One of the key titles in this year's PS3 holiday lineup is Resistance 2.  Many features we love here at Co-Optimus have been implemented, such as an 8 player co-op campaign and local split screen co-op.  However, it appears there are some serious issues with the latter.  Co-Optimus reader "blakepro" was the first to bring this to our attention, in a forum post.  However, it seems the word is out, as you can read in this snippet from a review at the PSNLounge.

Player 2 Progress Not Saved!

I saw online that Insomniac was thinking about tying player 2’s progress to their own PSN account, which would be cool. But at least the game would store progress locally, right? Nope! At one point during the evening last night I exited Resistance 2 and restarted my machine (see why below). Upon re-entering splitscreen co-op, all of Steve’s progress in leveling up his character was lost! This was a deal killer. Why put in all that effort to level up a character when all that work is lost? Crazy. This has to be fixed ASAP.

Reports of network errors when two splitscreen players try to play online are coming up, too.  This whole problem is a real deal breaker, at least in my opinion.  First Fable 2, and now Resistance 2 botch the co-op, at least partially.  Hopefully, a patch will be coming soon to change this issue.  (Thanks to user "billb" for the link to the PSNLounge review.)

Actually, this content was not originally from PSNLounge. They combined two of our articles at PS3Blog.net to make their article, and I don't appreciate the fact that they're passing content that we created as their own.

How do we get Insomniac to fix this??

Henning, I corrected the article. My apologies.

No worries. Thanks a lot!

Yeah, i was disappointed by all the problems with Co-Op, espically the bugs with trying to play Split-Screen Co-Op online. A network error just keep happening.

I had a buddy come over last night specifically to try this game out in split screen and after having several network kills abruptly ending our game, we gave up and played some resistance 1... Pretty sad really..

That is disappointing...an interesting omission on their part considering Rainbow Six has no issue with this, so it's been done before.

Well, I'm glad to know this. I can put off buying it till a patch is out.

My wife and i had great anticipation for this game and we are both VERY disappointed. The 2 player offline is really monotonous compared to the full 2 player offline co op campaign capabilities of RFOM1. Not to mention the problems with the Player 2 EXP saves in R2. Why didn't they just follow the same format that made the first game so successful? If it's not broke...DON'T FIX IT!!!!