Irresistable info from Insomniac Games' President and CEO.
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
With Insomniac Games now under the Sony Worldwide Studios umbrella, the studio could bring a new Resistance game to life.
Insomniac didn’t feel all enthusiastic at continuing the series after the third installment
I don’t see how them getting bought out would encourage them to make a fourth game when they could work on another new IP or a sequel to Ratchet & Clank or Spider-Man.
Plus the third game ended on a deserved bittersweet note with a sense of finality against the Chimera. It’d be soul crushing even for this series to make all those sacrifices go to waste
No. let them work on what they want. I loved Resistance, but Insomniac proved they can work on New Ip and are hitting their Prime with the release of Spiderman, so let them work on what they want, and have a smaller 3rd party remake or remaster Resistance, and see if there's an audience for it.
Insomniac should do whatever they want, they deserve every freedom to deliver the game they want.
(((((((Bring it on))))))))
I enjoy how he opened up with the constructive negative feedback they received like the lack of storyline with Hale and how they are going to use those as tools to grow. When companies look at feedback and interact with it to make a better game that makes me very happy. Even more, they are going off of the feedback from one of their own games, not someone else's ideas, so you know the improvements have the capacity to be something special.
The squad-based battles sound like a lot of fun. I enjoyed playing the BF series and it sounds like they have gone even further with ideas like that. And I love Resistance, so the theme will just make it far more enjoyable for me.
"[Resistance 2 will be] an equivalent leap in terms of tech. (Referring to the leap from Resistance to Ratchet & Clank)" - Yeah that makes me pretty excited. A wonderful example of a great development team.
Thank you, Catastrophe.
future proof
Man, these guys are on a role to cap the PS3's power. The improvements they put into their engine from R1 to R&C boosted at least 3x (or even 4x) more power, now they say to expect the same type boost from R&C to R2... holy crap.
R&C, technically, is the most impressive game on the PS3 with lots and lots of enemies, cool particle effects (weapons for the win) and amazing shaders, high-res textures (400Mb of streamed high-res textures), etc and all that at 720p running at a SOLID 60 FPS. I really don't know what to expect from R2... I have a feeling this game will be AMAZING!
Each time I heare things about Resistance 2 i get hyped up and happy :) :)