With the new patch addressing many of the issues I had with resistance 2. I've decided to finally review Resistance 2.
I am a MAJOR fan of Resistance: Fall of Man. The single player was amazing. The multiplayer was as good, but it easily became a grenade fest.
But on to Resistance 2 now. Resistance 2 does NOT have a stronger single player campaign when compared to Resistance: Fall of man. But that has not stopped me from playing the campaign over 5 times. Its rewards and fun each time.
Especially with the Bonus features in the game. The boss battles are intense, but not that challenging (which is fine). Its an FPS, so it doesn't stress you with UBER hard boss battles. The guns are amazing throughout the game, although it does get repetitive sometimes. After my first play through, I found myself holding onto an Augar gun for the rest of the game.
The single player gets a 8/10 from me.
Co-op makes ALOT of the single player up. It out shines ANY game I've played up to date. I've spent well over 3 days of gametime in Co-op. It was time well spent.
Being a 3 class based game makes the co-op more intense then ever. Don't expect to solo the whole stage. Team work counts alot.
With a reward system for leveling up, it definitely makes the game alot more interesting. With each class having its own type of gameplay as you level up.
The recent patch made stalker's movable... which is great.
8-player co-op has never been better!
Co-op gets a 9.8/10. (Some visual glitches detract a .2)
Multiplayer:
Firstly, the multiplayer has ALOT of bugs.. esp. in Skirmish mode.
But, this is easily the best multiplayer experience availiable on the PS3. With regular updates from IG, the multiplayer will be bug free and be enjoyable for everyone.
Skrimish mode is my favourite, that is being a dynamic objective mode.
You get random objectives, and a rival 'squad' to do the same.
You are divided into squads of 5, which makes the game more intense. Having to co-operate with your team mates is essential. Watch each other's back and they'll end up saving your life later on.
Although I do wish you were able to continue the game with the same people after a match was an option. It seems that they will patch that in later.
Berserks are sort of like COD4's perk system. But you need to build up points to be able to use them. I love the berserk system, it gives you a chance to turn the tide of battle.
60 player battles make you feel like a soldier on a battle feel. Great job IG.
Multiplayer gets 10/10.
PS: The control scheme is a welcome change. Now its alot more COD4 style, which is great!
Also note:
Graphics arent that great. But with the amount of action on screen, you wont have time to notice them :D
Verdict:
Must own or at least rent for every ps3 owner!
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.
At the beginning you say your a huge fan of the first one witch will make your review seem bias i will vote but i think the 9.2 is to high the game is a 8.5 at best and i would give cod 4 a 8.5 and cod 5 a 7.5 on my scale tho i am pretty strict and i only play shooters lol a 9.2 is almost perfect and there a really so many different ways they could of improved on this game!! P.S
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I found competitive online the worst part. It's really good 60 player but you can't kill people without reloading at least once. Also I thought the SP was much better in R2