I just finished the demo on easy and Normal, you can just run and gun pumping nectar on those difficulties. Some parts looked really good while some parts looked bad, two of my friends turned red the first time and it takes alot of hits to kill them. I overdosed on the drug and the screen goes all screwed up and it starts to fire for you. And everyone is all black, so you can't make anyone out.

Some parts were pretty stupid, my character would not even go up this tiny little hill and he kept getting caught up on crap on the ground, it was also impossible for me to see anyone of the bad guys without using nectar. There was also a guy hiding between thees two logs and the game would not progress until i killed him even though he was on the other side of the map and we were in the downed heli or whatever it is. It was almost impossible to see him, even when i was standing right near him.

The demo was OK though, better then pretty much every other shooter demo on the system, which is not saying much.

a little things I noticed on a second playthough:

1) quick reveal when you get the Nectar Disruption message on entering the clearling after the bombing run - it only lasts a second but you see dead bodies and the real aftermath which the Nectar is shielding you from

2) the guy who asks 'can you see me?' - if you look back once you're on Nectar again he's gone, erased from your mind by the drug. Nice little moment I thought.

3) when your guys go red (i admit I helped a little by shooting them also!) they freak and start shooting everything including you

4) when you go red you shot at anything that comes close without control, nice feeling of loss of control I thought

5) coop is fun - at least I thought so when I tried it

If the overall plot holds up then there may be enough true story here to cover the fact the game mechanics (from the demo) are fairly solid FPS staples and no more.

If nothing else it felt nicely 'real' as a setting (more so for me than say GoW, which while fun was a little too daft testerone filled IMHO) and you felt like a more regular guy in a combat zone than some pumped up walking brick s*ithouse.

Yeah - I noticed you really wanted to be on Nectar during all fighting - I wonder if its a deliberate choice to make sure you actually use Nectar rather than ignore it.  Mind you it did seem realistic - i.e. camoflagued guys in a jungle don't stick out and seeing them should be neigh on impossible.

As for the sticking, etc. I noticed that too.  Also sometimes one guy would be left somewhere in a corner of the level and you'd have to hunt for him to get the checkpoint and move on.

Have you tried coop?  I thought it was pretty solid and fun.

I agree with this. As far as the demo goes, I was hardly impressed at all. The nectar thing just seemed like a ripoff of the Chimera ability in Resistance, and the gameplay seemed too slow. Hit detection was kind of spotty too - I'd shoot slow moving people when they were definitely in my crosshairs with the pistol at medium range and my shot would not hit. Hopefully the game itself is better, because it would be sad to see Free Radical put out a 'meh' game. As far as positives go, I really liked the title screen music.

On a seperate note (meaning my poor judgement of the game is not related to this) it looks like the game does run in 640p. It seemed kinda low res.

I played 2 player co-op... chalk me up with those who weren't impressed. Nectar is fun, everything else is been there done that. Definitely not a bad game but I'll wait for Resistance 2...

I'm not a FPS buyer to be honest so this is just a tet to see what it's like but I was happy enough. Controlls were easy, graphics were nice.

i only played 2 things this morning, first was the normal, which was normal, I had no worries....except when my team mates overloaded themselves and started shooting the crap out of me...so I killed them.

4 player Co-op was good but I died a lot more, either my team mates were shooting me or well I dunno I jsut lost lots of health a lot.

remember though, it's only easy because you were playing AS a mantel soldier. which won't be for long in the game, he turns against them after, i can imagine it getting much harder and much more intense playing against the mantel soldiers.

game is briliant, i swear its tip-top

its just so fast and smooth, i showed it to an xbox fan buddy of mine and he liked it

controls are spot on and multiplayer co-op is just as smooth as single player

grafix although upscaled to 720p look amazing because the art is superb and its just so blindlingly fast

the effects are also cool like the zoom and nectar administrating

i heard some ppl saying the gun sounds are shallow lol`s they may be suffering from psychosis because on mine they rock

day one purchase for me, but im afraid the game will get panned by mdf-lead fanboy reviewers