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Joystiq: Resistance 3 preview: I'm on a Boat

Insomniac Games hosted its annual Community Day in Hollywood yesterday, and Resistance 3 was on display front and center, with a few discussions, a bevy of single-player and multiplayer demo stations, and one new gameplay reveal happening throughout the day. The demo available to the public has been seen in video form before, but the other gameplay demo on hand, shown right after the announcement of Move and 3D support, was all new.

Insomniac referred to it as "the boat level," because it's more or less an on-rails (on-river?) section played on a boat in the early part of the game. Protagonist Joe Capelli will be making his way from Haven, Oklahoma to New York City, and early on he jumps into a boat and starts touring up the muddy Mississippi towards St. Louis, through the flooded town of Wrightsburg, Missouri.

Pintheshadows4924d ago

If thats the video I think it will be i'm not clicking. Seriously though, i'm really looking forward to R3. I liked RFOM and R2 in different ways. I expect i'll enjoy this as well.

Lindsey4924d ago

I love the new art-direction, it definitely seems to have a much more; moody, atmospheric vibe to it.

The Great Melon4924d ago

It reminds me of Half-life 2's art style.

Pintheshadows4924d ago (Edited 4924d ago )

I hope it is a bit more depressing like RFOM. I liked 2 but it was a bit too colourful. I think RFOMs depressing edge works far better.

@ The Great Melon, good point.

ThanatosDMC4924d ago

Agreed. I thought humans are supposed to be losing and getting slaughtered.

Buho4924d ago

That is one big reason why I fell in love with the Resistance series. If I wanted a colorful and happy shooter I would play Halo, and not Resistance. It looks like IG listened to the community. Resistance 3 looks more like FOM, which is definitely a good thing. Resistance 3 is a day one buy for me.

DigitalRaptor4924d ago

I liked Resistance 2, but I agree.

cochise3134924d ago

It looks like insominiac has really stepped their game up this time. I'm desperately waiting for this.

Kon4924d ago (Edited 4924d ago )

I'm on a horse.

Pintheshadows4924d ago

I think you'll find it's called a COM-PU-TER. Not a horse. :)

MidnytRain4924d ago (Edited 4924d ago )

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Pintheshadows4924d ago (Edited 4924d ago )

Lol it was a JOKE midnytrain. And your comment is anything but legitimate. If my comments were all like yours I would have nothing interesting to say.

Also please don't tell me how to use my bubbles. It makes you some kind of bubble.....nazi. Yeah! You big mean bubble nazi.

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Eonjay816d ago

Resistance 3 is such a great game. One of my all time bests.

cooperdnizzle816d ago

Couldn’t agree more. Still love It as a shooter to this day.

Just something about that game. I really wish they would just do a remaster, don’t even need a remake just bring it up to todays out put, touch up a few things if any, and I am there to buy it day one.

Of course I would love a remake built from the ground up. As long as they treated it like Shadow of the Colossus, or close to those type of remake. Wouldn’t want it to get the RE treatment…. Just because the game is already paced so perfect and hits all the right beats that I wouldn’t touch that aspect.

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Knushwood Butt874d ago

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.

Eidolon873d ago

Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.

Miraak82 872d ago

i have the platinium too , 10k kills in online ranked matches was no joke . Took me 3-4 months straight grinding but it was fun . To put it in perspective you only got like 25 kills per match if you were 1st place every match that's at Least 400 matches in 1st

Sciurus_vulgaris874d ago

I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2

GoodGuy09874d ago

Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.

fr0sty873d ago

Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...

P_Bomb873d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey602873d ago

Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything

porkChop873d ago

Honestly, Burning Skies was shit. There's no two ways about it. At first I thought it looked terrible, then I second guessed myself. Big mistake.

darthv72872d ago

Retribution has this really cool feature where you could use a PS3 to link a controller to it and play. So if you had a 2000 or 3000 hooked to a tv, you can use a real controller. All of this predates the PSP Go's ability to sync a sixaxis to it via bluetooth.

Yui_Suzumiya873d ago

Resistance 3 was shocking and brilliant. Loved it.

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Jin_Sakai1230d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721229d ago

Agreed. Until they do a new entry, I'd love to get the two portable games remade into console versions. Maybe in a nice compilation with the mainline titles.

monkey6021229d ago

Burning Skies wasn't a great game.
It was only a couple of hours long and there was nothing memorable about it.

I'd love a new entry

darthv721228d ago

^monkey, hence why it should be remade into a better version.

SullysCigar1230d ago

Resistance 3's campaign was gorgeous for the time - and an awesome game to boot.

monkey6021229d ago

I remember being put off by it because McHale wasn't the MC but it turned out to be my favourite campaign

CBaoth1228d ago

by and large though the Resistance IP featured many protagonists (4 altogether I think if you include the portables). One of the reasons I enjoyed it was not being shackled to individual story arcs. Very rare for a major franchise.

Army_of_Darkness1228d ago

My favorite resistance game as well! It seriously had creepy, scary a$$ moments bro! It made me want an action horror game from insomniac!

Mr_cheese1228d ago

Remember playing this through online co op with the move controller and gun attachment! What a game!

BlackIceJoe1229d ago

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.

Dragonopolis1228d ago

Great Idea. I'd play that version.

Resistance was a great game and of all the remasters.... I would play a great remastered version of resistance series as well

waverider1229d ago

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.

Jambola121228d ago

Resistance 2 was one of the first few games i played on ps3 and I loved it, would definitely finish that again :D

Chevalier1228d ago

I loved all the Resistance games. But part 2 online was amazing. The Marksmen for the Spec Ops type class when it was fully upgraded was such an amazing weapon. Oh man I wish they release all the games again and let us play part 2 online again.

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