Epic Duel: Resistance: Fall of Man vs. Halo 3

GameXtract writes "Okay everyone, first I would like to welcome you to the premier of GameXtract's "Epic Duel". In these articles, we will be comparing games that are either of similar genre, released on the same day, or pit against each other by the media and the gaming community. For our first Epic Duel, we've decided to put Resistance: Fall of Man against Halo 3. Reason? Well, they are both first-person shooters, and they were pit against each other by the gaming community. So if you're ready, let this Epic Duel COMMENCE."

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[jack who]

this is a joke

[OmarJA]

i know halo 3 sucks

[theKiller]

i rarely read something that bias was not into it!!

amazing review, now i wish all reviews look at games like Jeff Hyma did (the reviewer)!

its really unfair comparison yet R:FOM in some thing was better than halo 3 and it was a launch title!!!

i really wonder what will resistance 2 will do?? it will crush both halo 3 and gears of war 2!!

and i dont even have to talk about killzone 2, R2 will finish the job that master chief didnt finish!!

[Zhuk]

Comparing one of the greatest titles in gaming history (Halo 3) to a mediocre launch title (Resistance) is absurd. Only Xbox 360 and Halo 3 have the makings of a true AAA title

[play_b3yond]

Good joke buddy. Everyone knows Halo 3 sucked a$$. How could you call Galo 3 a AAA title. 6 out of 8 of my friends who bought Gaylo 3, traded it, in the first week. The game doesn't even look like a M rated game, more of a E rated sh!t. But you are right about xbox being the only consol capable of making AAA titles such as Infinite Undiscovery and Too Human.

[juuken]

...Like Flop Human and um...Infinite Floppery?

Come now, are you serious? The only game on the 360 that interests me is Ninja Gaiden 2.

militant07: Yes, a girl that's interested in NG2. This is a girl who beat all four modes in Ninja Gaiden Sigma and could have probably done it with the original one and Black.

You fail.

[CrazyOrange]

a Girl intersted in Ninja Giden 2 ?
LMAO

[OmarJA]

hey yo Zhuk what happend to infinite undiscovery & Too Human ?

THEY FLOPPED

[cemelc]

How can this @sshole compare graphics? its a game that came a year and a half from resistance 1, aside he said its unfair(if it is so unfair why even bother putting it just tell that "this category does not apply and move on).

And online? of course it would win every game has tendency of ripping of the things that made other games great halo did that too.

The funny part is Story wise Resistance Wins, in weapons too, and in characters also, so is practically he is saying the single player was better at Resistance 1 than in Halo 3.

In the end you want a fair match why don't you compare halo 3 multiplayer against COD4 and see who survives?

[big shadow]

i would have to say halo 3

[Overr8ed]

you know what, i have to agree to disagree. Halo 3 was good (had a lot of fun online) but the story was so bland for me. Resistance Fall of Man had go a little closer to the Single Player more then the Online itself. R:FoM had a good Mulitplayer modes but it didnt vary as much as Halo 3. The thing is that Graphics is what matters in the 'Duel' its more of a duel who is going to keep their top spot for FPS games. Right now it looks like R2 is going to go ahead and make the game more deep with the new 8 player co-op with separate story and such. R2 just needs to work with the Graphics.

[cleanhealthy12]

RFoM > Halo 3

Halo 3 >>>> R2

[Cenobia]

@1.2 ........

The "alligator" eats the bigger number, so I'm fairly certain you screwed up what you were trying to say there.

Either way I don't really see Resistance being better than Resistance 2.

Comparing the main xbox exclusive to a PS3 launch title doesn't really seem fair. Why not just wait for R2 and compare those?

[uie4rhig]

would make the ultimate FPS game :)

but yes i kinda agree with this article ..

[IaMs12]

Cenboia re read what he was saying... basicly he saying RFOM is better then HALO 3 and HALO 3 is better then RFOM2... basicly his opinion is RFOM 1 beats it all... just because you love the first one doesnt make you love the 2nd game..

[Cenobia]

@laMs12 - But how does that make sense? How many people have actually played Resistance 2 in its entirety? I don't think anyone has played enough of it to rank it as lower or higher on the scale of greatness with Halo 3 and Resistance.

I was just pointing out that the comment made no sense. Plus, if he enjoyed RFOM more than Halo, I would assume his preference would be for the sequel to the game he enjoyed most. I can't make logical sense of it.

[CyberSentinel]

http://vgchartz.com/games/g...

I'd Say THAT's Epic!

Resistance:Fall of Man

Only shipped 3 million.

http://vgchartz.com/games/g...

I say "shipped" because the game had to "GIVEN AWAY" for free, in order to achieve that number!

Blind Lemmings, I bet You Think Motorstorm "SOLD" Well Too.

Only Sony would claim a "greatest hit" on free software.

That's like saying "Wii Sports" sold well. LMFAO.

[DarK-SilV]

Man you are tool, to think that sells defines greatness, I played both games I finished Resistance and I couldn’t finish Halo 3,because it sucks, Halo 3 has nothing to brag about, average gameplay ,mediocre graphics Resistance is way better then halo 3,Gears of war is 100 time better then halo 3,
I don’t know how this game got 10, this game has nothing,I just can’t believe it
I’m not trying to be fanboy but seriously this game deserve 8 or 7

Please take your gaylo3 and throw it in the garbage

[juuken]

...Quality over quantity.

Just because Halo 3 sold more, doesn't mean it was a quality title. It was overhyped to death, just like it's predecessors. And before you talk sh*t about how I never played Halo 3, I have played it at my brother's house...until the controllers kept disconnecting. -.-

[Overr8ed]

VG chartz really? any ways you have to think about the install base too, their really was no other game to get other then Halo.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Only the Developers should worry about Quantities.
Us Gamers should ONLY worry about Quality.

I Thought people knew this already, so to sum it up
Numbers do not tell you how good a game is, here is
an Example, if That game is advertised ALLOT it SHOULD sell well right?

Or what if that game is the only FPS/RPG etc that will be out
on that system for the next several months, that should sell
well to right?, what about the fact that at least for the Halo
franchise that is the XBOX's mascot title, so in other words
IT Better sell well or the 360 would be in Trouble.

[clintos59]

How about we do the same thing this time around and compare halo 3 vs Resistance 2.

Guess we dont have to even compare them since its such a lop sided win for Insomniac. Resistance 2, flawless victory in every catagory. :)

[Soren the Cat]

you've played resistance 2?

[Man_of_the_year]

Thats a pretty big statement - Halo is HUGE. All 3 Halo's has been met with nothing but great reviews...Resistance 1 has had some good reviews buch not so much as Halo. Now you are putting R2 up against the biggest Name in gaming history. As much as i would like to see R2 do very well on the PS3 i don't think it will be met with the same sales/reviews as Halo 1/2/3.

Halo is a word that doesn't just bring out the 360 fanboys and the Halo fanboys...The name alone also brings out the Sony fanboys as well...and i can assure you that if and when the Halo movie comes out - there will be just as many PS3 fans in the audience as there will be 360/Halo fans.

[brodels]

firstly, i'd like to say that to this day i play both games!! i feel like resistance is a very underrated game, and it's single player, though feeling a little rushed and needing a little more polish, definitely beats Halo 3. however, while resistance is very fun online, i like halo 3's maps better, and the online community as a whole is better with halo 3. again, i feel like resistance was rushed, but resistance 2 will probably be much more polished. halo 3's online play is outstanding, but i didn't like the single player all too much

the weapons in resistance are way better than halo 3's

[Zulwarn]

halo (proven franchise,AAA,the game that revolutionized console FPS) >> >>>>>>>Re sistance(unproven crap, flop, not even AAA ,slow crappy game play ,jagfest, the crap that only sold because there was/IS nothing on the bs3)

[alakazzam]

damn your narrow minded

[habsfan9]

Do you have a life, or do you drive to Bungie's headquarters every day to suck all their d*cks?

[cemelc]

You mean that halo revolutionize the FPS genre in the console i tell you games that did that:

Goldeneye
Perfect Dark

Halo combat evolve(Didn't change the genre at all, just was a good FPS)

Halo3 did nothing, it wasn't even a good game, the plot was garbage, the weapons were a rip of other games(bubble shield Resistance 1 by the way), the cliffhanger at the end was pathetic

[Zulwarn]

@alakazzam
i can say the thing about droids.......... what difference does it make?

@habsfan9
does the idea turn your homosexual self on? keep THINKING freak!

@cemelc
being 1st with the idea and being REVOLUTIONARY are two different things

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Dude your so wrong, Doom did that already for
the Nintendo 64(Awesome game).

[predator]

why oh why compare a average shooter in RFOM to Halo 3...epic fail more like

[dachiefsman]

agreed.

Resistance had some unique variations to the FPS genre, but Halo 3 was and is the total package. I can almost guarantee on average per week there are more people playing Halo 3 online than Resistance.

The one thing that both sucked at was the story. I hated the end of Halo 3 and thought that the gene modification story of Resistance has been played out to many times.

[Mwaan]

Is in no way an insult to Resistance. To me, Resistance feels like an old PC shooter. I have yet to play something that can match Halo's smooth controls.

[rexor0717]

I liked resistance much more. I like the scale, weapons, story, and overall feel more. Halo is fun, but for me, Resistance was above it. I know sales of Halo dominated it, but that doesn't matter to me. If I liked Halo, i would have bought an xbox...

[crippler666]

Hey I have an idea, can we please do Halo 3 vs Resistance 2?? Can we please??? Around the same amount of time wise between Resistance-Halo3 and Halo 3-Resistance 2....

[LarVanian]

Resistance had a 12+ hour story with very good, detailed graphics. It also had a huge variety of enemies and the action set pieces where completely insane.
It also had a very fun multi-player aspect with 40 players in one game.
Not to mention, the weapons where the best thing about the game. You could shoot through solid walls, shoot out force shields and tag onto enemies.
And to top it off, the game was only a launch title.....................Oh yeah it also supported 720p "native" resolution.

Halo 3 had a boring 6 hour story, with PS2 visuals and sub HD.
MicoSoft and Bungie knew that people would buy the game no matter what so they just decided to make the game sub-par.
And to think the game came out just as the 360 was entering it's 3rd year where as Uncharted (Which was a visual wet dream) came out as the PS3 was entering it's 2nd year.

[Shroomy]

Halo 3 actually has some graphical style, and some awesome HDR effects, never mind the resolution consoles struggle to do 720p these days.

Playing Resistance coop me and my friend kept hoping there would be some set pieces in it, but the repetative AI made that very hard.

Halo has some of the best AI in the FPS industry, simply said you won't have this much fun in any other game. Call Halo over hyped all you want, if it weren't for it there would be no decent shooters on the consoles.

I pick Halo 3, because I actually want to have fun not obsess about quantity.

[LarVanian]

""Resistance looks like a late PS2 game with sharper textures?""

What the hell do you mean by that?
Did you play through the Chimeran conversion centers or the Chimran tower at the end of the game? Those levels looked awesome. Did you see the detail on the Chimeran soldiers you fought in the game? Very good I must say.
Plus man do not forget, Resistance 1 was a "launch" title yet still looked absolutely brilliant.

""never mind the resolution consoles struggle to do 720p these days.""

LMFAO! Is that all you can say? You can't even admit that Resistance beats Halo 3 in that area? lol.
Btw MGS4 (Which came out just a few months ago) does not seem to have any difficulty doing 720p.

""Call Halo over hyped all you want, if it weren't for it there would be no decent shooters on the consoles.""

I was calling ""Halo 3"" over-hyped, the other two games were no where near as hyped as the 3rd one.

""I pick Halo 3, because I actually want to have fun not obsess about quantity""

Well guess what? I pick Resistance, because it not only offers quantity but quality too.

[Shroomy]

I mean't the only graphical appeal is in the textures, because it looks so bland at times, and yeah I played through the whole thing with my friend on coop in HD, wasn't too impressed with the graphics, launch title or not.

"You can't even admit that Resistance beats Halo 3 in that area? lol.
Btw MGS4 (Which came out just a few months ago) does not seem to have any difficulty doing 720p. "

Err, what. I don't have to admit anything, I couldn't care less what resolution it runs at, I know I'll be playing it in real 1080p soon enough when it comes out on PC.

MGS4? that's not a graphical showcase mate, maybe on the PS3 but not on all platforms.

[LarVanian]

You officially lost all your credibility by saying that.
Please explain in full detail as too how the game is not a graphical showcase?
If MGS4 is not a graphical showcase then what the hell is?
And please do not say Gears of War 2. Unreal Tournament 3 and Uncharted all look better than that game. And do not say Crysis either.

[Shroomy]

God I swear you'd defend it to the death, graphically? no it's not, animation wise? Yeah, there is a difference in the two.

Gears? No
UT3? No
Uncharted? No
Crysis? Why yes of course!

[LarVanian]

So you have basically admitted that Gears 2 does not look as good as MGS4?
Well I guess there is no graphical showcase on 360 either since you, the apparent "know it all" just admitted that Gears 2 (The apparent best looking game on the console) does not look as good as MGS4.

[Shroomy]

It's not relevant to the topic nor your comment, you bring it up for what reason? The consoles in general aren't no graphical showcase either mate.

I'm a know it all in your opinion? Jee thanks bud! :D

[kevnb]

Maybe throw in Resistance 2 to make it fair.

[Cajun Chicken]

Its Halo3...bear in mind, its only Halo3 because of the inclusion of more vehicles, Bungie had two other attempts in a previous gen and had the formula right for multiplayer right from Halo1 in splitscreen and even had a lead character with great appeal and familiarity.

Comparing a new IP from a developer that primarily made AAA Platformers before making and having the pressure for a first party FPS launch title? Bah, stupid. Not fair. Bungie more or less always made FPS, Resistance was a brave move for Insomniac and it paid off.

Although I would say that I enjoyed the campaign mode and most of the weapons in Resistance more than Halo3, because Halo3 didn't really offer much different in arsenal from the original and didn't even come near to beating the sense of adventure in Halo1 and even the graphics didn't change much from Halo1 to 2, to 3. Instead Bungie insisted on focusing on the engine and the multiplayer section.

Halo3 was a personal disappointment (what was I expecting after '2, I guess) and discovering Resistance was a bonus.

What would make more sense is comparing the multiplayer modes of Halo3 and Warhawk.

[DarK-SilV]

@

[pp]

Please stop embarrassing your selves driods Halo is AAA theirs no competition you all droids FAIL

[alakazzam]

why would anyone listen to you, you cant even put sentences together properly

[PiTCHBLaCK]

pp changed his avatar to the Windows logo, Ya know
pp your Like the biggest fanboy on this site, your avatar
proves it, stop hating just play your fricken game of
your choice, It's awesome to have choice!.

[dale1]

put it against resistance 2 and killzone 2 for a fair comparison resistance 1 was good but it was a launch title enough said

[Vicophine]

I had more fun with Resistance, Halo IMO was just a Halo 2.5, it was Halo in HD (sub HD technically) so it felt old to me.

[creeping judas]

kinda of digressing here with the editions. but id have to say that Resistance is to PS3 what Halo:Combat evolved was to the og XBOX. Both amazing launch games with amazing story driven game play!!!!

[tatotiburon]

sorry but the succes of Halo in the original xbox was huge, the reviews were amazing, sold very well and was a GOTY...Resistance was a normal good game, wasn't the same

[pain777pas]

You are very right. That would be a good comparison.

[Sitdown]

I never finished either game....only spent 7 minutes or less with Resistance....was playing Halo 3 multiplayer, but my Live gold subscription ran out......so right now, they are both dead to me. Perhaps I will rent Resistance again...to see if I can get into it.

[farhsa2008]

7 minutes? that is pathetic, you should be ashamed of yourself, you owe it to yourself and fellow gamers to complete this game, it is worth the while

[rexor0717]

It is incredibly fun.

[Pixel_Addict]

Halo 3 was released 2 years after the 360's launch, and Resistance Fall of Man was a PS3 launch title. Also, I have never heard anyone, not even a fanboy, say that Resistance was Sony's 'Halo'.

[BigKev45]

Hmm... I say Gears of War.

[silverchode]

then i say mgs4. :)

[rexor0717]

Indeed.

[ptmidos]

Comparing Resistance with halo is like comparing Leyend of Zelda with Final Fantasy, its not the same.

[thehitman]

So cant speak about that. BuT i have played res1 and halo 2/3 and Res1 is way better than halo2 from all standpoints graphics/gameplay/story. Now I think halo2 is way better than halo3 but I cant say res1 is better than h3.

[kevnb]

So what are you trying to say?

[PiTCHBLaCK]

He is saying Res 1 is better then Halo 2, but Halo 2
is Better then Halo 3, But he cannot say that Res 1
is better then Halo 3, as for me I Could care less
what one is better, Never played either one.

[running rampid]

puh-lease. resistance is a great franchise, one i wish i had on the 360, but compared to the halo series it doesn't do well. as good as RFOM was, halo 3 is the standard to which all other FPS games are compared. for me, it is the the most refined FPS experience available on a next-gen platform. (halo:ce is the most refined FPS experience available on last gen platforms imo)

just my two-cents

[alakazzam]

COD4 is the standard to which most fps is compared now.

[rexor0717]

Is better...

[lowcarb]

COD4 sucks in my opinion and is way overrated. Also Ive played RFOM and dont think it comes close to any Halo game.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Doom and Quake is the ones who really put FPS
on the map, Thanks ID :)

[running rampid]

you're right alot of FPS games are compared to COD4, but to a lesser extent in comparison to halo 3.

[silverchode]

resistance for the single player
halo3 for the multiplayer.

[bigman7387]

How about Gran Turismo 2 vs. Forza 2? I mean they both have two's in the name, right?

[PiTCHBLaCK]

I Agree, Kinda unfair and a low blow
to Compare Res 1(first game of the series) to
Halo 3(Third game of the series).

[FantasyStar]

I like the fast pace action of R:FoM, keeps me on my seat, backed up by a unique way to play. However the artificial controls made me feel like I was playing a game, rather than being in the game. Halo 3 had a much smoother control set and felt more comfortable.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

Why not compare Resistance: Fall of Man to Perfect Dark Zero launch title against launch title. Better yet when Killzone 2 comes out compare Halo 3 to Killzone 2 to see who comes on top. By the media it was said to be the "Halo Killer" so it makes sense to. Wait in Jeff Hyma (Author) it makes more sense to compare a launch title with a three year big budget development game, lol.

The only why to make XBOX 360 look good is to compare launch titles with heavy hitter than to compare launch titles to launch titles.

[Lucreto]

Not really a far comparison really.

Halo is the third game in the series and they know what they are going.

Resistance is the first proper shooter from Insomniac which have only done Ratchet games up until now. They said Resistance one was taped together and done with the basic knowledge of the cell.

Resistance 2 would be far better as they started from scratch and have a deep understanding of the cell.

[pshizle]

i prefer halo3

graphix on halo3 1080p look very colorful and amazing especially in single player! which i like more better than resistance

even though resistance has more people i think halo has always been king in multilayer. and yes i know there are other good multilayer games out there!

there are more features in halo3 which makes it a plus!

[ar]

I don't get it why the article writer complains at the lack of vehicle sections in an FPS. It's like complaining there isn't enough gun wielding parts on foot in a racing game.

[squall2099]

PLAYSTATION POTHEADS all must go down
stop hating on the 360, the 360 will not end up like the sega dreamcast. ps3 potheads listen to sony and get shafted up the aZZ with all these lies there giving you. shut the hell up and bow down to the king baby, all xbots rise and take your place above ps3 once and for all

[pixelsword]

...once they get their consoles back from the shops.

Just kidding, everyone.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Since when is pot bad?, not that I smoke it but
I don't think it's bad.

Just take a chill pill and live a little.

[TheCagyDies]

Halo 1 = Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Resistance 1

[UNCyrus]

The author is comparing a game released 1st gen on a system that that of a 4th gen, at least! Moreover, when talking about RFoM, he was using pictures from the upcoming title R2. The author is just a plain idiot.

[dan88123]

They compare Halo 3(biggist game on the xbox) and resistence(launch title). The guy gave 3 points to Halo 3 and 2 points to Resistence. So this guy is saying Halo 3 is one point better than a lauch title that took one year to make. LOL

[xg-ei8ht]

Funny stuff indeed.

Even more funny, a friend of mine bought a 360 with halo3, was so annoyed it was a crap game, not only took the game back, but also the 360.

Not everyone gets sucked into hype.

At least he got his money back

[MRMagoo123]

For all the ps3 haters maybe you should give resistence a try the story is really good and the weapons are of the high standard that ppl expect from insomniac loads on innovation in every gun.If its by overall gameplay ide say resistence wins but if its by shiny fluro suits lol then halo ftw

[Harri4444]

i love these game vs game things i want more. and R2 is way better than halo 3 I am looking forward to 8 player co-op its going to be insane.

[pixelsword]

Wanna do Star Fox versus Defender next?

[PiTCHBLaCK]

LOL, I'll choose Defender even though Starfox looked better.

[rbluetank]

halo is a lumber and gorilla tossing grenade and shoot type game.. The master chief is the slowest moving hero in a video game. I understand that he is 7ft tall wearing a baby diaper suit without a jetpack or booster rockets attached; but dam he is slow...and LUMBERING muther-ucker. An elephant after eating 5k lbs of oranges,bananas,grapes and wheat grass and a 10k gallon of diet coke to wash down lunch could out maneuver M Chief on an empty stomach. the game is very slow moving and the online maps never accommodate the amount of people playing it. 8 vs 8 is the same map size as 1 vs 3...?? R1 nailed down this in 2006 and halo3 came afterward broke..?? Halo 3 in doors levels was no better then halo 1 at best and haze at worst. I am leaning torwards worst.. The out door parts were no better then Haze at best or halo1 at worst. R1 wins it all in my opinion.

[SmokingMonkey]

no moon physics here, and better story

[Cesarcsrf]

Halo 3 aka Halo 2.5

great single player

online, sucks

RFOM
great single player,awesome online

just my opion..

[Morgue]

How is this news? and the writer of this article should have compared Perfect Dark Zero and Halo 3. I still play RFOM and traded in Halo 3 A LONG time ago and to think I actually waited in line for that game, what a complete waste of time and money was. H3 is the Phantom Menace of Video games.

[will562]

da heck u know resistance 2 won
AND Y U COMPARE RESISTANCE 2 TO HALO
RESISATANCE 2 ALL DA WAY