Played a good 30 minutes of the game and came away reasonably impressed.
It's certainly not a top shelf game by any means but I'm finding it quite playable and superior to the Insomniac games in some areas. For instance, the first person animation, aiming down sights, and camera movement are all far superior to what Insomniac delivered in the first two games. R1 and 2 were VERY stiff games and never quite felt solid to me. The gun modeling is much nicer than the first Resistance games as is their animation. This game manages to do a pretty damn good job with the "feel" aspect and that is pretty important in and of itself for a shooter.
I also appreciate how the quick "cinematic" sequences follow the Crysis model of staying in first person.
Despite awful preview footage, the framerate actually holds up really well thus far. While nowhere near as detailed as R3, it does actually run smoother than it did.
It's visually uneven but it is doing some things that R1 and 2 did not even attempt (such as environment shadows that actually cast on players and objects). Character models are a bit flat but look reasonable on a 5" screen.
I suspect it will never offer the types of quality scenarios that the best shooters tend to deliver but it definitely feels satisfying to play. We'll see how it continues.
Reminds of me of Gameloft games.
The main difference there is simply that this controls well. Gameloft games almost never do. I recently tried Nova 3, for instance, and found it to be almost unplayable in comparison despite some impressive visuals.
Same in UK/Europe.
