Resistance: Fall of Man (2006) (VG)

Director:

Brian Hastings

Writer:

Brian Hastings (additional writer)

Release Date:

11 November 2006 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Cast

Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy	...	Parker (voice)
Peter Jessop	...	Lt. Cartwright / Additional Roles (voice)
David Kaye	...	Nathan Hale (voice)
Greg Ellis	...	(voice)
Nolan North	...	(voice)
Robin Atkin Downes	...	General Hadley (voice)
Daran Norris	...	(voice)
Chris Edgerly	...	(voice)
Brian McCole	...	Buckler (voice)
Wally Wingert	...	(voice)
Steve Blum	...	Soldiers / Black Ops (voice)
Travis Davis	...	(voice)
Paul Mercier	...	(voice)
Fred Tatasciore	...	(voice)
Armin Shimerman	...	(voice)
Richard Steven Horvitz	...	(voice) (as Richard Horvitz)
Jon Curry	...	(voice)
Jason Connery	...	(voice)
Sean Donnellan	...	(voice)
Craig Robert Young	...	Various (voice) (as Craig Young)
Patrick Logan Pace	...	(voice) (as Patrick Pace)
Enn Reitel	...	(voice)
David Shaughnessy	...	(voice) (as David Shaunessey)

Directed by
Brian Hastings

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Brian Hastings		additional writer

Produced by
Bryan Bernal	....	assistant producer

Original Music by
David Bergeaud

Art Department
Phil Allora	....	cinematic artist
Wes Louie	....	concept artist
Rolf Mohr	....	concept artist

Sound Department
Herschell Bailey	....	qa tester
Marc Mailand	....	sound designer/re-recording mixer
Chris Olander	....	audio apprentice
Jackie Weyrauch	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Gerhard Borchers	....	lighting artist

Animation Department
SungJin Ahn	....	animation intern
John Lally	....	animator

Other crew
Terrance Cohen	....	senior software engineer
Corey Garnett	....	network engineer
Neil Moran	....	service coordinator
Aurelien Poma	....	community coordinator
Dan Southworth	....	motion capture artist
Jason Tonick	....	miscellaneous and assorted crew

Production Companies

• Insomniac Games

Distributors

• Sony Computer Entertainment America (2006) (USA) (all media) (PlayStation 3)
• Sony Computer Entertainment Korea (2007) (South Korea) (all media) (PlayStation 3)
• Sony Computer Entertainment (2006) (Japan) (all media) (PlayStation 3)

Other Companies

• Technicolor Sound Services  voice-over recording

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX (PlayStation version)

Certification:

USA:M | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R16 | South Korea:15

Company:

Insomniac Games

Trivia:

Resistance was the first game to feature a 7.1-channel PCM soundtrack.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Parker:[narration] The Chimeran threat began in Russia. The origin of the virus is unknown but it's effects were devastating and swift. In the nineteen thirties reports of biological experiments began leaking out of Russia. Then reports of villages destroyed overnight...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Troldspejlet: Episode #40.16" (2008)

This Insomniac masterpiece will sure give me insomnia for a few nights...

Finally, Sony released the powerhouse known as the Playstation 3. The PS3 fan boys all remember the first PS3 show when Phil Harrison demonstrated just how powerful this technological marvel is. Now it's here, but how is all this power being used? Fairly good in my opinion! Resistance: Fall of Man (RFM) is a first person shooter (duh) for the Playstation 3 (double duh), set in the 1950's where all of Europe and most of Asia has been overrun by a virus, capable of mutating humans into alien creatures, known as the Chimera. The game is built up around the endeavors of the American soldier Nathan Hale, who is dropped in on an assault, on the city of York. From here, he too is infected, but not mutated. He thus becomes a powerful half-human, half-chimerian hybrid, and must now join his fellow humans in the battle against the vicious E.T. look-alike invaders.

The game itself runs in 720p HD, which is jaw-droopingly beautiful providing of course that you have a HD TV and a HDMI cable. Otherwise, the crisp details in the textures are washed away by jaggies from standard TV sets and SCART cables. Although the graphics are inconsistent from time to time, it is a very beautiful game on the bottom-line. The Blu-Ray discs really show just how much potential the machine has, unlike the X360's DVD drive. (Yes, I am a PS3 fan boy, please close your e-mail client.)

As for game play, the RFM is pretty basic. The enemies can take quite a lot of damage since there's little reason to get to cover. Just aim and shoot. However, the AI is strafing, dodging, ducking and jumping and aims irritatingly well. Rest assured, you'll be up for quite a challenge. The strong point in game play is the weapons. These are the guys that made Ratchet and Clank people, they have some twisted ideas for tomorrow's arsenal. Like the Chimerian standard rifle that can "tag" and enemy, so that all future shots will be homing to that position. Or the Auger that slowly goes through walls, and doesn't stop. It even has a force field for you to hide behind. Awesome!

And of course, there is the multi player. 40 people can kill some time killing each other with little to no lag. That's impressive. Sadly, the vehicles available in single player are nowhere to be found on the online arenas. I surely would love to blast through a wall with a tank and surprise a few unwary noobs gone camping.

The only problem RFM has, is that it becomes very linear at points. Even though the scenery is very different from one place to another, there're little to no cut-scenes, even though they are brilliantly done. All you get are 30-50 seconds of dialog and some black and white stills, and then a load of new aliens are thrown at you. Give us a tiny break please.

Still, Resistance: Fall of Man is a well done FPS, and for a launch title, the best on it's field. If this is the beginning of what we can see on the PS3, Bill Gates is in for quite a time. It combines the cool elements from classics like Halo and Call of Duty, with weaponry worthy of any childish inventor. With brilliant graphics that easily competes against X360 classics like Gears of War, I'll certainly will be on the lookout for a sequel. If you got a PS3, get out there and buy it!