What has me excited about Resistance 2, aside from the fact that it dispenses with the irritating use of a colon and subtitle? It features a rich alternate history, tight integration with the story of the first game, more high-tech weaponry to have fun with, and hints that Nathan Hale’s journey down the interstate of interspecies genetic mutation might not be as pretty as its benefits thus far of regeneration and stylish gold eyes. All of this comes courtesy of some impressive advertising on the title along with a little alternate reality game with a bit of star power. Speaking of interstates, folks in Los Angeles have been treated to a building-sized ad for the game featuring its building-sized Leviathan enemy.

The feature set is big, and exhausting all of its options could take you a good long while if you love to wring every bit of value out of your shooters. In addition to the single-player campaign you have 8-player co-op campaigns as well as various other online competitive team based modes. My brother James recently made it into the beta and he said the experience was unreal. One massive fight ended and he saw his PSN ID place in the 40’s on a scoreboard of 60 players in the match. Important note: the beta is hosting 60-man games that seem to be working well enough to actually end safely. That’s up from the 40-man games you could get going in Resistance: Fall of Man. Their network code has chops.

Update: I forgot to mention that the game has split-screen online competitive and co-op play, too. “Now you won’t have to stop leveling up your medic just because your friend is over!” Sweet.

Resistance 2 releases on election day in the US, November 4th, but you’d better go vote first before you pick up this game, you hear me? Anyway, to set the mood, check out the video shown above.

Seen on PS3Fanboy.