Destructoid Reviews Vita Resistance... holly hell...

[Kresnik]

bouzane said:

michael_stutzer said:
After playing the demo I can safely say fuck that guy. The game seems very good from a technical standpoint. It may be generic and boring, I don't know, but so was Resistance 2 and look at its reviews. Hopefully this game is different in that case.

I'll definitely get it after it becomes cheaper. Even if the single player was lacking, the multiplayer should be enough to make up for it.

How in the Hell was Resistance 2 generic and boring? The improvements made to the art direction as well as massive boss battles and unique cooperative multiplayer made it really stand out. Sure, the two weapon limit, poor narrative and broken competitive multiplayer patches tarnished it which made the overall game flawed, but certainly not generic and boring.

Gotta say, playing through Resistance 2 again recently - I still love the online multiplayer (despite it being completely broken if people Wraith spam) and the co-op is as fun as ever, but the single player is just poor - and I do feel it's a mish-mash of tens of other FPS cliches and it's pretty generic.

The boss battles were quite fun, don't get me wrong - and Chicago was fun for a bit because of the Splicer (such a cool weapon) but everything else in this single player is just pants.  Dark for the sake of being dark.  As linear as it's humanly possible to be.  Things like Chameleons and insta-death in most water are just frustrating.  Waves after waves of Chimera coming at you during certain points of the game just to flesh it out a bit.  Plus the story, which never really takes off and hardly goes anywhere.

Obviously, people see things differently - the reviews have been kind to it and you obviously enjoyed the single player, but for me it's been really boring and I've struggled to make it all the way through (I just finished the Holar Tower level and I don't have much drive to see how much of the game is left).