Game Preview 8 - Resistance:Fall of Man

Platform available: PS3
Release date: November 17 (PS3 launch game)

Get this right! The aliens are descending onto Earth on November 17 and you will be given a PS3 controller to fight them off! Okay, I will cut the hogwash. Resistance: Fall of Man is a first-person shooter (FPS) PS3 launch game by Isomniac. The story of this game totally cancels out the occurrence of World War 2 and in its place, the game says that a war between humans and the Chimerans (the alien race that is bent on invading Earth) had broken out in 1951. You play as a US soldier sent to defend our beloved planet and at your disposal, are a wide variety of weapons. They include the usual ones like rifles and shotguns, as well as the weird ones like … … hey, what are their names? You have a rocket launcher that shoots like the one in real life, but upon pressing the secondary fire button, what you will be getting is the firing of multiple smaller rockets all at once. And there is this weapon that allows you to shoot a plasma ball. Immediately after shooting, change to another weapon and shoot all the bullets into that plasma ball. As far as I know, the plasma ball will burst and all the bullets will be scattered, killing the enemies in the vicinity. Another weapon splits out some kind of sticky goo, slowing down the process of the enemies. It has the ability to explode too and I think it works very much like a grenade. As I mentioned earlier, these are some of the weird weapons, which do not exist in real life. I love the idea of the BFG from Doom 3 reappearing in this game. That is a cool weapon. Talking about killing off enemies, there are also varied forms of the Chimeran race. Some look like spiders (image below), while others look like the Striders from Half-Life 2. You can expect some real funny-looking ones. As promising as the single-player sounds, it is also believed that the multiplayer will support 40 players at one go. Big battlefield, indeed. When finished, the game will support the HD format of 1080p, which makes for truly amazing graphics. Perhaps you may have nightmares after playing this game. How real will the enemies look? All these information so far looks nice and I hope it will lead to a very nice game. Okay, just keep your fingers crossed.