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1UP Previews: Resistance 2

Over the years, Insomniac Games has built up a reputation for releasing a new iteration of their Ratchet & Clank franchise yearly on PlayStation 2. One of the first developers to fully immerse themselves in PS3 development, Insomniac looks like it will now be splitting its hard work between Ratchet and Resistance, with each series continuing the tradition of a sequel every other year. Insomniac's wheel-o-development for 2008 has landed on Resistance, and the recent revelation of Resistance 2 in the pages of Game Informer piqued the curiosity of fans of the original. With a large list of upgrades and new content for the sequel, 1up set out to round up all the information that's been revealed about Resistance 2 so far, from both Game Informer and Insomniac's Full Moon Show podcast.

HarryEtTubMan6675d ago

lmao ALL HAIL THE KING. This game is going to be sick! NOTHING EVEN COMES CLOSE to what its doing.

PS3 is KING.

Pain6675d ago (Edited 6675d ago )

and here is its crown~

pwnsause6675d ago

COnfirmed- Insomniac Games works in a Sweatshop, they just keep the games comming! I mean, Holy S33T, the Single player is already Done???

Relcom6675d ago (Edited 6675d ago )

Thats incredible that they can finish it that fast. Mad props Insomniac

Blackmoses6675d ago (Edited 6675d ago )

WTF???!!!! how the hell!!!! When did they get started working on the thing...while they were coding Rachet and Clank?

Tell ya what, I wasn't like everybody else but damn.....it sure does seem to be the PS3's year for the taking.
Damn!!! Single Player already done!!...<shaking my head>

BloodySinner6675d ago

I think they started working on Resistance 2 after the first game.

mikeslemonade6675d ago

Insomniac is a big company with around 100 members and they are using the Resistance engine so they're able to pump out a lot of games. The impressive thing here is they're able to make a game that doesn't feel rehashed unlike some unnamed Ubisoft games.

pharmd6675d ago

i know this can change, but ebgames.com (US) has it slated for 11/4/09.....i cant wait. COD4 online is awesome but theres so many things from RFOM that i miss online

I'm ready to throw RFOM in and just get warmed up a little

ruibing6675d ago

It's amazing that despite their high quality and fast development time, they still manage to be one of the best places to work at:

"The company has been named as one of the top 10 Best Small Companies to work for in America for 3 years in a row for their relaxed environment, flexible hours, yoga, Fragfest Fridays, movie nights, and indoor 7/11. The company also took its entire workforce on a free cruise."

BloodySinner6675d ago

"The company has been named as one of the top 10 Best Small Companies to work for in America for 3 years in a row for their relaxed environment, flexible hours, yoga, Fragfest Fridays, movie nights, and indoor 7/11. The company also took its entire workforce on a free cruise." - Jesus Christ...

TruthBTold6675d ago

no wonder, all that relaxation, support, and company love can only help developers feel more inspired to do the great job that they do. Great developers from a great company.

SRuN46675d ago

They were working on R2 before R1 was even on the shelves. On their last podcast they said before their games are even on the shelves they're already working on the next thing. And I believe they have two teams, one for Resistance and one for Rachet.

pwnsause6675d ago

I can imagine that sony brings in a dev team of their own to assist them if they have a little bit of trouble, but I doubt it, these guys possibly already know the PS3 inside out!

IntelligentAj6675d ago

Can't wait to get this game!!! That's pretty damn amazing though. How? And why did BloodySinner get 2 disagrees? All he did was state what the company was known for.

Guwapo776675d ago

Because they worship the Anti-Christ...

sonarus6675d ago

man insomniac devs dnt sleep dnt yall get it. They cough up games like its nothing. Resistance 2 is already complete all thats left is polish and 8 months of polish will make it real pretty. Not sure if sony plans to show it at GDC or maybe they will save it for E3 but as of now there is no shooter boasting what resistance 2 can do. Coming out the gate with a seperate coop mode with 8 players and then 60 player online is crazy. Now i am scared the single player campaign will be a bit short. Not that the value of the game isnt as high as it can be with the 2nd coop mode but i was a big fan of the singleplayer hopefully its at least as long as the 1st one. The only game that is currently threatening ps3 for spot of 2 best shooters (killzone2) is gears of war. Not to count out epic yet as they are also fantastic and they have pretty much led this generation with their unreal engine. Unfortunately the unreal engine is no longer as impressive with other game engines begining to match it so we will see if epic can maintain that top shooter spot. Regardless though gonna be a great yr for gamers

BobDog6675d ago

sonarus they stated the length of the campaign game earlier, i forgot what they said but i think they had stated 8-10 hours, and also said that the co-op will take just as long or more likely longer

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TheHater6675d ago

They already finish the Single player, and are working on the Multi-player. Do anyone want an Open or Close beta? I know I do.

PlayStation3606675d ago

Chances getting in Closed are next to impossible. :P

TheHater6675d ago

Unless you are a GAP member or know some people.

PlayStation3606675d ago

Not a Gap member and I don't know anyone. Impossible for me bro. :P

BTW: what's up with the disagrees lol

TheHater6675d ago

just a fanboy that is too scared to show, and post why he/she disagree.

sonarus6675d ago

thats what happens when there is too much good ps3 news. A couple of months ago when the bad news was piling on with delays and poor ports and lost exclusives the xbots were dancing. However the tide started to turn at E3 when mgs4 remained exclusive that was pretty much when the bad news started to go dwn and good news started to come up and a lot of childish fanboys simply can't get over it so from time to time they post random disagrees to make themselves feel better. You shouldnt let it bother you. This is not a popularity contest as long as you still have your bubbles

gonzopia6674d ago

Resistance 2 is one of the titles that could draw some real envy from Xbox gamers. It's a sci-fi based shooter - a la Halo or Gears, but what I've seen so far looks incredible, much richer than those other two games.

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TheExecutive6675d ago

this game is going to be EPIC.

TheHater6675d ago

yeah, that pretty much it.

Lanontscuz6675d ago

home should be up and running...i want my trophy to be a cloven head lol

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Video Game Franchises in Danger of Being Forgotten

The gaming industry moves at such a pace that it’s not surprising we’ve seen countless franchises fall into obscurity over the years.

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S2Killinit552d ago

Im surprised that a game with a heritage of Medal of Honor is in this list.

cthulhucultist552d ago

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.

HellspawnPR1981552d ago

Ninja Gaiden? Splinter Cell? Tenchu? Virtua Fighter? Killer Instinct? Killzone?

DefenderOfDoom2552d ago

I would very much enjoy
a new dedicated single player Killzone campaign. With a fun multi-player.

cthulhucultist552d ago

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...

HellspawnPR1981552d ago

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.

Inverno552d ago

Basically everything at this point as companies have no concern with preservation.

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Ranking the Resistance Games From Worst To Best

While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.

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Knushwood Butt1475d ago

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.

Eidolon1474d ago

Resistance 1 MP will always be my favorite. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but that was my jam, felt more balance, natural.

Miraak82 1474d ago

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

Sciurus_vulgaris1475d ago

I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2

GoodGuy091475d ago

Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.

fr0sty1474d ago

Resistance, Warhawk, MAG, Motorstorm, there's so many first party gems on PS3 that Sony has just left to die...

P_Bomb1475d ago

Never played Burning Skies but I still have Retribution.

monkey6021474d ago

Burning Skies was about 3 hours long and rather inconsequential. You haven't missed anything

porkChop1474d ago

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.

darthv721473d ago

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.

Yui_Suzumiya1474d ago

Resistance 3 was shocking and brilliant. Loved it.

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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_Sakai1831d ago

Really wish Insomniac would bring back Resistance!

darthv721830d 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.

monkey6021830d 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

darthv721829d ago

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

SullysCigar1831d ago

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

monkey6021830d ago

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

CBaoth1830d 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_Darkness1829d 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_cheese1830d ago

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

BlackIceJoe1830d 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.

Dragonopolis1830d 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

waverider1830d 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.

Jambola121830d ago

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

Chevalier1830d 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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