Human weapons are often a bit basic but good for their tasks, but Resistance gets fairly creative with its original designs. Fore example, the Bullseye is an automatic weapon where you can tag an enemy to make your shots home in on them, and the Auger can fire through walls or create a shield for you to blast through.
The game even has some decent grenade variety! The Air Fuel Grenade is more powerful, but it takes a bit to release gas before it scorches anything standing in the cloud. Most weapons have some sort of alternate fire or nifty trick to make them more interesting than your typical fare in a gunfight, but there are a few duds. There are a few vehicle sections, some where you pilot heavy armor and get to use the cannons, but a few just involve you toting around a turret gunner as the driver, although in co-op it can be a bit more interesting as an actual human can do the firing instead of your slow and inconsistent AI ally.
Your Chimeran enemies are fairly good opponents in the single player. They mostly come in three broad types: tiny crawlers who move fast and aim to swarm you, the Hybrids which use the same weaponry as you and are on pretty equal footing with you, and larger boss types with devastating attacks and huge health reserves. The AI is okay at controlling them, but sometimes you will encounter them all staring into the distance and waiting for you to trigger them, although the damage they can dish out usually makes up for their inconsistent intelligence.
You gradually learn a bit about this unusual species, from story cutscenes, intel you find in the level, and the art galleries you get for fulfilling certain achievement-like objectives, but there are still a lot of mysteries when the game ends and some things never even addressed. Many pieces of intel mention the terrifying Cloven but they never pop up once in the story. Thanks to his Chimeran infection, Nathan has slight regenerative capabilities.
To fill a depleted one he needs to find health pickups, and this marriage of regenerating health and pickups makes for some fairly tense moments. It discourages sloppiness and makes you consider alternate tactics to better preserve your health without being too punishing, a fine difficulty compromise for a first-person shooter.
Although the multiplayer servers are offline, local play still has some legs. Every weapon can be turned on or off, some levels come in different sizes, and perhaps the option with the biggest impact is being able to play as a human or Chimera.
Both nominally have certain advantages, Humans can sprint better, are smaller, and have a radar… but the Chimeran Rage Mode is incredibly useful. You can choose whether or not to allow Chimerans though or even cleverly work them in as a comeback mechanic for the Conversion mode, so you can at least determine how the Chimeras will affect the game to ensure a more enjoyable bit of shooting with your friends.
The weapon types make it more than just pointing and shooting at your enemies, with some fun and effective designs, a balanced health system, and some strong level designs that ensure that there are actual firefights rather than abrupt kills.
Multiplayer does fare a bit better though thanks to its wealth of options, but it does still feel like a gussied up war shooter for the most part. A GOOD rating. Resistance has a lot going for it, but the reason it likely faded from the public memory is the missing spark to start a bigger fire. Don't have an account?
Sign up for free! Ask A Question. What do you need help on? Cancel X. In Resistance: Fall of Man, the U. In mere decades, the Chimera a species of unknown origin propagating a virus that converts other life forms into more Chimera has overrun Russia and all of Europe. Humanitys hope for survival is slim, and the tide of the battle rests on the shoulders of U. Army Ranger, Sgt. Nathan Hale. Resistance: Fall of Man draws players into a deep, frightening story that rewrites the 20th century and pits the United States and Britain against a horrific species of unknown origin.
In addition to an epic single player campaign, the game features co-op, split screen multiplayer and highly customizable online gameplay.
Greater processing power on PlayStation 3 and Blu-ray technology enables more immersive visual and sound effects in Resistance: Fall of Man, heightening the chaos of large-scale warfare. Insomniac Games has combined its passion for creating exotic weapons and vehicles with a proprietary physics system to create a unique human and alien arsenal.
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