Resistance: Fall of Man 2

[Llyranor]

Played a bit of PvP online splitscreen. It was surprisingly fun. Overall, fairly typical deathmatch, though. Less floaty/jumpy than Halo, but more deathmatch-y than CoD4 (you don't die from single bullets). With the large number of players, and the fact that you're more grounded in general and survive a bit longer, it led to some interesting firefights.

 

Team Deathmatch:

 

One of the maps was a subway level (2 levels) in which there were various corridors linking each other. Lots of flanking maneuvers, standstills at corridors/intersections with massive firefights. The various weapons are pretty fun. One allows you to deploy a shield, but you can't shoot while it's on. You have your sniper, your shotgun (awesome dual-shot secondary fire), your standard assault rifle. There's one that fires circular saws, which you can allow keep spinning in your gun to saw people up from up close. One is a grenade launchers that also allows you to spread fire everywhere, lighting enemies and allies alike on fire. One allows you limited 'X-ray' vision and shoot through walls (limited penetration).

 

You also get various powers. Half damage, spread area damage, etc. My favorite one is a team/radius-based X-ray vision that enables your team in an area to see all the enemies coming towards you for a limited time.

 

The second map was a city block, with airlifts flying you onto the rooftops. More vertical. Lots of long-range action. The level design from what I've seen seems pretty nice.

 

Skirmish:

 

30v30. Squads of 5. Each squad gets an objective, and also a rival squad on the opposite team. The objectives change dynamically, and you constantly get new ones. Mostly, it's capturing objectives. Something, it's killing or defending a specific player (best player on a team?) within a second time. Sometimes it seems objectives overlap, so multiple squads may try to get the same goal, leading to bigger firefights. Also, multiple objectives at the same time. There's a lot of crossover between squads. It's fairly well-implemented. Large map, but a good sense of direction.

 

Co-op:

Edited October 19, 2008 by Llyranor

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I like the zombies. And the game looks really cinematic.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I like the zombies.

 

Wah? Did you confuse this with the Left4Dead topic? I thought R:FoM has alien adversaries, not the undead...

[Nick_i_am]

It's got zombies.