Resistance: Fall of Man Review

Two of the most popular gaming settings are World War 2, and blasting aliens.In Resistance: Fall of Man on the PlayStation 3, you get to blast aliens during World War 2. Doesn't get much better than that. Except that it does - it's all done amid the next-gen sumptuousness of the PS3 graphics. So just how did those aliens wind up in WW2 anyway? Download the first issue of P3Zine to read the Resistance: Fall of Man review. Click here to read the full Resistance: Fall of Man review now!

Resistance: Fall of Man review
There’s a lot to be suspicious of with Resistance: Fall of Man. At first glance it seems like a game that’s been designed by committee using a big FPS venn diagram, as it fuses two favourite gaming scenarios: World War II and aliens. It’s as though some genius has realised both Call of Duty and Halo sell very well, so what could be better than a game that has the Allied forces of WWII blasting ET? While playing the game there’s a perverse pleasure to be had in ticking off every FPS cliché as they show up, but by the time you finish Resistance you’ll be in little doubt that this is possibly the finest game of the PlayStation 3 launch. The game’s unlikely storyline is contrived by setting Resistance in an alternate universe where WWII didn’t happen and the threat to mankind didn’t come from the Third Reich. Instead a monstrous race called Chimeras, the origin of which is unknown, has swept through Russia and is well on the way to conquering Europe. Of course there’s fierce human resistance and gamers are dropped into action on the British front as American solider Nathan Hale.Click here to continue reading the full Resistance: Fall of Man review!

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