Could a Pulitzer Prize-winning book really have anything in common with a game?
It's with this in mind that I suddenly started to appreciate why Insomniac's Resistance series resonated with me. Resistance tells the story of an alien virus that plagues the world mere decades after its arrival, turning regular, everyday humans into monstrous villains known as the Chimera. But Resistance isn't a feel good story in any respect. There's no human triumph to be found. Other than little victories here and there, Resistance actually becomes darker and bleaker the further into the timeline you get. Much like The Road, Resistance gives you small things to feel good about, but you know in the back of your mind that things are only going to get progressively worse, and that there's very little to actually be hopeful or optimistic about in realit
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
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
very tantalizing read with the possibilities can go
From the post: But Marcus Smith leaves us with perhaps the most tantalizing tidbit. "Perhaps a future game will take place on the Chimeran home world and explore the reasons they have infected Earth," he said. "Lots of great mysteries could be investigated without involving humans at all..."
Playing as chimeras!? please make it happen!
It's interesting to make a parallel between traditional Art like litterature and a media that is not considered as Art like video game.
This article was really cool. It was not: "the game is badass blabla" like for so much games nowadays but more focused on the atmosphere, on the storytelling, on the background, and on the appreciation of a journalist can make with his own culture on a game.
I love The Road. I enjoyed both the book and the film. I'll have no trouble enjoying Resistance 3, I'm sure.
Damn, what a coincidence, My brother just shared this foreboding soundtrack from the Movie "The Road", now i see this article from IGN.
It is hands down one of my favorite Movies, and Resistance (My Favorite Video Game Series) being similar to it, is just unbelievable.
Glad i Pre-Ordered it. =]