{"id":1463,"date":"2011-10-09T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/2000\/09\/22\/game-notes-resistance-3\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:12:21","slug":"game-notes-resistance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Game Notes: Resistance 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/Resistance-3-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/Resistance-3-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1477\" title=\"Resistance-3-Logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/Resistance-3-Logo.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/Resistance-3-Logo-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>Resistance 3 feels like Insomniac had something to prove. Maybe because Resistance 2 was such an awful sequel to the very good Resistance: Fall of Man that they had to redeem themselves. And redeem they did, mostly. Maybe they can put this franchise behind them now.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<center><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7PHXyLp7aI\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Resistance 3 takes place in the 50s where WWII didn&#8217;t happen, and aliens known as the Chimera invaded Earth to take it over. I don&#8217;t much remember what happened in the second game, other than being hopelessly depressed over the experience. But Resistance 3 takes off nicely and runs with a genuinely good character who goes by Joe Capeli, who goes off to New York to try and shut down a tower that threatens to destroy Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s kind of striking to me is the way the game &#8220;borrows&#8221; classic moments from other games and makes it it&#8217;s own. Example: one stop across the USA lands Joe in a nighttime abandoned coal mining town, with aliens coming down upon him. It&#8217;s up to a gun-wielding reverend to try and help him through the land and kill bad guys good. Sound remotely familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it succeeds in bringing up fond memories of Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 (and in fact, I think Resistance 3 pulls off the setting better), it simultaneously fails to create it&#8217;s own experience. While in the game I enjoyed playing through that town, in the end I&#8217;m still probably going to remember Ravenholm before I remember Resistance 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4BtoIWUKoc\" width=\"515\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p><br>That&#8217;s not to say this game doesn&#8217;t have its own moments. The complete shift in tone towards the end of the game, when you&#8217;re dealing with an entirely new threat besides the Chimera, was very surprising and creates a sense of dread that I hadn&#8217;t experienced with the game up to that point. The new threat&#8217;s unpredictability is reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/igaming\/uk\/online-casinos\/non-gamstop-casinos\/\">casinos not on GamStop<\/a>, adding an extra layer of tension and uncertainty. There were moments where I felt like I was actually playing Half-Life 3 thanks to the similar look and design, but again, I wanted new experiences, not the evoking of older ones (albeit unintended I&#8217;m sure). And the ending, well, it&#8217;s not at all where the tone of this game was heading, and seems like a complete cop-out. I think it&#8217;s more of what Insomniac thought fans might have wanted, but I certainly didn&#8217;t want this. I wanted the earlier story frame of 90% of humanity being destroyed to go through to the bitter end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t really play much online multiplayer so I can&#8217;t really comment on that side. What I can say is that this is the proper sequel I&#8217;ve been waiting for, the one that Resistance so deserved. But like Dead Rising 2, I feel it&#8217;s just a few years too late to make the impact it really could have had, and that&#8217;s a real shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance 3 feels like Insomniac had something to prove. Maybe because Resistance 2 was such an awful sequel to the very good Resistance: Fall of Man that they had to redeem themselves. And redeem they did, mostly. 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