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Resistance 2: Confirmed for Fall 2008, Demo Coming in July?

Slipped into the bottom of a press release regarding the extension to Insomniac Games' 'Nocturnal' initiative comes the news that the PS3-exclusive, Resistance: Fall of Man 2 is due out in Autumn 2008.

The text reads:

"Insomniac Games is currently developing Resistance 2(TM), which will release this fall, exclusively for PlayStation 3."

This would more than suggest, therefore, that the Easter egg hidden in the video we reported yesterday indicates not only more enemies, but a demo for July.

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Fishy Fingers5911d ago

Demo? i was expecting a beta... i guess these guys are doing all their own play testing (jammy gits). Neither the less, ill be downloading the demo/beta/video's/anything R2.

rushbd5911d ago

they have internal Q/A team to test everything to death.

gambare5910d ago

A demo is great enough. Maybe they will release it in July 4th? that date would be awesome :D

deeznuts5910d ago

They don't sleep, beta testers (public) do. So they're better at it. A demo in July, OMG the hype is going to be crazy. Resistance:FOM was generally a very enjoyable game.

gamesR4fun5910d ago

ya these guys have yet to let us down which makes them good as gold in my books.

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T_O875911d ago

i am begining to think that insomniac are not from planet earth

poos35911d ago

im a sony fan but resistance 2 ?i played 1boring and now we get 2 im already getting bored.

r10005911d ago

Yea.... Like I'm really going to take your word... "POOS3" please child... yea like i really believe you played part 1, or even own a ps3... get out of here teenager

gambare5910d ago

How can you be bored with a game you never played?

RecSpec5910d ago

He did a boxart review. Look at the box, pass judgement.

pwnsause5910d ago (Edited 5910d ago )

Insomniac are from planet earth, they just have sweatshops below their studios, thats all, just imagine you doing a game and ted comes up to you with a belt, SPANK!SPANK! "keep working slave!!!" (not tending to be racial, its whats up crawling in my mind about insomniac)

BeaArthur5910d ago

At the risk of getting blasted I agree with Poos3 (and I do have a ps3). The campaign just felt very repetetive (I don't know maybe just not enough of a variety of enemies). The multiplayer maps were uninspiring and the gameplay just didn't get me excited. Maybe Resistance 2 will be better but I will definetely rent it before I throw down $60 for it.

beavis4play5910d ago (Edited 5910d ago )

he doesn't have a ps3 and hates sony. check out 360 threads and look at his comments. this guy is an outright LIAR. i wish there was a way to get rid of these losers.

and at 2.6- repetitive? uh, you do need to get blasted because you rip a very good game but don't give specifics. with the insane variety of weapons,(not to mention many weapons are very unique to this game) huge battles and
facinating alternate history story i'm confused as to what you want. what game offers(in your mind) non-repetitive play?

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Madbrain5911d ago

Sorry bots!! You can't have it!! Another PS3 exclusive!!!

Gazman5911d ago

Wow I just hope they have not rushed it

Frances-the-Mute5911d ago

Insomniac releases a game every year, and they all turn out great

Shadow Flare5911d ago

And its also not the same team, insomniac have 2 teams and this one has been working on Resistance 2 before Ratchet & Clank : TOD came out. Or so said the play beyond podcast on IGN

Dave20015911d ago (Edited 5911d ago )

Another game thats going to flop.:)

T_O875911d ago (Edited 5911d ago )

LOL good one

Edit : why dissagree with him he is joking have some sense of humor

Kaz Hirai5911d ago

This will be GOTY 2008, count on it!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

Dave20015911d ago (Edited 5911d ago )

Relax guys I'm only joking i seriously think this game is going to be great.

@Kaz Hirai: Yes I'm a clone of the mart but the reason why pretend to be him is so i could annoy the hell out of that idiot.:)

Kaz Hirai5911d ago

Anyone who annoys that BUFFOON is fine by King Kaz!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

heyheyhey5911d ago

wtf?

im confused- too many piss-take accounts nowadays

poos35911d ago

sony need to learn from microsoft they show games that are being released at gdc with actial ingame gameplay which all looked amazing ng2,fable 2,gta dlc for for 2008,too humann, and even emntion gears of war 2 for 2008+many more things and games to come deff at e32008.
this year will be hard for sony .

TheMART5911d ago

First: I love clones, you all minions make me more famous, well known and practically make me a celebrity! Thanks for that already, there are so much like you that did this, done that and welcome to the army of my soldiers!

Second: yeah Resistance 2 could 'flop'. Well Resistance 1 was allright, but not as good as Gears 1. Average reviews:

Resistance 1: 87%
http://www.gamerankings.com...

Gears 1: 94%
http://www.gamerankings.com...

History will repeat itself. Gears 2 cuts R2 and KZ2 in two parts. Because KZ2 is delayed probably again to 2009 because they struggle to get the graphics up, they now put R2 in the gap till KZ2 probably releases. THey're that afraid for the Gears 2 effect

PopEmUp5911d ago

History will repeat itself by Ps3 will be kicking xbox ass?

heyheyhey5911d ago

theFAILURE accused me of blindly speculating in another article when thats all he does all day long

its all "mark my words" this and "history will repeat itself" that from you marty boy

jeez you sound like one of those hobos in those films who sit around predicting doom and destruction

TheHater5910d ago

@2.7
I didn't know a game that average a 87% as a launch title is consider average. Please STFU and just leave.

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Ranking the Resistance Games From Worst To Best

While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.

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Knushwood Butt728d 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.

Eidolon726d ago

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

Miraak82 726d 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_vulgaris728d ago

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

GoodGuy09728d ago

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

fr0sty727d ago

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

P_Bomb727d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey602727d ago

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

porkChop727d 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.

darthv72726d 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_Suzumiya727d ago

Resistance 3 was shocking and brilliant. Loved it.

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Why Resistance Was So Incredible

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.

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Jin_Sakai1083d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721083d 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.

monkey6021082d 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

darthv721082d ago

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

SullysCigar1083d ago

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

monkey6021082d ago

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

CBaoth1082d 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_Darkness1082d 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_cheese1082d ago

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

BlackIceJoe1083d 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.

Dragonopolis1082d 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

waverider1082d 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.

Jambola121082d ago

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

Chevalier1082d 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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Insomniac should bring back Resistance now that it's part of Sony Worldwide Studios

With Insomniac Games now under the Sony Worldwide Studios umbrella, the studio could bring a new Resistance game to life.

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PhoenixUp1712d ago

Insomniac didn’t feel all enthusiastic at continuing the series after the third installment

I don’t see how them getting bought out would encourage them to make a fourth game when they could work on another new IP or a sequel to Ratchet & Clank or Spider-Man.

Plus the third game ended on a deserved bittersweet note with a sense of finality against the Chimera. It’d be soul crushing even for this series to make all those sacrifices go to waste

purple1011712d ago

Nah. Just a new killzone from guerilla games please.

Let insomniac do a platform game..

Gaming1011712d ago

Thing is, there can be multiple teams doing multiple projects. One Insomniac team can do Spiderman, another can do Ratchet and Clank, another can do Resistance. It just depends on whether Sony is willing to grow the team enough and pay for more offices to do more work.

Fluttershy771712d ago

@Gaming101 multiple teams like Bioware doing multiple projects

NiteX1712d ago

The last Killzone game was lame. And there's no doubt Horizon 2 is there next game.

Gaming1011712d ago

Fluttershy, Insomniac isn't Bioware, dummy.
There are plenty of publishers with multiple teams running multiple projects. Sony has several studios with numerous ongoing projects and teams. I don't know why this is such a difficult concept for plebs to grasp but the disagrees keep coming in lol

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PhoenixUp1712d ago

I prefer another Killzone over another Resistance

Brave_Losers_Unite1712d ago

I dont. I love killing Chimera

UltraNova1712d ago

I want a semi-open world(think GoW) greedy, violent and super heavy atmosphere Killzone with KZ2's controls/feel with the best weapon audio possible and full on stealth elements for additional choice of approach.

As for Resistance (boy do I love this IP) I think Insomniac could do this game justice if they rebooted or continued the story with a different character. I just crave for Insomniac's weapon design ingenuity! As for multiplayer, they can go all out on a BR mode with some asymmetric PvPvE elements thrown in there like huge Chimera beasts dropping into the map at some random point and the team who kills it gets legendary loot.
Man just thinking about a modern Resistance game with a proper AAA BR made by Insomniac makes me salivate.

PhoenixUp1712d ago

I love doing so too, but there has to be context behind it.

Killing the Helghast for example is entertaining gameplay wise as much as it is narrative wise because of all the lore behind it all.

The Chimera were said to have been defeated for good after killing of converting 90% of humanity’s population as well dramatically changing earth’s climate. If after all that the Chimera came back even stronger than ever, then would be far too bleak for there to ever be any reasonable chance of defeating them for good.

Movefasta19931712d ago

Killzone has one game that's very good(2), resistance has three.

PhoenixUp1712d ago

Dafuq? Killzone 3 was received just as well as Resistance 3 was.

And Killzone: Shadow Fall sold more than the last mainline Resistance game, showing that there’s more interest in the former series than the latter

CanadianTurtle1711d ago

KillZone Shadowfall was a borefest. GG has wrote themselves into a hole with the story for that game. I don't know how they're going to fix that.

Resistance has much better gameplay, world building, story, enemy designs, weapon variety, campaigns, etc. In terms of campaigns, Resistance is leagues better. But in terms of online multiplayer, I'd give that trophy to KZ.

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-Foxtrot1712d ago

I'd like to see them reboot it and go back to what Fall of Man was like

They could always do a reboot retelling like they've already done with Ratchet and Clank then do something completely new with a sequel

I'd love if they could restructure Nathan Hale and make him a better all rounded, developed character spanning the entire trilogy. At the end of the second one he could be transported to their world or something

Resistance 3 had a nice ending that closed the book on everything so I wouldn't want them to spoilt that, too many games come back and do the whole "Oh that great evil you got rid of? Yeah it's back"

Yobo51712d ago (Edited 1712d ago )

I'm still amazed at how little recognition is given to the first resistance from "fans" esp the narration of RFOM during custscenes. Cornelia Hayes did an excellent job as Rachel Parker she gave the world an authentic sense of atmospheric urgency and dread that I haven't seen matched since Halo, It was even more engrossing at times then gears. The multiplater on Resitance 2 though just looked like saints row 3 version of gears...
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Knushwood Butt1712d ago

The sound design in RFOM blew me away. Playing that with surround sound headphones was and probably still is awesome.

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janus2251712d ago

Ah RFOM! The multiplayer was SO smooth at the time. Even with a 350 mo- 500 mo connection. That was my first online experience back then!

Knushwood Butt1712d ago

Agree. I think the series has run its course. I'd rather see a great new IP.

badz1491712d ago (Edited 1712d ago )

they can start with an easy one. Resistance Trilogy Remaster for PS4 and includes trophy patch for RFoM. there is so much win in THAT. BUT...ONLY if they let us have back Resistance 2 MP...THE WHOLE THING!

that would be one hell of a housewarming gift for the fans!

Inzo1711d ago

"It’d be soul crushing even for this series to make all those sacrifices go to waste"

I have always felt that there is room for more. For instance the Chimera could have sent out a distress signal just before the tower/ship blew up to the real threat to humanity or what if thanks to the virus Nathan Hale somehow survived?

darthv721711d ago

There are five games in the Resistance series. I think they could at least take the two portable ones and give them a proper big screen remake, like the GoW portables on the PS3 got.

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ABizzel11712d ago

No. let them work on what they want. I loved Resistance, but Insomniac proved they can work on New Ip and are hitting their Prime with the release of Spiderman, so let them work on what they want, and have a smaller 3rd party remake or remaster Resistance, and see if there's an audience for it.

Fist4achin1711d ago

Agreed. A new IP would be welcome. They've proven they can make a solid FPS, so let's make a new one!

xX-oldboy-Xx1712d ago (Edited 1712d ago )

Insomniac should do whatever they want, they deserve every freedom to deliver the game they want.

SyntheticForm1712d ago

This.

When developers do what they want their products turn out better and we all benefit. When they're ready to do Resistance they'll do Resistance.

TheUndertaker851712d ago

That's why they were independent and claimed to want that independence. If they wanted that freedom they should've stuck to their guns. Not took a payoff.

SyntheticForm1712d ago (Edited 1712d ago )

You're making it sound nefarious when this is hardly the case. There's a mutual trust here.

They know they'll be free to do what they want under Sony. Total autonomy - of course not, but Sony will likely approve and back anything they do.

This isn't to say Sony won't have any say - they'll likely encourage the immediate continuation of Spider-Man, but I doubt they'll mind and the fans sure won't.

Overall Insomniac is happy and trust Sony, or they wouldn't have taken the deal.

xX-oldboy-Xx1712d ago

TheUndertaker85 - Haha, c'mon mate - Sony will let them do what they want. This acquisition makes sense on every level.

There needs to be mutual respect between publisher and developer.

They'll find that respect at WWS, this is good for Insomniac. WWS has a huge talent pool and they share knowledge and resources amongst each other.

Very excited to see what Insomniac can achieve under WWS.

TheUndertaker851712d ago

https://www.polygon.com/201...

“ "It's hard for people in any industry to accept change, especially when you've been focused on doing things one way for so long," said Ted Price, Insomniac's president and CEO, in a recent interview with Polygon. "But as an industry, we're being forced to become comfortable [with], or at least accept, that change will be a constant for us."”

“ According to Price, Insomniac's independence is crucial to its ability to continually adapt to changing circumstances and try new things in all areas of game development. "We've always loved the opportunity to experiment with ... early on, game design models; now, delivery mechanisms and new platforms," he explained. And Insomniac's corporate culture ensures its employees are always challenged to "think creatively about not just game design, but how [they're] delivering [their] games and what audiences [they're] addressing with [their] games."”

“ Insomniac attempted to combine its history of creating hardcore games with a new platform, Facebook, when it began developing Outernauts in 2010. Price explained that the studio wanted to try a new business model but still deliver an experience that core gamers would appreciate. The company turned to Electronic Arts for help with the first half of that equation, and it didn't work out because, as Price put it, "the monetization and viral features that we had put in turned off a lot of the audience that we were hoping to attract."”

“ "I'm very proud of what we did with both those games because we took creative risks," he said. "And I think as a developer, taking creative risks is something you have to continue to do, even if people are telling you that all they want is the same recycled stuff over and over again."”

Movefasta19931711d ago

I think he means that sony shouldn't be too involved when they are making a game, just trust them to deliver if they want to make a new ip

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Imalwaysright1712d ago

Fingers crossed for a RFoM remaster.

xX-oldboy-Xx1712d ago

Fair chance any remaster would be done by BluePoint. They've done amazing work this gen.

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