Michael McWhertor writes:After the flawed Resistance 2, a game that drained the joy from the PlayStation 3's once very promising shooter series, Insomniac Games comes closer to hitting its target with its third game set amongst the human-Chimera war. All it took to get Resistance 3 back on track was a bullet in the head.
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
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
i'm start thinking that Kotaku workers are stupid primitive monkeys.
Resistance 3 is a disappointment...story wise. And that for me matters a lot...
For the final game in the Human-Chimera trilogy, the so called final game in the trilogy left many important questions unanswered.
In my opinion, the Resistance series doesn't deserved that the whole aftermath of the war was told by 4/5 little pictures in the credits.
(i'm sorry if i have spoiled anything to those who haven't played the game yet)
It's quality that matters to me, and R3 has it draped all over itself.
I found the campaign to be just okay. Not worth a 2nd playthough. MP: 8vs8, no thanks. Tried it, hated it. I'd rather play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and soon Battlefield 3 which just feels so much BIGGER and better. Co-op I only put in about 2 hours on the Hard difficulty and found it really easy.
In regards to the ending... SPOILERS:
when he jumps and he falls into the heli... haha that's horrible, definitely a "Rambo" moment but so cheesy and lame.
I completely agreed with the review UNTIL they mentioned the story part. While not as great as say Uncharted, it was still decent and better than 90% of other shooters out there. It wasn't perfect but it kept having me excited about what was going to happen next and what would happen when we finally got in NY.
Sure it wasn't perfect but it worked and I liked the ending SOOO much more than Resistance 2's... R2's ending just sucked it had TOO much cliffhanger for my tastes.