Well - they did say textures are improved, no? Maybe they are on GoW/close to it levels now. We can compare when they are released.

@Pristine: after the release of R2, the countdown to making KZ less grey, generic, and bland is on.

I personally think R2 have a big improvement from the 1st

i really hope all those die hard halo, gears of war, COD fans can put down their prejudice about "playstation always has worse shooters" and give R2 a real go.

preach on.

Probably the best shooter coming this year, without doubt. I just wanna battle that Leviathan!

Gears textures acutally aren't all that good (by themselves), they just have very good normal mapping/virtual displacement mapping on them - I hope Insomniac added high amounts of that into R2 aswell

while the graphics arent AMAZING the forest map particulrly is much more colourful and so will help it look better. Resistance 1 was a bit muddy for me and it seems insomniac got the message to include more colour!

Compared to Resistance 1 it's a nobrainer texture quality will be greatly improved, the game engine now supports texture streaming, Resistance 1 had to fit all the graphics into memory (like other early PS3 exclusives, including the great looking Motorstorm).

Resistance 2 is definitely a huge improvement over the original. When compared to Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War's relatively minor improvements over Gears of War and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare respectively, I think reviewers are going to feel more inclined to praise Insomniac's innovation with the Resistance franchise to the point where we may see a distinct percentage of reviews who actually prefer it over the others.

let me see some gameplay video

because, for the moment, it is definitely under GoW2 (technically at least)