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Gametrailers: Resistance: Retribution Review

Does it invade the PSP with a passion or buckle in the face of it's adversaries?

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Nightfallen5527d ago

9.4. Wasn't expecting that. But what's with all the mixed reviews?

Gamer60565527d ago

Wow GT really surprised me. Was expecting an 8 from them but still a great score :)

MasFlowKiller5526d ago

i cant wait, ill actually buy this one, not just downloaded,

support the system

BulletToothtony5526d ago

it was so awesome... it could've been so easy to keep the story great in R2 but i was left a bit dissapointed with it.. it went from a deep story to almost an average alien shooter.. the ending did leave me wanting more thou.

I hope insomniac will focus more on the story for part 3, being that i would rather have a great story and no multiplayer, than a half decent story and half decent multiplayer. i'm a huge resistance fan.. was my first game, but i was hoping for a beefier story on R2..

Don't let us down insomniac.. go back to Rfom principles.. even the art work was way awesome

C_SoL5526d ago

succeed with good reviews.

Like I said, I wish the other resistances were in 3rd person. I'm only saying that because the look of this game and how it turned out so well.

animboo5526d ago

gonna pick this up..i'm gonna go broke this month with a whole slew of new games..

sonarus5526d ago

Ok sony bend you have mastered the PSP...now challenge yourselves with the PS3. Sony bend psp games are all ace so i expected this one to be ace as well. The high scores don't really surprise me as these guys get better with each game they make.

I can't wait to see what they have in store for us for the PS3

Rock Bottom5526d ago

I'm so getting this game, but not based on this review, Gametrailers isn't one of the sites I'd consider their reviews valid.

callahan095526d ago

Damn. That's one of the highest scores I've ever seen from them. Higher than they gave Resistance 2. One again, Edge's 6 out of 10 seems a bit ... off.

MasFlowKiller5526d ago

Edge's review: 6 out of 10 WTF
do they just hate everything sony?

vickers5005526d ago

"I hope insomniac will focus more on the story for part 3, being that i would rather have a great story and no multiplayer, than a half decent story and half decent multiplayer."

And I hope that they never listen to you. You just called Resistance 2 "half decent multiplayer". You lose all credibility with that statement. Plus, the multiplayer is what made the first Resistance so great. It was easily more enjoyable than the single player. I wish it had a great story too, but they do not have to sacrifice one for another. Everyone on this site seems to see great story as a "feature" that they can just "add on" if they cut something off like multiplayer.

It doesn't work that way, the story would be just as good whether or not multiplayer was cut off, because it depends on the creators/writers imagination and writing skill, and adding multiplayer will not affect that. I hate these "MULTIPLAYER SUXXORZ, WE ONLY WANT TEH GOOD SINGLEPLAYER/STORIEZ" pricks, who think that the only way a game can be fun/great is to have a good story. I play a game first and foremost to have fun. Games are not well known for their stories anyway, aside from a handful of titles. If you want an epic or great story, then read a d@mn book or watch a d@mn movie.

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PirateThom5527d ago

Resistance 3 needs to be third person. This looks so much better than R2.

xlx-russ_925527d ago

i dont think they need to make resistance 3. instead make a kz3.

PirateThom5526d ago

I agree, sort of.

Killzone has proven its self as the premier PS3 shooter. You don't need 2 FPS titles competing. Insomniac should take what Bend have done and add their normal flare to it, because the Resistance story isn't over but I think they need a new approach.

xlx-russ_925526d ago (Edited 5526d ago )

i also want to add that i bought R2 CE becuz i liked R1, and R1 was my 1st ps3 title. R2 was a huge letdown, SP was boring, but i kinda liked Ending, and MP was only fun for 2 weeks.

alster235526d ago

yeah after R3 they should wrap up the story and work on a new ip. perhaps a wrpg??

C_SoL5526d ago

This game is getting better reviews then the first two games which is unbelievable.

Third person it needs to be.

40cal5526d ago

I'm going to buy Resistance 3 for PS3 if its not first person.

callahan095526d ago

I disagree with everyone. It doesn't NEED to be third-person, because I enjoy Resistance just fine as an FPS. But, I would still buy it if it was third-person, because Insomniac are great at making third-person perspective action games (Ratchet & Clank), I like the Resistance mythology & characters, I love the Resistance atmosphere and style, and I absolutely adore the weapons of the Resistance universe. Also, while I love Killzone 2, I also love Resistance 2, and they provide two very different aspects of the action genre. There is certainly room for both games to coexist. Killzone 2 is gritty, methodical, tactical, human. Resistance is vibrant, over-the-top, arcadey, superhuman.

Tiberium5526d ago

"Resistance 3 needs to be third person. This looks so much better than R2."

LOL then it would be gears of war. Did you just admit(unknowingly of course) gears is better than resistance.

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mrdxpr25527d ago

i want the game cause i have the past 2 and i love the story plus i love the being able to use the ps3 with it thats what im mostly looking forward most ...

xlx-russ_925526d ago

on GT forums teh-ghost is trying to prove that blu-ray is not usefull.

krouse935526d ago

Yea I agree He is and he is a moron!

not agreeing to blu ray not being useful because it is useful but agreeing that he is saying that.

This game looks amazing for a PSP game and it makes me wanna buy a PSP!

GreatTeacherOnizuka5526d ago

I'm glad PSP is getting this game.
Everyone needs to remember that great titles also happen in Handhelds.
As for Resistance...
I'll have to boot up my psp again.
=)

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Resistance: Retribution Patch Notes

Bend Studio: "Since Resistance: Retribution hit the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog in February, we have been delighted to see so many players experience this Bend Studio classic all over again. During this time, we have been monitoring your feedback to ensure you can enjoy Resistance: Retribution to its fullest on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles. Below, you can view the upcoming patch notes ahead of its release next week."

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badz14922d ago

Does the game have trophies now?

stoney10122d ago

Sure does, fairly easy to platinum too, only requires one play through.

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Resistance: Retribution rated for PS5, PS4 in Korea

The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has rated Resistance: Retribution for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, suggesting the PSP title will join the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog.

darthv72702d ago (Edited 702d ago )

This will def be easier to play on tv than originally designed. I remenber hooking psp to ps3 to use a ds3. Cumbersome but it worked. Its a good spin off.

MrBaskerville702d ago (Edited 702d ago )

Hope we will get Valkyria Chronicles 2-3 and Carnage Heart at some point. There's a bunch of psp games I never got a chance to play.

monkey602701d ago

Good shout! There's few PSP games I'd care to have on current gen consoles but Valkyria Chronicles is definitely one of them

Aggesan701d ago

VC3 doesn't have an official version in english though. There's a great fan-translation though.

Nineball2112701d ago

*shouting* THEY SAID THE GAME RATING..... oh, nvm.

Hauntedasylum8702d ago

I didn’t know this title existed, so when I saw the headline, I thought a new Resistance was being made. Man I miss that series!

cluclap702d ago

That's because it's the worst in the series. It was good for a psp title though.

darthv72701d ago

Burning skies takes that distinction (worst). This is better than that.

Profchaos701d ago (Edited 701d ago )

It was actually a great game probably above the original they gave the character a personality for one.

Maybe your thinking of burning skies

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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_Sakai1082d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721081d 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.

monkey6021081d 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

darthv721081d ago

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

SullysCigar1082d ago

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

monkey6021081d ago

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

CBaoth1081d 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_Darkness1081d 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_cheese1081d ago

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

BlackIceJoe1082d 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.

Dragonopolis1081d 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

waverider1081d 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.

Jambola121081d ago

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

Chevalier1081d 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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