PSN says the Resistance 2 beta is available through this month's issue of Qore.

For $3 I should just download it to confirm.

From what we know, Gears 2 has:

Team Deathmatch (regular Deathmatch wouldn't work with this game)

Execution (Similar to above, but you must perform an execution to finish someone off)

Assassination (Kill the leader and make it so the rest of the team can't respawn)

Meat Flag (Capture the flag, only the flag is ALIVE and SHOOTING AT YOU!)

Annex (From the first game--a fresh take on King of the Hill)

And then there's a little thing called Horde mode you may have heard of--Five people against a literally infinite amount of enemies testing their skills, teamwork, and luck as they try to survive wave after wave of increasing enemy numbers.

And CliffyB promised more to come.

Dayum I want Gears 2!

Wow, am I the only to think that this is actually a huge turn-off? I know, I'm probably the only one going to worry about my stats, but I just hate it when I can't play for fun (it's like if I always have to play good).

That was the first thing that came to mind, well, welcome back Leo-J I guess. Anyways, of course he's going to back up his game, that's the main competitor to Gears 2 on the PS3, and not to mention that RFoM and Gears 1 were compared to death since they released around the same time. As for which is better, Gears 2 is practically the same, if not, very similar to Gears 1, although Gears 1 was good, playing Gears 2 will have that been there done that feeling. If R2 is alot like RFoM (which so far, it doesn't look like it is, based on things added, different narrative/story telling), then I would think that Gears 2 would be better, but R2 is looking like a big step up from RFoM.

I'm only surprised at the audacity of the the comment. I'm pretty sure Insomniac doesn't send copies of R2 over to Cliffy for evaluation, so he is, therefore, talking straight from his backside if he's comparing these two unreleased titles already.

In any case, obviously if he thought his competition was making a better game, he would talk it down, and his own game up, while heading back to his team and working on improving his game, so his commentary is totally meaningless.

His not mouthing off about how his game is "better", would go a lot further toward implying that his product will speak for itself when it ships.  So now I'm worried that he's scared of R2, even though it doesn't directly compete with his game because its on a different platform -- maybe that's why he thinks he can talk trash and get away with it.

Good post.

Does Resistance 2 have any sort of skill progression or level gaining for their online Multiplayer?

and while I am at it

does Gears 2?

Gear/Resistance really boils down to personal preference.

For those committed to one console or the other, but not both, the choice should be fairly obvious.

Personally, Gears piqued my interest back when it debuted a lot more than Resistance did, although not enough to buy a 360 when it came out.

I found the background, story and world in which Resistance took place to be far more well crafted and enjoyable than Gears although the dialog in Gears was a lot more entertaining.

In retrospect, I spent quite a few more hours playing Resistance than Gears, despite the superior visuals and the cover system.

I'll probably end up splitting about even between Gears 2 and Resistance 2.

This.

most sites will give the higher rating to the most hyped games, thats why i sometimes check Gamestats. they actullay ignore all the hype/bad critisism, sit down play the game over and over, and then come up with a non-biased fair review. they actually had the guts to give halo 3 a 8.9.