One of the coolest launch games a longtime.
The game tells the story of Nathan hale,it take place in the 1950's and instead of WW2 a race of creatures know as the Chimera have destroyed Russia and pretty much all of europe and its up to Hale and a group of rag tag soldiers to put a end to it.
Gameplay
At first you might think the game is your typical WW2 shooter but after playing the first few stages you'll see it's not.The thing that really puts the game apart from other shooters is tha great selection of crazy weapons you get along the way,You get everything from the normal shotgun and Machinegun and even the rocket launcher but you also get some crazy stuff like the Auger which fires threw walls and can put up a shield that helps you dodge on coming fire and the hailstorm which fires little bolts everywhere and one of my favorites is the hedgehog granade which shoots spikes all over the place.
The A.I in the game for the most part is pretty solid the Chimera and your soldiers do a great job of taking cover and flank each other and they just do a great job of trying not to die.The Chimera also get more advance weapons and gear later in the game and put up a very good challenge.
The game engine can also throws a lot of enemys and objects on the screen all at once, theres times when you are facing all sorts of Chimeras at once plus theres all sorts of crazy stuff going on in the background like tanks drivng by ships flying around.
The game also has a great Multiplayer that you can have matches to up to 40 people and the game plays very smooth and the modes are pretty cool like capture the Flag and Death Match and also Meltdown(its just like nodes from Ratchet and Clank).
Graphics
One thing that a video game company that is making a launch game they want to make sure it looks great and shows you what the console can do.The N64 had Mario64 and Waverace and the Dreamcast had Soul Caliber and the Xbox had Halo and now the PS3 has Resistance and it looks great,like I said earlier the game has a crazy art style if I had to put my finger on it I would say it reminds me of the combine world in Halflife 2 and the For runner tech from the Halo series but thrown into Europe in the 1950's.
The game also has a nice little thing for small detail like little blades of grass moving in the wind,pieces of trash flying around and the lighting in the game looks sick two.But the best thing for me is the game always runs smooth and never drops a beat even when things get crazy and theres all sorts of moments when the game gets crazy.
Sound
The game also has some very nice voice work and the soundtrack is also well done.The Chimera also sound pretty cool.Oh yeah if you have a great set of speakers or a great system you are in for a treat.
Final thought
The game is so much fun the only thing that I would complain about would be the health system and the check points both just felt kind of dated to me,at times theres not enough check points and the health system is based off of health packs and sometimes you just dont get enough of them.But besides those two things the game is a killer app all the way and is by far the best Shooter to come from a Sony studio and to grace a Playstaion platform.
Well go buy the game if you have not now its 29.99 and man I cant wait to see what they will do with Resistance 2 Hugh boss fights 64 players online and 8 player online campaine its going to be epic.