Resistance: Fall Of Man on PS3

Great start to the next generation of Playstation games

lfcrule1972 from South Coast, England , 26/03/2007

Picked this game up on Saturday with my PS3 and unlike a lot of the first person shooters I have played on the PS2 I was immediately interested and involved in the story.

The plot involves a re-write of world history (set in 1950's Britain) but instantly becomes very believable thanks to the stunning graphics, superb weapons and truly surprising alien chimera that delight in killing humans left right and centre.

The game as you would expect has multiple ways to complete missions, and checkpoints (save points) are located about right to make you sweat when running low on ammo or health.... So far, based on 2 days play I would say that the difficulty level on normal is about right, challenging but workable, there are harder levels but maybe for die hard 1st person shooters only !

Overall, a great launch game for the PS3 with plenty to do and find, you really will be drawn into the enviroment and will be fighting for your 'virtual' life.

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5 Stars all the way!

A Cesar H Monte Pegado from UK , 06/08/2007

There's no words to describe this game...just try it and you'll fell it!

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A good start

Greg from Weymouth, Dorset , 27/04/2007

On starting the game up, you immediately notice things are a little different to before. Provided that you have a high-def TV, the graphics look decidedly next-gen! The worlds most annoying thing is a ported game and I'm glad Sony lined up the reliable Insomniac studios to make sure the launch had at least one stand out shooter.

This ain't the worlds greatest game, but if you like shooters, then it's a pretty damn good effort to start with. The storyline is not absorbing, but does keep you interested. The graphics are good, very good in places without being 'wow!'. The weapons collection (soooo important in FPS) is again good, without having any laugh-out loud genius guns. Are you starting to get the picture??

This is without doubt a step in the right direction and well worth playing, but think of this game as the launch point and not the end point for PS3 games in 2007. Army of Two and MGS4 look to have that sewn up already....

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A good challenge

KatiMark from Warwickshire, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 04/01/2008

I was always interested in this title but it took me a while to get round to buying it. All the hype on the news about it offending the cathedral gave it some negative media attention. I don't see why they had to associate a name to the cathedral, so it's their own fault when they designed the game. However, this in no sense reflects the true quality of the game.

Straight away you are thrown into action, with what genuinely felt like the next generation of Artificial Intelligence. A title certainly not easily attributed. Gone are the days you can hide behind a wall and gradually wear your enemy down with pot shots. Your enemy this time round will act swiftly and with deadly effect. You know your in trouble when you glance round that same wall again and you've lost visual contact with the enemy. Turning around now, will be the last glimpse of life you have before being bludgeoned to death.

Sometimes it's the small things in games that make them exciting, and I believe the sniper rifle just adds that extra special ingredient to make this game exactly what you want it to be. With the ability to add limited slow motion, it allows you to make sure you get those vital shots away to save your life or indeed others. In co-op mode it also allows you to slow the game down for your team mate, if they are in a difficult situation where they need a bit more time than usual to decide the best plan of action.

Unfortunately this game has been around for quite a while now, therefore suffering one of it's only flaws. Other games of the same genre have surpassed it's gameplay and weapon system. You will only need to look as far as Half Life: The Orange Box to see the difference in graphics and playability. This is not to say that Fall of man does not boast superb graphics itself, but it probably feels less so compared to other games due to it's frequently gloomy weather. In the games defence, the lifespan is amazing. Lasting a long time in respect to most games. However, once you have completed it - it's time to sell up and move on. Multiplayer lacks 'bots' offline and you'll find out very quickly that while online, your own lifespan is limited. I only say this because everytime I have been online, which has been numourous, you end up in a situation where on respawn you are sniped off instantaneously.

So whereas the main single player game is pick up and play, you really have to be interested in becoming a technical mastermind of the game and the maps to withstand human on human conflict. I have never experienced a multiplayer so difficult to enjoy.

Rent it. Enjoy it. Move on.

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Very good but...

A customer from England , 31/05/2007

Very hard to play.....

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Shockingly bad!

A customer from Bushey, England , 27/10/2008

The title says it all. This was supposed to be the PS3's answer to Halo and Gears of War, the PS3's flagship killer app. It could have gotten close, really it could. But it didn't. This is gonna be long, I'm afraid, I need to rant.

Recipe for Resistance

Take Half Life 1. Add Call of Duty 3. Mix in some PS2 standard graphics. Pour in some utterly moronic AI that (for your allies) fail to give any impression of being anything other than animated polygons and (for your enemies)...well yeah, the former too. Then take down from the shelf the box that says 'Incredible Story' and burn it. For good measure, incinerate 'Plausibility' and then remove 'Emotionally Impressive Characters'. Then hype it all up, and charge forty quid for it.

I'll start with storyline and plausibility, because they've always been important to me. The storyline is appallingly bad. It lacks any [shiver down your spine], never fails to be bland and boring, and contains no sort of engagement with any character. The characters are either marines that run at the Chimera and die, all while shouting 'Fall back!' or 'Take cover!', some random British woman who also makes no impression upon the player or Sgt. Hale, who has not a single line of dialogue, no backstory, apparently no emotions, and for some inexplicable reason is able to do what hundreds of marines cannot. Gone are the engaging characters of Halo and Call of Duty, where people have rich emotions tht actually make you want to help them rather than abandon them to the Flood...oh sorry, they've renamed it the Chimera.

Plausibility. As I was saying, Hale has some sort of special ability that means that he can survive dozens of shots that would kill any ally of his, can take on countless Chimera, apparently has the super strength required to carry a dozen HEAVY weapons at once, and forces him not to say a single word throughout the whole thing. Now, the Chimera. It occurs to me that they need all those tubes and power cores to survive. Two questions, because the backstory of the Chimera is never explored. If they are from our planet, then how did they evolve if they require technological life support? If they are extraterrestrial, how did they evolve on their planet? If you are a Sony fanboy and know the answer to one of those, please tell me. There are more stupid improbabilities, but I don't have all the time in the world.

Graphics now. Is the PS3 not supposed to be...you know...good at that? I've seen better graphics on a PS2, and definitely on an Xbox 360. They fail to impress in my opinion. Damned terrible.

I won't even go into multiplayer/online. THEY SUCK. End of.

When you consider that this slightly better than a game two years previous to it's release (Halo 2) and infinitely inferior to the mother of all games - Halo 3 - released a year later, you can realise that this is a rent only. Seriously, if you bought the PS3 for this, sell up now. Buy a 360. Play Halo 3/Gears/Bioshock/Call of Duty 4/Fable. If this is Sony's response to Halo, they are screwed. PS3 owners, we (360 owners) are the ones who are laughing :) Two hundred pounds down, for this. Have fun.

And I'm a kind person. For your sake, I hope that Resistance 2 comes anywhere close to Halo 3 / Gears 2, but I simply don't think it will.

Rent this, OK, but stay away from it in shops. Only a killer app in that it kills your expectations.

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