Adam writes: "I stopped by the store today to pick up a copy of the Resistance 3 demo for the wonderfully low price of 18 bucks. They even threw in a copy of the film Battle: Los Angles, which was a nice perk. After finishing my third run through the demo, I came to a realization. In the battle for alien themed, console specific series, Resistance is far and away better than the often trumped up Halo. And as a public service, I’ve gathered up a few of the reasons why."
Insomniac Games' thunderous conclusion to its acclaimed first-person shooter series remains an under-appreciated work of art.
I honestly liked the first one most..
killzone 2 and 3 outshined Resistance 2 and 3 for me in every aspect.
I absolutely adored Resistance 3 but they do not NEED to remake this game. They should do something that they enjoy and if it is Resistance then so be it.
Not a classic in my opinion ; a pretty mediocre PS3 shooter as far as I'm concerned, not bad, not the worst of the trilogy, but certainly not great. Killzone 2 was miles ahead of it (and of most FPSs even today as far as I'm concerned).
Naw man.
Resistance 1 will always be GOATed for me.
I remember playing all night on multiplayer. Such a fun game.
killzone was amazing but resistance was great as well. althpugh theybwrre both fps, I think that served different purposes.
Although I agree on original games and creativity over licensed IP, especially something like Ghost of Tsushima. But Sony's looking at that series selling less and less overall with the 3rd estimated to not even sell 2 million. Gamers who say they loved it didn't really buy it.
While Spiderman the series has sold over 50 million not counting PC. And Spider-Man 2 is over 11 million so far. If you had their business and had to make their decisions, what would you do in their shoes?
@ApocalypseShadow
Umm, that's exactly my point lol. Insomniac made great, original IP games and people didn't buy them because they were too busy lapping up yearly CODs and Assassin's Creeds, so naturally Sony/Insomniac had to pivot to something else.
So you are saying 1 was the worst?
I respect your opinion but strongly disagree.
I'll start with what I didn't like about 3:
- OK, Nathan Hale is gone but new player character totally forgettable. Can't even remember their name.
- Awful forced in 3D. Just look at KZ3 for 3D done well.
- Online multiplayer that paled in comparison to 1 and 2. Put hundreds of hours into the first two. Probably less than 10 hours into 3.
- Campaign was OK but I played the other two more, especially 1.
1 had my favorite gunplay of the trilogy (no need for COD iron sight) so I guess my worst would be 2. At least 3 wrapped up the storyline, supported the move controller and had prettier graphics. But in my book, none of the three really stood out. From that era, I prefered Singularity for example and obviously Killzone 2.
I wish they'd bring back the Resistance 2 multiplayer. God that co-op was so much fun.
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
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.
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.
Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.
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
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.
Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...
Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything
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.
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.
Yoda:
"and so the Fanboy Rage war begins"
Nathan who?
this most be one of those unfunny inside jokes
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I dont agree with his heading but, he does make some valid points. I'm personally tired of halo and I really dont think that halo's story is very compelling, at least as compelling as people make it out to be. If youve played the resistance serious although part 2 was a step back you have to admit it was cool how things ended up. Insomniac games has never gotten credit for how well the story to resistance series has unraveled.
Really... he calls Master Chief the perfect Hero and then he falls short of Nathan because "Nathan Hale was a broken man, a simple soldier thrust into a terrible situation, simply trying to survive".
People buy a game to escape reality. I want to control that character that kicks-ass and asks questions later.
Resistance is a better story then Halo? Really...? Why? They both are save humanity types of games. Though resistance is more a save Britain theme to start out. They both have personal interaction with relative characters and moments of impending doom. Halo is set in the distant future, Resistance is set in an alternate past? Which is better the old... this is what life would be if it was different or the this is what life might be in the future given the same timeline. We all know that Resistance was made to garnish the WWII fans who love them that COD.
Halo is a universe of story. It has linking storylines with the Reach, Halo Wars and ODST stories. Each bringing a new insight into how the whole story progresses. And will continue into the 2nd trilogy of Master Chief continueing his lonely venture into the universe with only his automated companion Cortana to keep him company.
Master Chief has history behind him... we know how he grew up. We know how he lost his promised love. We know that he is a man doing a job and in that time period he has lost every friend that he has fought beside. We want to know what happens to him next.
Nathan Hale... what do we know or care about his story? He goes through trials in the game but we never feel like we can empathize with him. He is a character that we are watching from the outside. What is his real history?
Gameplay... we know that Resistance is just a shadow of what Halo is, wishing that it could live up to the control and feel of the shadow that falls on it from the Halo series. The enemies have no character to them. they seem like the same old thing around every corner. They toss in a few big bosses and think that the gamers are going to be happy. Halo might have the occasional humorus grunt tossed in... but we know the conection between all of the enemies and their hierarchy. We know how seperate species have formed the covenant and how we have enemies fighting enemies within the story plot, one enemy trying to destroy humanity just to escape the greater enemy the flood. In Halo we are even siding up with previous enemies to battle past transgressions against them in the Halo 3 series. The next trilogy will surely bring a new enemy face to battle and the fans are anticipating the confrontation and story.
Nathan Hale is a mere shadow of Master Chief... as is the franchise Resistance to that of Halo. We don't call games Resistance killers when we hype them... we call them Halo killers. Because Halo is the game that FPS are struggling to surpass.