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    [11/02/10] Resistance fall of man 1 and 2

    in 1Emulation.com Reviews [/reviews]

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    Quickie review to save this topic and procastinating on hw:

     

    Resistance 1:

     

    Story - : 6

    Standard FPS where you're a soldier fighting against an unknown alien thread to mankind. Game progresses as you travel between locations to find a way to stop the Chimera (alien threat). As far as I remember (played this back in December 2009), the protagonist doesn't talk at all so the player has to depend on the narrator for any story at all. However, it's just pretty much a Rambo game from start to finish.

     

    Controls - : 8

    I don't remember the controls very well, but I think they're alright once you get used to the weird setup. By this, I mean you find out you'll be throwing grenades a lot thinking you press the standard melee button. Fingers might slip because of the way the PS3 controller is designed (Crouching holding the l2 button and then trying to move the left stick is pretty annoying). Otherwise, I don't think I had much of a problem running, jumping, shooting, etc.

     

    Graphics and Sound: ?

    Anyone that knows me knows I don't give a crap about graphics as long as it doesn't have an effect on me playing the game. Plus, I don't think I have a valid opinion on this since I played through it with non-HDMI. Otherwise, graphics are fine albeit some stiff animations (P2 Coop LOL). Also, I'm not sure what makes people think graphics of a game are good. They say Uncharted 2 and such has good graphics. Well, they do, but in actuality, you spend about 2 minutes looking at that beautiful scenery before you snap back trying not to get killed. That being said, enemies look fine enough. I think the music and sound were standard, nothing special to me but everyone has difference tastes.

     

    Weapons + Gameplay + Multiplayer: 7/8

    Redeeming factor about this game to me is how many weapons you can carry. You find weapons as you progress, but you can carry all of them which is a bit unrealistic. However, its pretty fun to have all of them. Each weapon has a primary fire (that fires bullets) and an alternative fire depending on what the weapon does. The Bullseye and the Auger are probably the best two examples. Bullseye alt fire lets you tag people so your bullets can home in on them or you can tag the environment so it creates a trap that explodes sending bullets everywhere. Auger creates a shield allowing you to shoot through it, or you can just shoot through walls with the gun (Enemies that have the auger are a POS meaning you should watch out at all times for auger bullets coming at you). Grenades are a godsend in this game. They're probably overpowered, but they kill most grunts in one hit (Well they should on the second hardest difficulty.)

     

    Gameplay is standard FPS. You find weapons, you shoot things, you blow some stuff up. There's some vehicles levels that are pretty easy and straightfoward. They won't make you do anything crazy for one thing. Life system is health based. You have four bars, if you get hit a bar starts going down. Catch is if you go under cover, it'll fill back up. However, if a bar is gone, it wont come back until you get a med kit. To be honest, I did like this health system because it was a medium between the health system and cover system. Two player coop = Good. Will it make the game better? Probably not. But a game becomes more bearable if your friend is there screwing around with you. Coop games are always a +1 to score to me. Last but least, there's in game achivements that give you skill points ( don't think they do anything). Collect skill points and intel documents and you start unlocking stuff. (skins, Weapons?). Downfall is there's no trophy support if you're into that kind of stuff. What sends this game down is that it is long. 30 Levels. Some levels start to look the same and you start begging for the area to end.

     

    Multiplayer. Briefly played multiplayer. Seemed like any other multiplayer game to me. Spawning seems rampant and it seems very very easy to kill someone. But hey, PSN is free (I don't really notice the lag people complain about) so go at it. And yes, the online is the same as any online FPS game meaning you will find kids talking on the mic and campers and whatnot. Word of caution though. You join servers but each server has a different setting. I played only like 3-4 times, but every server I joined was either shotgun only or assault rifle only.

    I'm stealing and abbv. this from GameFAQs - Credit to MisFit119

    Game Modes -

    Meltdown - Control nodes. More nodes you control the more damage the enemy reactor takes. Game ends when reactor is destroyed

    Breach - Go for rods to take down enemy reactor

    CTF - Self-explainatory. Take flag and go back to base

    TDM - Kill everyone not on your team

    Conversion - Everyone starts out as human. TDM. If you die, you become a chimera. Then after that, you spec. LMS wins

     

    Wrapup:

    Pros:

    - Lots of weapons. Can carry them all.

    - CO-OP CAMPAIGN

     

    Cons:

    - Some animations might feel stiff or awkward

    - Not so special story

    - LONG CAMPAIGN

     

    Story: 6

    Controls: 8

    Graphics/Sound: ? Prolly a 7 since nothing special

    Weapons/Graphic/Multi : 8

     

    Overall: I give it a 7/8. Some people really enjoyed it and some didn't. I felt it was long and the same thing over and over, but in the end, it was alright. Oh, I guess the last question is does it compare to GoW1? No, Not really. Gears definitely did it better in this case.

    What did you play most recently?

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted

    Beat Assassins Creed about 5 days ago. Repetitive but still fun to throw people from the rooftops and create body piles of guards.

     

    Beat Puzzle Quest about a day ago. Honestly, I just turned on cheats and maxed out my character. Still annoying as hell mid to end game when you have to fight idiotic monsters because they're just blocking your path.

    If you want to open an arcade center, what games would you include?

    in Arcade Emulators [/pc/arcade]

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    Yea Raq and Gavin are really feeling me on arcade games. Or rather Im totally feeling their pics. Id think that we 3 would have the best arcade ever. Which means Id need to serve Hamburgers, steak and cheeses, nachoes to seal the deal.

     

    Nah, you all fail. There's no classics in your lists except for DD in Gavin's. (And maybe Ghosts and Goblins.......sort of)

     

    You're in Florida right? I'm pretty sure there's a "museum" of sorts there (Or maybe it's in CA)

    Do what?... I ALSO put D&D , as did Raq. but I didnt format it into a list, but a paragraph, so perhaps thats my fault. Have you not seen an ultracade? Sure its not the same as having the specific cabinet... but it has some good old school classics, but without taking up a ton of space. Id put plenty of classics, but comming up with an adequate list is hard. There was alot of rubbish out there. Also, Im not a big fan of beat 'um ups. Other than a few specific ones... such as D&D 2. Im all for classics and all, but you cant have everything. And I just put alittle of everything, for everyone. Id like to cater to a more broad group... but without DDR... that if fail.

     

    Disney had a huge arcade here, but screw that. I dont recall a museum, but that doesnt mean that it isnt here either.

     

    To clarify if you didn't understand cinder's post after yours. He meant DD as in Double Dragon.

    What did you play most recently?

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

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    Got back into games again around last week or so and been sneaking in gaming when I can.

     

    First off, Finished tomb raider anniversary. Fun game, never played the original though. Seems like they give you too many med pacs though. And they really shouldn't give you full hp when you continue from a check point. Climbing that pyramid in the end was a biatch though.

     

    Second, played Tom Clancy's Hawx. Completely ridiculous game in terms of presentation. Otherwise, the game is still enjoyable to play even with a friend. Makes it a hell of a lot easier. Only complaint was that the game is pretty short and many missions feel like the same with more enemies and you just have a better plane. Probably the best mission on there was the stealth bomber one. Definately the most fun and frustrating.

     

    Other stuff, playing some MAME. Just finished Darkstalkers a few days ago with some characters and moved on. Played with PSX a bit. And just played zombie revenge on DC. Kinda sad that I still can't beat it even with a friend. POS game.

    Cash or Plastic?

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

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    Depends.

    When I'm buying something big like over 60 or so, I rather use plastic.

    I prefer carrying cash around though. Like 2eyez said, I tend to spend somewhat more carefully since you actually see the cash rather than just swiping your card. Plus, I'm usually in spending situations where I have to use cash more than card so hence why I carry cash around.

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