Resistance 2 (PS3)

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Resistance2 transports players across the Atlantic to a besieged 1950s Americawhere it builds on Fall of Man’s legacy. There will be bigger battles,spectacular landscapes and an even more gripping narrative told fromHale’s perspective – alongside an unprecedented online eight-playerco-operative mode in which players meet to tackle specially-designedcampaigns together.

The Resistance story continues to unfurl with protagonist SergeantNathan Hale. Having destroyed the London command centre of the invadingalien Chimera, Hale returns to the United States where he becomes partof a special programme known as the Sentinels – a secret weapon againstthe Chimera assault that the US government knows is imminent. When theChimera launch a full-scale aerial assault on both coasts, Hale and theSentinels find themselves in the forefront of the counter-attack.

The game’s multiplayer modes are also set to make a huge impact in thegaming world. Co-operative play, where players team up to tackle acampaign, can often feel constrained in levels designed for singleplayers. Not so with Resistance 2, where squads can undertake a fullyindependent online campaign built specifically for co-operative play –a feature that demonstrates developer Insomniac Games’ commitment toonline gaming. The large scale battles are combined with levels thatare designed to be slightly different each time you play. Up to eightplayers can join forces to face the Chimera together while choosingfrom three distinct class types. Players can also look forward to vast60-person online battles in which players join squads with distinctbattlefield objectives and fight it out on PLAYSTATION Network, thehome of multiplayer online play. The combination of squad objectivesand large player-count will give Resistance 2 the perfect blend of epicbattlefield chaos and intimate close-quarters combat.

Features:

• Huge-scale conflict involving gigantic battles against hordes ofenemies including new Chimera variants, deadly machines and fearsomeboss characters
• Gripping, atmospheric storyline set in a complex alternate history
• Squad-based online multiplayer for up to 60 players - with different objectives for each squad on the battlefield
• New playable characters for co-op mode – wield a chaingun as aSoldier, go Special Ops with a sniper rifle or heal your squadÂ’sinjured as a medic
• Huge online support with full player profile pages and networking through myresistance.net as well as full in-game clan system
• The third PS3 game from Insomniac Games – developer of hit titlesRatchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction and Resistance: Fall of Man.