Like Darrin pointed out in the Shoutbox. The R2 Beta should be available in Qore on August 7th. The beta itself will be available in September. But another way to get in is to pre-order the game a Gamestop. I assume how the MGO beta worked.

I’m excited to try out the multiplayer in R2, but I think I’ll go the Gamestop route. I myself haven’t bought any Qore episodes yet. Which way are you going to do it?

More ways to get into Resistance beta than Qore, Europe not excluded

I’m about to make all you folks out there who tire of my splitscreen discussions even more sick of me!

With all the talk and footage about Resistance 2 recently, a friend of mine remarked that he hopes that it has a splitscreen mode so that he and I could play through it together, much like we did with the original Resistance.

If I remember correctly, I think that Resistance 2 does indeed have a 2 player splitscreen co-op mode. So we should be fine there. But this brings up other questions.

My main question is this: what kind of 4 player splitscreen modes will Resistance support?

I assume it’ll support the old fashioned 4 players against one another in deathmatch or whatever modes. If anyone can confirm this, that would be great.

But remember Warhawk? That game where you can go online with 3 of your buddies, playing splitscreen? This is quite common in the Xbox 360 world, but it isn’t very common in ours. Will Resistance 2 support going online together as a group, much like Warhawk did? And will it be only for multiplayer matches like Warhawk, or will you be able to play the 8 player co-op campaign with others? For that matter, what about not even going online to play the 8 player co-op campaign? You could play it with 4 players.

So here are all the options in a list. If anyone can confirm or deny any of them, I’d love to hear from you:

1. Local 2 player splitscreen co-op.
2. Local 4 player splitscreen multiplayer (deathmatch, team deathmatch, ctf, etc).
3. Online 4 player splitscreen multiplayer (like Warhawk).
4. Local 4 player splitscreen co-op (doing the 8 player co-op campaign, but locally).
5. Online 4 player splitscreen co-op (four players at one location, playing with up to four from the internet).

Whew!

It’s a brief look at actual gameplay, hard to see the quality due to the poor video. But it looks good, some new weapons too. I’m very interested in the multiplayer aspect of R2 as well.

When they say teaser, they really mean it. Not much here, but what is here is cool:

Resistance 2 - GTTV Exclusive Teaser HD

I just saw this video today of Resistance pre-release footage (from Resistance 1. Resistance 2 footage supposedly hits later today), and it reminded me why this is easily my favorite title in such an over-crowded genre (for campaign mode. I think other titles have Resistance beat in multiplayer fun).

I definitely need to replay this one when I get an HDTV.

UPDATE: Resistance 2 teaser is merely an announcement of the real gameplay footage to come on June 13.