Blend Games Says: "If you have paid attention to any of our editorials here at Blend Games since late 2006, you would have noticed a consistent disdain for a particular section of Sony's business model: their video game marketing section. Sadly, these guys and gals have done very little to properly promote many of their own first-party games, and in result have managed to create a very sub-par community outside the initial fan-boy hype."
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.
*YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN*
even when they have a moderately promising game such as Resistance 2, they always seem to fail at providing the proper Advertisement, and promotion that it deserves, resulting in lackluster sales figures and very few "Sony" titles breaking that oh-so-rare million units sold mark until many months of it being on the market...as much as Sony fans hate to admit it...Microsoft is truly the current Trend setter on how to truly provide promotion for its AAA titles
*Scratches Testicle* Resistance 2>>>>>>Gears 2,I thought we came to this conclusion yesterday!
Could be?
Please, this is absurd at best. A ploy to get hits and to cast doubt. For every dollar Microsoft spends on GEOW or HALO marketing, that has to be made up in the end. Marketing isn't cheap, guys. Wake up!
Ever notice Sony and Microsofts buisness models are night and day to one another? Why is that? See, Sony will toss some money out in marketing and adverts, but the scale it back. They will see how well the game does on its own and then later on, as we seen all the time with their big games 3 or 4 months down the road, they blast out from out of nowhere marketing ads and commericals.
They do it all the time. Why is this you ask? Well, Sony is smart about marketing. They over spend on it and the game ends up not bringing in as much money cause of useless R&D not needed. Sony has the better, more profitable, business model between the 2, easily.
Microsoft will toss money out and and out and out and won't count those chickens cause they see 4 or 5 million sold on a game. Well, all that marketing has to be made back, guys. It isn't cheap or free. I'm willing to bet Motorstorm and Resistance 1 made more money for Insomniac and Sony than GEOW did for Epic and Microsoft.
Just the cold hard truth.
Oh well,it won't hurt to list why Resistance 2 trumps Gears of war 2 in every respect,would it?