First Halo 3 vs COD4, now Resistance 2 (Sony PS3) vs Gears of War 2 on Xbox 360
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: May 12, 2008 | 27 Comments
After playing games like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, the next game in their class has to equal them and be much more. On the upcoming games, we want features that are both different and unique, the good news is 2008 may be bringing just that. Last year it was COD4 vs Halo 3, but in 2008 we will see the Sony PS3’s Resistance 2 up against Gears of War 2 on the Xbox 360.
You can see a new video below explaining the features in Resistance 2 and some gameplay, this game will not only feature 60 players on one map, but it will also have battles within battles. They are taking the gameplay we love so much and adding some unique features, and that’s just why this game has not been released yet. Insomniac will make sure everything is right before they release Resistance 2 and looking at the video below, you can see it looking good.
While Gears of War 2 will look stunning, it does not seem to have added much from the last version, well not compared to Resistance 2 anyway and if these two are the big games of 2008, you need to give a lot more. The first Resistance game was not good enough in my opinion, I played it for a few hours but found it lacked what other games had. This sequel makes up for that in many ways and it looks like a lot more has gone into it. Gears of War 2 will have the better graphics by a long way, but if your talking gameplay, my money is on Resistance 2, but that’s if they can pull it off with the 60 player online play.
The biggest problem with some of the PSN games currently is hosting a game, on Call of Duty 4 you get many games starting and then saying “Host Ended Game”. This is very annoying and what should have happened, is the host role should have been passed to another player. If that situation happens again with Resistance 2 and 60 player online gaming, it will be a big fault.
Two other big upcoming games include killzone 2 and mgs4, but these are Playstation 3 exclusives. Watch the video below and let us know what you think of Resistance 2.
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That looks really promising…I can’t wait to see more on this.
Morne
I’ve played both and prefer Gears any day of the week. As far as sales go it will not be a competition at all. Probably a bigger margin then last time. Something like 5 mill to 2.5. Anyhow, kind of hard to say anything about Gears 2 features yet because they have yet to release any info. They have MS’s conference this week and an EGM cover story on mulitplayer in their next issue.
GoW2 Will beat it.
Resistance was longer and had better gameplay then gow, online mode was top notch, i own both systems, R2 & K2 will kick ass, Haze, mgs4, little big planet, tekken 6, are around the corner too, not much happening wid 360 very few new games. gow2 doesnt offer anything new, looks like a continuation of the previous title, R2 has promised alot & will hopefully deliver, bungie! make Halo 4, and showem all!
Wow you played a game thats not due out until November, that amazing lol. Gears of war i prefere but i have both, and are both very worth while games. I only really liked gears for the online play and it looked better on my TV. Resistance had better sound, and a longer more detailed story, “by a long shot” it took me just 5 hours to complete Gears of war on the 360 in the normal difficult and only 3 hours more in the insane difficulty lol. not very long.
Uh no, played both the originals. Pretty easy to pick up there with the sales reference to both lol. Anyhow, I’ve owned both of the originals and still love GOW2 that much more. I will only buy one come this November and I have both systems, it will be Gears 2.
Have both PS3 and 360, but 360 just crapped out for the second time. Much like two of my friends systems have. PS3 free online play, blu-ray player, wireless network, and Resistance made it more appealing to me. And I have yet to have a problem, unlike Micro$oft’s 360. Getting rid of all the 360 games, and going full blown PS3.
my money is on resistance.how can u miss 60 player,8 online offline coop,…and gears of war 1.5 is nothing but hey u can flipflop your chainsaw.man i dont wanna pay 60 dollar to flipflop my chiansaw.
To Lee:
To be fair, Gears sold 5.16 million, while Resistance has sold 2.77 million. I would like to believe that both will sell better, especially Resistance 2 due to the fact that there will be many more potential buyers than there were for the first. Resistance was a launch title, and we all know Sony had a horrible launch, but even with a shitty install base Resistance sold well. I’ll say Gears will sell about 6-6.5 million, and Resistance will hit about 4-4.5 million.
One other little thing RFoM2 will have dedicated servers just like RFoM, so there will not be the connection problems that plague P2P set ups…
Justr my $0.02