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Resistance 2, Hold On To Those Resistance Saves
Posted by Kotaku US Edition at 6:20 AM on August 7, 2008
While I didn't attend E3 - I was hanging out in Kotaku Tower with Luke working the night shift - I did get to see the presentation of Resistance 2 just like everyone else. But since I didn't get to see the game in person, I had to make due by viewing screenshots and somewhat muddy-looking movies on my computer. At the time, I wasn't too impressed with the game from a graphical standpoint. I mean, it looked great, but after sitting down on a nice couch in front of a big-arse TV, I can say with confidence that, yes, Resistance 2 does look amazing.
Insomiac's James Stevenson gave me a run-through of the Resistance 2 demo from E3.
I wasn't surprised when I first saw the leviathan trouncing its way through the flooded streets of Chicago like I was during E3. I knew he was coming. But I was able to see just how much detail is actually on the leviathan model itself and how much intricate detail was going on in the animations on its face. They'll be focusing more on larger bosses this time around, Stevenson told me, so I expect to see many more "wow" moments like this
I was told there would also be a lot more effects added to the final game, too. This will be most noticeable during the sequence where Nathan is running up the stairs in the building with the leviathan peering in at him. All the while the building will be on fire and smoke will be billowing about.
One section that still leaves me troubled is when Nathan is crossing the scaffolding between buildings. After seeing Mirror's Edge and how careful you have to be crossing smaller platforms, it left me a bit disappointed you can blindly run through that with out any worry of plummeting to your death.
Not only do the enemies animate well (thanks in part due to them all being motion-captured), but they also travel in groups and will try to flank you. Luckily, the new Magnum in the game allows you to shoot your bullets into objects and detonate them like a remote bomb. This looks like it will be useful for slower enemies, but for larger, faster groups, I'd stick with the good 'ol machine gun.
I asked if players should bother keep their Resistance 1 save file on their PS3 in the event they'll receive a carry over bonus like in the Ratchet & Clank games. While James wouldn't confirm anything, he said there might be something, such as a medal. So it sounds like you should hold off on deleting your old save for a little while longer just in case.
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sir_carrot
Posted 7:01 AM 7/8/08
I really need to play the first one before I get excited about this.
sir_carrot
Paradyme
Posted 7:01 AM 7/8/08
Looking forward to this game Resistance:FOM was a lot better then I thought it would be.
Paradyme
Baka_Survivor
Posted 7:00 AM 7/8/08
Can't wait for the PSP port.
Baka_Survivor
TheIrishNinja
Posted 6:59 AM 7/8/08
man, even on a 20GB, i cant imagine deleting gamesaves.
TheIrishNinja
Wolfers
Posted 6:58 AM 7/8/08
@AZRoboto: Heh, I was wondering that as well.
Fall's going to rule.
Wolfers
JoRo1986
Posted 6:55 AM 7/8/08
I love Resistance, and can't wait for this one! :)
JoRo1986
Pyro Jack
Posted 6:55 AM 7/8/08
@excel_excel: Hmmm possibility of death or Resistance 2. My choice is clear! Resistance 2 for sure. Well if its going to take days I guess I'll bring my psp for something to do.
Pyro Jack
Snipes424
Posted 6:54 AM 7/8/08
I am very happy I bought a PS3, I can't wait for this game and LBP
Snipes424
yashichi8bit
Posted 6:54 AM 7/8/08
"Jim Reilly"
Never seen that name, so I guess I will take the time to say hello and welcome to Kotaku!
yashichi8bit
Sanspants
Posted 6:51 AM 7/8/08
@excel_excel:
Idiocracy is a brilliant movie.
Sanspants
excel_excel
Posted 6:44 AM 7/8/08
@Pyro Jack: don't think! just do it! You could be playing resistance 2 in mere minutes! well days....freezing may take a while.....actually it might kill you according to bobtheduck but Resistance 2 is worth the risk!
excel_excel
udiie
Posted 6:43 AM 7/8/08
That Leviathan scene looked so shitty. It all looked really rail guided. And I agree about the scaffolding thing.
udiie
Espiox
Posted 6:41 AM 7/8/08
Who the hell deletes their game saves? Especially on a 20GB HDD.
Espiox
waza
Posted 6:40 AM 7/8/08
damn it, i rented the game ... deleted the file
waza
GrrSnort
Posted 6:38 AM 7/8/08
This is actually one of the games that make me wish I hadn't sold my PS3.
GrrSnort
Pyro Jack
Posted 6:35 AM 7/8/08
@excel_excel: What a great idea. I'm going to go jump in my freezer now. I'm not too worried about waking up 500 years from now because I am confident that ebay will still be around and I can just buy resistance 2 off that. But then again, I might have to worry about that whole rapid aging thing. Oh well.
Pyro Jack
immikeulate
Posted 6:35 AM 7/8/08
I have alomost everything done on Resistance . Beat it on Super Human, got almost all intels. But I'm only one rank off of Supreme Comander Online. I think I'm going to get that rank after I finish getting all my Uncharted trophies. Revisiting is fun.
immikeulate
bobtheduck
Posted 6:34 AM 7/8/08
@excel_excel: It may be 500 years before they figure out how to UNFREEZE someone without killing them.
In any case... Resistance 2... Yay... I'll finally have something to play with my Halo fanboy friends... Hopefully Sony implements multiple offline logins by then, so we don't have to be "Bobtheduck blew up Bobtheduck with a rocket launcher, while Bobtheduck sat on Bobtheduck's head, smoking a hookah."
bobtheduck
excel_excel
Posted 6:34 AM 7/8/08
@ShadowFFVI: more like the dog's bollo.....never mind
excel_excel
bbsin
Posted 6:34 AM 7/8/08
Dammit! I deleted those damn saves (Resistance and R&C) after i had to send my PS3 back to Sony for repairs because I didn't think I'd need them!!!! T_T
bbsin
Veloc
Posted 6:31 AM 7/8/08
Was the coach angry? Why didn't you just sit on a couch? Sounds awfully rude of you, Jim.
Veloc
WolFEnsTeiN68
Posted 6:31 AM 7/8/08
@excel_excel: Cartman...LMAO.
WolFEnsTeiN68
kilikafinal
Posted 6:31 AM 7/8/08
i was disappointed 2 when u didnt have 2 watch out for where u would step. they should have made it more real. and also have a camera at a corner to see where the thing under u was. so u wouldnt fall all the time.
kilikafinal
AZRoboto
Posted 6:30 AM 7/8/08
Why delete anything as small as a save on an 80GB PS3?
AZRoboto
WolFEnsTeiN68
Posted 6:30 AM 7/8/08
@dalejn: But really the focus of this game is the magnitude of it all...I think little annoying things like crossing scoffolding would just piss people off. I do know what you mean that the realism would suffer a little bit tho.
WolFEnsTeiN68
nflsonic
Posted 6:30 AM 7/8/08
Can't wait! I'm currently playing through the game in co-op campaign and so far it's pretty good. I hope they improve the checkpoint system, which left me and my friend some frustrating moment. But this game looks great.
nflsonic
JN64Lover
Posted 6:29 AM 7/8/08
Insominac is one of the best devs out there, I can't wait to get my hands on this!
JN64Lover
excel_excel
Posted 6:28 AM 7/8/08
@Pyro Jack: You could freeze yourself. Just make sure you don't actually end up 500 years in the future
excel_excel
ShadowFFVI
Posted 6:28 AM 7/8/08
The bees knees? More like the cat's pajamas!
ShadowFFVI
Pyro Jack
Posted 6:27 AM 7/8/08
I can't wait for this game. Can I borrow someone's time traveling device so I can buy this game right now?
Pyro Jack
dalejn
Posted 6:27 AM 7/8/08
Personally, I would prefer not having the "balancing on thin platform" gameplay. For instance, in Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, I really hated crossing logs. Getting across gave me to satisfaction, but falling off really pissed me off. But I also understand that there would be a sacrifice of some realism without it.
dalejn
homernoy
Posted 6:24 AM 7/8/08
I am going to have to play the first one before Resistance 2 comes out. The online component seems like the bees knees.
homernoy
XeroKool
Posted 6:24 AM 7/8/08
Can't wait for the beta to come out. Hope I get in!
XeroKool
HaydenTenno
Posted 6:23 AM 7/8/08
I want a trophy for it, dammit! :) Since they won't update FoM to support 'em. Show some love, Insomniac. ;)
HaydenTenno
Mj92
Posted 6:22 AM 7/8/08
This game will pwn!!!
Mj92
snakepliskin
Posted 7:19 AM 7/8/08
Im glad the graphics look better in person. The game didnt look all that much better than the first one from the videos i have seen. I guess ill just bury my self in the snow and hope butters remembers to pull me out.
snakepliskin
greeble
Posted 7:03 AM 7/8/08
Yeah I gotta finish resistance one of these days. (can't play when the kids are around) The story is actually kind of interesting for a FPS.
greeble
Lukems
Posted 7:50 AM 7/8/08
I tried so hard to like Resistance 1, but I just couldn't.
Lukems
ƒox
Posted 7:42 AM 7/8/08
I just ordered the first one along with a copy of Soul Cal IV. I really enjoyed the demo so I'm looking forward to playing it.
ƒox
SolidEyeSystem
Posted 8:12 AM 7/8/08
Still got my game save...
SolidEyeSystem
phalanges
Posted 8:08 AM 7/8/08
I can not wait to continue with the series, the first left me hanging. November is so far away.
phalanges
semiconscious
Posted 8:05 AM 7/8/08
@Daisuash:
no, it's not just you...
semiconscious
SeedyXX
Posted 8:04 AM 7/8/08
I couldn't finish the first one. I loved it up to that point in a long, dark room where a door shuts behind you and waves of enemies come through a door at the far end. I didn't have enough bullets or grenades or shields or grenades and no matter how well I was doing *this time* it was never good enough. Then I put it down and never went back. It may be time for a fresh stab at the thing.
SeedyXX
Daisuash
Posted 8:01 AM 7/8/08
It is just me or this guy just seems to try really hard to find minor flaws in the games he previews? He did it in the LBP story and now in this one...
Daisuash
invictus13
Posted 8:00 AM 7/8/08
as my heart sinks because when I am done with a game I delete everything that has to do with it
invictus13
Phreakz
Posted 8:22 AM 7/8/08
I would just buy the game just for the Chicago sequence. From the trailers I saw it looks exactly like chicago.
Phreakz
Lazlo
Posted 8:16 AM 7/8/08
I graduated with James Stevenson!! Stupid jerk moved to California and left me in Hicksville! Good for you James!!! Glad to hear everything is coming along nicely!
Lazlo
fenderfuel08
Posted 9:05 AM 7/8/08
I strongly disagree with your dissapointment: I'm glad you can just run across small platforms and be ok--first person shooters would suck if they all had platforming elements because lets face it, you can't see your feet and what they are landing on.
fenderfuel08
cornerman8
Posted 9:01 AM 7/8/08
R2 isn't Mirror's Edge, and Mirror's edge isn't R2. The goals of each game are totally different. Mirror's Edge won't have half the features of R2, and R2 won't focus on traversing obstacles. Football wouldn't be better if you had dribbling, and basketball wouldn't be improved if it had tackling. How many scaffolding traversals do you expect to do over the course of the game? I'm pretty sure that's likely the sole one. It'd be a waste of time to put that feature on a game that is no way designed to cater to it. Don't understand the disappointment. It takes away from the realism when you play you can play ANY game, die, and live to fight again. Why must everything be compared to everything else. Birds should have fins, fish should have legs, night should be day, and day should be a little more like night.
cornerman8
WhiskeyJak
Posted 9:24 AM 7/8/08
@yashichi8bit: Yeah the intern, Hello intern! Also, it seems that Leigh Alexander isn't part of the team anymore? I missed her departure it seems...
@Lukems: Now, what are YOU GUYS up to ;)
WhiskeyJak
Scuba Steve
Posted 9:08 AM 7/8/08
I've lost my saved games twice when sending it in for repairs.. I've tried to back them up but for some reason it wants something that can hold 12 gigs and is not an external hard drive.
So, in short, F you Sony. and F you Insomniac.
Scuba Steve
lenandude
Posted 9:42 AM 7/8/08
I wasn't going to delete my game save anyway so it's cool that there might be "something" for those of us who didn't.
lenandude
resetbutton
Posted 10:19 AM 7/8/08
will it be okay if i have a co-op save game or do i have to go through it alone?
resetbutton
MellowNinja
Posted 10:37 AM 7/8/08
That blows. I deleted this save last week.
Oh well, thank God for gamefaqs. I'll just download the save there.
MellowNinja
Frank
Posted 12:27 PM 7/8/08
Good thing I already have a save file...
Frank
WPack911
Posted 12:27 PM 7/8/08
There has been so much really good Resistance 2 viral marketing going on (there are 3 websites) that I have been tipping Kotaku on, but there has been no mention of it since the very first one about how 'Starbuck' in it.
Totally still have my Resistance 1 game save though so i'm cool.
WPack911
Shadowed
Posted 1:53 PM 7/8/08
Hope they don't make a trophy for an old game save. I don't want to have to spend $30 more for a platinum!
Shadowed
Awoken
Posted 11:00 PM 7/8/08
I can't wait for this! I have my game saves!!! YAY
Awoken
Crawl to China
Posted 11:53 PM 7/8/08
@Espiox: silly people.
I haven't deleted a save since the days of the N64.
Crawl to China
synchra
Posted 5:51 AM 8/8/08
I would never delete my save file anyways. 8|
"After seeing Mirror's Edge and how careful you have to be crossing smaller platforms, it left me a bit disappointed you can blindly run through that with out any worry of plummeting to your death."
haha... uhm.. that makes me happy actually! I hate having to worry about that. XD
synchra
Michael535
Posted 9:19 AM 7/8/08
Any news on where you have to pre-order to get into the Beta?
Michael535
PsyComa
Posted 6:47 AM 7/8/08
...how do you motion capture a chimera?
PsyComa
Algerian
Posted 6:39 AM 7/8/08
Sweet so its doing something like mass effect....
Algerian
Michael535
Posted 6:31 AM 7/8/08
Has there been any update on how to get into the Beta?
Michael535