Coming in to this play through of RFoM, I was very firmiliar with this game. I purchased my first PS3 for $750 (Please, dont go there) in December of '06. The two games I bought along with it were Madden 07 and Resistance. Given I didn't have internet, it was campaign only for me. I ended up completing it nine times throughout the next year. This is my first complete play through since late '07.
The Beginning: Resistance opens up with a cut-scene explaining the spreading of the Chimeran takeover and Nathan Hales story. It's said the events your playing take place between July 11th throught the 14th of 1951.
The Gameplay: I consider the gameplay very unique. Such as the health system. You have four bars of health, if you get injured, and one bar doesn't fully dissipate, it will regenerate. You can reassign buttons to any designated feature. An example is switching the secondary fire to the zoom button. An interesting lack of a feature was the sprint button. Although it really didn't feel needed, it was odd. The worst thing I encountered in my play through was the placing of the checkpoints. You might get two or three per level. I found myself quit more than once because of this. As for the movements; you really feel like you have control of your player. In games like Killzone 3, it sometimes feels like you don't have full control. The controls in the PS3's launch title are crisp and refreshing.
The Graphics: The Graphics in Resistance aren't that far off from today. It looked extremely good for its time, and damn good today. The scenary is what sticks out to me. From the Chimeran towers, to driving through the city in a Bradley; it's beautiful.
The enemies also have great detail. From the Hybrids to the Leapers; you see the effort put in to these beings.
The Sound: The music they used fits the title perfectly. It has a dramatic feeling, and you know when somethings going to happen. Real high pitched tunes to shock you, and more rugged music when you have to battle bigger enemies. A few times the dialouge skips, but it's nothing major. The firing of the diverse weapons in Resistance sounds very authentic.
The Miscellaneous: One thing that I really liked were the peices of Intel scattered throughout the game. They were always in great detail. If you take the time to read them, you learn more about the story. The concept art was an enjoyable feature. To anyone who likes concept art, you'll love it. You get to see a few things that didn't make it, which is always cool. The weapons in Resistance, are by far the best weapons in any game I have played. The creativity is wonderfully displayed in the guns. My personal favorite was the Hailstorm.
There it is, my thoughts on the PS3's launch FPS. In my opinion, the best on the console to date. It did everything right, and more. The effort and detail is like no other this gen. Every single morsule of this game is excellent. Resistance: Fall of Man, is an excellent example of gaming art.
Sony is in the middle of an FPS crisis, but bringing back two much-loved PlayStation shooters could easily be the solution.
We have alot of rpg's but only cod for a AAA first person shooter unless you toss in xdefient but that is still fixing 2yr old beta issues.
We need more AAA fps games then rpg's
Yes we need some new FPS experiences.. COD is just not engaging enough. We want a Killzone back to the roots, not a Shadow Fall again..
Agree on preferring RPGs though at this exact moment, it would be great to see more horror games. Another reason why Japan Studio closing is just tragic. Loved Siren.
Fuck jim ryan japan studio did so much and helped alot with ports/localization
If they were around bloodborn would be possible like how they helped with demon souls ps4 finial fantasy port.
Horror games would be nice but the jim ryan axe job helped alot in killing playstation dev numbers/freedom and increased regulation with the new censorship crap.
If Sony is bringing back a old shooter I would prefer Warhawk or better yet Starhawk
No thanks. Resistance and killzone were my all time favorite fps games. I completely dominated those games. I met good people, had a ton of fun and have a lot of fond memories. I don't want them to bring back these games, unless they tackle the cheating epidemic. I know I will absolutely hate these games, if I was to play them now, with all the effing cheating going on in fps games.
Bro the market is oversaturated with quality RPGs AND bloated shitty RPGs already.
I honestly don't think we'll be seeing these anytime soon, if ever. Insomniac is officially on Marvel duty since it seems that all they're working on based off the leaks, and Horizon is more of what the casuals want these days. And I now I'll get a bunch of disagrees, but keep in mind that Resistance last got a game on the PS3 (2011) and Killzone was a launch title for the PS4 (2013). 10 years is a long time to make a game, if had any interest they would've done it by now, add InFamous to that list.
Your right except the dates killzone mercenary was on ps vita 2013 same with resistance burning skies back in 2012
Both of those games are either made by smaller B team or completely different developer.
Killzone Mercenary developed by Guerilla Cambridge which is now defunct.
Resistamce Burning Skies wasn't made by Insomniac but by Nihilistic Software also defunct after the failure of CoD Black Ops Declassified.
@good i know i never said they were
I mentioned them as they were the last games under that ip well killzone was last on ps4 but still even though they are different devs they led to the lose of the ip.
I highly doubt they made up for there budget cost even killzone on ps4 had low sales for such a large ip at the time.
Resistance 3 turned me off to the series but I’d love a reboot. KillZone I think can stay dead. Give me a new Resistance like 1or 2 and I’ll be happy.
Except Resistance 1 and 3 were far more similar, 2 was the outlier. 3 was a great return to form after 2 changed so many things from the first game.
I'll keep saying it, have Bungie make a new resistance game, a match made in heaven. Although I imagine Bungie would be too proud to take over an existing IP.
I honestly never cared or liked killzone. Huge resistance fan though. I remember so many nights playing melee only on USS Lexington, and I like the alt history vibe.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.
Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.
resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword
Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2
Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.
There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.
Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence
The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
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.
*highfives*
Great game.
Loved the hell outta the game
I still play it when friends come over.
Co-op SP in R:FoM was amazing
If you ever have a group of friends over, try the offline MP.
Very addicting ^^
if you mean resistance 1:
i wouldn't give it more than a 6.5 / 10
because the game sucks
resistance 2 was alot beter 8/10
resistance 3 will be be 9.5/10 i gues ;)
I loved Resistance: Fall of Man. More so than any other online shooter. I'm a two times Supreme Commander, with over 600 hours logged online.
I loved the old school weapon spawns, the no perks or abilities. What made someone better was because they were genuinely better! The weapons were balanced, the clan and party system were also great.
Many people thought the gameplay was dated. But I think it made it unique. Hip fire and team work were key, no auto aim, and air strikes. I miss it so much... :(
On-line is great! It had virtually none of the problems we see in recent games.
I liked the ability to see a list of games in progress and jump into which-ever you wanted. This made getting together into organised events very easy.
I even took part in an in-game photo-shoot where we tried to get 40 players all together.... of course there was always 1 idiot who saw it as an opportunity for carnage, but still good fun. And the photos got sent to the offical playstation mag.
I played it again recently and it's still good, but it just feels slow now. I suppose it's the lack of a sprint button.
Story in R1 is sick. Way better than R2.