UGO writes: "As one of the few bright spots of the PS3 launch, Resistance was a solid shooter with innovative weapons and an intriguing, alternate-timeline story. And, if you can believe it, the sequel, Resistance 2, is already well on its way to a Holiday release date! We got to spend some hands-on time with the game's multiplayer to see how Insomniac is going to pull off those 60-person matches they've been talking about.
Resistance 2's multiplayer is a very different beast from most multiplayer shooters. Because of the massive player numbers (30 on 30 can get a little daunting) the developers decided to focus things up a bit. Matches are objective-based now, with small squads fighting over portions of the map against "rival" squads. The idea is that, even though you're in a game of 60 people, you're really only dealing with the same dozen or so on a regular basis. This creates feelings of rivalry and deep hatred for the enemy squad, making frags all the more rewarding."
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.
must... play... now...
between this and Socom my clan is going to have a long fall/winter
I really can't believe what they're doing with the multiplayer in this game. Insomniac just continues to amaze me with the stuff they do, and this is year after year.
Resistance 2 is the sleeper that is ready to be unleashed and I can almost guarantee this time around, it will be able to step up against any fps game out there. Insomniac has proven that resistance 1 was far more better then what people expected for a launch title and this time around, they will prove from little mistakes from the first that they will take it to another level and fire back at its competition with vengeance. I cant fu**ing wait for this game, it is my second most aniticpated game after MGS4.
i cant wait to play it, i remember i beat it like 4 times and spent countless hours online but then again it was my fps game.
it was my first fps game sorry