Unphased by its recent fallout with the Church of England, Sony has announced that it's releasing the first new multiplayer maps for the Resistance: Fall of Man. To sweeten the deal, the global servers for the controversial shooter will go live on Friday.
The map pack will include two new multiplayer territories for players to shoot up churches – sorry, Chimerans – in. Sony's spiel on the maps reads as follows: “Launch silent sniper attacks across the snowy slopes of Westmorland, taking cover in the shadow of Chimeran architecture, or go below ground with all guns blazing to save autumnal Camborn from the plague of inhuman invaders.” That's Chimeran architecture, not Anglican.
SPOnG contacted Sony to inquire whether there are any buildings of Christian persuasion in the new content and was told, "there are no churches in the maps."
The maps will be available either in-game (thanks to a new feature) or through the PSN store.
The opportunity to shoot aliens with people who don't give a toss what church you're traipsing round comes with a small price: namely, the existing multi-player servers will be down between 2am and 6pm on Friday for us Brits while they are updated. Sony informs us that once the global servers are live players' online character sheets will have a flag indicating what territory they're from.
SPOnG's pleased to see that its recent spat with the CoE hasn't slowed Sony down as far as pushing Resistance is concerned. In fact, the controversy surrounding the game has proved the old adage, 'No publicity is bad publicity', with Resistance seeing a leap in the PS3 charts since the furore kicked off.
For SPOnG's review of Resistance follow us this way.
The map pack will include two new multiplayer territories for players to shoot up churches – sorry, Chimerans – in. Sony's spiel on the maps reads as follows: “Launch silent sniper attacks across the snowy slopes of Westmorland, taking cover in the shadow of Chimeran architecture, or go below ground with all guns blazing to save autumnal Camborn from the plague of inhuman invaders.” That's Chimeran architecture, not Anglican.
SPOnG contacted Sony to inquire whether there are any buildings of Christian persuasion in the new content and was told, "there are no churches in the maps."
The maps will be available either in-game (thanks to a new feature) or through the PSN store.
The opportunity to shoot aliens with people who don't give a toss what church you're traipsing round comes with a small price: namely, the existing multi-player servers will be down between 2am and 6pm on Friday for us Brits while they are updated. Sony informs us that once the global servers are live players' online character sheets will have a flag indicating what territory they're from.
SPOnG's pleased to see that its recent spat with the CoE hasn't slowed Sony down as far as pushing Resistance is concerned. In fact, the controversy surrounding the game has proved the old adage, 'No publicity is bad publicity', with Resistance seeing a leap in the PS3 charts since the furore kicked off.
For SPOnG's review of Resistance follow us this way.
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JackInDaBox 28 Jun 2007 15:51
1/2
...“Launch silent sniper attacks across the snowy slopes of Westmorland, taking cover in the shadow of Chimeran architecture..." I hope that the sweds don´t remember to sue Sony because of the similarities with the snow in the alpes.... Careful Sony.
Granison C Johnson REALZILLA(USA) 28 Jun 2007 16:40
2/2
About damn time. Can't wait to lay waste to some of my Euro brothers. See you on the other side boys.