Now 6 months on and with hindsight available, it's a good time see exactly how Resistance 2 has performed. Being the sequel to the Playstation 3 launch title, Resistance: Fall of Man, expectations were exceedingly high and after seeing Resistance: Fall of Man perform exceedingly well in sales and receive praise from critics and it was envisaged that Insomniac would push on with the series. The game came out in November 2008 worldwide, so let's dig in to the analysis.
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.
Like a new IP or something. I'm guessing that won't happen because of Resistance but after Resistance 3 it would be nice if they could do something along those lines.
Pretty interesting seeing the thoughts that Insomniac added :)
Resistance 2 is easily one of the best FPS games out right now.
r2 with killzone graphics would make it the best game ever.
Resistance 2 has a nice pair of legs. ;)
@ Halo 3 MLG Pro & Chicken Chaser - You do realize that VGChartz updates their numbers after they are actually released to provide an accurate depiction of sales. VGChartz numbers a week before NPD are always BS, VGChartz numbers 6 months later are usually spot-on. Get over yourself, and find something new to whine about. I'd also like a link to when I "always downplay" VGChartz numbers when they are in favor of the 360, MLG. It's really funny to me that you are butthurt when this article is clearly stating that Resistance 2 didn't sell nearly as well as Gears 2 or what it was expect to. Do you really need to make everything about the 360, or are you just trolling as usual?
I guess Bryan Inithar counts as VGChartz too? How about his quote reflecting how well Resistance 2 is doing 6 months later?
"Bryan Intihar, Community Manager of Insomniac Games told us the developer's thoughts on Resistance 2's longevity:
"We're very happy with Resistance 2's performance at the six-month mark. The game has been a success across the globe-we've even seen some strong sales out of Japan where first-person shooters are typically not as popular. Since launch we've continually updated the game via patches to address some of the community's top requests, which included bringing back the popular Resistance: Fall of Man multiplayer mode Meltdown and adding the second player PSN login functionality. And most recently, we released downloadable content in the form of new competitive multiplayer maps and character skins-the response to both has been great.
We're also excited to see how much the Resistance franchise has grown over the last six months, thanks to the release of Resistance: Retribution for PSP (Sony Bend did a fantastic job on the game), Resistance comic books from WildStorm, Hot Topic's Resistance t-shirts, and the Resistance novel. You'll even see some action figures coming to a store near you this fall." "