Chameleon

"Sir I was just scouting up ahead. No sign of the convoy, but you guys aren't going to believe what I sa-AAARRGH!!!"

- A Black Ops soldier explaining to Nathan Hale and a surviving group of Black Ops before being killed by a Chameleon

The Chameleon is a strain of Chimera that first appears in Resistance 2.

The Chameleon has the ability to turn invisible, and melees the player-killing him/her in one hit with its claws. The cause for a Chameleon's camouflage is due to a special Chimeran cloaking device grafted on its body along with its cooling unit. A Chameleon comes equipped with multiple razor-sharp blades on its fingertips, which are sharp enough to impale and tear a human in half. A Chameleon will run like a quadruped, which causes the ground to shake, and upon running up to its victim, it then lifts itself on its hind legs and attacks.

They show up in both forested levels and on Chimeran battleships. Usually, they attack solo or in groups of two. Rarely, up to three might occasionally rush the player on higher difficulties.

Strategy
In the story campaign of Resistance 2, a Chameleon has relatively low health, so it shouldn't take much to kill it. Its easy to tell when a Chameleon is coming up because there will be a cooing sound somewhat like a bird. It's best to kill these with a Rossmore 238 Combat Shotgun or a HE .44 Magnum. When encountering a Chameleon, a slight shimmer will appear before it's attack strikes, allowing for players to react and kill it before it kills them. Another way to notice it's attack is the thundering noise and minor tremor it makes right before attacking. In Co-op, Chameleons don't have their one-hit kill attack, but they have slightly more health, for balance in gameplay. In the superhuman co-op difficulty, a Chameleon can sometimes turn completely invisible and thus making them very difficult to kill. While in this mode they are still seen on radar, so it is best to avoid them.

Trivia

 * The Chameleon partially resembles to the fictional alien, the Predator, especially when it first appears in the woods just as the Predator did in the movie. It is also coincidental that the Chameleon's similarity to the Predator and its introduction in California, is maybe a subtle nod to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who live and is the governor of the said state, the main character in Predator.


 * Interestingly, when the Chameleon first appears, the way it sounds when it unsheathes its claws is almost identical to the way that the Marvel comic book character Wolverine sounds with his claws.


 * When there is a live Chameleon, the cloaking device makes a sound similar to an owl and a growling cat.
 * A Chameleon's outline will not appear while using an Auger.