why the hatred for resistance 2

What was so bad about Resistance 2 that everyone hated so much. Other than the fact that the story mode coop was taken out and there was no weapon wheel, the game remained like the first one. It had more varied environments than the first game did. The new weapons they added were cool. They expanded the number of people that could play online, and they added an eight player coop which was pretty fun. The only things that brought the game down were the not so intense boss battles and no vehicle sections. I don't really understand the hatred over a few changes to otherwise more of the same thing. It had larger scaled battles and brighter colors. I think people are being too picky or are purists in some way or another

It was generic, and didn't quite deserve that 9.0 in many people's eyes. The story was a little messy too. Competitive mode was nothing special either.

Co-op was great though.

Overall, it lost its distinct Resistance feel and became a red headed COD-GeoW child.

It was generic, and didn't quite deserve that 9.0 in many people's eyes. The story was a little messy too. Competitive mode was nothing special either.

Co-op was great though.

Overall, it lost its distinct Resistance feel and became a red headed COD-GeoW child.

RavenLoud

well i liked it

Well i liked the campaign. Couldnt get myself to get 10,000 kills though, i get bored fast

I liked R2 (nvr played the 1st) and i played a lil campaign then mp. I kinda liked the mp, but i felt that there was no need to come back. Nothing forcing me like to be like wow i wanna play this again. Same goes fro Killzone 2....

I liked it.

It was generic, and didn't quite deserve that 9.0 in many people's eyes. The story was a little messy too. Competitive mode was nothing special either.

Co-op was great though.

Overall, it lost its distinct Resistance feel and became a red headed COD-GeoW child.

RavenLoud

Where are elements of Gears of War? You do realize that one could say that the first game is just a hyrbrid of the old school shooters like Doom, Blake Stone, the first Wolfenstein, the Abyss, Quake 1 and 2, and Turok 1 and 2. All of those games had life bars and Turok and a weapon wheel as well. You could choose your own weapon in the rest of those shooters too. So either way your getting a clone of something according to what you say. I respect your opinion and others feel the same way as you but I am just pointing out that a lot of things in Resistance 1 also were in a lot of other shooters too, so you can't say that Resistance 2 was generic because it copied other games when the first game also had things that previous shooters had as well.

Im guessing on the enemies. Kinda look/seem the same.

Im guessing on the enemies. Kinda look/seem the same.

Papadrach

The first one did not have a lot of bad guy variety either. I am just wondering why the first one is praised so golden and the second one is shunned. No one really gives a valid reason as to why the second one is worse other than that it is like other shooters. The first game was like other shooters as well, so that is not good excuse for not liking the second one.

I liked it.

Silverbond

Resistance 1 was a well thought out alternate history story and it had a more gothic theme. Resistance 2 they went to mario land and made everything look crappy and toony. Oh and the ending is FAIL.

Ididnt hate it but i expected more from it; i wish the big bosses could ve been something ala shadow of the collosus, the enemy AI was worse than the ones in R1. The online is one of the best you could find on the ps3 tho.

Resistance 2 begins great, but after the first chapter i do not remember WHY i did anything. Or what i did, other than a spaceship level with the invisible enemies. I don't think there was any writing other than a 20 words synopsis for each chapter and the transitional scenes which were random as to why the game should proceed that way. Halo 3 for instance - i am no fanboy - was shorter but made sense.

R2 was the first game I got for the PS3, so I'll always have a soft spot for it. for what it was, I thought it was fun and a worthy alternative to the Killzone and COD.

Haven't played it in a while tho, might pick it up again. is there still much activity online or is it pretty much dead now?

As many people stated above, it was nothing special. It was a bland, by the numbers FPS. So what that it had such large multiplayer lobbies, being generic these days wont cut it. On thing i DID enjoy during the single player campaign was the radio broadcasts...that gave the story a bit more bite.

It was garbage, the first Resistance was so much better, mainly because the second just felt.. different I guess you could say, it did not have the magic R:FoM had.

Spoilers below at where I stopped playing Resistance 2

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I stopped at the part where you meet that copy cat predator thing, I was saying "man, thats what I call originality."

Probably the biggest disappointment this generation for me. Especially after original Resistance was great. R2 was basically another plain FPS game and had completely different direction that made R1 an excellent and unique experience.

The story narrator was completely gone, weapon wheel was strategic and important part of the game was also gone, basically the whole mechanics in R2 single player were plain and uninteresting, it's like completely different team was working on it. I still don't understand why so many changed had been made.

Resistance 2 had no love put into it like previous game, it was just slapped together and became another genetic shooter with no direction.. Resistance 1 was much, much better experience.

What was so bad about Resistance 2 that everyone hated so much. Other than the fact that the story mode coop was taken out and there was no weapon wheel, the game remained like the first one. It had more varied environments than the first game did. The new weapons they added were cool. They expanded the number of people that could play online, and they added an eight player coop which was pretty fun. The only things that brought the game down were the not so intense boss battles and no vehicle sections. I don't really understand the hatred over a few changes to otherwise more of the same thing. It had larger scaled battles and brighter colors. I think people are being too picky or are purists in some way or another

gamenerd15

I enjoyed it alot and can't wait for Resistance 3

The crap endings are one amongst many reasons to hate the game.

Because it sucked. FoM had a great formula but they didn't stick to it in R2.

I was kind of disappointed, its a good game dont get me wrong. but i like the first version alot more

well i would not go so far as to say i hated it.But i was very unimpressed. it had a ton of hype ect and for me just didnt even come close to liveing up to it. It was better than the first imo but like the first it just felt and looked very generic. To me it was just a plain fun of the mill FPS. Not a bad game just not a very good one imo. the one thing i can say is that iirc it has a deceantly long SP campaign. Iv def played much better and i wish i had waited till it hit the 19.99 or maybe 29.99 mark before i bought it like i did with the first game. .

I haven't had my PS3 that long and I recently played Resistance 1&2 back to back and here's the differences I noticed (In singleplayer) that could answer your question:

Resistance 1 was more of a throwback to the old school FPS games IE Doom, Turok, Quake, etc. Instead of this "Choose your weapon" thing that exists now, you got to keep all your weapons. You also had a health bar, which made the game a little more challenging and enemies a bit more threatening. The story was told in an interesting fashion and the art design, time period, Chimera, were all original. The game had charm.

Resistance 2 abandoned that in favor of a more modern shooter. Gone were all the weapons, the health was substituted for the freaking regenerating health thing that's oh so prevalent nowadays, and the unique storytelling. There was also less of it, it seemed. There were some enemies in Resistance 1 that changed up the pace at least a little bit. Like the Slipskulls, who jumped around shooting at you while they latched onto walls. The weapon selection wasn't as great either. Some guns, like the Auger, got an upgrade and made the combat more fun but other guns, like the Halestorm from the first game, were replaced with things like the Wraith, a pretty generic chain gun that every FPS has.

While I, personally, really enjoyed Resistance 2 because of the things it did right I think it's pretty clear why it was treated as a disappointment.

I never noticed hatred for R2 :? I liked the game, the campaign was pretty good and I love the fact that you can play co op online

I never noticed hatred for R2 :? I liked the game, the campaign was pretty good and I love the fact that you can play co op online

bigboss1203

I liked it but I wasn't into MP Games then.

It was completely different to the great standards Fall of Man set. Graphics were mediocre, gameplay felt like a First Person Ratchet and Clank game but with awful blood effects, story was poorly told with rubbish characters, and the graphics were too bright and colourful

I never noticed hatred for R2 :? I liked the game, the campaign was pretty good and I love the fact that you can play co op online

bigboss1203

Everyone praises the first one like all get up and go but a lot hate the second one with a passion. They changed some things around yes, but not to the degree as what I am hearing. A lot of people say that the second one looked bad as was generic but no one says explicitly why. R2's graphics are better than the first. It has more color than the first one making things look better. Claims of it being of rip off are weird since you could say the first one was a rip off of all the old school shooters like doom, wolfenstein, and turok. I don't really get how people can say the first game was unique when it technically was not. People's complaints about the second game could easily have been said about the first one. The only thing I can think of is since that the first game played old school, it was seen as unique because people have not done it a while. Resistance 2 modernized everything since people have been playing games like Halo, and Call of duty for a long time, they saw it as generic.

This was the worst $60 bucks i have ever spent on a game i played it for like 1hr then threw it with the older consoles in the storage i would have been better off giving $60 to a homeless guy

I agree 110% it was a generic attempt at a sequel. Loved the first for it's simplicity and splitscreen co-op. There needs to be more games like Resistance 1.

Y"all just haters. I love R2.

atleast it had 2 player online coop, I wish other fps did that. (and I found the first one boring than the second one).

it's pretty good :D

but I feel like the first is better overall, much harder I think, more eneimes, you die quicker ,and the addition of co--op in sp campaign is great :D

played 45 minutes of it @ a friends house ^^

plan to pick it up soemtime

I got so bored of it. I'm not sure how far I made it but I stopped playing. It's on the shelf collecting dust.

I got so bored of it. I'm not sure how far I made it but I stopped playing. It's on the shelf collecting dust.

SOedipus