Cliffy B. rules... I hope Epic doesn't hate me cause I like Resistance:Fall of Man
Now that our favorite canine epicure CliffyB is finished making Gears of War, he's all ready to talk up a storm about it. And namely, how it's different from the competition. Cliff, like us (and "us" being Mike McWhertor), is a lurker. He confesses, "I'd be a liar if I didn't say I was searching through forums on occasion and you know looking at what the other companies are up to." And what are other companies up to? Gears will be going against the PS3's shooter Resistance. Is there room for both? CliffyB thinks so:
I played Resistance at Digital Life last week but looking at the way the game is played with your backpedaling shooting at lots of these little spider guys and you're, you know, you're running around all crazy and rushing right up to these guys and going through these kind of concrete pike filled tunnels; that's it's own game.
Gears is just not that game. Gears is much more about hide and go kill and flanking your foe and dealing with the scenario that we've proposed of enemies bursting forth from beneath you all the time, and they really feel like drastically different games. So, I mean, to play fair and be honest, I think that there's plenty of room for both products.
Note to aspiring game designers: As Cliffy demonstrates, it's perfectly acceptable to talk about the competitor's title with out slamming it. Eating puppies, though, not cool.
