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It’s an utterly terrifying battle as the creature charges you, slams the ground with fiery area-of-effect attacks, and launches rapid fire grenades from its wrists. It’s also not on rails as you’d expect – you can run around on deck.Īt another point you’ll battle against a giant gorilla-like Chimera inside a city hall with two levels inside a huge room. The level is quiet, ominous, but it also becomes frantic as the creepy Grims come crawling over the side of the boat. Eerie shapes loom from the mist, and since it’s an unusual setting, what appears is unexpected – a football stadium, suburban homes, and even the gigantic corpse of a Leviathan, which was a boss from Resistance 2, now merely window dressing (but extremely cool window dressing).

One level has you taking a boat ride through a flooded town swathed in fog. I don’t want to give away the game’s surprises because it has many, so I’ll talk about a couple of specific points to illustrate what I’m talking about. Yet the game has many quiet moments, perfectly punctuating the huge battles and providing just the right amount of lulls and crescendos. It’s a great way to start the story quietly before kicking into screaming, blazing combat that sustains incredible levels of energy. We see each person as having an individual life: a child plays a game with his parent, a man in bed moans about some horrible loss of a loved one, and pictures and items strewn around make the place feel real and lived-in. It also has amazing attention to detail – at the beginning, Joe, the new protagonist who (Resistance 2 spoiler) killed previous protagonist, Nathan, is living in a decrepit underground shelter amongst the wretched remnants of humanity.

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The campaign is the most tightly designed, exciting, and expertly paced series of levels of the three games. The other problem was that Resistance shines in its creative array of weapons, so why not let players carry all of them? Yeah, it’s a roundabout way of saying it, but Resistance 3 brings back the beloved weapon wheel, and since it introduces new weapons, you get a slew of cool toys to play with.Īll this talk about gun porn might make you think it’s the main thing Resistance 3 has going for it, but oh no, not by a long shot. Okay, so it doesn’t make sense that a person could carry eight enormous guns, and we can understand why many modern shooters take the two-gun approach, but going that route for Resistance was a major mistake because it was taking away something players had become accustomed to. The other half of the equation is where Resistance 2 dropped the ball: it took the wonderful, varied weapon wheel and said “What? You want tons of guns to play with? Screw that! That’s not realistic, so here: you get to carry only two at a time now.”

It’s the most intimidating setup in the series and I really felt that I was taking on impossible odds and trying to fight insurmountable numbers.

Resistance 3 has refined this tone to perfection: the Chimera have basically won the war, taking over the earth and leaving humanity to live like rats underground. Resistance has always succeeded at striking the difficult balance of presenting a truly terrifying, overwhelmingly powerful enemy, but then also empowering you and making you feel like super-Rambo.

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