Resistance 2 is the sequal to the 2006 best seller Resistane: Fall of Man. You play as the commander Nathan Hale in his fight against the Chimeran forces.
Unlike the first resistance this time you fight along side a group called the Sentinels for most of the game, they are a group of soldiers who are also infected with the Chimeran virus. This is where the problems start to show up, your team is pretty much brain dead, they seem just to stand around and do nothing, for example in the chicago level when you get ambused by an army of grims you pretty much have to face them alone, and its even more aggravating on the higher diifficulty levels. On a positive note the enemy AI is pretty decent.
The story is one of the weakest aspects of the game, it fails to explain what is happing, and why you are doing what your doing. Also their are some noticable plot holes, for example in the beginning where hale is captured and taken, it then blacks out and fast forwards 2 years, but it never says what happens during those two years.
The gunplay in the game can really be alot of fun, most of the weapons are fun to use, and have good hit detection, but this is even hindered by another problem, the fact that you can only carry 2 weapons at any time. This really bothered me the most, why insomniac took out what made the original reistance stand out, I will never know, but because of this decision resistance 2 seems like every other shooter that has been released over the last 2 years. It has also taken away some of the replayability of the campaign.
The graphics are good, the character models and weapons are very detailed and colorful, but the environments are flat and some of the textures would be more at home on the ps2, but on another positive note unlike the first game reistance 2 atleast uses color!
The hands down best part of the game is the multiplayer, it is a ton of fun and is really well thought out, there is only a few maps thought which could be a disappointment, but hopfully isomniac will support it with new map packs at a reasonable price(unlikly). I play this part for hours on end, and one of the things that is strange is the community, every time i've played a ranked game I'm just about always in the top 3 players, I don't know if I'm really good at it or the community is just not there. I also don't understand way after a game is over you can't continue to play with the same group.
The co-op experience ultimalty depends on if your team mates are actually playing the game, but most of the time thery are, and it is fun, but it can get repetitive.
Overall Resistance 2 is not a bad game, but it is disapointing to see all the little stupid mistakes maken in the game that relly hinders the game, but that dosen't change the fact that it can be a lot of fun, and the multiplayer can be fun for hours on end. Definitely worth a play.
The gaming industry moves at such a pace that it’s not surprising we’ve seen countless franchises fall into obscurity over the years.
There is a rumour that Driver 1 & 2 remasters will be released for Switch and presumably for other systems as well.
https://www.gamingbible.com...
Not sure however whether this results into new games in the near future.
Ninja Gaiden? Splinter Cell? Tenchu? Virtua Fighter? Killer Instinct? Killzone?
I would very much enjoy
a new dedicated single player Killzone campaign. With a fun multi-player.
Tenchu and Killer Instict would be great indeed!
Unfortunately new Killzone game does not seem to be in the works
Virtua Fighter is going to receive a new entry!
https://www.dualshockers.co...
Splinter Cell is likely to be one of the remasters launching next year (not sure whether this has to do anything with the remake previously announced)
https://toronto.ubisoft.com...
Yeah, read the news about a new Virtua Fighter and I am so ready for it. Splinter Cell at this point I don't believe anything Ubisoft says plus I don't think modern day Ubisoft can make a decent stealth game. They will likely fuck it up.
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.
Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.
i have the platinium too , 10k kills in online ranked matches was no joke . Took me 3-4 months straight grinding but it was fun . To put it in perspective you only got like 25 kills per match if you were 1st place every match that's at Least 400 matches in 1st
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.
Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...
Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything
Honestly, Burning Skies was shit. There's no two ways about it. At first I thought it looked terrible, then I second guessed myself. Big mistake.
Retribution has this really cool feature where you could use a PS3 to link a controller to it and play. So if you had a 2000 or 3000 hooked to a tv, you can use a real controller. All of this predates the PSP Go's ability to sync a sixaxis to it via bluetooth.
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.
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.
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
Resistance 3's campaign was gorgeous for the time - and an awesome game to boot.
I remember being put off by it because McHale wasn't the MC but it turned out to be my favourite campaign
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.
My favorite resistance game as well! It seriously had creepy, scary a$$ moments bro! It made me want an action horror game from insomniac!
Remember playing this through online co op with the move controller and gun attachment! What a game!
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.
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
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
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.
You get a letter F for "Failure". First, because you can't even spell, and second, because you contradict yourself. You call the AI "pretty decent" and then you end up saying "AI is MEDICORE" whatever "Medicore" is supposed to mean, I guess it's "mediocre" you are referring to.
I agree that the story failed on some levels, but I thought games were all about "fun", not about storyline. At least that's what Xbox fanboys say. People should make up their mind on what actually matters to them.
IMHO, while the campaign was shorter on R2 than on the first game, the guns were much better and the level design and variety was also much better. It simply missed going deeper on the storyline, focusing more in Hale's life before the game started, and making the game longer. Other than that, I see no more flaws.
I'd give resistance 2 a 8.7
Great honest review.
i agree for the most part, the games so weird in the sense that sometimes your sat thinking hey this is pretty cool whilst others its a joke at how crap some bits are. Yet overall its a pretty amiable game, just don't pay full price w/e you do
I have to agree with some of the points you made. I was really expecting a little more from Resistance 2.
The graphics in Resistance 2 were o.k., but I wasn't that impressed and to me the story in Resistance 1 in some ways was better than Resistance 2's story.
After playing the game for myself, I wonder how in the world IGN gave R2 a 9.5/10.... I would give it a 8/10 or a 8.5/10, but nothing higher than that.
It needed more development time.
The graphics are great in some instances and very, very poor in others. In parts it reminded me of Haze in terms of graphics and lameness (not that I've played Haze mind you).
You're 100% correct about the story and the 2 weapons thing. Also I don't think there were enough new innovative weapons - the best ones there were still the bullseye and the auger.
The friendly AI wasn't THAT bad, it's just that sometimes they were invincible and kept standing out in the open getting shot, whilst not really shooting back.