Why I Get Annoyed By - Resistance 2

In my opinion Resistance has to be one of the greatest series to appear on Playstation since Ratchet and Clank, or maybe Insomniac Games have a knack for creating something amazing.

I absolutely loved Resistance: Fall of Man and thought that it was  original in comparison to many other Sci-fi first person shooters. The story was imaginative and well thought out and the online was great. Partly because it was the first PS3 game I'd played online and also because as I later began to play more and more games online Fall of Man stood out as being a little different. For anyone out there who has played the game, might understand what I mean when I say that a 3 hour match of breach on the Nottingham 40 player map was incredibly fun.

So, eventually along comes Resistance 2, and again, the campaign was great and gripping. I could say that the online was still as fun, but there was a few flaws.

Firstly, the online components of the game were divided between competitive, which is the standard online stuff, such as team deathmatch and meltdown and then there was the other part, which was cooperative, where up to eight players could work as a team in a number of different co-op campaign missions.

The way the two online components had been created meant there was various different rank systems for each part. The competitive section had one leveling system, the co-op had three leveling systems, one for each character class and those would all be combined and added to make your main profile level. This meant if a play wanted to progress into the higher ranks and effectively 100% the game, they would have to play through each online game mode. This would become rather annoying if you only liked either co-op or competitive and not both.

Then the more annoying aspects for me came from within the cometivive parts. Firstly one of the games trophies, "Killing Machine" was and still is, put simply possibly the most annoying trophy ever. To unlock this beast of a gold trophy the player would have to total up 10,000 kills in ranked competitive matches. I've had the game since christmas 2008 and I've yet to get the trophy. And the fastest I've known anyone to get it in is 2 days and 22 hours of playtime. That's a rather lot of time on one game.
Having said about that though, I must respect Insomniac Games for now admitting that it was a rather over ambitious trophy to put into the game. 

Another annoying part is one particular weapon called the Hvap Wraith. The Wraith is basiclly a chain machine gun with a deployable shield as its secondary fire. It sounds great, but is bloody annoying then playing against a load of people using it whilst trying to get the "Killing Machine" trophy. When using a carbine, or pretty much any other weapon against the Wraith you'd have a fairly slime chance of taking the other player down.



Overall though as I stated earlier I don't dislike Resistance 2, or Insomniac Games in any way. This is just the first in a series of 'Why I Get Annoyed By...' posts.