I think the single player was hugely entertaining. Yes the story telling could have been more but I had so much fun playing the game. Also i heard people complaining about how you die so much. You must be terrible at the game if you die a huge amount. I played on Difficult and i was never stuck on one part.

I would like to know why people think the single player is (In the words of Vinny "Rubbish")

Because to a lot of people, it is.

"Because to a lot of people, it is."

It was bad. Really bad. They basically made a 10 hour game based on trial and error. The first time you encounter a group of enemies you are basically guaranteed to die until you figure out the spawn points and patterns.

Fortunately the multiplayer is good.

Srry but I got to agree with p4ddym1607 on this one.    I LOVE THE SINGLE PLAYER!   Dude, single player in this game rocks, the boss battles are intense, Cutscenes are good, I will admit that there is a little trial and error but unlike you im never guaranteed  to die, most waves of enemies i servive but there are a few that I do die. Yes, yes the multiplayer is better but the single player is definately worth playing!!!

I actually really enjoyed it. It's generic as hell and the story-telling is a bit woeful but I found the gunfights satisfying and the boss models satisfying. The problem with the bosses is that you never feel like your doing them much damage (they don't react to much at all and you don't get any visual representation you are doing much damage).

Having said that, I don't think it's "rubbish" at all. In fact I had a good deal of fun with it.

The game is still all about the multiplayer though!

NOT RUBBISH!!!!                                                   I agree

"It was bad. Really bad. They basically made a 10 hour game based on trial and error. The first time you encounter a group of enemies you are basically guaranteed to die until you figure out the spawn points and patterns.

Fortunately the multiplayer is good."

The first time through, I hated it.  Then I played it again though (I needed a trophy called OMGWTFBBQ) and it was actually much better the second time...or maybe it's just best if played on the hardest difficulty?  Either way, I enjoyed my superhuman run far more than playing it on difficult

Yeah I`m not usually horrible at FPS, I`m pretty good most of the time, but I died a shit load of fuck(way to many) times in this one.
But the single player wasn`t bad, ending sucked, story kind of...sucked but there were some awesome parts, like the huge boss and when you first see the city being attacked.

I really was digging the monsters on the Sub, and then the beautiful Kraken fight, but then I kind of realized...

There's not a single living American citizen here...  That boss fight was just use special beam wave weapon to shoot the monster....   There's no trick to these enemies...

Two problems, for me:

1 Absolutely no sense of being in a real place that had suffered a real disaster (the radio guy only served to remind me of the missed opportunity)
2 Piss-poor story-telling

Gameplay was fun though!

well if it's anything like R1 it's just "OMG LOTS OF ENEMIES BUT IM STILL GENERIC"

"well if it's anything like R1 it's just "OMG LOTS OF ENEMIES BUT IM STILL GENERIC""

"crunchUK said:

"well if it's anything like R1 it's just "OMG LOTS OF ENEMIES BUT IM STILL GENERIC""

I don't know why everyone crabs on about Resistance being generic. There are particularly XBOX franchises I can bring up that are also very generic but won't.

Much as I love Resistance though; I think the Ratchet & Clank games are on another level. Can't wait for the new one."

There are particularly XBOX franchises I can bring up that are also very generic but won't.

I thought the single player was okay. I liked it, but it could have been better.

"crunchUK said:

"well if it's anything like R1 it's just "OMG LOTS OF ENEMIES BUT IM STILL GENERIC""

I don't know why everyone crabs on about Resistance being generic. There are particularly XBOX franchises I can bring up that are also very generic but won't.

Much as I love Resistance though; I think the Ratchet & Clank games are on another level. Can't wait for the new one."

Because it doesn't have the word "Halo" in the title.

Apart from the Charmeleons where it took me a while to learn how to avoid them better I don't die that often within game. Overall I felt the Single Player was fantastic and I actually enjoyed the story as I considered R1 to have one of the best stories of that year so it was nice to be able to continue it.

"get2sammyb said:

There are particularly XBOX franchises I can bring up that are also very generic but won't.

Resistances single player is considered generic because its almost a carbon copy of  Halos gameplay ( a game were every single console FPS since the originals release has copied many elements from). The only thing that separates the 2 series is the atmosphere and story.

Look at it this way Halo came out, it had an excellent story, great graphics and the most intuitive controls and gun play of any console FPS yet. It' Wowed' people.

Doing the smart thing Insomniac  basically went the safe root and essentially just put Halos gameplay into a different setting in Resistance 1, They didn't add anything exciting beyond some pretty crazy weapon designs. Now the story and atmosphere was sub-par but the gameplay was solid and fun.

Then Halo 2 comes out, focuses heavily on both the multiplayer and single-player and ultimately the single-player just doesn't live up to the original game. Whilst still retaining the solid and fun gameplay from the first and adding in a few new improvements ( namely Duel Wielding and bigger set pieces) the story just fails. But the multiplayer is superb and clearly got a lot of attention from Bungie.

So then Resistance 2 comes out and guess what, the game still retains its solid and fun gameplay and adds a few improvements(namely bigger boss and set pieces) but the story like Halo 2s, just fails. And like Bungie with Halo 2, Insomniac did a great job with all of the multiplayer aspects of the game and its really fun."

"The only thing that separates the 2 series is the atmosphere and story."

• Too easy
• few new weapons
• story blowed
• no vehicle missions. =(
• Some of the environments were kind of bland

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• Too easy
• few new weapons
• story blowed
• no vehicle missions. =(
• Some of the environments were kind of bland

Just to name a few."

Well lets just agree that the PS3 Sucks and you should all be playing on 360's

"Well lets just agree that the PS3 Sucks and you should all be playing on 360's"

Well, I just finished the single player. At first I thought it was okay, but now I'm not even sure I'd be able to take it again to get throphies... I hated the whole experience, thank goodness the multiplayer is good.

The storytelling is laughable... I don't think there's one to be honest. There are too many instances were a weapon will be scripted and you'll just HAVE to get that to get thrpough the area... but no one says a damn thing about it. I have no clue how many times I killed Titans using normal weapons to later find that rocket launcher lying around. Everything is too predictable. If you find a sniper, than you'll most likely have far away enemies in just a few minutes. You found a shotgun? Get ready because invisible enemies are just aroung the next corner.
The boss fights were terrible... they look good, sure, but they are the stupidest enemies in the game... I never got hit, not even once by any of then, and I died a lot on the game. A lot. The last boss specially... seriously, that thing was pathetic.

But my biggest gripe with the game is the ally AI, because there isn't one. It may look like there are other people beside you on the battlefield, but they are there just for show. Enemies will only aim at you, no matter what you do, specially the bigger ones (Titans come to my mind). And you allies will never ever do anything to help you. Chimera would pass by them to melee attack me and yet they wouldn't even turn around. You are alone ALL the time, no matter if there are other people near you.

I truly hated, it. Of course, none of this changes the fact that the co-op is fucking awesome. But I don't think I'll be getting back to single player again.