This is my first review on this site so I thought I should do it for one thats been getting alot of talk lately, Resistance 2. Resistance 2 is based in a 1953 war torn united states. Its been up to debate lately that the developers at insomniac games went the halo route with the 2nd outing in the resistance franchise, i dont agree. Theres alot of things that Distinguish it self from being another generic FPS like the weapons for example. In this installment they add a good amount of new weapons such as the spider grenade and the revolver. At first sight the revolver may seem like an ordinary magnum but shoot some poor defenseless chimera and hit alt-fire. What do u see next? Nothing? Exactly, the alt-fire cause's the bullet to explode on its target. The spider grenade cause's what ever it touches to get burned. My personal favorite new weapon is the marksmen; what this weapon does shoo a three round burst, it also has a scope hence the name marksmen. The alt fire on this is and electrical burst that fly's through the air electrocuting enemies.
I know what most of you must be saying now, "well if its just the same thing with more weapons then why spend 30$ on it?" Well it doesn't just have new weapons it also has a completely new story new enemies like for example; grims, furies, leapers, spiners, and the almighty Leviathan! Thats not all new they completely reworked there multi-player to make it much more intuitive and easier to invite you friends to a party or join a clan! One of the best new things added is the 8 player co-op. You and 7 friends can get online or just you and a other friend can do split screen to fight hordes of chimerans or do special objectives that help flesh out the story.
One of my few gripes is no weapon wheel. This is a small gripe but can ruin it for some. I also miss the horror elements and dark atmosphere of the first game.
Overall this is a must have game who like'd the first one, is a fan of FPS's, or just owns a PS3! I can not praise this enough(well yah i can but that will take forever and i need to go to bed) Its that good! MUST BUY!
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.
Im sry if theres any grammatical errors i did this in a hury! its also my first review so i would like to have some constructive criticism!
Do lots of people still play the online? I have R1 but not R2 so I'll probably pick it up sometime. :)
Love R2 coop. I think your score is way too high. IMO R2 is a 8. I enjoyed the SP campaign but, as you stated yourself, it felt rushed. Some design decisions made the game generic, loosing FoM personality. Quite a shame. Still a fun game, especially its coop.
Nobody is talking about Resistance 2 anymore. Come on.
Great game, absolutely fantastic multiplayer, co-op or not the multiplayer is in my opinion 1 of the best.