Resistance's rather odd twin

Posted Jan 2, 2007 at 3:35AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: aliens, Area 51, Atari, Insomniac Games
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alien and resistance


Maybe the world doesn't really have an infinite supply of ideas. In our current realities now, there are probably a few remaining things that haven't been done already before. Fashion come and go. Hairstyles come and go. Pop culture is a recurring theme and the gaming industry is not at all spared.


Just take a look at this very peculiar similarity. We're pretty sure that you are all familiar with the picture on the right side. Why, of course, it's from the newly released FPS title Resistance: Fall of Man from Insomniac Games. The object of curiosity now is the one on the left. Believe it or not, it also came from a game: Atari 7800's Alien Brigade. Then it goes a bit more eerie. Here's the game's overview:

Alien Brigade is a first person shoot'em up in the vein of Area 51 via Atari 7800. Aliens have invaded the planet and have taken over the bodies of an army brigade. It's up to you to squash the illegal aliens and rid the Earth of it's foremost threat to civilization.


We don't want to read any comments saying Resistance pwned Alien Brigade, okay? The game, for Christ's sake, is from way before. We're just saying that it's a rather interesting similarity. There. You can go back hunting down Chimeras now.



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Comments [refresh]

by lawl - 2007-01-01 22:55
» Headline: Qj gets more desperate for news by the hour

lol

by Tom - 2007-01-01 23:14
» Squash illegal aliens? joke or racist?

i dont know

by Ne0z - 2007-01-01 23:23
» WOW..

uuuuummm..does Björk look like Jessica Alba to you guys too?? lol



THEY BOTH HAVE EYES AND NOSES!!! LOL!!!

by Moogy - 2007-01-02 02:02
» humm

We will know soon enough...



If someone comes out with with a FPS where you run around shooting alien ships from the sky and your only protection are bunkers on the ground.



The game could be called space invading...



LOL

by Kutibah - 2007-01-02 02:08
» lol

Haha, that is pretty funny but I really don't care, those chimeras are still awesome!

by wait - 2007-01-02 02:37
» wait

in resitance...do the ALIENS TAKE OVER THE HUMAN BODIES?

by ... - 2007-01-02 04:55
» i don't get it

if you're not trying to make something out of it... why post it...?

by Who cares - 2007-01-02 10:14
» Who cares

Resistance is a great game, good story and online has alot of options not to mention its 20 on 20 and runs smooth as hell...... its a all round great game......... a must have for any ps3 owner

by Gamer - 2007-01-02 10:40
» Hmm

Well, the Chimera are a biological experiment by Russia, instead took them over and i'm guessing created a Chimeran virus. I aleady ended the game and i still feel a little foggy on the storyline. I know they are from biological experiments in Russia. But, how they took Russia isn't explained.

by theTick197 - 2007-01-02 14:00
» ...

They took over Russia by way of their superior brain power and technology.

by lol - 2007-01-02 14:56
» mahesa

but in resistance there not just aliens there chimeras. an dthey have 4 eyes not 2 *end sarcasm*

by Spector - 2007-01-03 06:52
» sort of

That theory about the Chimeran orgin is probably not the one most people go with after figuring all the intel. Since there were large structures like that of the Chimera's found burried underground in the US laying there almost dormant. Some people think the chimera could have been around on this planet a long long time ago. Nobody can be totally sure of any of this though read the myresistance.net forums if you want to see.

by ObiKKa - 2007-01-04 06:24
» Resistance is f*cking *****!

Resistance is absolutely the definition of a cesspol of turd *****! Why? Coz Insomniac really did screw up the whole nonsensical premise! Pretending as if WWII didn't happen, plus aliens or mutants taking over Europe before & around that time. OMFGWTFBBQ!!!



If it had been set in a modern or near-futuristic setting, where the old big events that have happened in real life haven't been changed or omitted (usually the right thing is to usually never mention these events at all) then I'd have been more accepting of it. Exceptions include the ones that are very comfortable enough to have enough sense of believability to it, like the hypothetical scenarios soon after the WWII eras, where the Soviet & the Allies continues to fight each other in such games like the 2D wargames (Hearts of Iron), or a game like Fallout that has the Nuclear apocalypse happening on the Earth so as to vastly ruin it & making you feel fear at the possibility of it happening in real-life!



Of course, I do like totally abstract worlds like the Psychonauts, the platform games, the medieval fantasy games (these latter ones are sure believable, plus the Jap ones are set in worlds created by imagination). I don't care about whether we will never see it in real life or whatever. We've seen these sort of things time & again in cartoons, and other media formats. But this premise in Resistance means that this game shouldn't have even been released at all! This is an embarassing affront to our humankind! The Insomniac members were so lazy & more than uninspired, which has even surprised me considering their previous games!



I can't believe that some people would stoop to that low level of standard, if it's even a standard at all when you consider the pathetic premise, to play that game! You're only desperate to play this game, because it's supposedly the only 'decent' game out for the PS3, right now. LOL!

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