Leviathan



The Leviathan was a Chimera that appeared in Resistance 2.

Described as the single-largest creature to have ever walked the earth, this bipedal Chimera was 300 feet tall. It had a large cooling device on its back, which could be seen while it rampaged through Chicago during the single player campaign of Resistance 2.

Only two Leviathan were ever reported, and the origins of them are unknown, as SPRA had no knowledge of it at the time of its sighting. The only Leviathan encountered in gameplay is in the Chicago mission. The second was described and photographed in intelligence reports found on SRPANET, from the French resistance. It is assumed that thousands of bodies would have been necessary to create it. Specter Team reported that the chimera were constructing a 300-foot-tall enclosure surrounding Wrigley Field. It is possible that this may have been the birth place of the Leviathan. SRPA had decided to ignore the report since Specter Team had just decimated the Chimera command structure in Chicago during Operation: Shadow Strike.

Nathan Hale encountered the Leviathan in Chicago and was picked up and literally thrown around the city by it. He used a LAARK against it, firing rockets at its face and mouth when picked up by it.

Hale, after being thrown across Chicago by the Leviathan, maneuvered through buildings and fought waves of Hybrids before luring the Leviathan under a sky-bridge. A demolition team attempted to detonate charges laid inside the bridge to blow it up, but the charges failed to ignite. Hale fired a missile from the LAARK at the bridge when the Leviathan was under it, and blew apart a portion of its face. The Leviathan was injured so badly that if look closely, the inside of it's skull can be seen. Noticing this, Hale fired one more rocket into the damaged portion of the skull, thus eliminating the Leviathan.

Trivia

 * The Leviathan is named after a Biblical sea creature of gigantic proportions.