IGN uncovers Resistance: Fall of Man secret
by Ed Stasick 
{ Sep 14th 2006 at 9:33PM }
When we reported that 1UP had called Resistance: Fall of Man a Halo Killer, the anti-Sony fanboys came out of the woodwork in spades to defend their Spartan God. The number one complaint against Resistance? Terrible AI. Well, in an extensive preview by our good friends at IGN, it appears that Resistance may have what it takes in the artifical intelligence department... and then some!
"Perhaps one of the most impressive yet non-hyped things about the game thus far is its AI. Enemies range in intelligence depending upon who/what they are, so animalistic creatures will still be single-minded, but the soldiers are a different story."
It seems as if things are really coming together for this PS3 launch title. We can't wait. Read all about this Halo Killer (I couldn't resist) over at IGN.
[Via IGN]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aragorn @ Sep 14th 2006 9:58PM
every time I hear the term "halo killer" I cringe. I remember Metroid Prime being referred to as a Halo Killer.
Halo is what it is. It's a very complete package, and only with an extreme hatred for FPS or xboxes can you really fault it. It does everything well, but not spectacularly. But honestly, I wish we'd get over halo, cause the format is dated. the FPS genre really needs to evolve a bit.
And honestly... I really just don't want other developers aspiring to make another halo-esq game. we got enough of those on the xbox.
also, we need bioshock...
BAAAADLY.
there's a very large probability that I'm gonna grind the bioshock disk into a fine powder and huff it.
slacker @ Sep 14th 2006 10:05PM
This game looks cool. I am not gonna buy a PS3 asap because of it, but I will keep my eye on it. who knows? the online play seems to have potential.
ShadowedAsh @ Sep 14th 2006 10:14PM
Metroid Prime a Halo killer? Look at the back of the Tribes: Aerial Assault box for PS2. ;)
Ritchie Nolasco @ Sep 14th 2006 10:36PM
Whoever wrote the news with the "Halo-killer" tag is obviously unaware that Sony games that carried the tag failed sell as much as Halo itself.
Check:
November 2004 North American sales
Killzone (PS2)- 171,000
Halo 2 (Xbox)- 3,300,000 (including 2.4 million on November 9)
Worldwide to date
Killzone: 1,050,000
Halo 2: 7,700,000
Halo: Combat Evolved: 6,700,000
Yeah sure, call Resistance "Halo-Killer" all you want. By the time the PS3 hit the shelves, console sales will be weak and so will the game sales.
I would not be surprised to see Blu-ray movies outselling PS3 games.
And I would not be surprised to see this game fall flat on its face with the dirty ground like Killzone.
Scott Krueger. @ Sep 14th 2006 10:59PM
Call it what you want.
This game is looking awesome. From the Videos to the Pics.
Halo was a great game.
Halo2 Improved everything except the story sucked.
I thought Killzone was a pretty good game but it was not a halo killer.
Resistance just might be better than Halo, but it wont kill it. I jost hope it ends up being as good as it looks to be. I'm getting this one at launch.
Phoenix @ Sep 14th 2006 10:58PM
I agree with Ritchie here.
Why can't Resistance's publisher market the game as it is? Why always use Halo-killer to boost its image?
Come to think of it, Sony themselves ordered Official PlayStation Magazine in America to use the abused label with a certain 2004 issue featuring Killzone on the cover. It had a big "Halo-Killer" on the front. What an eyesore!
Kevin @ Sep 15th 2006 12:12AM
@Phoenix
As far as I know, Sony hasn't called it a halo killer. The only people to do that have been IGN and 1up. I do agree that using "halo killer" to describe Killzone was stupid.
alijah green @ Sep 15th 2006 1:09AM
AI still looks stupid to me http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/748/748483/vid_1670289.html
insane_cobra @ Sep 15th 2006 3:42AM
So wait, that's the big news? FPS games have had that at least since the first Half-Life.
I sure hope that "impressive" AI is not the one they showcased in the clips. Otherwise Resistance will look like a retarded baby next to F.E.A.R.
Animalistic creatures being less intellingent is a bad excuse for poor pathfinding.
RoboJ1M @ Sep 15th 2006 6:34AM
If anything deserves to be called Halo Killer, I think that should be BioShock.
God knows Irrational deserve it.
Having a quick look at the videos I can't see much more than graphical prowess.
And don't forget about Half Life 2 + Eps 1, 2 and TF2 and that other new thing they're doing. Let's see it kill that.
J1M.
la @ Sep 15th 2006 10:13AM
Now Ritchie you're going to hate me for this but here goes ahem.. Only reason Halo sold do much is because there wasn't anything else worth playing. I'm pretty sure if there was more choice in the XBOX FPS market it would have sold less. I contribute those sales to lack of choice and hype. I played HALO 2 up to this morning on my 360 now honestly are you telling me i did that because it's such a great game or the only game worth playing... Simple question.
Shad @ Sep 15th 2006 10:27AM
Why are people trying to label a next gen product a "Halo Killer" when Halo is a old and outdated current gen game? If that's the case then the only legit "Halo Killer" is Halo 3.
Pedro Van Faulk @ Sep 15th 2006 10:44AM
Yeah, I have seen FoM AI and it is beyond crappy. The enemies will actually take cover behind objects smaller than themselves. And don't bring up flanking. EVERY FPS enemy can flank. The Flood can flank. Bullsquids could flank. HEADCRANS can flank. The real test is when the enemies can do all those behaviours INTELIGENTLY. PLay fear. Then watch the vids of resisence and tell me with a straight face that FoM has good ai.
insane_cobra @ Sep 15th 2006 11:17AM
@la
Halo wan't the only Xbox launch game worth playing, there were also Dead or Alive 3, Amped, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Project Gotham Racing... It was the only prominent Xbox FPS at the time, yes, but other consoles had FPS games way before Halo and none have matched the level of Halo's popularity (except maybe Goldeneye). So it hasn't become the institution it is today just because of hype and because there was nothing else to play, it was a damn good game. A little overrated, but just a little.
The same goes for Halo 2 which is still the most played Live game, both on Xbox and Xbox 360, almost two years after its initial release.
Aragorn @ Sep 15th 2006 1:43PM
RoboJ1M: you'll be happy to know that irrational games... the company who has always been poorly funded (in essence, they turned water into wine) is now so well funded, that after spending millions on the first draft (nazis?), 2k told them to keep trying. I am trying to imagine the awesomeness of Bioshock, but my mind won't let me. I may lose my mind!
La: While said accusation could easily be directed at a game like CoD2 (because... at launch, there was NO good reason to get a 360. all the 'killer apps' were delayed), I can tell you first hand that I didn't get halo just cuz I happened to have an xbox. Actually it went the other way around. I ended up going to E3 the previous year, where both the Xbox and Gamecube were being unveiled. Now, I didn't think much of Halo back when it was supposed to be a pc game. just looked like your standard first person shooter. But when I got to the Halo booth... well i actually remember how the usual sequence of events was 1) walk up to booth 2) hit the start button 3) turn around and soak up the atmosphere as the game loads. Well... this one time I went through my routine, by the time I turned back, the game had already started. god love caching. And yes, I thought it was a spectacular game.
but you also have to remember, halo came out at a time when Unreal tournament was king. The only truly good current single player game was half life, which had been around for a while. Beyond Half life it was all DEATHMATCHDEATHMATCHDEATHMATCH! And I can't tell you how refreshing it was to be back in the single player realm, let alone a game which, at the time, featured some great graphics, and excellent AI. So Halo, and dead or alive 3 (I had been a fan since the DC version) basically drove me to getting an xbox... and the only other console that I did something like that for was the Gamecube... metroid prime.
I'd also like to point out that the release of Halo 2 drove xbox sales up, so I know I'm not the only person who knew the halo name, and got an xbox because of that.
So in short, I find your ascertation to be false, at least in my case. there's your answer.
SuicideNinja @ Sep 15th 2006 2:11PM
"I remember Metroid Prime being referred to as a Halo Killer. "
I actually enjoy the single player of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 a lot more than Halo 1 and 2's multiplayer. Should that be a surprise though?
While MP2's multiplayer was fun and different, Halo 2 is very complete and very easy to get what you want out of online multiplayer. And it's still versatile. Those crazies at Bungie just keep coming up with wacko playlists. Beyond that, it provides an overload of those, in CliffB's terms, "Water cooler moments" where you can pull off some crazy work and talk about it several games down the road.
I think while Resisitance will be a better contender than that joke called Killzone. But I doubt it will kill anything except my hopes and dreams that Aliens vs Predator 3 will come out some day...and destroy them all.
Aragorn @ Sep 15th 2006 2:34PM
don't get me wrong, I wasn't putting down Metroid Prime. That was an awesome game, and spectacularly atmospheric. the point was simply that Halo and Metroid prime basically have nothing in common. yes, they're both first person, and yes they both have guns (and yes, they both are wearing super swanky suits)... but other than that... it's like comparing a nissan skyline with a kawasaki ninja. they both have wheels, they both have an engine... but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Quite frankly, I would sooner compare Metroid to a game like the legend of zelda... because... well they're basically the same game. metroid was just an adventure game that was in the first person.
Though MP2 rubbed me the wrong way. i have no idea which element did it, but it just wasn't nearly as enjoyable as the previous.
And in regards to aliens vs predator 3.... YES!!!! I keep thinking how the Doom engine should be used for that game only, and then subsiquently scrapped.
Adam @ Sep 15th 2006 4:56PM
So.. since people don't like how you call it "Halo Killer", it means we are anti-Sony?
That's some pretty fucken stupid logic there
Lachoy @ Sep 16th 2006 11:19PM
#8, How did video show crappy AI? To me it actually looked pretty decent.
Matt @ Sep 17th 2006 12:47PM
If this is the most hyped launch title...
1. It will suck hardcore.
2. PS3 is doomed.
Duncan Koss @ Sep 17th 2006 4:45PM
I still don't understand what is so great about Halo... I've never completed the single player mode because I always get tired of how repetitive it is, and I no longer play it multiplayer because I find the multiplayer to be too slow.
insane_cobra @ Sep 18th 2006 7:45PM
Combat, baby, combat. The level design is stupendously repetitive and some sections are among the worst I've seen in any FPS (that awful, neverending stream of The Flood encounters in The Library), but visceral combat is where it's at. It's pretty unique, too, or at least it has been at the time. The rechargable shield, the vehicles, well balanced weapons, heavy reliance on grenades, melee attacks, challenging enemy AI and excelent controls all contributed to making Halo a very fresh experience.
I still think it's a little overrated, especially since I come from a PC background, but it was great fun fighting through those battles.
If Resistance wants to repeat Halo's success (extremely hard to achieve - think of a game that would repeat the success of Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto), offering a similar experience just won't be enough. It will have to come up with something refreshingly new.