Resistance: Fall of Man is a launch title for the Sony Playstation 3 and was released in 2006 (If I am not mistaken).Resistance is a game of the first person shooter and is developed by Insomniac games, who are responsible for the Spyro the Dragon series and Ratchet and Clank series.
Anyways enough with the introduction let us go into the review. Resistance takes place in an alternate history setting with the great depression and WWII never happening. But instead a mysterious force called the Chimera have taken over most of Europe with the United Kingdom being left to defend themselves. You take control of Nathan Hale an American Sargent sent to liberate the UK. This story is fairly well done with a little touch of mystery to promote the player to further complete the game.
The graphics in this game are fairly well done while still being 2 years old. Details in the environments are well done, and the environments also have a very "doomed and invaded" theme to it, which helps bring the feeling of being "doomed" to the player. A small gripe in this game is that the death animations are very stiff and guns tend to stay in the players hand even when he is dead. This is small but the small flaw is still there.
Gameplay in this game is very fun, I paced myself during the game, not because I did not like it, but I wanted it to last me a long time. The weaponry in this game also very fun to play with, very unique guns and grenades and almost every gun has a secondary fire and even a tertiary fire. This gives the player many options of how to take out an enemy either go up to him close with a shot gun or even take him out with a sniper the choice is up to the player. The game also features a 2 split screen co-op, 4 player split screen multiplayer and even online multiplayer. This gives the game a very high replay value even after you are done with the single player.
The online multiplayer is fairly good and can sometimes be a huge frag fest with up to 40 players online. The lobby system is very organized with the choice of either playing in a ranked or unranked game. Online gametypes consists of Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch or Team Objective which is a compilation CTF, Assault and Meltdown.
All in all Resistance: Fall of Man is a well done launch title and very fun First person shooter. If you own a PS3 I would recommend you get your hands on it.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
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.
Days Gone director & former Bend Studio dev Jeff Ross says he pitched an open-world Resistance game to Sony; he wasn't interested in a Syphon Filter reboot.
Sony rejected an open world Resistance? Come ON guys. Stop with these timed deals for Deathloop etc and let’s go!
This plus the fact Days Gone hit 9 million has me scratching my head this week. Why so cynical?
As far as Syphon Filter goes, it's a shame that after two generations of leaks and rumors the game was never actually in development. MGS is dead, Splinter Cell might as well be dead from what we've heard. Sony's had a massive opportunity to come in and take over a dormant genre, and they're just dragging their feet. So many opportunities to bring franchises back and they just don't.
I really wish we got more grounded action-crime or action-espionage games, not everything has to be over the top action RPGs and have sci-fi/superhero/fantasy elements.
Especially after seeing that jawdropping Matrix showcase... we can really rival some great action films if done right :O
Shame about Siphon Filter as I believe there is a market for it.
Also, there are some rumors that Sony is working on a new game that mix both Splinter Cell and MGS features.
Let's hope it is true.
I'm glad the online is still well used in this game.
And F the Titans.