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1UP: Resistance Retribution Review

Resistance's name carries quite a bit of weight with FPS fans, but as a Sony published title, the only place to extend the franchise (without an all-out sequel) is on PSP. And that's just what Sony Bend has done with Resistance: Retribution, the latest chapter in the franchise. There's a lot that could have gone wrong in transitioning the console-centric title to the handheld: The lack of a second analog stick presents obvious problems for a shooter, and the game eschews its first-person roots for a third-person perspective. But while hardly perfect, it succeeds in living up to the Resistance brand and is one of the best run-and-gun shooters on PSP.

40cal5534d ago

Seriously, the game is awesome.

Now I just have to figure out how to play this Resident Evil 5 and Killzone 2 at the same time ;)

Danja5534d ago

guess it's just as good as R2 then through the eyes over at 1UP..means this game is a must buy..XD

Fatal Blow5533d ago

The game is great but without the second analog stick it doesnt feel right with the buttons apart from that it's all good

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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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badz14936d ago

Does the game have trophies now?

stoney10136d 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.

darthv72716d ago (Edited 716d 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.

MrBaskerville716d ago (Edited 716d 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.

monkey602716d 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

Aggesan715d ago

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

Nineball2112715d ago

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

Hauntedasylum8716d 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!

cluclap716d ago

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

darthv72716d ago

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

Profchaos715d ago (Edited 715d 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_Sakai1096d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721096d 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.

monkey6021095d 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

darthv721095d ago

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

SullysCigar1096d ago

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

monkey6021095d ago

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

CBaoth1095d 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_Darkness1095d 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_cheese1095d ago

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

BlackIceJoe1096d 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.

Dragonopolis1095d 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

waverider1095d 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.

Jambola121095d ago

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

Chevalier1095d 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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