Kotaku writes,
"Insomniac Games' Ryan Schneider walked us through an extremely informative PowerPoint presentation on the developer's next game Resistance 2 at the Leipzig Games Convention. While we had foreknowledge of the majority of what Mr. Schneider talked about at the Con -- 60-person multiplayer, 8-player coop, Resistance 2's campaign storyline and its focus on bigger, badder battles -- he also touched on some of the first-person shooter's finer details. A deep-dive, if we're going for hip PowerPoint lingo."...
More after the Jump.
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.
so many ps3 games to chose this Fall --Resistance 2/LBP/SOCOM and Motorstorm 2
Resistance 2 will be huge in reviews, size , quality and SALES
I predict 5million for 08 and 10m lifetime
EDIT : why disagree people
PS3 has an awesome gaming lineup for FALL. undoubtedly the best. Motorstorm 2 will IGNITE PS3 sales into FLAMES this Fall. R2 will be a worldwide hit
By the way _--"over 160 medals, Trophies and ribbons" ----MEGATON
@uncyrus
i did the same too. My PSN will be on fire when LBP is launched. U will see lot of new levels from me. I will give u guys my ID. Hopefully my levels wont be ignored cuz there might be millions
Can't wait for this...I am surprised that when they comment on the buzzsaw weapon, they didn't reference Ratchet and Clank seeing as that is one of Insomniacs titles and is probably their inspiration.
All sounds great, like the new gun "Splicer", I believe there was a similar gun back in the old UT days. Might be wrong.
"over 160 medals, Trophies and ribbons" That should keep you coming back if the awesome gameplay doesnt ;)
awesome...I hope the buzzsaw thing is true...one thing I would have liked to see in Resistance 2 was significantly more gore...I know that makes it sound like I am sort of a freak, but I find it more appropriate in shooters like this that are not focusing on realism...its more arcade action, and using some guided saw to 'Gears of war' some dude sounds like a lot of fun...
Killzone 2 definitely stepped up the gore with the move to beta...now guys apparently fly apart from C4 and the ribbons of blood have seemingly doubled from bullet impacts...Resistance 2 so far though seemed almost tamer than the first game imo...change that...give us more crimson...
Berserk for Resistance 2