PS3Center: What Resistance 3 Needs

Dustin @ PS3Center writes:
If you haven't already seen it, a Resistance 3 billboard has been spotted on a movie set recently. This of course gets many people excited as the gameis finally on the way, but hopefully this means changes to make it the best gamer ever? Resistance 2 didn't do as well as Resistance Fall of Man, many people didn't like the changes, so here is what we want to see in Resistance 3.

[shadowfox]

Resistance 2 was a great game, but I feel like Insomniac took the generic shooter route with it. Hopefully they go back to the roots with R3.

[BulletToothtony]

RFoM was incredible with a deep story that you just wanted to know more..

R2 felt so shallow compared to R1, no explanation to many, many things that didn't make sense in part 1.. i loved the brown atmosphere in part 1 as well.. part 2 was waay too colorful.. and Nathan Hale didn't feel like this awesome character anymore.. felt like just a regular and even weak guy..

Please insomniac.. RFoM was amazing, there is NO SHAME at all in going back to the game's roots..

[bnaked]

imo weapon wheel and health packs are last gen and should not be in R3..

I want: a incredible Sci-Fi-game with massively scripted Action sequences. With epic battles on earth or possibly on the enemy planet! They should look at independence day, war of the worlds and star wars.. I just want a sci-fi-uncharted2 ^^.

[DK_Kithuni_71]

Resistance 2 was a good game. Resistance: Fall of Man was a great game. I love the series. PS3 owners should try both. I highly recommend it.

I hope Resistance 3 will include Nathan Drake as the ultimate-Chimera-bad-ass and we get a massive boss fight againt him. Also hope that Insomniac Games returns with an epic Resistance 3 that in storytelling and gameplay will rival the first game in the series.

By the way, I will surely support Insomniac Games by buying Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time this year too.

[RememberThe357]

But I think Insomniac did every well with R2. As developers, they seem to be getting a better grasp of how a FPS should play. I'm sure they have heard all the complaints about R2 and made the necessary changes.

[MEsoJD]

make use of the killzone engine.

[crck]

Unfortunately, Insomniac caved and tried to make Resistance 2 like all the other generic shooters instead of embracing what made Resistance different. It didn't work and it pissed off the people that loved the first Resistance. They need to get rid of the crappy storytelling over the radio and bring back the narration. While they're at it they better include Co-op campaign, the weapon wheel and vehicles. Without them its just another generic above average shooter.

[Dragun619]

What Resistance 3 needs is a better single player experience with a good story. Insomniac got Multiplayer down so they don't have to worry about that.

I just want the Sp Campaign to be better this time around, Resistance:FOM had a better SP along with story and with resistance 2 the story and interest fell apart. But I liked the ending though. I think for the next one I hope they keep Nathan as the main protagonist (even though he...)

[el_bandito]

Yeah... I miss the 1951 setting. I really liked how the human resistance forces really looked helpless against the Chimerans back in RFoM. They used archaic weapons, wore old army clothes, cheap helmets and apparel. In R2 everything seemingly jumped to the modern era, all the retro things present in the game seemed to have been flushed out because the game really became a generic sci-fi shooter. And yeah, I have to agree with R2 being really colorful.

R2 is good nonetheless, but Insomniac have to revert to the same formula which set RFoM apart from other shooter. And I hope they could bring back offline campaign split-screen coop.

[Tachyon_Nova]

Resistance 2 is my second favourite console FPS on PS3. Not because of the singleplayer, although this was still pretty good if you ask me, but the multiplayer - It is awesome, especially the online co-op.

What they need to do:
New types of epically huge enemies
Improved graphics - hopefully up to around Killzone 2 level if not better
Keep and expand on the online co-op
Mod'able weapons (add scopes, stabilisers, sepressors etc)
Improved AI - make them value their lives more, and work together to flank you, lay down supressing fire etc

There are more things they could do, but thats a start.

[badz149]

I think many fans of the series prefer the narration style in R:FOM than R2 and so do I! Insomniac took what were making R:FOM a great, unique game with the absence of regenerative health bar and weapons wheel and most importantly the narrative story! the story of R2 is OK but not as great as R:FOM and eventhough bigger bosses are also featured in R2, they feel too scripted thus taking away the tense and feel of accomplishment for beating them!

I also don't like the 1-hit kill invisible pricks in R2! they feel cheap! I would rather have them acts like the flying bots that shoot grenades in inFAMOUS - they fly around haunting and shooting at you with unpredictable patterns and cloak themselves (need to zap them to make them visible again) thus making them annoying but more fun to beat!

but after all that, the ending of R2 is EPIC! makes you wonder how will they advance the story from that point! I can't wait for R3 and I hope they will combine the great things from R:FOM and R2 to make the ultimate Resistance experience in Resistance 3.

[randomwiz]

agreed

R3 needs the pros of R1 and the pros of R2 combined to be killer

[ReservoirDog316]

Weapon wheel back, more focus on story, more great weapons and it'll be another great game in the series.

[ico92]

Puts a flame proof suit on*

I thought resistance 2 was better than killzone 2 funner gameplay,better level design,more balanced weapons (the overpowerd isa assualt rifle anyone?) better set peice battles and epic boss fights.

[gaffyh]

Resistance 1 had much much better online that R2, because it made more sense. In R2, the chimera and Humans were exactly the same, they could use any perk they wanted, it ruined the uniqueness of Resistance. Just go back to R1 online.

[Christopher_Walken]

For some reason I liked Resistance: FOM better than Resistance 2.

[PirateThom]

I think the same could be said of most people.

I couldn't get into R2 at all, I finished it, but it felt too much like Halo.

[Christopher_Walken]

Yeah now that you mention it...

But I really liked the feel of FOM. It really set itself apart from other shooters with it's environments and graphical style.

It just seems like R2 is a completely different game.

[RememberThe357]

But I think anyone who has played both understands what you mean. I loved the scale of R2 but I think it lost some of it's grittiness. It's kind of the same thing that happened to Gears of War 2.

I think that when they went to these more epic set pieces, they lost the more intimate close-quarters combat of the first.

I think a return to the grit for R3 would be great. And adding a little Killzone heaviness wouldn't hurt either.

[callahan09]

I really don't understand why everybody craps on R2. I mean, the critics (for the most part) liked it better than RFOM (it has a higher metacritic than RFOM anyway). But all the gamers I talk to take a dump on R2 all the time. I just don't get it. I'm with the critics on this one. Both games were good, but R2 is my preference. The co-op mode was so addictive, and the graphics were a huge improvement. I know that it was popular for a while to compare the graphics to Gears 2 and make fun of R2, but I never understood that. I think R2 had easily the best graphics of 2008. I really do believe that. It was absolutely gorgeous, particularly the Idaho and Chicago levels. That's my opinion. Everybody seems to disagree, but I don't get why.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

Do less and make it more. R2 should have toned down its size considering the development time. Great singleplayer comes first - add what you can after.

[cmrbe]

R2 is a good game. However to most fans it was too different from what made the first great. It was not the graphics or MP. It was simply the campaign.

For me personally it was the removal of the weapon wheel and the narrator which affected the story choesion quite a bit.

One of the best thing about R1 were the weapons. I enjoyed so much having access to them when ever i wanted in R1. They were freaking cool. Also I.G should have never ditched the narrator. With the narrator in R1 the story was coheisive and it made perfect sense what was going on. With R2 the story was told through the comms between the team members while fighting for their lives. Most of the time i wasn't listening because i was too busy trying to survive. It made the story disjointed which is a shame because it has an amazing story.

Also Hale was much better being a silent hero. It was a bit weird with him talking so much more in R2 when in R1 he never said much.Again this has to do with the absent narrator.

I really do hope I.G return to R1 roots in R3. They should not listen to idiots that didin't like R1 because it was too brown, or lacked gore, or the pacing was too slow compare to other tirigger happy games like Gears. That was the problem. I.G tired too much to be like other shooters. They should have known better in that 3.5 million people bought R1 and most loved it for being a unigue shooter from others.

[Shendow]

Both were good and the only changes where the ranking up parts that got you new weapons and armor. Which made the game last longer.

[Deathmammoth]

I agree with this article 100% Resistance: Fall of Man was SSSOOO much better then Resistance 2. I just hope Insomniac makes R3 more like R:FoM then R2.

[OGharryjoysticks]

Seriously. What they need is to embrace that M rating. Have that scene where the girl is trying to seduce me thus getting naked only to start changing into a beast, and the only way to kill her is to shoot off both of her alien nipples while she attacks like a savage.

We both know that would be classic so hit agree :)

[DRUDOG]

LOL... Wife even asked me what I was laughing about. Too bad she wouldn't get it...

[Its_The_Truth]

What i missed in R2 was the crazy weapons that the first one had the Splitter was my favorite gun in R1 I felt the weapons in R2 was rushed out in development. So hopefully R3 will have crazy/fun weapons to use, plus I miss the ability to carry all weapons I mean your up against an entire army of Chimera atleast give us the ability to use more than a crappy Carbine or Bullseye. Plus I miss the GreyJacks you know the tall skinny Chimera that would pummel you into the ground.

[boss_killa]

R2 was a good game. i wasnt blown away by it though. the guns felt really weak. i havent touched the game in months.

im probably gonna skip on R3 unless insomniac does something really amazing with it. with games like killzone 2 and uncharted 2, then MAG and possibly Kilzone 3 on the way, R3 will have its work cut out for it.

[Ravage27]

but keep an eye on R3. I got a feeling they are going to make it the best co-op shooter ever.

[Cajun Chicken]

I'm going to be damned straight here. MUCH BETTER GRAPHICS/TEXTURES.

[SoapShoes]

R2 improved on FOM in everyway, but lost its personality. Tbh, FOM didn't have a fantastic story. It was explained better through narration, but I think they both were about equal.

[ReconHope]

Did this guy even play r2? Hale is dead..

[execution17]

yea shame you probably won't get those awesome force powers you get to use for a meager couple minutes

[lionp696]

We think hes dead.
Could have survived with his chimeran powers.

[Alpha_Gamer]

It needs a 600ft leviathan, that way the ps3 fanboys can hype it twice as much.

[Anorexorcist]

Can discredit it, while secretly hoping and wishing that Insomniac will go multiplatform and make a game for the Xbox 360 one day.

It could happen...when a lonely, pathetic hermit like yourself wins a lifetime achievement award!

[Alpha_Gamer]

Woah, when you`re done throwing your temper tantrum, you should come back when your settled down a little bit.

[Anorexorcist]

I'll be a little more gentle next time you little dork! Time for you to go whine to your parents about the bullies on N4G.

[cyborg6971]

How can you call yourself an alpha gamer when all your bots do is play betas?

[Kill Crow]

advertising scams on their website ...?

seriously WTF is with all the crap ... white teeth ... just brush them you twats .....

[spunnups]

R3 needs the campaign and multiplayer of the first, and the coop of the second. Even though I enjoyed the multiplayer in R2, I missed the weapon wheel.

[woolley]

These guys got everything right. This exactly what R3 needs.

[theDutchFella]

IMO R:FOM's single player campaign was way better than R2's. It's honesty one of the best single player experiences I have ever had in a game. The fear factor in some of the levels was so intense, especially the northern command bunker level.

[chadwarden]

100000 players online matches

[Bodyboarder_VGamer]

These are all great recommendations. Good article. And I hope someone from insomniac reads it... =)

[dan88123]

@AlphaGamer sorry, he's probably just sick of douches like you on every single videogame forum for the last 3 years

[chisox100]

i agree, R2 wasn't nearly as good as Fall of Man. The grit and darkness of FOM is what made it a great game. R2 left that formula entirely. Yeah R2 intruduced some massive scale battles but some dark winding corridors with crazy invisible enemies wielding scyth arms and fire breath around every corner would be great.

[rob6021]

I don't see why they don't put all 3 campaigns on the disk and have co-op on all of them, that would make up for Res2's lack of co-op.

[Britney Spears]

What R3 needs is to be more like the original R1. They can keep the addictive amazing fun co-op from R2 though. R2 disappointed in story,it needed the British lady like part 1 and some of the directions it took was bad. The multiplayer sucked because everyone spammed the annoying electric powers and they tried to make it like cod 4. They need the story similar to R1 and go back to the R1 muiltiplayer. They just need to do that and improve from there. Add a lot more weapons that are creative,etc

[gamingisnotacrime]

R2 was a mixed bag of great and lame. Next installment, instead of focusing on a short developement cycle, they should emphasize the quality of the game

[DJ]

I sold it right after i completed it. The story was weak, i didn't get attached to any of the characters (who pretty much looked like the main character) and the graphics were pretty bad too. Though some sections looked brilliant (like the background of San Francisco being obliterated) I could easily find many other sections with absolutely no polish.

The glitches were killer, too. I actually lost a boss fight because a turret from across the level was able to see me through the various walls and shoot at me. Insomniac had a lot of ambition, but they need to slow down their release dates and actually put out a polished sequel this time around.

[Ripyealip]

they should do what uncharted 2 did, make the game a master peice. we all know that insomniac has what it takes to make a killer game.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Insomniac definitely has the talent. They just need the time and money to pull off something like Uncharted 2. They're a 2nd party dev...not first like Naughty Dog.

[grantps3]

i hope hale remains dead, but if for some reason he is not somebody should sew his mouth shut because as soon as he started talking in r2 i stopped liking him as a charecter. he wasn't funny and was just a pain. game charecters shouldnt talk unless they have a well thought out personality, like nathan drake. he is the best charecter in any game funny, heroic, and he is somebody everybody can relate to (he is an everyman)

[themyk]

i love resistence game play the graphix are good they could be better.

i really enjoyed the 1st and 2nd but they could do better and i hope they nail it down next year.

the end and ending of the 2nd was awesome.

[peedie16]

yea they should bring back Rachel Parker in some form

[BlackIceJoe]

I agree so much with this article. I really would love to see the mysterious nature and darker colors of FOM return. I so would love to see the Weapon wheel make a return. Plus bring back all the weapons from both FOM and R2. I also would love to see vehicles also come back for the campaign.

I really loved the idea of Boss battles in R2 and would love to see Insomniac grow on what they did with R2 and this time make them more harder to kill. The old health system in FOM worked fine and so I would love to see that too make a return.

I loved in FOM the dark underground tunnels and that you never knew what was going to happen. To me it felt almost like an Alien film seeing as you are in the dark and are not sure in what spot the creatures will pop out at you. So I would love to see you have to fight in Tunnels and have the Chimera needing the snow to survive again.

I so want to have the split-screen co-op campaign mode back from FOM. I think it would be cool to see may be having James Grayson from R:R as the second person. So that way you get to have two awesome fighters in the story mode. Because I liked playing with my friends not online in the first and even though Co-op was really cool in R2 I just liked being able to play the story mode with a friend.

Plus bringing back the Chimera from both FOM and R2 would also be cool. So if all this can happen having the best of FOM and R2 then R3 will be super incredible.

[Whoooop]

IMO it needs a more realistic look and a different color palette.

Resistance 2 was better than FOM in terms of content and scale, but the game felt incomplete in terms of polish and attention to detail in the visual and story departments.

They need to upgrade their engine, use a different one or increase development time so they can polish the game as much as they can without the "new game each year" pressure.

IMO... Overall the game was average and didn't live up to the hype when it came to the complete single player experience.

[foreverflame]

To be in HD,Since the ps3 doesn't do H.D as where the 360 does.

[theDutchFella]

your thinking of Halo

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

He's kidding. He's a troll.

[BYE]

It needs third person view like in R:Retribution.

And enemies that don't require you to put like a 100 rounds in. Even if they're aliens...it's not believable.

[TABSF]

For Resistance 3 to be any good it has to be more like Resistance: fall of man and less like Resistance 2

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

series needs a revamp... and Insomniac better not dismiss the visuals Killzone 2 has brought to the console FPS genere either!

[devilhunterx]

Needs more female nudity in HD.

[Batzi]

It needs what was not in Resistance 2 and which was featured in the first Resistance and that is the variety of weapons in the multiplayer. What makes RFOM's multiplayer superior to R2 was that awesome feature where you get to choose as many weapons as you find varying from a shotgun to a bullseye to a sniper to a flamethrower all together. In R2 you can only equip 1 main weapon and a pistol and that was boring. I hope they bring back that feature in R3 or I may not consider buying it.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

NO HEALTH PACKS!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT WAS SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

No health packs! PLEASE! That was so annoying!

Regenerating health is a great idea...so, let's keep it. Unless you can come up with a new health system...don't do health packs. Both ways are pretty unrealistic anyway. Lol.

How about we get a DEEP storyline?!?!?!? Neither RFOM game has a deep storyline. :( I want one!

[beavis4play]

what the hell happened to the large-scale battles from R:FoM? there was only one big battle in R2.
also, i was expecting more depth to the story in R2 (not to mention more about what was happening in Russia)

[eyeh]

After RFOM, I'm pretty sure people were criticizing the game because the narration made Hale's character difficult to connect with.
Also people were saying how SO many shooters were the same old gray in color, "generic" in a sense. In fact, that was a huge criticism of Gears of War as well.
Insomniac took those criticisms and changed it for R2. They axed the narration, gave Hale a voice, and made the environments less one-note. Now people are criticizing what they changed.
I don't discount that many people like the old one better. I'm just confused as to whether these are the same people complaining the first time around or different people. I don't think anything that Insomniac does will satisfy everyone. They can only hope to please the majority, or the most vocal minority.
Anyways, I liked both of them about the same.

[food86]

I liked R1 better for their ambience and sense of scale when you fought the chimera I mean you literally thought your were fighting a loosing battle and i loved how you were always overwhelmed in the first game were the second game I literally ran through the game rambo style. I just wish they would bring back the r1 formula it felt unique and on a league of its own. R2 was good but it felt like all the other shooters out there.

[Knightofelemia]

I am sorry to say but I would like online co-op R2 had it but it wasn't what I thought it was I would like it where a buddy and I can play camapigns together. It is still one of my fav shooters for the PS3 but what Insomniac could do also is have a mode where you play as the aliens and shoot up the humans like a differant sidestory to the game.

[TheBand1t]

"What Resistance 3 needs"

The return of the Widowmaker chimera.

[Ninjamonkey]

I agree. I felt that insomniac really stripped out all the good stuff from the first game.

What i really want is a darker game. infact i want it bordering on a horror game. You could see parts of this in the first game with pitch balck levels with the wolves hiding in places, they really created atmosphere and somethimes in the dark Id really be crawling along with my flashlight looking for enemies.

Also make it so your teammates die more again!!! I loved how in the first you relaly had to do well to keep your guys alive for later on, and them somethimes youd be going along happily and suddenly a horrible attack would kill them all, meaving you alone and feeling helpless. It was incredible.

Make it scarier, make the chimera much more horrific, blood stains, bugger, spikier teeth, make them look evil. More lone dark missions would be great, but take inspiration from games like fear which used set pieces to really make things freaky.

Mostly though vring back how easy it was for your teammates to die, that really made you play much better as if you did well you were rewarded with a larger force to help you.