So. PS3 launch. You head over to get your PS3, and see the limited amount of launch titles. The one that catches your eye the most, would probably be resistance. So you go home, unplug your PS2, and fire up your new PS3. Once you have signed up for PSN, you start up Resistance. When you start, you see how much the graphics, and sounds have improved from the PS2. Resistance was the best game of its time (In my opinion). Resistance 2, is better.
At the end of Resistance Fall of man *SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED RESISTANCE YET* Nathan Hale gets taken off in a helicopter after having shutdown the Chimeran Spire. When you start Resistance 2, you are greeted with this Cutscene, but with more added on. The new graphics of Resistance 2 make you glued to the screen, not wanting to skip the glorius HD beauty. So, once done, you are launched into the game.
The first thing you will see, is a Goliath in the background, lots of moving grass and trees, and Blake, simply stood there. The first thing that i checked, was to see if Resitance had taken a turn and gone slightly towards Halo. By this i mean, being able to see your legs. But, i was dissapointed to see, that you could not. This dissapoints me, because i think that it is these tiny details that make a game that bit greater. Anyway, i was glad that it followed Resitance FOM and kept the moving leaves, so then i pushed the left analog stick forwards. What? I can't move?! Is it a fault with the game? Is my controller okay? Or is it meant to be that way? Thankfully, it was meant to be like that, so my worries were over, for now anyway.
As you will remember, the first weapon you had in Resistance FOM was the Carbine. But this was because you just came off of a plane, on which you had rearmed yourself. In Resistance 2, you had just come off a plane, but it was not a flying fortress type plane like in Resistance 1. So the first weapon you get in this game, is the amazing new Magnum. This is not the only new weapon that there is in the game, as there are about a dozen new weapons. I am even counting the improved weapons, such as the new Auger.
The next thing you have to do, is follow Blake. Then, you come up to a wooden fence/decking area. It says press X to jump. Other than LittleBigPlanet, Oblivion, and Fallout 3, i think this is one of those rare games where you actually have to jump to continue. Unlike on Far Cry 2 or on Halo, where if there was no jump button, you would still be able to 100% the game. Well, maybe not 100%, but at least complete the campaign.
Then, you meet your old friend. The LAARK. Yes. The rocket launcher. You use this to take out the Goliath, but it is not over after this. You may be thinking, but where are all of the Chimera? Well, after being told everyting that you need to know, you finally get to kill some of them. You will soon realise that they have evolved in many new ways.
If i was to compare this to Gears Of War 2 (Which i will do fully one day) I would say that this is better. By far. Resistance 1 was not as good as Gears of War 1. But Gears of War 2 has not improved that much, wheras Resistance 2 has. If we look at the graphics on a scale of improvement, Gears of War had more time to improve as it came out some time before Resistance. GOW 2 has only improved on the weapons, realism, and slightly on the graphics. But Resitance 2 has improved on every aspect. Except the fact that most of the missions are inside a Chimeran ship or tower. So Resitance 2, is better than Gears of War 2.
Once you have completed the story of Resistance 2, you will have your fair share of trophies. So, you will take a break and see what all of this 60 player hype is all about, and you will go to see how laggy it is. Not at all. You think, 60 players will lag the game to death, and it will probably make your console freeze. But no. No lag whatsoever. The occasional glitch maybe, although i havent found one yet.
On the whole, Resitance 2 is a great game, very mush improved on the first one, and it gives you a great understanding of what Resitance is all about. Next stop, Resitance 3!
The gaming industry moves at such a pace that it’s not surprising we’ve seen countless franchises fall into obscurity over the years.
There is a rumour that Driver 1 & 2 remasters will be released for Switch and presumably for other systems as well.
https://www.gamingbible.com...
Not sure however whether this results into new games in the near future.
Ninja Gaiden? Splinter Cell? Tenchu? Virtua Fighter? Killer Instinct? Killzone?
I would very much enjoy
a new dedicated single player Killzone campaign. With a fun multi-player.
Tenchu and Killer Instict would be great indeed!
Unfortunately new Killzone game does not seem to be in the works
Virtua Fighter is going to receive a new entry!
https://www.dualshockers.co...
Splinter Cell is likely to be one of the remasters launching next year (not sure whether this has to do anything with the remake previously announced)
https://toronto.ubisoft.com...
Yeah, read the news about a new Virtua Fighter and I am so ready for it. Splinter Cell at this point I don't believe anything Ubisoft says plus I don't think modern day Ubisoft can make a decent stealth game. They will likely fuck it up.
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.
Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.
i have the platinium too , 10k kills in online ranked matches was no joke . Took me 3-4 months straight grinding but it was fun . To put it in perspective you only got like 25 kills per match if you were 1st place every match that's at Least 400 matches in 1st
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.
Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...
Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything
Honestly, Burning Skies was shit. There's no two ways about it. At first I thought it looked terrible, then I second guessed myself. Big mistake.
Retribution has this really cool feature where you could use a PS3 to link a controller to it and play. So if you had a 2000 or 3000 hooked to a tv, you can use a real controller. All of this predates the PSP Go's ability to sync a sixaxis to it via bluetooth.
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.
Agreed. Until they do a new entry, I'd love to get the two portable games remade into console versions. Maybe in a nice compilation with the mainline titles.
Burning Skies wasn't a great game.
It was only a couple of hours long and there was nothing memorable about it.
I'd love a new entry
Resistance 3's campaign was gorgeous for the time - and an awesome game to boot.
I remember being put off by it because McHale wasn't the MC but it turned out to be my favourite campaign
by and large though the Resistance IP featured many protagonists (4 altogether I think if you include the portables). One of the reasons I enjoyed it was not being shackled to individual story arcs. Very rare for a major franchise.
My favorite resistance game as well! It seriously had creepy, scary a$$ moments bro! It made me want an action horror game from insomniac!
Remember playing this through online co op with the move controller and gun attachment! What a game!
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.
Great Idea. I'd play that version.
Resistance was a great game and of all the remasters.... I would play a great remastered version of resistance series as well
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 loved all the Resistance games. But part 2 online was amazing. The Marksmen for the Spec Ops type class when it was fully upgraded was such an amazing weapon. Oh man I wish they release all the games again and let us play part 2 online again.
-The game is too dark, sometimes it could be unplayable unless shooting everywhere like an idiot to kill some barely visible enemies counts as gameplaying.
-The campaign is too f***ing short, definitely not "as long as the first game" as Ted Price said on an interview.
-The storyline leaves too many plotholes, is clichéd (derivative of several sci-fi works, noticeably a pre-marketed unoriginal product instead of something entirely new), not very cinematic, collecting intel is boring, repetitive and annoying, and we don't really get emotionally involved with Nathan Hale as we know absolutely nothing about his life.
These are my negative points. I'd give R2 a 8.7 because it's a lot of fun overall but I wish it was perfect. I expected a lot more from this game.
LMAO.
What a joke of a review... what did you give Haze a 9.2 ?!?
Hey, i like R2, but not 9's material.