Insomniac decided to up the ante once again by bolstering the multiplayer mode for Resistance 2, pushing the limit to 60 players. While this may seem like complete overkill, Tom's Games had a chance to experience Resistance 2's multiplayer mode in action during Sony's Pre-E3 Gamer's Day last Friday, and the results were impressive. "We refused to believe that eight on eight is the perfect multiplayer game," said Colin Munson, Insomniac's lead designer for Resistance 2.
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.
60 players is "the limit" for the PS3?
On Xbox original, there was a 40 player multiplayer game.
On Xbox 360's exclusive Frontlines: Fuel of War, you can play 50 player multiplayer **right now**.
On the upcoming Huxley, the MMOFPS will have servers with up to 10,000 player at the same time, and deploy battles that range from 1vs1 missions to 60 vs 60 (120 total!) missions.
Resistence's 60 players is nothing unique or special.
Oh so no one minds Tom Games reviewing Resistance then huh? Funny.
Anyway, If like me you love FPS, and you love playing as a team/clan, Resistance 2 is one must have game.
Rob Wright is undoubtedly a dyed-in-the-wool 360/PC fan.
Look at his one-off on Resistance, "While Resistance featured the same kind of generic shooter mechanics and human vs. aliens"
The guy clearly never played the game long enough to realize that one of the biggest things about RFOM was the incredible weapons array available. The game clearly had major creativity in this regard.
Not to mention his comparison of Killzone2, where he equates the quality to COD4... laughable really.
Seriously, some of you guys posting here with nonsense like Frontline this, Huxley that really..REALLY need to get some rest. And medication.
As for you Kev, I have yet to get into any match whether it be COD4, GTA4, Warhawk, MGO beta(when it was active), or UT3 without having alot of people talking. When I played COD religiously I had to turn my mic off sometimes to let it charge on my laptop. And I wasn't the only one. That idea that no one has a mic on the ps3, is based off an ignorant assumption, sorry to say.