Theo on 22 January 2009
| KylieDog said: R1 story was miles better, I really liked the alternate history to it. R2 seemed to abandon the idea that it is the 50s and made the game like it was set in the future. Seriously, where did this fleet of spaceships suddenly come from? Or giant towers with defence systems and so forth. The multiple weapons and health system from R1 was much better also. What made R1 good was that it was its own game, R2 tried to be CoD4. |
Actually now that you mention it, that was a REALLY cool element of R1. Running through credible recognisable towns with believable architecture, with a very gritty believable WWI and WWII feeling to it but with the surrealistic twist of running into the crazy chimeran enemy. It was so bleak and really felt like armageddon with the last few survivors struggling for their lives. And you could enjoy all this with a buddy sittin next to ya.
And R2 was futuristic, macho, shiny, a bit Halo'ish. Loads of alien tech and architecture, massive fleets, crazy and OTT. I didn't play the online much at all though. So R1 campaign > R2. R2 online > R1
