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Resistance 2 Beta Details

A few weeks ago, Ign covered the announcement of a Resistance 2 Beta in September that would be coming to the Qore digital magazine.
Today on the PlayStation.Blog, Grace Chen, the Senior Manager of the PlayStation Store, provided additional details for Qore purchasers interested in checking out the anticipated title and its beta.
Annual subscribers to the magazine will definitely be included in the beta under "Premiere" status and will receive early access when the beta becomes available.

Those users who purchase Episode 3 will receive access to the beta as well, but at a later, unspecified date.
Chen also mentioned the contact method, stating that, "All invitations will be made via email/voucher – the beta WILL NOT be accessed through the Qore download center."
Finally, she reassured members within her Store Update story, stating that there will be additional ways to participate in the beta, and that those details would be coming at some point.

Qore Episode 3 is currently available now on the PlayStation Store.

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Rick Astley6488d ago (Edited 6488d ago )

I will surely enjoy the superior multiplayer experience that only Resistance 2: United We Fall can offer this holiday season.

n4gzz6488d ago

dedicated server are nice. I hate peer to peer but resistance multiplayer is not for me. I will love single player though. I can't wait for kz2 multiplayer. that game will be huge and system seller.

arakouftaian6488d ago

IM MORE EXITED ABOUT the multiplayer on KZ2 if it is what i think its i will be there every day i can n i will enjoy every sec...

Thank u sony , guerrilla n thanks to isomiac

Montrealien6488d ago (Edited 6488d ago )

So I'm guessing you guys got Qore for the beta? Add me, I can't wait to try this one. I also can't wait for Gears 2 online, I love Gears Online. Gears 2 and Resistance seem to be very different also. What an amazing few months we have ahead of ourselves no?

btw, has Killzone 2 co-op been confirmed yet?

thank you Gorilla, thank you Insomniac (easily the best sony second party dev) and thank you Epic! :D

BISHOP-BRASIL6488d ago

Looks like KZ2 will not have co-op on day one, but they said they really would like to do it, even if it has to come on a patch or add-on.

God of N4G6488d ago

But I'll try the beta and see...Still looking forward to LBP and MS2:PR more this fall.

Kleptic6487d ago (Edited 6487d ago )

I have to agree about Killzone 2...the multiplayer announcements at E3 really pushed that to the very top of my list...

I liked Resistance 1 a lot at the time...and it was very good for a launch title (even graphically compared to other titles on the PS3 at the time)...but I have to admit it is almost hard to go back and play now...it feels a lot older than 1.6 years or so...

weapon wise it is still fantastic...but I have to admit I pretty much stopped when the updates changed how certain parts of the multiplayer worked...I never understood why so many complained about the bullseye, and its tagging...the time required to fire a tag more than balanced the fact that most of the time you were getting slaughtered before it connected...but the forums over there were on fire about it, and they eventually made it nearly worthless to even bother...

in either case though...Resistance 2 looks great...and looks to make improvements on the first game in all the right places...however, Killzone 2 looks like the type of shooter to just come in and wipe all competition out entirely...I much prefer the more realistic enemies...the ridiculous visuals...and more dynamic gameplay (being that it has a cover system that gives different options for different situations)...obviously none of us have played either yet...but after the multiplayer was announced for Killzone 2, it looks to have everything it needs and then some to be one of the best games of this generation...

both are must buys for me...but if I could only have one based on not playing either so far...it would be killzone 2 currently...maybe this beta will change my mind though...but so far Res 2 doesn't look to deal out anything I don't already expect...

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KiNg_TED_PRIZE6488d ago

socom +resistance = rumbo in alien vs predator sh*t

meepmoopmeep6488d ago

i haven't been this hyped for an FPS since Halo 2.
hope this doesn't turn me off the franchise like H2 did.

still have to buy the annual Qore. maybe later today.

Kleptic6487d ago

just curious...but what did Halo 2 do that 'turned you off' of shooters?...

XBL going live around then I thought more than made up for the crap single player of Halo 2...and I don't understand what everyone hated about Halo 2's single player anyway, becuase Halo 1's sucked too...giggling idiot aliens speaking English and purple...everywhere...was never something that overly impressed me with any of the halo games...

but they did shine at multiplayer...as long as you weren't into realistic shooters...

mjones19946488d ago

I am so excited about this, i can't wait

uie4rhig6488d ago

i wonder when the beta will come to EU, and how we will be able to get in :)

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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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S2Killinit553d ago

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

cthulhucultist553d 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.

HellspawnPR1981553d ago

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

DefenderOfDoom2553d ago

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

cthulhucultist553d 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...

HellspawnPR1981553d 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.

Inverno553d 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.

monkey6021475d 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

darthv721830d 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_Darkness1830d 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!

BlackIceJoe1831d 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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