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LastManStanding on 25 May 2008
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starcraft said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Gears 2 will sell more.

I think, for me, Resistance 2 will be a better online experience. They way they are doing the 60 man online is revolutionary. I don't think it's ever been done before.

To give a quick one line explanation, Think of two computer controlled players playing C&C, and you being the units they direct.

There isn't much that's revolutionary about Resistance 2's multiplayer. It's essentially just playing "mine's bigger than yours" with CoD with regard to how many people can be on a battlefield simultaneously. People can claim 'launch game' to try and assume there will be an automatic jump from the good Resistance 1 into AAA territory for Resistance 2, but wasn't Halo a launch title?

Are there any decent examples of a launch title score mid-eighties and then the next title become a revolutionary AAA game? I think what they are doing with 8-person online co-op will be more impressive, assuming they are capable of properly scaling difficulties and dealing with lag.

In any case, broad community and critical opinion pegged Gears multiplayer (and single-player) as being better, and Epic will only improve on it, so Resistance 2 has a lot of catching up to do.

Graphically speaking we haven't seen much of either title. Gears 2's single-player looks like a minor step up graphically but a huge step up in terms of things going on and scale. Resistance's 2's multiplayer looked very graphically unimpressive.

I reckon graphically speaking:

Single player: Gears 2< Resitance 2

Multiplayer: Gears 2 > Resistance 2.

Gameplay:

Gears 2 > Resistance 2.

 


Saying that It's essentially just playing "mine's bigger than yours" relative to Resistance multiplayer , that just an attempt to downplay the game (and I'm being polite). I'm not going to say it's revolutionary, but this game is pushing the multiplayer more  than any other game in some years. You have 30x30, divided in several squads of 5 or 6 player. The matches are objective based in a dynamic way, with the game's artificial intelligence reassigning squads to different objectives according on how things are going on, asking for squads to assist other squads when their in trouble, etc.. And that's just one of the multiplayer modes.

And relative to graphics, according to an interview to a guy from Insomniac, Resistance 2 on single player looks better than the teaser trailer we ave seen recently. It was on IGN Playstation podcast. Around the 18 minute. He actually used to word WOW when he saw some of the levels.