Splitkick: Since I got the PlayStation 3 later in its lifecycle, I missed out on playing the platform-exclusive Resistance series.Resistance: Fall of Man and the much lauded Resistance 2 were both flagship shooters upon their release, and marketed as Sony’s answer to Halo. However, Insomniac’s sci-fi epic was more akin to Half Life in its execution and narrative than any other AAA shooter. The game emphasized a dark and detailed narrative, as it followed the battles of US soldier Nathan Hale against the horrifying Chimera in an alternate history around the year 1950. After playing through the first two games, I recently finished the core trilogy off by playing Resistance 3; the final installment in the series created by Insomniac.
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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
I really like the Resistance series but I wish Insomniac hadn't played around with it so much.
I understood the need for alteration in the wake of CoD4, but even though I loved 2 I felt it was detached from FoM with its bright colour pallete and different feel. I wish they had ignored the outside influences and evolved what they had done with FoM which they eventually did with 3.
It's hard to describe exactly what I mean but if you've played them you'll know that all 3 feel different and have different tones to them as well. Not to mention drastically different MP. Admittedly 3 was close to FoM in its tone (and thoroughly excellent it must be said) but I think this IP had more to offer than what we saw.
Hopefully we'll see the Chimera next gen, perhaps with SSM at the helm trying something different with the IP. A survivalist game in this universe could be interesting.
I definitely agree. The series in general feels like they took many chances with each installment, but not in a good way. More like they just experimented to see what would stick and what wouldn't. FoM and the majority of 3 were definitely highlights for me, and yeah, a survival horror game set in this game's universe would be potentially awesome.
They should have kept the dark gritty feel of the original, and built a better engine for graphics, added new enemies with the invasion and taken you across the world.
Most of the development with FOM2 was with mp, But as nice as the large scale was, and the 8 player co-op. It still felt stiff.
The 3rd game should have been no.2.
Better graphics, some excellent character design, but need a higher rez, wasn't clean enough.
But overall I enjoyed them all. and hope they bring back Resistance4 for PS4.
Still go back to Resistance 3 mp and sp frecuently. I was on a week ago but noticed although servers were still populated everyone was from like Europe or so i assume because they had their mics on and i heard no English lol hahahaha