If anything, Resistance 2 is the holiday shooter that's bigger, better and more bad-ass. Everything has been upped for the sequel, with a workable 60-person multiplayer option, a ton of fan service for the Resistance enthusiast and a co-op mode that's not only fun as hell, but fleshes out the core story line.
It may be that the novelty of a sci-fi shooter set in the mid-twentieth century has worn off a bit and that the game looks a bit underwhelming in light of the competition, but Kotaku actually recalls enjoying the first a bit more.
Given the depth of Resistance 2's multiplayer and co-op though, those first nine hours spent chugging through the single-player campaign will probably be forgotten in favor of fondly remembering the entire experience.
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.
...why o why???
have they honestly played gears of war 2 talk about enjoying the first a bit more.
when the graphics were impressive hah!
all these reviews about one hit kills
omfg it doesn't have a cover system!
I guess i'll just stand out in the open and hope they don't hit me
GUESS WHAT? WHEN A MONSTER THE SIZE OF A BUILDING HITS YOU, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE.
i've been gheyed once by the cloaked things, after that it's not too hard to notice the roars before they attack
titans? ha i laugh at those things. ducking behind a ledge usually works, there's plenty of cover.
I get the feeling from a lot of these reviews that they're just trying to nit pick at r2 and not give it the acclaim it deserves. a lot of high scores, but shady reviews about minor graphical glitches and spotty textures. I personally have only noticed one poor texture used for the birds eye view of the country fields (a few checkpoints before the spider boss)and some clipping of a grim trying to walk through one of those weird pods in the dark tunnel part.
the frame rate in this game is ROCK SOLID, and it looks GORGEOUS on my 32" XBR6.
my only beef is the lack of a brightness slider. Some of the levels are just too dark.
many of my friends haven't even played more than an hour of single player, they're all hooked on co-op :O
why do some peeps complain about single player??
i NEVER play single player campeigns in FPS online games.. but this was my second one (my first being killzone 1) and the story was bad@ss in so many ways,the depth was great for this type of FPS genre sci-fi-setting,i mean wut do you want from this?? a love story?? more characters that wouldnt make sense since almost all mankind is eliminated?? or how about some depressing music to go along with the chaos and shootout bloody guts'n'gore porring everywere?
seriously,this isnt an RPG d@mnit.. no other sci-fi FPS (or FPS in general) has this kind a depth to it......
oh and one HUGE thing people have to relize (especially the game sites that review it)..... is that resistance 1 and resistance 2 ar not COMPLETELY different stories... its all ONE STORY,so saying that resistance 2 story sucks and resistance 1 story is awsome or mediocre is dumb since its all one story just seperated into 2 parts,witch is FANTASTIC so it could leave room for our preciouse jem Resistance 2.
imagine if they told the whole story in resistance 1?? we wouldnt have R2 or anything to follow that same plot.
and for me personally,i played thru the single player story mode twice allready and havnt found ANY issues with textures,pixels or glitches of any kind,but thats on my side,so i guess different peeps experience different things.
oh,and i lOVED the boss battles and cant wait to try on Super Human mode (the hardest mode).
and for the sites and reviewers complaining about the diffaculty need to stop,seriousl man,do you need for someone to take you by the hand the whole way so you can give the game a better rating or something?? play it on easy mode,and if your having a hard time on that then you just plain out suck @ss at the game lol.
itself is amazing.
Insomniac have improved vastly over the last game.
Scope and detail put into things is huge. All the guns feel real.
I gotta say, the single player campaign is amazing. I've been addicted to it for a couple days, and yes the AI is brutal.
Some of the hardest AI i've ever played against, constantly rushing/flushing you out from behind cover. Makes you rethink all your tactics.
THIS is how you review a game. Likes/Dislikes. Pros/Cons. None of this arbitrary scoring bull crap. I commend Kotaku for keeping with this review system, its something ACTUAL GAMERS can relate to, and something FANBOYS will never understand.