When will it end? Shortly after Ripten talked to Metacritic founder Marc Doyle about LittleBigPlanet's low user score, the wrath of Sony fanboys was unleashed upon Gears of War 2's user score as a revenge hit. It now appears that the 360 fanboys just wouldn't stand for that, even though they seem to have started this in the first place, and have retaliated by butchering Resistance 2.
A press release has just been issued by SONY Computer Entertainment Europe and Gamestation concerning a subject close to many people's hearts; Resistance 2 Beta Keys. And, without further ado, here's the release in full...
With the launch on the horizon, here are a couple of dates that SCE thought were important regarding R2's beta.
Order Resistance 2 from Gamestation and receive exclusive access to the multiplayer Beta tests.
NextGen Player writes:
GOONL!NE: We just took a look a look around the BBFC website to see if there was any game classifications recently given..
For EU only!! Be quick :D
The signup's for Resistance 2 were opened even more today as it seems that everyone that signs up today has been getting a beta code within a few hours of signing up for the beta
IGN:
Danish Boomtown giving away EU beta keys for Resistance 2.
Kombo writes, Sony is really on to something by the way they are advertising Resistance 2. Check out the commercial for Resistance 2 and reminise back to the days when every PlayStation ad you'd see was more entertaining than mind boggling.
Gamedaily.com writes: Get in on the hottest PS3 shooter of the season, Resistance 2. We've got 75 beta codes to give away -- find out how to win!
Playstadium writes "All you have to do is to send an email to konkurrence@playstadium.dk and enter in the subject line "Resistance 2 beta;The first 100 lucky senders will be sent back codes. "
Joystiq writes:
IGN: "As they say, second time's a charm and, following yesterday's Resistance 2 beta hitch, we're now almost ready to go again. In case you missed the furore though, Sony and IGN have teamed up to offer 7,000 Resistance 2 beta keys exclusively to our European readers.
Among all of the turmoil suuounding the Resistance 2 beta and the bad publicity it brought to SCEE, well now SCEA are taking a step forward and are trying to make Resistance 2 as big as possible and are doing it successfully.
Today people in the UK who preordered Resistance 2 via Play.com were supposed to receive their beta codes, well they got their codes (myself included) and me and many others headed off to download their Resistance 2 beta.
IGN is giving away BETA keys for Resistance 2 .
PS blog's James Stevenson, Community Relations Manager, Insomniac Games writes: