All On Syphon Filter

Tommorow at EB at I'm gonna pre-order Resistance Retribution confirmed for 26th of March 2009 in Australia.

Its pretty much the spritual sequel to Logan's Shadow, since it uses the same Game engine and is being developed by Sony Bend the makers of Syphon Filter.

If you see the screenshots, the gameplay and targeting system is identical to Logan's Shadow.

The infected feature looks neat, being able to plug your PSP into your PS3 and play it on the TV using the PS3 controller. Whilst playing it on this mode, the game and story changes increasing replay value. The only problem is you must own Resistance 2 to do this

I hope after the release of Retribution an announcement of the next Syphon Filter is made, despite the ending of Logan's Shadow.

Lets keep our fingers crossed.

How is the storyline of Resistance? Does it compare to the SF series?

On another topic, I saw something very funny on GameSpot. They are having a sort of award show on the web which rewards the best games of 2008 in various categories. There are maybe 20 of them. But the last category I found very funny! It's "Most violent game to make it passed aussie censors"!
You can take a look at the video of the finalists on GameSpot.

I don't know how good the story might be, since I've never played a Resistance, because I don't like first person shooters. From what I've read in magazines you play as a British Marine in the 1950s who is part of the Resistance against the invading aliens in Paris.

Here's the trailer.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GUrZZokoGRU

Might be interesting see Sony Bend make a different game, but hopefully we get a Syphon Filter on the PS3.



I just had a look at that and get the joke why they have that award. Since Australia has more games banned then any other country. Since we don't have an R18+ rating for game. Thought the average gamer in Australia is 25, not having the R18+ rating avoids violent games from getting the hands of young children. Memories of my mum buying me GTA, when I was ten.

Also Gamespot ran a series of articles about Censorship in Australia earlier this year, so against that award is no suprise.

My money is not Fallout 3, that was initially banned because of Drug Use, which they took out for Oz.

Just watched the trailer. It really has the same looks as DM and LS. The storyline looks ok. Fighting aliens is far from being an original concept, but setting the action in the 50s is an interesting idea. I'll wait for your impressions once you've tested the game.


I don't quite understand: what do you mean you don't have 18+ ratings in Australia? What about all those games that are rated for adults? How are they rated? Anyway, I knew that censors were kinda zealous in Australia, but I didn't think it was that well known around the world.

EB ? You mean EB Games ? If it's that, I'm surprised that you got these stores even in Australia !

They do. EB games is kind of a big thing. They have stores in a dozen countries.

Oh nice

He he he funny man, you know Australia's is not a third world country. We have hundreds of EBs, my city has four! They even have them in New Zealand.

So the company is bigger than I thought

Back on the subject if Resistence, I hope they make little references to Syphon Filter in the game.

How do you think they could do that? Their respective storyline seems rather different, don't they?

The new Australian government is holding some kind of debate soon to decide whether or not to introduce an 18+ gaming classification.

I have heard though, that not many gamers will be involved in this debate at all, people like Attorney Generals, judges, so called market experts, etc, etc. So nothing will change I bet.

So if I understand correctly, the fact that you have no 18+ rating forces companies to censure games to would otherwise be rated 18+, doesn't it?

Can't someone do something so more gamers would be able to be in the debate ? Because here they really choose for you

Not exactly, it forces the censor’s (some of whom are 50 year old women) to ban some games with adult content in them, like XXX BMX for nudity, Manhunt for high level violence and GTA III for prostitution.

With an 18+ rating, all this and more can be classified under this adult rating so no game would be banned unless it actually broke some law.


We are trying let me tell you, a high profile university student (an avid gamer like me) has already written to the Prime Minister - among other things - telling him that this debate will be meaningless unless he involves the actual people it will effect (duh).

Unless your legislators are really stubborn and outdated, I don't understand how the can justify not having a 18+ rating whereas almost every other place on the planet has one! Besides, its a tricky case of a government making a moral judgement over what adult people should be able to enjoy as video games. Do you have the same problems with movies? I don't think so, I've never heard you say so. So why being so censorious with video games?

No problem with movies, we have the R rating (18+), X rating (mainly soft porn) and we even have a XXX rating (high level explicit porn) in my state/territory only, the Australian Capital Territory and prostitution is legal in the A.C.T.

Now the common belief of the reason that all the porn and prostitution is legal here, is this is where the federal government sits, they travel from all over the country to work here for two weeks every month (except January) then go back home for two weeks.

Since about 90% of MP’s and Senators are male, having legalised prostitution and hard porn when they are away from their wife’s is paradise for them.

So having an 18+ rating for computer games serves them no purpose directly.

Another reason is the computer games censor board is full of 50 year old women with a hatred for young men, these females don’t play games but yet they are deciding for a demographic that does play games, they think they are protecting little girls from nudity, violence or whatever.


Thats it mate, outdated.

They think they know better that us or that somehow having an 18+ rating will be the end of civilization, even though we are the only western country without one!

Hahaha I laughed, the A.C.T. sounds like a wonderful place if your an MP or Senator..

If parents want to protect little girls from nudity and voilenece, then its there fault to begin with, since they have the choice not to buy games in the first place with such content that is clearly indicated on the classification. Where does personal responsibiltiy step in?



Didn't they release XXX BMX in Australia, but took out the stripper videos? I pretty sure I seen in stores. Going to import Manhunt 2 . Take that 50 year old women.

Well that's some paradox there! Here we have two kinds of ratings: one for the province of Quebec and another for the rest of the country. But they pretty much have the same classification. As for video games, we use the ESRB ratings like the rest of the US region.

Really you don't have your own video game classification system in Canada? Surely I thought you would since your country is bigger then mine.