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Resistance 3: Sony's Underappreciated Gem

GameRaven writes:

''The first-person shooter is a ridiculously overcrowded market. They tend to be far too similar. Go here, shoot that, save the world. It’s pretty standard fare. The nature of the market has resulted in many people becoming jaded.''

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Nitrowolf22641d ago (Edited 2641d ago )

I agree, Resistance 3 was great and while the article says it felt like a reboot, i always felt it was more as a sequel not to two but to the original. Captured the idea that you were the last line of defense from the chimera virus. This was pretty good because they manage to capture that feeling.

I felt to tried to be to big and tried to use size to its advantage. I also felt they were trying to go to "halo" with it, with how soldier were super and such. Seemed like a silly downfall to the story, though two did have its perks like the awesome co op mode

Three basically returned to the form of 1, with the idea that mankind was falling and now you had to live with that.

One and Three are my favorites, and i wish they would remaster the original with its multiplayer intact

PixelGateUk2641d ago

I don't think a remaster will happen anytime soon, which is a shame. Thankfully, the physical copies of the original are cheap. Just a shame Sony seem to reject backwards compatibility

Abash2641d ago

Resistance 1 and 3 were great, but 2 just felt generic. Even as awesome as the best of the series was, it never felt like Insomniac put their heart into the Resistance games. I always figured they were games they did not really want to make but had to in order to go with the latest genre trend to stay a big developer in the industry.

I'm really happy they no longer handle the series and got to do projects like Spiderman PS4, Ratchet and Clank, and Sunset Overdrive.

TKCMuzzer2641d ago (Edited 2641d ago )

I don't think they are rejecting it just for the sake of it, they have the stats and have probably weighed up the costs of introducing it against how many would use it, as we don't know the costs involved, and other reasons we shouldn't speculate. They had BC stats when the original PS3 was released and the percentage of gamers playing old games was very low. It's a nice to have but i predicted this (as Sony clearly stated the PS4 was not BC) so kept my PS3.
Resistance FOM is still great today and is one game that I think deserves a remaster, fully intact.

Kallisti2641d ago (Edited 2641d ago )

I don't think you understand how hardware works. Just like how the original PS3's came with an emotion engine to run PS2 games, the PS4 would have need to come with a Cell processor in order to run PS3 games due to its vastly different architecture, which in turn would drive up the price of the console.

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Dark_Knightmare22640d ago (Edited 2640d ago )

How many times does it have to be stated by Sony and other sites that's it's not them rejecting bc but that the cell technology the PS3 used makes it not impossible but pretty damn close which is why we don't have bc

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JEECE2641d ago

Well said. I feel like 2 was probably the result of meddling suits at Sony who wanted to chase the feel of other contemporary FPS games rather than do their own thing. Pity, given that Fall of Man is one of the best launch games of all time, and 3 was just excellent.

WeAreLegion2641d ago

Did you just use "to" for every form of the word?

G20WLY2640d ago

Lmao, yup that made me twitch like a madman!

Kaneki-Ken2641d ago

Resistance 3 MC jump off a high places like 10 floor building, didn't brake no bone and came out fine. That one thing I didn't like about the campaign since MC was some how OP or super human and in my opinion the story kinda felt rush in the end.

G20WLY2640d ago

3 was an amazing campaign, one of the best of last gen and with stunning graphics and atmosphere. I only played it recently and it holds up really well.

hduce2640d ago

I loved this game and the Resistance series as a whole. I played Resistance 3 entirely in 3D with a buddy online. Definitely good times. I like the Resistance game on the Vita when many didn't.

Thatguy-3102640d ago

I feel if they were to release it this gen the IP would thrive.

bnaked2640d ago (Edited 2640d ago )

Do you remember the fantastic live action teaser trailer? https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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cberg252641d ago

While Resistance was a great series, I'm glad Insomniac eventually went back to making more lighthearted fare.

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Momo1182641d ago

good games especially the second

MONOLITHICIDE2640d ago

i agree. frantic multiplayer and coop. 3 was good but changed to much i thought. FoM and 2 are classics.

Knushwood Butt2640d ago

Yeah, played the R1 and R2 multiplayer to bits. Have the R2 plat thanks to that 10,000 kill trophy.

The R3 multiplayer was garbage in comparison. Probably spent less than 2 hours in total on the R3 multiplayer.

JEECE2641d ago

As linear, single-player shooters go, it doesn't get much better than Resistance 3. Unfortunately, it seems like too many people got burned by the mediocrity of 2 (cool co-op mode aside) that 3 didn't sell like it deserved.

Deep-throat2641d ago

Play more linear SP shooters.

R3 was good, 8/10

JEECE2641d ago (Edited 2641d ago )

No thanks, for about 7-8 years I played that genre like crazy, often to the point of missing out on other things. I prefer a more balanced approach now.

Would love to hear what contemporaries of R3 you think are so much better. And no, I don't think it is better than Half-life 2, so no need to mention that.

bnaked2640d ago

@JEECE

R3 wasn't as good as HL2, but it had the most complete shooter campaign since HL2, it was quite a triumph. I mean, as a shooter, R3 had a good story and good characters and it was very atmospheric and varied. One of the most underrated games for PS3.

Deep-throat2640d ago

Not going to bother mentioning HL2, it's like comparing a skyscraper to a house.

Bulletstorm is better than R3 IMO.

Iceball20002641d ago

I think because the second one put a bad taste in my mouth is why I never got into the third one.

SamPao2640d ago

Go play it! its great and cheap :)

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Top 10 PlayStation Plus Premium Shooters

There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.

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Eonjay694d ago

Resistance 3 is such a great game. One of my all time bests.

cooperdnizzle694d ago

Couldn’t agree more. Still love It as a shooter to this day.

Just something about that game. I really wish they would just do a remaster, don’t even need a remake just bring it up to todays out put, touch up a few things if any, and I am there to buy it day one.

Of course I would love a remake built from the ground up. As long as they treated it like Shadow of the Colossus, or close to those type of remake. Wouldn’t want it to get the RE treatment…. Just because the game is already paced so perfect and hits all the right beats that I wouldn’t touch that aspect.

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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 Butt751d 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.

Eidolon750d ago

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

Miraak82 750d 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_vulgaris751d ago

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

GoodGuy09751d ago

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

fr0sty750d ago

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

P_Bomb751d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey602751d ago

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

porkChop750d 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.

darthv72749d 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_Suzumiya750d 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_Sakai1107d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721106d 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.

monkey6021106d 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

darthv721106d ago

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

SullysCigar1107d ago

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

monkey6021106d ago

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

CBaoth1106d 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_Darkness1106d 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_cheese1106d ago

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

BlackIceJoe1107d 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.

Dragonopolis1106d 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

waverider1106d 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.

Jambola121106d ago

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

Chevalier1106d 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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