It can have all of the features it wants, but the problem with the first game is that the fundamental act of shooting bad guys was just very unsatisfying. It lacked weight and impact, it felt more like shooting someone with a squirt gun.

That's just based off playing the demo, I didn't play the full game and get to the later weaponry. The demo failed to interest me enough to even rent the game from GameFly.

I hope to god this is better than the first one. I don't know how it scored so high, because it was one of the most boring FPS's I have played in a while. Can't speak for the multi-player since I haven't played it, but apparently it is good. Unfortunately the same people that said this said the single player campaign was fun.

Man, I couldn't agree more, and I did play the full version of the game about two thirds of the way through. I just kept waiting to see one of the "super awesome weapons" the press was going on about, but nothing ever even started to interest me (let alone felt good to shoot).

Also, I found the art direction very unappealing, but that's more of a personal preference sort of thing.

It's should be possible... GRAW/2 had 16player co-op, although it never worked, but Resistance 2 has one advantage... Dedicated Servers. At any time 16players join the game in GRAW/2... half would drop on xLive.

You summed up exactly why GameStop became the owner of my GR:AW 2 copy very rapidly. There's no excuse for such shoddy networking. I had problems keeping 4 player co-op games afloat, even when all players were in California on fast cable connections. Someone would just drop despite having great connection speed with the host.

Rainbow Six: Vegas managed 16 players decently. It certainly wasn't perfect, but I played a whole lot of 16 player R6:V and that simply wasn't possible in GR:AW 2. And COD4 makes GR:AW 2 look shameful (COD4's own issues aside).

I rented Resistance a while back and strangely enough, I quite enjoyed it. It definitely wasn't the best FPS I ever played but considering it was Insomniac's first attempt at any game like that, they did very well with it. I didn't play a lot of online because most of that community (which is still large) is extremely good at it by now and I got consistently slaughtered. It definitely looks like they're taking that formula and polishing it up for the sequel which is cool. Online co-op will definitely be a lot of fun.

I don't know whether to find it funny or sad that you seem to be apologizing for liking this game (which earned a very respectable 86% from metacritic).

be that as it may... liking this game isn't something to be ashamed of or apologize for the "confessional" aspect might be more appropriate if he was saying he enjoyed a game that had been universally panned.

I'll just blame it on the haterade.

I hope Resistance 2 has more cathedrals in it.

Anything to get Microsoft off their ass and working on a viable dedicated server system.

It won't be the first either. Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Xbox had dedicated servers.

I know Rainbow Six had dedicated server but I doubt it was 50 players.

I probably would have liked the game more if the first 20 min werent so generic and feature some of the worst level design in a supposed AA Title.. Shame because most people said it did get better.

Wow, the 1up show details on this game show show some pretty cool features, multiple classes in the 8 player co-op mode is pretty nice, i heard them mention medic, spec-ops, support, soldier. Haven't seen this mentioned before.

Here I was thinking it was just me. I picked this one back up after putting it down a couple of months back. About the best I can say for it is that it encouraged me to start back up with GRID again.