resistance 2 revealed

[majin]

RESISTANCE 2

I just got my latest GameInformer and its cover feature is Resistance 2!!!!!!

Checking it out now... will update. (didn't see this on first two pages so assumed it hasn't been posted)

EDIT 1: HUGE cooperative game... EIGHT-PLAYER story-driven campaign along side single-player campaign. SIXTY-PLAYER Competitive modes... HUGE United States Landscapes as backdrops.

EDIT 2: "It is, in short, a tour de force for the untapped might of the PlayStation 3"

EDIT 3: Narrative stays with Hale the whole time... not Rachel. Hale shot down in Iceland, escapes to US and becomes part of program called Sentinels...

EDIT 4: Chameleon.. Stalker with total cloaking ability

EDIT 5: Overcoming stigma that boss encounters don't work in FPS games..

EDIT 6: Eight player coop over PSN, two player local

EDIT 7: CLASSES! Unique character with one of three basic templates... tank with heavy weaponry, special ops for distance (bullseye modified with zoom), medic

EDIT 8: Online matching... standard difficulty discarded for scaled challenges for team skill..

EDIT 9: Partially randomized geometry... levels are different with each playthrough

EDIT 10: again... 60 players online. want sense of epic b attle.. dont want fast-furious gameplay to be focus, more focused on squad v squad.

EDIT 11: will log into smaller four-to-eight man lobbies for each squad... encouraging communication and camaraderie, squad will be tasked witha particular objective. careful level design aims to deliver intense combat zones or small team conflicts that flow within arena of larger battle.

EDIT 12: Dedicated gaming community with stat servers for faster matchmaching than any console game of 2007. full-featured profile pages through myresistance.net will incorporate social networking concepts. open clan and party system to encourage community...no player invites needed.

EDIT 13: Aiming to deliver mobile-phone-quality sound.

EDIT 14: Futher tapped power of PS3... more enemies onscreen, better AI, better lighting and shaders (SCREENSHOTS LOOK AMAZING!!!). More comples normal mapping and detail mapping combine to deliver textures that look amazing from afar and at extremely close distances.

EDIT 15: AI getting a lot more attention.. will scaled on-the-fly to players perspective and viewpoint... aka enemies cloesr to the player will actually have more spohisicated AI routines than those further away. assailants in your direct field of view received heightened intelligence. easily more cunning than before

EDIT 16: listened to complaints... working on solution to long checkpoints and health system. not positive what final solution will be.

EDIT 17: "Our time playing was a blast"... each character class contributes in a unique way and "we loved the strategy-laden medic"... unique sense of teamwork

EDIT 18: Mysterious "Cloven"

EDIT 19: "Resistance 2 will be too epic to dismiss as anything but one of the biggest, boldest, and most high-reaching titles of 2008. It's a game that won't be ignored." [END ARTICLE]


RELEASE: FALL 2008

highlights:

1. 60 man online, split into squads like resistance 1 within your team though to cut down on the voice chat crossovers and each squad is given a specific objective to achieve.

2. 2 player offline co-op and 8 man online co-op, 2 seperate campaigns, one for normal and one for the 8 player online.

3. Partially randomized geometry... levels are different with each playthrough.

4. class system online.


looks good, i loved the first game, had a great single player and the online is great so i see myself immensely enjoying the 2nd, insomniac are turning out to be sony's saviors. be funny if this actually killed the hype for killzone 2.

[Wedgy]

Originally Posted by majin

be funny if this actually killed the hype for killzone 2.

Killzone 2 needs some hype down tbh
Resistance has earned its respect by supporting the PS4 at launch and unlike killzone 1, it was a good game.

8 player co_op sounds good.

Randomized geometry sounds very good but i would have to see it first to be wowed,other wise i will assume is just going to end up being random rubble piles spread around.

[X-Buster!]

60 players online... I'll believe it when I see it.

[majin]

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

60 players online... I'll believe it when I see it.

resistance has 40 already...pc gaming been doing 64 for ages. ps3 1st party games use dedicated servers anyway so its not really that big of a leap.

[X-Buster!]

Originally Posted by majin

resistance has 40 already...pc gaming been doing 64 for ages. ps3 1st party games use dedicated servers anyway so its not really that big of a leap.

I'm not saying it isn't achievable, I'm just saying that it's unlikely for a console game to achieve that.
I think 40 would be the limit and Sony's dedicated servers are far from perfect atm.

[majin]

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

I'm not saying it isn't achievable, I'm just saying that it's unlikely for a console game to achieve that.
I think 40 would be the limit and Sony's dedicated servers are far from perfect atm.

why is it unlikely? they use dedicated servers just like pc gaming does. so what exactly is holding them back?

and ive experienced no lag so far in warhawk or resistance (both use sony dedicated servers).

[Wedgy]

60 should not be too hard and they do have like 10 months to sort it out if its coming Nov.

Also i assume home will have more then 60 people online at a time so they must have some idea what to do.

[X-Buster!]

Originally Posted by majin

why is it unlikely? they use dedicated servers just like pc gaming does. so what exactly is holding them back?

and ive experienced no lag so far in warhawk or resistance (both use sony dedicated servers).

Your experiences don't count for the majority and I'm not talking about lag issues but rather the complaints of barely being able to get into a game. (Mostly for Warhawk)

Plus with console online gaming you're looking at a ton of wireless connections and it would have to be some dedicated server to come up to the standards of PC gaming online. PC gaming was made for the masses, console gaming is still struggling, even the recent COD4 server issues on Xbox Live are proof of this.

I'm not saying they won't do it, just saying that I'll believe it when I see it. Developers love making false promises.

[majin]

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

Your experiences don't count for the majority and I'm not talking about lag issues but rather the complaints of barely being able to get into a game. (Mostly for Warhawk)

loads of servers to pick from, average of about 300 at any time set up, if you cant connect to one go to another....never had any trouble myself. never heard of any problems.

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

Plus with console online gaming you're looking at a ton of wireless connections and it would have to be some dedicated server to come up to the standards of PC gaming online. PC gaming was made for the masses, console gaming is still struggling, even the recent COD4 server issues on Xbox Live are proof of this.

they have 40 man servers up and running already with resistance 1 with no problems, i dont see how wireless connections will affect their end as thats the user themselves problem. they will have dedicated servers exactly like pc gaming is running so i dont know why your so skeptical as its not like their using some entirely alien set up to do this. its exactly like pc gaming except you substitute each pc for a console which connect to a dedicated server...and dont compare xbox live plz, thats majority peer 2 peer which is what caused the cod 4 problems in matchmaking (cod 4 uses peer 2 peer on both consoles).

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

I'm not saying they won't do it, just saying that I'll believe it when I see it. Developers love making false promises.

we'll have to wait and see then, i see no reason why they would be lieing though.

[X-Buster!]

Originally Posted by majin

i see no reason why they would be lieing though.

Just like Sony lied about the CG Killzone 2 trailer saying that it was ingame?

Hmmm!

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Angelic Gabriel]

C'mon Resistance was apauling ...... I would never insult my ps3 with another game leik that imo

[majin]

Originally Posted by X-Buster!

Just like Sony lied about the CG Killzone 2 trailer saying that it was ingame?

Hmmm!

I'll believe it when I see it.

this is insomniac not sony.

ive gave valid reasons why its e