Resistance is a great first-person shooter that follows the checklist of most shooters correctly and then adds some.
From the creators of Disruptor, Spyro the Dragon and the highly crowned Ratchet and Clank series comes Resistance: Fall of Man (RFOM). It is a first-person shooter that gets better by the hour, lets the player dive in the universe and thereby leaves him loving the game.
The story in RFOM, well ... throw in a next-gen game on an next-gen console russians, mutations and a small dose of horror and you have a very classic yet bold action-packed story. To give it specific: A few months before the second World War the Russian biologists are trying to create the ultimate super soldier, capable of listening to its masters and not a mindless zombie eating everyone's brains. The first experiments fail and turns the human subjects in -indeed- mindless horrific creatures who surprisingly know very well how to handle a weapon and duck behind a wall (but those are minor problems). Anyway, those subjects break out of Russia and thereby turning the afflicted victims into one of them: The Chimera. Before we know it Europe is overrun and the second World War begins. When the Chimera get to the U.K. there are American reinforcements coming their way. One of them is Nathan Hale...
Graphics are solid in this game and literally blows you away if this is your first PS3 game. Facial expressions are masterful executed certainly when the enemy gets angry. Cities look abandoned, Buildings from the inside look ravaged and sci-fiction looks are fantastic. Uniforms look real, blood is fascinating and the long and razor-sharp teeth from the enemies look gorgeous. To all the good things there has to be one thing but it is so small it almost isn't an issue: the colors. When you look sharp at the game. It almost has a gray layer over it, and all the colors in the game have a bit of a grim color on them.
Sound in RFOM is well done, environment sounds are good but just listen to the gun shots and action-packed sounds. Just revolutionary. The Chimera sound really scary and yet very berserk-like aggressive. Voice acting is not bad although it could have been more. When you are wandering around the classics "door-crack" sounds are back. Also, explosion impact sounds are terrific if not satisfying.
The gameplay in RFOM isn't very hard, but is certainly not very easy either! Melee attacks work extremely well in this game and the many weapons in the game and their functions make the game still interesting even after the 3rd time you complete the campaign. Nathan Hale (the protagonist you are playing) also has a gains his full health after a certain amount of time he is out of combat, again, this adds a very fair aspect in the gameplay, which is good, because i hate unfair games.
Like i said, the Chimera are smart and will seek cover when they can or send some others to take you down. They will also run for grenades (apparently they know what that is). As i also said, there are so many weapons in RFOM and each have their useful and special ability. The sci-fi Bullseye for example can shoot fast bullets and tracking bullets. With this weapon you don't need a good aim! With the Augur you can shoot through the walls and so there are a dozen of these weapons.
Resistance: Fall of Man is a near-perfect shooter that provides a satisfying Campaign and unlockables, but also a very terrific multiplayer mode. The main "problem" is that Resistance is sometimes predictable, which is sometimes too bad. Like rooms full of enemies over and over again, for example.
TOTAL SCORE: 75%