I found RFoM alot more fun then CoD4, it has a better story, 40player online compared to 18players in CoD4. The online in RFoM is lag free even with 40 players all tossing hedgehog grenades in a room at each other, while CoD4 lags with as little as 6players in a game. Try to play Bog with 18players and the game lags like crazy and the FPS drop to single digit.

CoD4 has no clans, no typed messages, RFoM has separate squads in online games, which is amazing. CoD4 also has no gameslist.

I enjoyed it for the most part. I liked it's sudden scares and awesome weapons. Fending off a few Chimera with augers could be a real pain, and leapers and rollers popping out left and right could get my blood pumping.

Also, remember that you're comparing a launch title to games that came out 6-12 months later (CoD4, Halo 3, etc.). Yes, Gears launched simultanesously and was a superior game, but you can't really compare FSP and TPS, and Gears was made by Epic, shooter veterans, where as Resistance was Insomniac's first attempt at the FPS genre. Insomniac are a great group of devs, and R2 should be much better than RFOM, given what they learned while creating the first.

The game was a solid 65% if it had average weapons and weapon sounds. With those things it was worth a good 75%. Not brilliant just good. I rated it higher than Halo, but I haven't played gears so I dunno how it compares there. If the PS3 had dual shock, it would have been in the low to mid 80% mark.

Am I one of the few who thought that Gears sucked? Other than using the chainsaw, the game was boring and short. I'm hoping Gears of War 2 will be 10 times better than the first.

As for Resistance, it's outdated compared to the new FPS's like a Halo 3 and CoD 4. I can't even stand to look at it.

I will admit - the last time I spent a heap of time playing online was with the private COD4 beta (I got in with a media token a few weeks before the open beta was allowing folks in). I was sooo loving it. The problem I had with going online is how long it takes to play. COD4 is the only game that pretty much let me get up and playing online without much hassle. Orange Box was next. With COD2, I got online a few times and ended up freezing every time I tried.

I will say that even Goldeneye 007 is still the benchmark for FPS. Graphics are one thing, gameplay is something else. I still love SOCOMs, though it looks fugly on my PS3.

Regardless, I should go online and play Resistance sometime. 

 I liked it, but it wasn't the most amazing thing ever. 

this post is right on the money.

 I don't like Gears of War...probably cause I played it at least a year after release, and CoD4 is better.

I don't think CoD4 will be forgettable anytime soon, but Res 2, Gears 2, MGS4 will make it seem forgettable.

Great gameplay, great story, great weapons, great enemies, great graphics. What's not to like?

IMO the resistance demo > gears

i played gears way more but still like resistance better and thats only the demo

edit: i was considering buying it but resistance 2 is gunna be way better so ill wait i have cod4 to keep me busy 

Many above have stated tis but you're playing the game about 16 months late. At the time of the launch the graphics were actually considered exellent getting a 9 out of ten in that catagory from IGN. The gameplay mechanics were generic but it was the weapons that added variety. Once you got to know them you would develope several uses and techniques for each weapon and you would grow to love them all. There was the Auger which lets you shoot through walls and deploy shields only you could shoot through, the sniper slowed down time, the rockets could be frozen and mid-air, release mini rockets then get redirected at another enemy. The list goes on... I do have to say the best part of the game was the online. The community features were the very best in any game until halo 3 with clan support, squad systems for large teams with a ton of people talking over different channels, and the devs listened to exactly what the players wanted and added patches quite often. I loved that game and it was most definatly an important step in the evolution of the FPS. I know that today the graphics are put to shame but Resistance 2 looks amazing if you haven't seen the screenshots. G2G sorry for the abrupt ending to my rant.