Resistance 3

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Just got this game as a thank you gift for lending a pilot costume to someone for a TV programme. Too many details? Alright let's talk Resistance.

Popped it in. Had to wait. Where did the days go when you could just play a game as soon as you put the disc in the console? First update. 656 mb. Seriously guys, already? The game hasn't been out for even a day. Installing takes it time too.

That's a shame, I think R2 only had like a 50mb file it had to set up for some data. It was kinda the first game in Sony's first party initiative to have games with no installs to show you don't need to compensate for Blu Ray's slower read speeds.

MAG had a similar day one patch, because, like Resistance, they ran a beta almost up to the release of the game so they had tons of stuff to fix before launch.

SO HOW IS IT?

First, let me clarify: I'm not that much of a sci-fi shooter fan and I get even less excited about horror elements. But here's what I think of it so far.

First of all; SPOILER (just to be sure)the atmosphere is brilliant. The weather outside indicating an autumnish season feels very much alive. Ofcourse pretty much everything in the environment is in rubble and it really does feel like mankind has to throw everything it's got to survive. Or at least, that's the idea you get in the cutscenes. Through gameplay it's quite the opposite: playing on normal difficulty you and the cast sometimes seem to have little trouble shooting a way through hordes and hordes of Chimera. Quite an odd contradiction. However, this brings me to the next awesome bit: the weapons. They've all been awesome thusfar. Guns are very original and each brings a primary and secondary fire, which gives the player a lot of creativity on how to play the game. And mostly kill things. Yay!

Finally: the pacing. They've done a really good job bringing variety in everything: from weapons to enemies and from locations to personalities, all aspects seem polished and well structured. Even though I dislike the horror-influenced stuff, I do want to see what epic stuff this game has I store.

Oh and last but not least: I went online and was a total noob. The atmosphere thing counts here as well though. It's one of the first games I've played where I could wear I can smell the snow or autumn leaves.

Anywho, final verdict: it's pretty awesome, I can imagine this will tickle a lot of itchy triggerfingers of players looking for a shooter with an excellent setting and backstory instead of the usual big brawl types fighting eachother over who has the biggest armpits featuring another middle east insurgency invasion. Resistance 3 has a lot more brains than that.