Sony needed at least one good launch title to justify that $600 price tag and Resistance fall of Man is all potential PS3 owners can depend on. The game is your standard first person shooter with you being an American soldier sent to England to help fight off the evil alien race known as the Chimera which have taken over all of Europe.
Even though you’ve most likely played this type of game many times before it still offers a good story, good multiplayer and solid gameplay. One of the games stand out features is the weapons, each having a unique secondary fire. You have your standard assault rifles and shotguns but you also get to play around with some really cool ones too. For example one gun lets you shoot through walls and set up force fields to block enemy shots. The game also has some great big levels that feel epic, especially towards the end of the game.
Some problems I had with the game is that even though it’s very good it’s still generic. If you have played a first person shooter then you know the drill. The game feels fast and that seems like the way the developers want you to play the game, but you’ll get to points where you’re taking on large groups of bad guys and your forced to take cover and slowly take them out. The game feels like a run and gun type of game which is great especially with all these cool weapons, but you’ll most likely stick to just using a few weapons simply because they are more effective than others.
Multiplayer is good but a little to fast almost Quake 3 like. And with 40 players in a deathmatch it’s almost unplayable not because of lag, there’s none of that, but because you’ll end up shooting a guy whose shooting another guy that’s shooting you. Multiplayer has some cool game modes, ranking system and it’s free. Overall this is a good launch game for the PS3 and if you like first person shooters or need something to show off your PS3 this isn’t a bad place to start.

Score: 8/10

Review by JSlug83