I just played through resistance 1 a couple weeks with a friend it's still a great game, the graphics aren't bad at all. It's a well made shooter period. Better game than Resistance 2, which i was majorly disappointed with (the colorless art direction of the first game isn't that bad of a thing like everyone made it out to be originally)- only good thing about resistance 2 is the online co op mode which unfortunately gets repetitive after awhile. And regular competitive multiplayer was never anything special to me.
It still really seems unforgivable they'd cut out split screen on the campaign when they had it in the first game, in favor of an off shoot and completely different story-less co op mode, I know insomniac kind of had to rush resistance 2 with KZ2 coming out a couple months later, but it just ruins the game for me. I'd still love to play the Res 2 storyline with a friend but you can't, you have to deal with the brutal difficulty alone.
The resistance demo isn't a fair representation, much like how most demos never are (in a storyline based game). The games start out with a certain pace, and that's kind of thrown off if your thrusted into a tough spot, it's not the same as actually starting the game from the beginning. Much like how the KZ2 demo doesn't really represent kz2 fairly, the res 1 demo is the same way. The demo actually has 2 levels on it, if you pause and go to the second level it's better looking than the first one.
