Resistance: Fall of Man

Whether you've got your US$600 ready and have ants in your pants waiting for the launch of the PS3, or you don't know if it's worth blowing money on Sony's latest scam, you've got to look at this game. This may just be the game to make you buy a PS3. MAY be. It's touted as the potential Half-Life 2 of console gaming, it has incredible graphics (probably as good as, if not better than HL 2), it's got a massive 40-player multiplayer mode, and it seems to have a great story. The catch? It's a first-person shooter...on a console. You'd almost think John Carmack (of id) was behind this game. Hey, I probably support console gaming slightly more than PCs, due to my frenzied addiction to Final Fantasy games, but I admit there is NO WAY FPS games can make it on consoles. Just like fighting and action games need a gamepad on PCs, you need a mouse and keyboard attached to your PS3 to pull this off. The difference is, the PC has gamepads, the PS3 doesn't have a mouse. Games like Killzone (PS2) have gotten great scores from various gaming mags, but they're just kidding themselves, I say. No matter how polished a console FPS is, having to rely on auto-aim and feeling like you're dragging the crosshair through slime puts the game straight into the 'average' category. No questions asked. That will probably be the huge deal-breaker for Resistance: Fall of Man, this really cool-looking, cool-sounding game for the PS3. Chimeras invade, Hitler killed in crossfire. =) Medal of Honor: Creepy Crawlies No matter. Enough negativity. I won't know till it comes out, so let's move on to what's GOOD about the game. First, the story. So far, the only info available is that players play as Nathan Hale, an American soldier sent to the UK to fight back aliens. Yup, for once, we don't have to storm Normandy. WWII never happened here, but Independence Day did. Aliens known as the Chimera invade Earth, and Hale, with some help from Rachel Hunter, has to take them down. Designs for the Chimeras are really cool. They're sort of a mix of Resident Evil zombie and Quake Stroggs. Err, maybe, lol. Sounds rather interesting to me. Wouldn't mind the concept of blowing up aliens with World War II weapons. Cool lighting effects. Early levels are a lot like Doom. Dark, creepy walks through long, narrow hallways. Which is a change from the console perspective. Console gaming has hardly gotten the 'dark hallway' treatment, as opposed to Doom, Quake IV, F.E.A.R, Prey and almost every other recent FPS for the PC. I'm not sure, but looking at screenshots, it must get rather scary, if you're playing this in the dark at 2am, with a souped-up sound system and a larger than normal HDTV. =) Chimeras range from worker class to 'Leaper' Chimeras, which have the ability to scale walls and swarm you from above. Should make for some rather hairy encounters. Multiplayer is definitely a plus too. Hopefully the PS3's online-gaming plan won't blow up in Sony (and our) faces. But, all things aside, this will probably be the Counterstrike or SOCOM of the PS3 launch era. The game will have a full online ranking system, so that should be good for something. We all know how addictive Battlefield 2's ranking system is. Just...one...more...frag... I wonder if damage is area-specific..would love to shoot that mask off. Outdoors. Everything looks in place for the unveiling of the next great console hit. I reiterate though, NO MOUSE CONTROL. I've said it twice now. So, if this game sucks because of that, remember, you read it here first (or not). ;) Seriously though, I'm looking forward to quite a bit of what the PS3 has in store and I'm just hoping games like these don't turn into another 'oh, what could have been' cases. Till then, here's another game to look forward to in 3 months time. ^^ >>> Gamelog Tags: Games, Gaming, PS3 Game, Insomniac, Resistance: Fall of Man, FPS, First Person Shooter, Tenjou