Sarcastic Gamer community member Bauer22 recently brought the Resistance 2 viral campaign back to my attention as a few hours ago the Project Abraham website was updated with new mysteeeeerious content. There’s a new video to accompany the original (featuring the blonde chick who played Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica again) and an update to the hidden Blackout page.

You can check out details on the original parts of that page in my first article on Project Abraham or hit the jump for more on the new updates.

The second video features Starbuck from the first video (who’s got a name now, more on this in a bit) having a bit of a crisis of conscience over an ‘experiment’ currently taking place, presumably the same one we saw in the first video on the site. My guess ,and probably everyone else’s, is that this is an experiment to reverse the Chimeran mutation process and stop everyone infected from turning into another one of the dreaded alien-monster-thingies that we still don’t know the origin of.

Of course, I could be wrong: the latest issue of the official PlayStation magazine in the UK describes Resistance’s hero Nathan Hale as being accompanied by allies known as Sentinels, who are part-human, part-Chimera, who are the guys you play as part of the 8 player co-op campaign. Maybe these videos are a prologue to the creation of the Sentinels and detail a setup for Resistance 2 to continue.

Anyway, our now-presumed heroine takes off in a hurry after she and her confidant (a doctor who’s not best pleased with her interrupting the experiment) are interrupted themselves by some rather unpleasant crashes against the security doors adjacent to where they stand. Methinks it’s the subject of the experiment from the first video trying to break free, suffering from the effects of the Chimeran virus. To be continued…

As for the Blackout site (revealed by decoding the Morse Code at the end of the first video), a note has appeared alongside the photograph initally present on the site. Addressed to a “Dr Cassie Aklin” (perhaps our newfound protagonist in the videos) it mentions the experiments taking place, placing them at a research facility in Alaska and revealing the attempts to stop the virus, if that is what these experiments are about, are on hold due to the injections patients are receiving causing violent consequences.

You’ve got to wonder how this will tie into the plotline of Resistance 2. Maybe Nathan Hale is seeking a cure for the Chimeran virus, and if it’s not sought he’ll become a fully-fledged creature? Perhaps this could be the storyline of the game (rather than just Fall of Man set in San Francisco instead of Surrey) which Insomniac will reveal properly later in the year as the game’s release draws closer.

Hopefully the future updates to both the videos and the Blackout page will reveal more details about what these experiments are about, and how they’ll tie into Nathan Hale’s story. For now though, we’ll need to twiddle our thumbs and wait: still, I don’t know about you, but this is getting me pretty excited about Resistance 2. How about you?

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