3.

Insomniac Games has only begun to scratch the surface of the sheer power of the PLAYSTATION© 3. It has taken them one year less time to achieve near visuals as Gears of War at the same time producing 2 other current-gen games exclusively for the PLAYSTATION© 3.

In order for the Gears of War franchise to maintain its greatness it will need to utilize the great hardware only found on the PLAYSTATION© 3 or be exclusive to the PC because the Xbox 360 is not capable of producing anything above the bar that the original Gears of War has done.

;D

[Varsarus]

hahaha

[juuken]

Good point.

[pharmd]

thats some funnyass shat meep.... im still laughing

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

[tehReaper]

Jealousy is such a virtue.

Why would you want it on PS3? It'd just be delayed back a year. You'll have to wait for it to install, not to mention it might freeze. You guys claim you'll have it on PC, so why the complaints now?

I think they'll stick to the console they know best.

[Tmac]

Meep is joking, learn to laugh. I'm finding it hilarious that you didn't find his post similar to many of the extremists, wink wink, nudge nudge.

[AngryTypingGuy]

Haha, you mixed up the © and the ®. It should be PLAYSTATION® 3. It's easy to remember. Just remember that PLAYSTATION = ®etarded.

[meepmoopmeep]

lol,

but... but... © = cool, yeah?

[Condoleezza Rice]

I REALLY hope GeOW2s multiplayer is more than 4Vs4 this time around,6Vs6 would be fine considering the new characters being introduced.

I can't wait to try out R2s multiplayer,a few people who tried it are comparing it to COD4s multiplayer,which was awesome.

[OOG]

And heres another fanboy flamebait article....about 2 games that are totally different in story, artstyle and gameplay.....wait they are totally different games....

Ah well this site is goin to the crapper more and more everyday

[Azures]

C'mon guys lets continue to compare two games with nothing in common.

hehe disagree cowards, come face me and my army of bubbles.

[Premonition]

Heres the problem, they do have something in common, they are both shooters and they are both exclusives, so this is why people will say so and so about this game on his or her system and so and so about this game on his or her system, so regardless if they have different stories or characters, they are still sh ootersat the core and will be compared, now for the people that dont want to compare are the people that dont like when good games or games that sound better than whats on their system compared to their game.

MY POINT: This is why they compare these 2 games, They are both shooters and they are both BIG exclusives, so if you cant see that then I dont know how to get my "point" across.

[Azures]

No I don't see your point, this is simply a flamebait article written to generate hits to a mediocre game website.

Putting commas doesn't mean you can ramble on forever in a sentence btw.

[Mr Marbles]

are they comparing R2 with GOW2, R2 is just another FPS, what did it do that was so different from a dozen other FPS out there? 60 players online? that is lame, just a bunch of chaos, and is there even 60 people on PSN? LOL!

Plus RFOM did not sell even close to as well as GOW did, Resistance is not in the same legue with Gears, they are trying to pretend that the PS3 has an answer to Gears.

[blusoops]

Have you even read what the 60 player mode is?! It's gonna be squad based so there won't be chaos...and i think it was said earlier this month that there is over 4 million users on PSN in North America alone.

RFOM was unique in the gameplay and weapons that were available....not "just another FPS".

Edit: Gears sold approximately 5mln w/a huge install base
RFOM has sold close to 3mln w/no install base cause it was a launch title.

[castags]

I take it you thought Battlefield 2 sucked also. That was 60 players online. Farkin tard.

[n00bPwner]

lmao. it's true. they can pretend all they want. Constipation isn't even in the same GALAXY as Gears.

[Tmac]

Battlefield 2 had up to 24 players on Xbox Live....

Resistance will be the first to have squad based action with up to 60 players, done on a console.

There are over 8 million people on PSN world wide.

[n00bPwner]

PDZ, a 360 LAUNCH title had 32 players on Live. Player amount has nothing to do with the console itself. It has to do with the internet. Duh. 60 man gaming is nothing. PC games have been doing more than that for years. PS3 will always suck. Gears has smaller teams because it's better. It's about squad-based strategic movement. not chatroom orgies. Constipation sucks.

[Swiftfox]

Compair? VS? I hate when people try to instigate the inevitable conflict of "Ps3 vs Xbox 360"

Why not do a constructive artical on Gears compaired to Gears 2 or Resistance to Resistance 2?

At least that would be insiteful, and not another "My console has a bigger d*ck than your console" argument.

[BigKev45]

No doubt. Gears 2 for the win. I'm convinced that this is a Sony fan boy
website now. I enjoy gaming itself. If you can afford it buy both a X360 & PS3. Shoot, I did.

[Daz]

Resistance 2 vs. Gears of War 2

Winner = ME because im a gamer not a low life hater :P

Cant wait for these.
Happy gaming :)

[Spinitus]

amen. im getting both 1st day.

[darkequitus]

and a bubble for you

PS360

PSN/Steam/Xfire/XBL: darkequitus

[WIIIS1]

All I can say as someone who has played both predecessors of these 2 games is that Gears has already proven itself.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

Definitly proved it`s self being a launch title and selling lots for how many systems were out at the time.

R2 stepped it up more than GeoW2 did (so far from what we know about them), and regardless of what anyone says, that`s the truth.

[fredy]

xbox 360 had way more games in it's arsenal then when resistance came out and the ps3, we all know why that game sold.

It's mediocre, no matter how many players can play at once, which is nothing new looking at pc gaming.

and really didn't do that much on the scale of what gears did for its console.

well see come november

[anh_duong]

journalists who write these articles should be sacked.. how can you compare two games that no one really knows a great deal about.. furthermore, because the games are exclusives, it will make no difference to the majority of gamers who only have one console.

so tedious

[xtreampro]

xbutt can't handle 60player online!!! its all over for the RROD-REJECT-ME-DIAPER-BULL-SH1 T-BOX-PLEASE-SH1T-ON-ME-GARBAG E -FLOP-BOX-PLEASE-BIN-ME-OLD-SH O E-BOX-1950-GOOO-STUCK-ON-MY-AS S -PLEASE-WIPE-ME-FLUSH-ME-GET-R I D-OF-ME-REJEC-ME-180-FU$$-NO-O N E-WANTS-ME-RUNNING-AT-A-LOUSY- 4 80p-FU$$ING-UP-ON-A-SD-TV-BURN N ING-DOWN-A-WHOLE-CITY-OVER-HEA T ING-PLEASE-BURN-ME-CAUSING-INJ U RY-HARMING-THE-ENTIRE-COUNTRY- D ESTROYING-BILL-GATES-COMPANY-S T EALS-YOUR-MONEY-MAKES-YOU-PAY- F OR-A-SERVICE-THATS-MENT-TO-BE- F REE-360!!!! ...WOOOH!!...YEAH..thats pretty much every thing you get with the BLOW-UP-BOX-THATS-MY-CAPABILIT Y

[Nadine Coyle]

wow.......bubble down
& u http://fail-o-meter.com/yrt...

[Rayko]

compare Gears of war 2 with Resistance 2 is just plain silly!! Ofcourse Gears of war 2 will be the "much" better game. Just compare Gears of war with Resistance, its like comparing Super mario against Barbie adventure.

[Azures]

I wonder what most of the people on this site would do without these flamebait articles. Whither and die I imagine.

[Boink]

how can they make a decent comparison of 2 games still in development that are completely different games??

I mean on is a first person, one is 3rd person??

this article was written solely to anger fanboys.

waste of space...

[00]

can you compare games that are not even out.?

EDIT: the more important question is how can you disagree with a question.

[damnwrx]

Buy what you want or both, if you must! As for me, for me to know for you to find out! Coz I certainly agree with the Daz-man

[aliveinboston]

The so called "hardcore" gamer tends to prefer gore and shinyness. I'd expect them to prefer Gears of War 2.

If Resistance is going after the same market segment as Gears of War then it has a serious identity problem. What Resistance offers is not what "hardcore" gamers want. Not enough blood. Not enough over-contrasted shinola. The kind of people GeOW caters to want blood and guts, chainsaws, mutilation. They want maximum sensory overload. They want to feel, not think. They want a heavy metal video game.

Then again, Resistance may be targetting a different audience all together. If that's a case, that article was a waste of space for the same reason that car magazines dont do head-to-heads between luxury cars and sports cars ... they target a different audience and therefore cannot be judged on the same criteria.

[Zancruz]

Resistance 2 has more, I truly believe it's going to be the game of the year....

[juuken]

Um...the games aren't even finished and they're doing this already? o.o
But personally, I think Resistance 2 is gonna rock more.

[Premonition]

Its only going to get worse come June 13th when the world gets to see first footage of Resistance 2 single player mode, and I bet all the money in the world this site will have vs videos posted within hours.

[Truplaya]

im not sure how 60 players in R2 makes it a good game, i think COD4 with 18 players in GroudWar is too many.

Both will be good games and im not sure why someone like MediaStream above feels the need to list god points for one game against another.

MediaStream has obviously never played Gears, nor has he even watched the footage of the new one so im not taking his opinion to heart.

take the blinkers off fanboy and go and play some games. To say Gears of War 2 looks like 4.5/10 game reeks of fanboyism

[WIIIS1]

I noticed how the degree of rabid lunacy of Sony fans always goes off the charts whenever they respond to an article that touches on a subject that clearly and indisputably favors the 360. Take this article for example, Gears is clearly and indisputably head and shoulders above Resistance, and just look at the irrational response it has engendered.

[Mr Marbles]

I have noticed that as well, they go nuts when someone points out where PS3 is deficient. Like kids do when they are told something they dont want to hear, they stick their fingers in their ears and yell LOL!!!

[JoelR]

POT KETTLE BLACK

[jinn]

Gears 2 kills all PS3 games

[wass007]

After seeing Killzone 2 a believe Gears 1.5 comitted suicide lol!!!

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

So 3 Robert Deniro avatars would be next to each other. NG4 today, the world tommorrow!

[jdoggystyyle]

i own all systems ... a 360.. a ps3...a wii....i play my 360 about 30 hours a week..play my ps3 about 2 hours a month ..and havent touched my wii in months.. (that sounded odd)

http://i161.photobucket.com...

i have both resistance 1..and gears 1...
and i played resistance a total of maybe 10 hours...and have played gears since launch day...and still play it to this day...about 20 hours a week...one of my fav games of all time

when i come to this site it doesnt seem so much the xbox people actin like fools....it the idiots who shelled out 600 dollars on launch day and waited in line for days at a time to pick up a ps3....so have to wait 2 years to get a good game....

i have 38 xbox 360 games... and 3 ps3 games...had 4 but sold my unreal tourny on ebay..so i can get it on xbox here end of june cuz xbox live is 24353453445234543524 times better then psn

and 60 player online battle? am i the only one who finds that to be wayyy to much.. i mean even in team fortress 2 on pc when its 16 on 16..its a madhouse and just wayyyy to much..die spawn die spawn...cliffy b already said gears 2 is 5 on 5
and that is a perfect number...then in gears 3 they can ramp it up to 6 on 6

ill pick up both games..cuz ya...i did pay 600 bux for a ps3...and hopin here at some point...ill finally have a reason to sit and play a game more then 5 hours (heavenly sword)

60 player online fight does nothing to get me excited..nor does resistance....but as i said ill get it anyway hoping that its something to turn my ps3 on for...and gears 2..well.... has game of the year written all over it or a top 3 mention

gears
mgs4
gta 4

all could win it

but you lame fan boys wh own one system cuz thats all your mommy and daddy can afford or will buy you need to shhh..your points are so invalid and ludacris ...gears 2 ftw

[firelogic]

What does the Cell processor have to do with lazy developers requiring a HDD install? That's right, absolutely nothing. There are plenty of visually impressive games that don't require an install with zero loading in-game. In order to prove your hypothesis is wrong, all I need to do is provide you with 1 example that goes against your theory. That title my friends is Uncharted. My point is that the Anti-Sony masses always bring up the HDD installs and the Cell processor in their arguments against Sony and it's outright ridiculous.

Any time a developer actually makes use of the hardware, i.e. MGS4, Killzone 2, they produce outstanding visuals that you won't see on the 360 so the Cell is a more powerful architecture in the right hands. Second point, if the 360 had a built-in HDD in every SKU, you'd be foolish to think that developers wouldn't make use of it to cache more data and decrease load times. The fact is, it doesn't have one. Rockstar's head honcho said the 360 is limiting due to the lack of HDD and DVD storage and they'll have to do some thinking with regards to GTAV in the future.

GoW = God of War, not Gears of War.

[criticalzero]

You cannot compare these two....

Even if you do now...........GeoW2 will kick R2's ass in sales and graphics...HOwever, R2 I think, will get a higher metacritic score

[RAM MAGNUMS]

gears will probly have a great multiplayer too but resistance 2 will be a much larger game & its multiplayer wont be for children. Its for the hardcore FPSHooter!

Thats the major difference. While gears was xbox 360's only great Game & multiplayer. It was simplistic & fun!
Resistance 2 will be for a much older audience who must think before shooting & following orders. Not voting to see who gets the sniper rifle.

In the end after gears of war 2 dies down after 2 months resistance 2 will have the long lasting appeal.
Listen to Me Now - Believe me Later on!

[Mr Marbles]

Gears is for the older crowd, kids go for the hectic people everywhere running and gunning of 60 players.

GOW is far more tactical, and many kids I know don't like Gears cuz they think it is too hard to control the characters, its not straight forward like Resistance or Halo.

[digger18]

@ Mr Marbles

GOW is far more tactical? What like run a bit, hide behind something and shoot...Then repeat.

Gow is one of the most linear games I've ever played and the AI was totally scripted.

[JoelR]

@lostyourMARBLES

you do realize that the 60v60 is not a run and gun thing but a orchestrated coordinated assault system with the computer directing squad targets and reinforcements etc?
Think of it as 10-15 smaller battles over objectives with an overarching theme .

if 60v60 is purely chaos with no strategy I guess modern warfare is pointless as it almost takes 10 people to get 1 person to the battlefield and in battles combatants usually number in the hundreds if not the thousands.

[Meresin]

"Right now, if we exclude screenshots and teaser trailers, all we have to go on in the R2 graphics front is a multiplayer battle set in Californian forest. While the graphics looked impressive, we weren't blown away."

Gee, I wonder if that's because Insomniac didn't put in any of the new models before they showed that demo. :P They said as much in several interviews.

[themyk]

i hope and know that both games are going to be awesome. people here forget that these are GAMES. and that we're all GAMERS. we're not at WAR with eachother. it's insane that one camp hopes the other camp's games suck. are you guys serious. both consoles are bound to have there fair share of hazes and two worlds. but for one side to hope the other side only gets those kind of games is pretty sad. i love next gen games, and i love my ps3. but i miss the early days of gaming when you could just talk to your friends about how awesome the games were. and didn't have to talk about what system they are on. it's ok to be a fan of your system of choice. but lets not forget that at the end of the day we're all gamers. for god sakes. that being said i can't wait to play resistance 2. and to all the bots i hope gears kicks major ass. like i'm sure it's going to.

psn id. themyk.
hit me up. peace.

[fredy]

gears to is gonna crush resistance in sales, anyone wanna bet, then put your money where your mouth is PM me.

and last time i heard, 60 on 60 does not win u goty, and is nothing new when u look at pc shooters. oh that mush be new technology or something.

if you own both consoles then u get both.

[heyheyhey]

Gears 2> Resistance 2

but MGS4 >>>>> Gears 2

also, Resistance 2+ Killzone 2> Gears 2

[pow3r of t3h c3ll]

your absolutely pathetic. I think its obvious that resistance 2 is going to be the better game, GOW is a boring piece of crap and you know it. GOW2 is looking like its just going to be the same old thing but with a false sense of "greater distance". I say false because as we all know those "hundreds of enemies" in that video aren't fully detailed enemies with full AI that you can fight. Its a crappy cheap trick!!!

But never mind reality of course, all the reviewers are going to get a huge sack of money just like that run-of-the-mill borefest halo.

never mind my name, im not being a fanboy here, im being 100% honest and serious.

so ADMIT YOUR FULL OF SH*T!!!

[InMyOpinion]

This is f'n retarded...Some sites do anything just to get attention.

Why not compare the Xbox 720 and the PS4?

[cam2030]

compete with Resistance 2 instead of Killzone 2. Killzone 2 owns Gears Of War 2. LOL microsuckers!

[Avto]

You just can't pit this to up against each other. One is a FPS and the other 3D person so no and anyhow you have to get both, both are fun in there own way I guess GOW sales are gonna be better, but this is not a big deal for us.

[andron]

I have to say that GoW2 and Ninja Gaiden 2 are two 360 games I would really like to play.

Hope they port NG2 to PS3 like the first one. I will have to play GoW2 at my brothers...

[xxspaceMonkeyxx]

Gears was the firs game I've played in years that made me go "WOW!!"

it felt like the first time I saw sonic the hedgehog running at what seemed like light speed. Or when turned on my Sega Saturn for the first time.

For that, I will always remember it as something that left me in awe. R2 was more like; "it's not bad". That's just how I felt. I understand different people have different tastes, and some fanboys will just say anything to dis the other system. (watch those disagrees pile up)

[ukilnme]

I'll be playing both if they are both good.

PSWii60 FTW!!!

NG2 Day One Purchase FTW!!!

[tk]

Looks like two good games. Good news.

[himdeel]

...I'd roll up my Wall Street Journal firmly hit it on the nose and say, "NO!" You don't compare two different games like this. Maybe if both games were on both systems you could make some reasonable arguments but this is ridiculous.

The only times the phrase resistance 2 vs gears of war 2 makes sense is when describing the engine trouble I've had my 93 Dodge Shadow before had it towed to the junk yard.

[Dmack79]

we all just admit that Resistance 2 will be better? It has a lot more features and the Story will be unresistable!

Seriously whoever is reading this and if u are an xbot then plaese list all of the features that geow2 has. And I will list all of the features that Resistance 2 has. I garauntee you that Resistance has much more and much better features than geow2 has. But hurry cuz I got to go soon. I guess you could PM me though. I just down for and intelligent conversation. :)

[Kain81]

than you can Judge about Resistance2.
Look at this:

http://www.jeuxvideopc.com/...

[Kain81]

Wait for 13.june
than you can Judge about Resistance2.
Look at this:

http://www.jeuxvideopc.com/...

[xg-ei8ht]

Firstly:

Prove to me usa went to the moon- I tell u why they did not. Radiation,thats why no other country has been there. Fake bullshot pictures, completely wrong shadows. They did orbit around the earth for 3days though:)

I'm gonna bet that gears of war 2 will look like the first game with alittle tweak here and there,there will be depth of field for far away objects. It will sell as many bought the first one, and yes i do like the graphics of it. I love texture:)

RFOM2 - It's a different game, but anyway. It will have alot of improved visuals over the first game, mutilplayer will be sweet. will consume cod4 pretty quickly, thats why cod5 is on the way. They are worried.:)

Conclusion -

RFOM2 - multiplayer.Improved graphics.Improved story telling.

Gears of war 2 - Better story telling? - slightly enhanced graphics.

Now think about this.

GOW would not be able to run on a 360 with those textures with 16-20players and with bigger players would mean bigger maps.Meaning even more texture. it would crawl to 5-10fps. Trust me i know.

RFOM2 will look better then original, Most improvement will be the lighting, and some better looking textures.

Both i'm sure will sell well.

[steck67]

Like I said, why even compare a third person and a first person? it all doesnt add up.

[PSWarlord]

Who cares how they compare to eachother as long as you enjoy it, then the developers have done a good job!!Im own a PS3 and i will be buying it and hopefully enjoy it (loved the first), and my bro has a 360 and no doubt he is gonna get GeOW2!!

Also i read so many comments about how N4G has so many crap blogs and articals. Plain an simple dont bother reading em or stop b1tchin!!!U aint gonna change jack. Plus look how much attention you give them thats properly why they do it

[level 360]

Got both XBox360 and PS3... but will definitely go with Gears of War2 on this one.

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

Resistance2

Resistance2 is doing a lot more to improve on the sequel. Improved graphics, more weapons, 8 player co-op, 2 story modes, innovative online squad play w/ 60 players, a brand new XP system.

Gears 2 is innovating but not as much. Upgraded Unreal engine w/ better effects, more detailed backgrounds, more enemies on screen, 5 on 5 online play, a few new weapons and moves, possibly 4 player co-op.

Resistance is pretty much going to fill the 50gb blu ray. Gears2 has 7.5gb of DVD to work with, if anything they're a little limited on space. W/ the upgraded unreal engine its probably going to leave less space for content, so Im sure they're going to use every last bit of space they have.

[DFresh]

Resistance 2 and Gears of War 2 are in their own categories and can't really be compared.
As for being the better game Resistance 2 PWNS Gears but in a way Gears is something new to the table and looks pretty addicting.
I'll wait to purchase Gears of War 2 on my PC and game out with Resistance 2 on my PS3.

[xboxftw]

LOL @ 60 players online. They can't even have lag free GTAIV and COD4 with 18 players let alone 60.

[xtreampro]

UMMMMMMM.....WHAT.. they've been testing it all this time and its been working very very well as they said it is. people even played it at sonys day and they gave possitive comments to how LAG FREE the online is. and i'll say this agian Rockstar messed up on GTA4 for the PS3, they're soo crap at using PS3

[peacock1]

Would be a valid argument if it was true but unfortunatly its not :). Resistance 1 has 40 players online and is 99% lag free, and warhawk has 32 players and is the same :). Yey for dedicated servers instead of that Peer to peer rubbish xbox uses :)

[Univa]

As the Playstation 3 reaches its 2nd year, I don't think the Xbobx 360 can deliver games, in the future, that could compete with the Playstation 3, be it Graphics or Gameplay.

[Rocky87]

We have to wait for a HD-Ingame-Video of Resistance 2.
On 13. June. Maybe it will rock and fu*k Gears 2 nice and slow.