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Gaming preview: 'Resistance 2'
Created: 11/03/2008
Video description: The critically acclaimed historical fiction first-person-shooter exclusively for the PlayStation 3 is back. Now set in various U.S. cities, "Resistance 2" offers multiple game modes including multiplayer and cooperative gameplay. New battlegrounds, more explosive weapons, and massive enemies highlight this highly anticipated sequel. "Resistance 2" is in stores now.

Gaming preview: 'Resistance 2' Video Transcript

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>> In 1908 an unexplained explosion flattens more than 2,000 square kilometers of [inaudible] forest in what comes to be known as a [inaudible] event, 6 years later World War I begins. As the war rages Czar Mikael [assumed spelling] crushes [inaudible] before communism can take hold in Russia. Russia builds a barrier along its European border that is longer than the Great Wall of China. Construction of the largest U.S. Army base begins in Alaska, isolation as Senator [inaudible] Grace defeats Roosevelt in the elections. In 1947 a Russian refugee carrying the genetically modified skull dies enroute to Britain. May 1948 German intelligence intercepts Russian Navy broadcasts, the Kymira [assumed spelling] break through the Russian Wall invading Europe and infecting entire populations with the Kymiran virus, after just 4 weeks the continent has fallen. The Kymira Tunnel under the English Channel, British intelligence discover there unearthing the networking of giant towers, their purpose [inaudible] unknown. In a desperate raid joint British and American forces destroy the massive London Tower causing death to all the Kymira on British soil. In preparation for the inevitable the U.S. government creates a liberty defense perimeter, its purpose, to provide safe-haven for the millions fleeing in the event of an assault. On May 15th, 1953 the Kymira launch a massive attack against North America.

>> Today the country shutters in the wake of cataclysmic devastation drawn by war with a brutally terrifying enemy, the likes of which we have never seen. This struggle for the very survival of mankind; this struggle ladies and gentlemen may now be forever lost. ^E00:02:21

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Manufacturer: Sony
Part number: 98120

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