If you’ve been reading about the “big” ps3 title Resistence: Fall of Man, thats supposed to be the big FPS game for the FPS. What supposedly makes this game a big deal is the fact they are shooting to have 40 player online battles, of course this wont use the standard peer2peer approach most games use. But the question opens up is this really the biggest online battle, does this mean the ps3 will have the biggest battles?
In short, absolutely NOT! Which game holds the title of largest online FPS? Is it a PS3 game? NO AND NO. The biggest game is a MMOFPS titled HUXLEY (for pc and 360), i mentioned this as one of my must have games when it was first announced a few months back, but from what i’ve read its going to be amazing, with battles of hundreds of members fighting on each side, with a world holding thousands (5000 was the last number i heard) with citys you can buy weapons in and then jump in an APC near the edge of the town and arrive in the batttle fields to fight it out next to hundreds of other soldiers.
So why the big deal over the 40 player fight for resistence? Because sony’s looking for something big to get peoples mind off the fact that many of their games multiplayer is still unsure and in the air, in fact a few (2 launch titles by my last check) have lost multiplayer completely, and other developers saying they have no plans to include achievement points making the field of games fairly uneven and undecided on what they will include. Why does playing game A net me points for my PS gamerscore but playing game B rewards me with 0 points? Thats the problem and thats why big announcements like 40 player online is all the rage right now.
But we’re smarter than just marketing glitz we know math and in math 5000 > 40, plain and simple.
Source: Inhouse (huxley at IGN and Gamespot and the Gamespy Preview)
