PS3 Fanboy hands-on: Resistance 2

09.23.08

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If you’re a regular reader of this site, then you shouldn’t find yourself estranged upon hearing the name Resistance 2. In fact, it should really get you pumped up as you know as much as we do that it will be one of the biggest titles for the PS3 this holiday season. While many of you may be quietly ripping it up on Girl With A Stick, we haven’t been left in the dark for our share of Chimera blasting. We’ve also got our own taste of the viral-infected shooter having played both the single player campaign and a full 8-player online co-op game.

We first started things off by going through the single player campaign. There were two levels available to us: the tutorial level at the very start which takes place in Iceland, and the second took us to the forests of Orick, California — to which you’ve already witnessed the opening cinema. The Iceland level looked incredibly familiar; in fact, the very first screenshots ever revealed on this game came from the Iceland level. Think back … that had a Goliath in it. A Goliath in the opening mission? That’s pretty intense considering how these babies didn’t appear until much later in the original title. From the very beginning of the game, we could already feel the pace and tone, and it was definitely set to awesome.

Gallery: Resistance 2