My brother and I decided to play through Halo 1 and 2 again coopertively to get our groove and the concept of the storyline back in light of the future release (not too long now) of Halo 3. Besides, it was about time we did something together on a videogame as my attention up till about 2 months ago was on Resistance: Fall of Man and his was still on Kingdom Hearts 2. I finished Resistance 100% both online and offline. I got all the skill points, intel, online badges and medals and beat the game on Superhuman.
Now, playing Halo again, I have realized just how bland and obvious of a rip-off Resistance: Fall of Man is. Let's list the copies:
1) Nathan Hale vs Master Chief -Â both are that one man, suicidal army that is able to single handedly disrupt the plan's of an alien race. Both spit out corny one liners all the time. Both have the deep, determined, angry voice you'd expect out of that bad a$$ lead character. Both are relied on almost entirely by a large army of troops losing a war against an alien race. etc....
2) Enemy design - Are you kidding me? While Halo does not have anything to match up with the Crawlers and Rollers of Resistance: Fall of Man, Halo's Hunters and Resistance's Titans look exactly the freaking same! They're both the big guy with the guns that shoot the fireballs and both try massive melee attacks. Excuse my unknowing ways, but the normal sized blue and red villains of Halo are, in more ways than one, perfect models for what the Chimeran Hybrids are built as. They may not look 100% the same, but both move, fire and attack in almost the exact same way! Enemy weaponary may not be exact in design, but they essentially fire the exact same way aside from the Auger. The Chimeran rely on the same type of plasma/laser beam and energy ball shots of the Covenant....
3) Level Design - This is where things get sick. The rip-offs here are just painfully obvious. Anyone been to the Tower in Resistance lately? Let's start with the bridges in that tower. You know, the double layered ones with one coming almost immediately where you fight the flying Angel enemy? You know, those bridges are exact copies of the bridges found in the original Halo when raiding your way to Halo's control room. Every nick in the wall, every scratch on the floor....everything! Plus, any Chimeran tower you enter in that game looks exactly like every room in Halo. Aside from topside battling, when you start going inside of the Halo, everything looks like what Insomniac designed for the inside of Chimeran tunnels....it's painfully obvious. The winter levels in Resistance once you get to London, they look exactly like the ones in Halo!
4) Vehicle Presentation - The tanks are the same. The reload time for the cannons are the same, the alternative fires of the machine guns are the same...then the old army jeep you get in Resistance is intirely comparable to the Warthog. Problem is, the jeep sucks so, so bad in comparison to Halo's infamous All Terrain Vehicle. The sounds, the design, it's all way too similar in Resistance as it is to Halo.
Just thought I'd bring this up. It's sad that the biggest launch title for the PS3 had to rip-off the biggest launch title for the original XBOX so much. The foundamental gameplay of Resistance is still incredible, but the game is still so graphically inferior and unoriginal to justify my purchase of Sony's new behemoth of a console. *sighs* I have much, much more fun playing Halo on the my 360's backward compatability when I'm not already playing Gears and Crackdown. EB Games trade-in value or sell it on Ebay....what will be the fate of my PS3 if Lair doesn't deliver?
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