"Resistance: Fall of Man" received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. "Resistance: Fall of Man" received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Within the first few hours of the PS3's Japanese launch, the game had already received praise from some publications. "Famitsu" gave the game a score of 33 out of 40. IGN was the first Western site to review the game, with reviewer Jeremy Dunham declaring that while other consoles had to wait years to get their killer app, "PlayStation 3 users get theirs on day one." Following closely GameBrink.com posted their review. However, the scores at the time of European launch were less brilliant. "Eurogamer"s UK review complained that, while functional, and even occasionally entertaining, the game completely failed to innovate.  411Mania gave it a score of 9.6 out of 10 and said that it initially "felt like "Call of Duty", but as I progressed through the game, I found that there was substantially more. The game plays it by the numbers in many ways but it's very polished and fun. The multiplayer will keep you occupied for months. Any PS3 owner will do themselves a disservice by not picking up this game." "USA Today" gave it a score of four stars out of five, saying, "Easily the best game for the new Sony PlayStation 3 game console, Resistance: Fall of Man is a first-person shooter that lets you, as an American soldier stationed in the United Kingdom, lead the fight to rid the world of a vicious alien race." "Maxim" similarly gave it a score of eight out of ten, saying that the game "managed to exceed our lofty expectations, but only by an wirey crotch hair." "The Sydney Morning Herald" also gave it four stars out of five and called it "an accomplished shooter providing many fun online modes, engaging solo missions and superb weapons." However, "The New York Times" gave it an average review, saying that "In spite of rave reviews it’s a fairly pedestrian humans-versus-aliens first-person shooter that brings nothing new to the genre. The artificial intelligence of combatants is lackluster, and the semi-sepia-toned graphics are surprisingly unimpressive, no better than what you would see on the five-year-old Xbox."