Now thats what i call a shooter!

Wow, I can honestly say that after I played this game.. Simply wow. As stated in my past review I am a huge RPG nerd so it takes a little something to pull me into a shooter. And Resistance 2 brought a whole poundcake of sed something. The story in shooters as per the norm.. Well to put it simply they suck. Play Halo or Call of duty and you get the same old crap over and over. Yes there are the repeditive moments in any game but at least I was interested enough with the story and I liked the characters enough to play all the way through out of pure enjoyment instead of the feeling of (I will not let this game win!).

Now the story has something to do with an ailian virus thing that can turn people into the Chimara things you fight as normal tropps through the whole game. Now your main character along with a small squad of side characters that you fight alongside a good portion of the time are infected but you take some sort of shot to suppress the virus from taking your body while still earning the streangths of the chimara. Anyway as it progresses with the fight agains the chimara your character Nathan Hale, pushes himself fighting the creatures that he fails to take his inhibitor shot and you slowly turn chimara yourself. Now i'm not going to ruin any of the plot points or anything but needless to say shinanigans are had on the chimara's part. Tons of cool battles and sweet weaponry allow you pull som shinanigans of your own. One time in paticular i remember sitting outside of a house in an abbandoned city just waiting for a bunch of Grims to follow me outside (Grims are basicly like chimara zombies) And your revolver shoots manual detination rounds so i loaded about a whole chamber of them into the floor and doorframe in front of me and waited for them. As soon as they passed that point I pressed the other trigger and BOOM gooey chunks went all over the place.
Yes i know not the most einstein of tactics but an effective one none the less.

Now this ugly son of a chimaran lungfish was called the Laviathan. I'm dead serious it really wasn't that hard to beat but he was a really awesome monster. It tore buildings apart ate me a few times too .... I admit that i died the first time by chomping on perpose cause I wanted to see what it was like. But i digress. There are a few more bosses in the game and they all have there cool parts. But I wont ruin them in case you read this and wanna go buy a copy for yourself. But really the game does consist of mainly go here kill that run over here just asmost games but it tells it in a more compelling way so it helps cope with the games flaws. And yes there are flaws.
If you play it on the harder modes as I did my time through it is a frustratingly hard game to truly conquer.
Now lets talk multiplayer.

There is the compeditive multiplayer and the co-op multiplayer, Either has it's draws.
Compeditive first, See i've never really liked compeditive games I always like being able to help each other out but I can admit I had fun ripping through my buddy and a bunch of other people online with a Wraith (a chaingun)
And you can choose to be a Human or Chimera and you can mess with the way you look so your not the same model just textured up. There are various customisation options like what special ability you want what face you can even change your armor in the higher levels of gameplay. And joining and leaving a game is seemless. One time I forgot to check the private box on the game sheet and while me and my buddy were sniper dueling a guy came in without me knowing and blew the hell out of him. All I saw were chinks of my fallen friend fall out of a window. Even when moments like that happen you just have to find the humor in it. All in all I had fun with this part of the game.
Now lets rap about the co-op
I loved this part of the game. You can choose what you look like and your class then you and some friends or just random people if you trust them with your life, Get thrown into a mission based co-op funhouse with tons of baddies comming at you from every place known to man. In the first mission you can be spawned in an empty allyway that looks harmless enough. You know untill you pass the waypoint of death and all hell breaks loose with Grims comming over every wall around you from in front behind all sides and you and your team have to fend them off all while protecting your medics (trust me).
Now there are very few classes to choose from but they each serve a very special role in the group.
Spec-ops (thats what I play as) They have a burstfire rifle from the beggining and they can throw other party members ammo.
Medic They are THE lifeline of the group they can shoot a healing orb out of there gun that heals all people within a range, And there gun leeches enemy health and gives it to them.
Soldier They are heavy damage, They have the wraith and the secondary fire creates a sheild that can block enemy projectiles.
The more you level up in this part of the game you unlock some awesome looking armor. You end up looking like a beetle armored guy kinda. But the best THE best part about the multiplayer in resistance 2 is you can splitscreen!!!! That is missing from almost every game on the PS3 Yes I understand what people dont like about it but dont take it out for the people that like to play with there friends in close proximity.
So in closing I recomend this game with gusto for anyone that ownes a PS3. Now i better take off. Those Chimera look none too friendly.