Gameplayer has gone live with an interview/preview for Sony's end of year blockbuster FPS Resistance 2.
"We had a chance recently to catch up with Colin Munson, lead designer of Resistance 2. It's Sony's big blockbuster FPS for the latter half of the year, and he was keen to show us exactly how his game will slaughter the competition."
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
With Insomniac Games now under the Sony Worldwide Studios umbrella, the studio could bring a new Resistance game to life.
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
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.
Insomniac should do whatever they want, they deserve every freedom to deliver the game they want.
the part about you getting more points if you kill you're rival team(staying on objective) will definetely keep players on track because we all know how much people love thier points.
it also feels as if you're in a huge war and you're really playing a part as a team. the game modes seem diverse and like nothing i've heard of before. the sheer size of these maps are outstanding and with 60 players, im loving it.
also people seem to forget that if you don't like 60 players, you can easily do something less "chaotic" with smaller games(you dont HAVE to do 60 player online)
but what i'm most excited about is playing 8n player coop with my friends. espicially with resistances excellent single player mode.
i know that its a different story but as long as were fighting HUGE boss battles like before then im all for it. and this time the bosses are acclaimed to be even better and "DONE RIGHT"
then as far as the story portion of the game goes. i like how they take it out of the narratives point of perspective and put it completely from nathan hales point of view. it keeps the player in the expierence instead of making it seem like you're watching a documentary. that was my biggest quarel about resistances single player and it's clearly fixed. the
if anybody can pull this off, it's insomniac and resistances graphics will blow everyone away since people have such low expectations for it(outside of the ps3 fans) there is no other fps doing what resistance is doing this year and resistance will easily take FPS GOTY.
i can't wait to get mmy hands on this game.
It looks like Insomniac are going to revolutionize multi player games. This project sounds very, very ambitious but if anyone can pull it off its Insomniac. I wonder if there will be a limit for the number of squads that algumate.
I am neither here nor there on the whole console war thing (I have both) but I do think Sony need a compulsive multiplayer alternative to Halo and it looks like Resistance 2 could offer that package. I hope they shamelessly rip some of Bungie's features, like video sharing and what not.
...they say in the second half of the interview thats to come at a later time will include talks about an upcoming beta. I don't know if it will be an open beta or closed or what but I'm interested.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the PS3 shooter to watch.
I'm beginning to think that Killzone 2 was moved to next year because Sony believes Resistance 2 to be the better game. It makes sense to put your biggest and best out for the holiday rush, and every new snippet that comes out about this game makes it more and more interesting.
It's the dark horse.