GamingUnion.net: "When Kevin Butler disappeared into obscurity a few months ago I breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe Sony had learned their lesson that hilarious advertisements are only worth perusing if they actually have a positive impact on sales. Perhaps this time they were going to focus on showcasing the raw power of what their games can provide, the same way that they've done such a superb job in showing how the PlayStation 3 really is worth any real gamer's time and money. We all knew it wouldn't be the end of KB for sure, he was bound to return in some form or another in the future, but perhaps they would come up with something that would make us want the man to return. Long Live Play was the best they had in mind apparently, and I'm sure Insomniac Games are absolutely thrilled about it. Resistance 3 was the first title to run shortly after Kevin's impressive LLP launch video, so with a few million eyes looking at gaming's most influential fake CEO, sales must be booming, right?"
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.
My take:
Single player
3, 2, 1
Multiplayer
3, 1, 2
Overall
3, 2, 1
I beat the lengthy single player in 1 multiple times and spent hours in the online too. Plus 1 featured my home town! Special mention to the audio design in 1: playing that with surround headphones blew me away.
Note: I have the platinum for Resistance 2.
I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2
Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.
While the studio is best known for Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet, and Clank, and Spider-Man back on the PS3 the studio broke from creating platformers and made one of the highest regarded science-fiction first-person shooters of all time. This was Resistance and it remains one of Sony's most acclaimed and dormant franchises.
Resistance 3's campaign was gorgeous for the time - and an awesome game to boot.
I've said in the past I'd like to see this series return and have it take place years later, like in the present.
I'll give you an example if I'm not mistaken the last game ended in the 50s, so if it was to take place some time in the 2020s you'd have an opportunity to see how the world changed after the fall of Chimera and all the new technology that came out of that war.
Just like in our universe we all know WW2 happened, but we never experienced it, so if the next Resistance game takes place years later so too would people in that universe know a war look place against the Chimera, they just wouldn't know what it really was like.
So getting to see how that universe would respond to the Chimera reemerging would be interesting.
Imagine a little kid talking with his grandfather about the war and the kid just thinks it was just a made up bed time horror story and what was said was worse than what really took place, but now that the Chimera come back the kid will find out why years later the old timer adults were still waiting for the Chimera to return.
I think there is great potential for this series still and I really believe the best way forward for Resistance is make it have a time jump too.
So hopefully this series will return.
I was blown away when i played for the first time Resistance on the PS3. Great Game. Also liked very much an played for hundred of hours the Co-op of R2. The SP campaign of R3 is also excelent. I really hope that Sony and Insomniac annouced the Remaster of the Series and a new chapter. They got story to do that.
Resistance 2 was one of the first few games i played on ps3 and I loved it, would definitely finish that again :D
Honestly it seems to me that Sony basically left the title out to die.
I barely heard anything about it this year. And that E3 demo on-stage was awful.
Gotta admit, that RE3 commercial was horrible. KB's done much better commercials than that.
lmao
I'm not stunned in R3 poor sales, was a hypedbehemoth, seems to just have come along (as I think a lot of people perceive it) and the generally moderate reviews it has received adds up to this consequently, IMO.
Very much true! I remember not seeing a single TV ad and barely any gameplay and trailers for it! And the KB R3 ad it was funny n had a nice speech, but didnt wanna make me want to grab my keys and drive out to the local Gamestop. Why do that to an amazing series?