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TGS 06: Resistance: Fall of Man Multiplayer Hands-On

By Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpotPosted Sep 23, 2006 12:41 am PT

We team up with the Japanese in an online battle from the floor of the Tokyo Game Show.

TOKYO--You have to look around a bit or you just might miss Resistance: Fall of Man at Tokyo Game Show 2006. The game is hiding on the back side of Sony's booth, and it's broken up into a single-player section and a multiplayer section. We hopped in line and waited our turn to get into an online battle, and so far, it looks like the game's multiplayer mode could be pretty exciting.

Much like the single-player mode, the mode we played pit the insidious alien creatures against human soldiers. Our kiosk dropped us in with the alien team. The alien soldiers have a time-limited ability that lets you move more quickly and see opponents through walls. Other than that, you can jump, execute a melee attack, fire, toss grenades--all of the stuff you'd expect to see in a first-person shooter.

The multiplayer match supports up to 40 players, and the mode we played was a 10-minute team mode that uses Battlefield-like control points to manage spawning. The control points are large columns with smaller colored cylinders inside that correspond to the color of your team. If you control the point, you can spawn there when you die. If you roll up on an enemy point, you can shoot out all of the colored cylinders to take control.

The multiplayer game moves pretty quickly, and things speed up even more when you're using the alien's fast-moving ability, which can be handy if you want to sneak up and bash a human in the skull with the back end of your shotgun. Despite having a large 40-player limit, the size of the map we played in wasn't huge. This kept things moving and kept the level of action pretty high.

Overall, the multiplayer component of Resistance seems cool--even though our alien team lost the battle to those pesky humans. Resistance: Fall of Man is scheduled to be released alongside the PS3 in both Japan and the US.

115 Comments

  • AFWorm

    Posted Jan 14, 2007 9:42 pm PT

    I wonder it it will be better than UT 2007. They won't be better than a PC version, though!

  • totoelmaestro

    Posted Nov 3, 2006 2:37 am PT

    its gonna be a killer game, just waiting for launch so i could blast so heads off.

  • Frags-o-Plenty

    Posted Oct 22, 2006 7:17 pm PT

    Don't jinx it.

  • KillerKevin2006

    Posted Oct 22, 2006 12:38 pm PT

    This is the Playstation 3 killer app and a Halo KILLER.

  • thefjk

    Posted Oct 21, 2006 10:38 am PT

    Interesting!

  • Bathyj

    Posted Oct 15, 2006 4:09 am PT

    This game could do for PS3 what Halo did for Xbox. Thats sell them. A Triple A title at launch can only be good for a console. Insomniac have gone all out on this one and you can see it. I cant believe people who like the knock the PS3 still use the old "Theres no games on it". This game is nothing but quality.

    And everyone stop comparing it to gears of war. They are two different games and both will be great. And I'll have them both.

  • aashkii

    Posted Oct 12, 2006 1:02 pm PT

    If I could afford a PS3, Resistance would be the first game I'd buy.

  • SimmySamSam

    Posted Oct 11, 2006 8:41 am PT

    x1w2c3e4fyzx....... ur a f***ing idiot...... dont spew ur incoherent babble all over a good site like gamespot....

  • x1w2c3e4fyzx

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 3:19 pm PT

    This game doesn't have great next generation graphics.

  • SimmySamSam

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 9:38 am PT

    This game looks to be the best launch game for the PS3. That online looks freakin sweet! This is definetly the game i get with my PS3 at launch. *cough looks way better than gears of war cough*

  • Some_One_Plays

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 12:57 pm PT

    Sounds good this will definitely be one of the games I grab first once I have a console

  • masterivan7

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 10:53 am PT

    DAMN THE MULTIPLAYER SOUNDS AWSOME!!
    THIS GAME IS GANNA KILL!!

  • linkme

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 8:59 pm PT

    the multiplayer sounds fun as hell (even though hell isnt fun, i just say it is fun even though i havn't played it, it still loks fun) 40 people in a multiplayer full out battle will be really intense, i can't wait.

  • chirulonx

    Posted Oct 3, 2006 7:56 pm PT

    what can i say this game speak for itself

  • slim_jim7007

    Posted Oct 2, 2006 1:44 pm PT

    All i can say is that the only thing goin for this title is the 20v20 multiplayer....bsides that i dont see a difference from GOW....jus another reason that i wont get the ps3....not to sound like a fanboy bcuz when the xbox came out i dint have nething to do w/ it........until i played halo ^.^.

  • tomguliven

    Posted Oct 2, 2006 2:22 am PT

    This game looks awesome!

  • SIG45

    Posted Oct 1, 2006 11:43 am PT

    Resistance: Fall of Man runs at 30fps, not 60fps. It's in an article in a magazine I read. The reason for this is that, to fit 40 instead of 32 players and to have more particle effects and destructible environments, they needed to scale it down from 60fps to 30fps.

    As for the graphics, they're not going to be as good as the Unreal Engine because the Unreal Engine has been worked on for longer than the one used for Resistance. Of course, the PS3 dev kits come with the Unreal Engine, so Resistance could have used it, but didn't. Money and all that. Anyway, games that are exclusive to the PS3 in later years will look better than anything on 360, not to sound like a fanboy, I want, and will have, both systems.

    Halo is still my favorite FPS next to Unreal. Unreal has better multiplayer but Halo has a great campaign and story, in my opinion. Resistance has a somewhat interesting story, but I'm going to get it for the weapons and gameplay. All in all, it's going to be fun.

  • chiefmegadeth

    Posted Oct 1, 2006 8:01 am PT

    Looks like call of duty 3 graphics nothing like gears of War unreal engine
    Aliens look d i c k y !
    might be good but nothing like GOW
    Gears Of War monsters look sweet this game kind of stupid
    and the movement doesn't look real at all

  • CaribouLou5

    Posted Sep 30, 2006 8:49 pm PT

    60 bucks is still kinda pricey when the console costs 6 bills.

  • yanike18

    Posted Sep 28, 2006 11:24 pm PT

    Games are priced at $59.99 not the $78-$85 japanese conversion figure floating around on the net. If more people would read they would see that those japanese prices are the same as the 360 games in Japan so the reasonable inference would have been that games would cost the same as the 360 in the U.S. but hell "PS3 games to cost $85" makes a better headline.

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