Kraken

"That's too big to be a fury."

- Aaron Hawthorne at SRPA III

Kraken is a Chimeran strain that first appears in Resistance 2. The Krakens are large aquatic creatures with four-pronged mouths and multiple, drill-like tentacles. Their tentacles can also split into three, finger-like appendages at the ends.

Description
"Seal the shutters! Now! It's a Kraken!"

The first and only appearance of this creature was in the single player campaign of Resistance 2 at the underwater base SRPA III at San Francisco, though references to it as "a Kraken" give reason to believe that there are others. The Kraken smashed holes in the base in an attempt to flood it, and encounters Nathan Hale before being driven away a Pulse Cannon before finally confronting him during his escape from the base, in which he fought it from the water's surface on a VTOL landing pad.

The Kraken attacked using its tentacles and rammed the platform Hale was on, attempting to swallow him, while it would also dive underwater to evade his attacks. Hale endured its attacks and killed it with a Pulse Cannon when it attempted to swallow him.

In Resistance 3, in Wrightsburg, Missouri, a corpse of a Kraken was encountered by Joseph Capelli and Fyodor Malikov. The latter theorized that the creature may have lost its way from deeper waters from swimming up the Mississippi River before dying from unknown circumstances, in which it had left with a disemboweled midsection.

Trivia

 * The name Kraken is related to the mythical giant squid-like creature in Norse Mythology that was believed to terrorize and sink ships on the high seas.
 * The Kraken was going to be in Resistance: Fall of Man but was removed for unknown reasons.