After months of rumours and denials, the fourth installment (Resistance Fall of Man, Resistance 2 & Resistance Retribution being Prior installments) of the hugely successful Resistance franchise was announced to be in development for the Playstation 3 by Insomniac Games on August 17th 2010 at Gamescom 2010. Since the official reveal, there has been wide speculation surrounding the game, from gameplay mechanics to the titles story. I myself found Resistance Fall of Man to be a superb Debut for the franchise, from it's devastated world overun by the sinister Chimera to it's fun, chaotic gameplay. The game introduced us to Sgt. Nathan Hale, the American Protagonist of the first two games, with him himself being infected with the Chimera Virus, of which he still possess' in the second title were it is revealed he has hours to live. Whilst the ending of the game was both abrupt and confusing, it did leave much open to carry the story on for a Third title in the main series. The second title was brilliant, but no where near perfect, however it still proved a's an improvement to the superb first game, and with that, here is my list of what I believe Resistance 3 needs to be the ultimate installment. This is purely OPINION Based and of course I would love to hear some of yours in the comments zone below. Let's begin...
1) G R A P H I C S (Minor)
Now before you tear me to shreds, hear me out. Insomniac have to date done a great job on Resistance in the case of visuals, however, whilst there are moments of which the Graphics are brilliant, there are some things that look purely disgusting. These being mainly fire and water in the game. Whilst they were my main concerns at the time, NOW, things have changed, expectations have changed, and with the game shipping in the same year a's rivals Gears of War 3, Crysis 2 & Killzone 3, this game is going to receive ALOT of comparisons within reviews. However, looking at some of the leaked "Screens" there may be little to worry about in this area, however with some of the pictures being blatant Concept Art, I will wait for confirmation of which are Screenshots. Nonetheless, if even one of the leaked screens are in-game, it would seem this game is going to look beautiful.
2) E P I C S C A L E C O M B A T (Moderate)
Resistance 2 was a huge step up in terms of scale, featuring combat with large amounts of enemies on screen at one time, forcing you to step back and say, "Wow", however, there was one issue with the scale of things that concerned me, look up to the sky and you will see huge vehicles both human and chimeran in combat with one another, flashes and explosions lot the air, it felt a shame that this did not play in to the gameplay, now I'm not saying "Give us air combat!" because I wouldn't want that with the world being in the state it is in the Live Action Trailer, I'm saying, make the combat that bit more Epic Scale by having aircrafts spiralling from the air and colliding in to the ground before your very eyes, or challenging you in combat and dropping off large numbers of Chimera. After watching the trailer, I have fears that the game may try to be something other that that of which Resistance followers have come to expect, it resembled Left 4 Dead, a great game, but hugely different from that of Resistance in terms of gameplay...
3) L E S S S C R I P T E D B O S S B A T T L E S (Moderate)
Remember the Leviathan battle in Resistance 2? When you first witness the creature stampeding through the city, it looks like it's going to be one Hell of a difficult battle, right? Wrong. The battle, whilst cinematic was a huge disappointment, failing to live up to the standards of those approaching the battles imaginations. And this was quite a common occurrence throughout the title, not that it ruined the game, but scripted Boss battles are always frustrating for me, I want to be able to approach a battle in numerous ways, unfortunately that was never the case, with there being set ways for the larger bosses to die. If a Leviathan approaches us in the third title, let us deal with it in whatever way we wish.
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