With all the hype and focus on Gears of War 2 right now many will overlook another game that will hit store shelves the same week as Gears. Resistance 2 is the followup to the very solid 2006 PS3 launch game Resistance: Fall of Man. The original game was loved by Sony fans and for a launch title was very solid from a full fledged campaign to dedicated servers and a party system for online play. Insomniac really outdid themselves for a launch title and when compared to the big FPS launch game for the 360 Perfect Dark Zero it really stood out. Here we are 2 years later and the second game in the series is about to drop. With beta key in hand, lets dig into the fun.
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.
imo opinion is actually quite the opposite... Insomniac is doing some crazy stuff with this game, and the media along with gamers are quite excited about the game...
I know i'll be getting it as soon as it hits them shelves!!
this is something people tend to forget and then start saying that sony's crap, that it has no games, that it is overpriced, live owns psn in every aspect, etc, etc...
just awesome....one helluva game....in the beta 60 player no lag he ain't lying . 8 player coop one helluva fun ...again insomniac is the shhhhhhhhh....
and i liked it a lot- graphics are improved, weapons are great, and there was absolutely no lag for me- however- while i was playing the 60 player teamdeath match i kept wondering if all the chaotic shooting and killing and dying will get old after a while- it almost seems as if there's no way to avoid death- im not great at shoooters but im pretty good- i play cod4 everyday and get 20-30 kills consistantly- but it seems like in R2 u just kinda shoot and hope to get a kill- the only time i was dying less was when i was sniping from a distance- but when u get in the middle of everything its VERY hard to stay alive for more than 10 seconds- but i guess i could just play in the smaller size matches- all in all- its a GREAT online shooter- and i have high hopes for the campaign which i think will be amazing from what ive seen and heard- my 2 cents...
Everyone should own this game. Its the complete package. Strong story mode. Insane competitive modes with up to 60 players (and it doesnt lag). And possibly the best feature, the coop mode, with up to 8 and the most team reliant game ive seen. Working together has never been more enjoyable and rewarding.