GameRaven writes:
''The first-person shooter is a ridiculously overcrowded market. They tend to be far too similar. Go here, shoot that, save the world. It’s pretty standard fare. The nature of the market has resulted in many people becoming jaded.''
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
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
I agree, Resistance 3 was great and while the article says it felt like a reboot, i always felt it was more as a sequel not to two but to the original. Captured the idea that you were the last line of defense from the chimera virus. This was pretty good because they manage to capture that feeling.
I felt to tried to be to big and tried to use size to its advantage. I also felt they were trying to go to "halo" with it, with how soldier were super and such. Seemed like a silly downfall to the story, though two did have its perks like the awesome co op mode
Three basically returned to the form of 1, with the idea that mankind was falling and now you had to live with that.
One and Three are my favorites, and i wish they would remaster the original with its multiplayer intact
While Resistance was a great series, I'm glad Insomniac eventually went back to making more lighthearted fare.
good games especially the second
As linear, single-player shooters go, it doesn't get much better than Resistance 3. Unfortunately, it seems like too many people got burned by the mediocrity of 2 (cool co-op mode aside) that 3 didn't sell like it deserved.
I think because the second one put a bad taste in my mouth is why I never got into the third one.