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"You are the resistance"
―Tagline

Resistance 3 is a 2011 science fiction post-apocalyptic first-person shooter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Resistance 3 is the final installment in the Resistance trilogy.

Resistance 3 received generally positive reviews from critics, some of whom deemed it the best in the series, but the game sold poorly and was a commercial failure.[1] On April 8, 2014, the Resistance 3 online servers, along with those for Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, were shut down by Sony.

Gameplay[]

The game retains mostly the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor albeit with several changes. The weapon wheel from Fall of Man returns. All weapons are upgradeable and become more powerful the more they are used. Open level design allows players to tackle scenarios based on their playstyle. The system of regenerative health (although an unlockable cheat can grant you regeneration) has been dropped for a circular system of health which doesn't automatically regenerate forcing players to play more carefully and look around the levels for Sym-Bacs, however the durability of the player against all attacks is much higher than previous games. The controls have been tweaked to be more compatible with modern FPS's e.g., L3 to dash and R3 to melee. These changes apply to both the Campaign and Multiplayer. The weather effects have also been improved in Resistance 3.

Plot[]

In 1953, shortly after Lt. Nathan Hale's death at the hands of Joseph Capelli, Hale's body was recovered by SRPA in which Dr. Fyodor Malikov discovered a cure from Hale's blood, which he then isolated it and created a vaccine to the Chimeran virus. Capelli is dishonorably discharged from SRPA for Hale's death, despite having done it due to Hale having turned into a Chimera. Four years later, Capelli married Susan Farley, the the adoptive-sister of Nathan Hale, and now lives in a community of survivors in Haven, Oklahoma. By this time, the Chimera had conquered Earth and roughly 90% of humanity had been killed or converted. Those left had resorted to hiding under the ruins, trying to survive in a bleak world dominated by the Chimera, who are intent to wipe out the last remnants of the human race.

Despite their efforts, Haven's community is discovered by a Chimeran Death Squad. Capelli lead the town's fighters against the Chimera until they have summoned a Terraformer, a massive terraforming platform, to destroy the town. While the townspeople prepares to evacuate, Capelli is reunited with Dr. Malikov, who have had spent the last few months trying to find Capelli for help to stop the Chimera from finishing their goal in wiping out humanity. Malikov explains that when Daedalus's flagship was destroyed by the fission bomb, the bomb's explosive energy served as a catalyst to the Chimeran tower network to open a wormhole over New York City as part of their plan to permanently freeze the planet and render it uninhabitable for humanity. Capelli refuses to help him, but his wife begs him to reconsider, as their son Jack is too weak to survive such a harsh environment.

Capelli and Malikov start their journey on a trawler and make their way through the Mississippi River. Two days later, due to the thickening fog, they lose their way and cut through the flooded town of Wrightsburg, where they ended up fighting off hordes of Feral Chimera and Military Chimera patrols until their boat is destroyed by a Goliath. The men survived the attack and washed up in St. Louis.

With Malikov too injured to continue, Capelli enters the city and encounters a resistance group, the Remnants. In exchange for their help to fix their VTOL and providing medicine to Malikov, the Remnants' leader Charlie Tent agrees to help take them to New York. However, they are ambushed by Chimeran fighters near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, forcing Capelli and Malikov to ditch the Remnants. After evading and fighting through Chimeran patrols, they reached an abandoned coal mining town occupied by survivors led by Jean Rose. Capelli helps Jean in finding her husband and the town's priest, Jonathan, who had went missing several days ago while hunting "Satan", a large Chimeran creature who inhabits the nearby mines. Capelli tracks down Jonathan, and they manage to kill Satan. Out of gratitude, the Roses repair an old coal train and allowing them to resume their journey.

While en route, Malikov reveals to Capelli that after the wormhole was formed, SRPA launched a desperate attempt to destroy the New York tower that ended in failure. Furthermore, Malikov sadly admits to Capelli that he will likely never see his family again, meaning the entire journey is essentially a suicide mission. But Capelli knew that already, stating that they are doing their best to do so this far. Their journey is soon interrupted by a pack of survivalists, the "Wardens", who assault the train. Although Capelli fights off the Wardens, the train is soon derailed by a herd of Widowmakers. Trapped under the train wreckage, Capelli helplessly watch Malikov being beheaded by the Warden leader, Mick Cutler. Capelli is then taken to the Wardens' hideout, Graterford Prison, where he is forced to fight in a gladiator ring against Grims and other Wardens. He is soon freed by Mick's lackey, Herbert Sawicki, a talented engineer who is responsible for maintaining the prison's defenses. Herbert tasks Capelli with disabling the prison's defenses - which is created from modified Chimeran Drones that prevents the prison from being targeted by the Chimera - so he can stage a breakout. The plan succeeds and the Chimera attacks the prison. While disabling the last drone, Capelli is attacked by Mick but after a brutal fistfight Capelli kills him and escapes the prison with Herbert and the other prisoners as the Chimera lay waste to the prison.

Now on his own, Capelli finally reaches New York, which is almost completely consumed in snow and ice. He finds a working radio in an abandoned building and makes a farewell broadcast to his wife, saying that Malikov is dead and without him, any chance of shutting down the tower is gone. Despite this, Capelli resolved to try anyway. After fighting through New York and getting close to the tower, he is cornered and overwhelmed by a massive Chimeran force. But at the last second he is saved and extracted by Charlie and Ellis Turner in their VTOL. Charlie offers to take him back home, but Capelli persuades to help him to destroy the tower by hijacking a Terraformer and make it crash into it. The two disables the platform's controls and sabotaging its power core, thereby maneuvering it to collide with the tower. With tower destroyed, the wormhole is sealed and Earth's temperatures is reverted to normal.

Capelli is soon reunited with Susan and Jack. Meanwhile, numerous resistance groups from all over the planet are reporting that the Chimera are in complete disarray and human forces are finally retaking their world.

Campaign Levels of Resistance 3
Campaign Home · Wanted Man · Paradise Lost · Women and Children First · Wrightsburg · City of the Past · Friends in Low Places · The Plan · Plan B · The Hunt · Savior · Satan · Nature of the Beast · To the Lions · The Encore · Retribution · Commitment · Wasteland · Sabotage · The Promise


Multiplayer[]

Resistance 3 features 16 player competitive online multiplayer with both deathmatch and objective-based modes. It also includes a customizable progression system where players spend points earned by playing online to unlock customized loadouts that include various tactical and combat attributes. There is also a co-operative mode where players can team up to play through the story mode either online or split screen. Unlike in Resistance 2, there is no 8-player co-op. The multiplayer maps are set in locations around the world such as the Fort Lamy prison in the Republic of Chad, Africa; a Trainyard in Bogota, Columbia; a seaside map set in Wales, and Alice Springs, Australia. Some of these maps are not included in the story mode. A multiplayer beta has been released including two maps and allowed the player to upgrade the character until level thirty, in order not to reveal all features and abilities. On August 30th, the beta was released to non-PlayStation Plus subscribers. The beta ended on September 4.

On April 8, 2014, Sony disabled multiplayer for Resistance 3, along with Fall of Man and Resistance 2.

Maps[]

Multiplayer Maps of Resistance 3
Included Ambush · Brew Pub · Broadway · Bunker · Core Chamber · Creek · The Granary · Main Street · Mine Town · Motor Pool · Park · Prison · Seaside · Terraformer · Trainyard


Weapons[]

Resistance 3 Weapons
Human HE .44 Magnum · Knife · M5A2 Folsom Carbine · Marksman · Mutator · Rossmore 239 · Sledgehammer
Chimera Atomizer · Auger · Brute Minigun · Bullseye · Cryogun · Deadeye · Wildfire
Grenades Air Fuel · EMP · Hedgehog · Molotov · Shrapnel · Smoke


Development[]

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Picture of the Resistance 3 billboard located in Shreveport, Louisiana.

On October 11, 2009, a billboard for Resistance 3 was spotted on location in Shreveport, Louisiana. The billboard was seen on the set of the movie Battle: Los Angeles, which was being produced by Columbia Pictures. Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. On the third Battle Los Angeles trailer the Resistance 3 billboard is visible.[2] When asked to comment by IGN.com, Insomniac Games said, "We've made no announcements at this time." Insomniac Games released Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time on October 27, 2009, Insomniac Games have mentioned before that they will alternate between producing Ratchet & Clank and Resistance titles. The billboard was taken down several days after the photo was leaked onto the internet.

On November 11, 2009, people found out that an artist by the name of Ben Mauro had put on his LinkedIn profile, he spent three sleepless months from March until May 2009 crafting content for several projects, including "RCF2" (presumably Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time), "R3" and some unannounced items. [Note: Mentions of "R3" and "unannounced projects" have mysteriously vanished since people contacted the parties concerned.]

On March 3, 2010, Community Manager James Stevenson posted on his Twitter account telling us that: Over the last couple of months, the burning question amongst all of our fans out there has been, 'what's going on?' As far as I can remember, this is the longest stretch of time without Insomniac having announced a future project, leaving many of you wondering what exactly we're up to in the walls of our Burbank and Durham studios/" "More than one game" is said to be en route, although the title is not the long speculated 'surprise Sony sequel' (Resistance 3), Stevenson adding on Twitter that this "is not a game from Insomniac."

On August 12, 2010, Insomniac teased the world with: "Congrats to @IrrationalGames on revealing BioShock: Infinite. Trailer looks great. We can barely resist joining the announcement fun!" and five days later, on a Tuesday, they officially announced Resistance 3 on Twitter with these comments: "We are ecstatic to announce Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One - 4-player online and same screen drop in drop out co-op coming to PS3 in Fall 2011" which was then proceeded by "Oh, you wanted Resistance? Well, why not two games? We are also incredibly excited to (finally) announce Resistance 3. Coming to PS3 in 2011!"

On August 17, 2010, Resistance 3 was officially announced, along with the announcement of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, at Sony's Gamescom 2010 press conference in Cologne, Germany on August 17, 2010, alongside a live-action trailer for the game.[3] In Insomniac Games' Newsletter:

The date we’ve been all been waiting for quite some time now has finally come. Yes, we are very aware of the fact that some games are just too hard to keep a secret; however, it’s our pleasure to finally put some rumors to rest. Today, we would like to OFFICIALLY announce our latest title currently in development – Resistance 3. Since the release of Resistance 2, we’ve listened to your feedback to help fine-tune what we know will become a respected addition to the franchise. Our Burbank studio has done a phenomenal job of crafting a cruel and brutal Resistance 3 world. You can catch a glimpse of it by watching the live-action Resistance 3 teaser trailer shown during the PlayStation Press Conference at GamesCom today. Follow @insomniacgames on Twitter and you'll be the first to know when we've uploaded it for you to watch and share with all your friends. We are very excited to show you more about Resistance 3. Remember to tell your friends to sign up for the newsletter, we’ll be offering swag and exclusive info throughout the coming year. In fact, you can visit our Community section and download some wallpapers right now.

Marketing[]

Netherlands[]

A dozen of Chimeran skulls were scattered at the Leidseplein, a square in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This was done on the 7th of September 2011, to promote the release of Resistance 3. The Resistance logo also appeared on various traffic lights in Amsterdam and Utrecht.[4]

Global Resistance[]

Main article: Global Resistance

Global Resistance was a social media strategy game designed to promote the release of Resistance 3, where players could choose to play as Human or Chimera. Global Resistance had exclusive unlockable content for Resistance 3, like skins, artworks and videos. The game was disabled when the multiplayer servers for the Resistance trilogy closed on April 8, 2014.

Pre-order bonuses[]

The pre-order bonuses are:

  • Gamespot - Capelli's Chimera Teeth Necklace, start multiplayer at level 5.
  • Wal-Mart - 5 custom name titles including Sentinel.
  • Amazon - Get the Air Fuel Grenade in single player (normally not in the game)
  • Best Buy - Infected Nathan Hale multiplayer skin

Collector's edition[]

The Resistance 3 collector's edition is only available in PAL regions. There are two editions; the Special Edition includes the pre-order bonuses, a steelbook cover and a Blu-ray disk made to look like a vinyl record. The Survivor Edition includes the Special Edition, Capelli's Satchel Bag, a Chimera firing range target poster, "Fight for Freedom" toy soldiers, Capelli's journal, a SRPA Hip Flask and SRPA Playing Cards.

A later edition called the "Doomsday Edition", announced by Sony, includes the PlayStation Move/Navigator Controller, a Sharpshooter peripheral and the PlayStation Eye. It launches alongside the regular retail game on September 6 in North America. It is only available in North America.[5]

PlayStation Home[]

On September 8, 2011, Insomniac Games released a new space for PlayStation Home called "Resistance Diner" as well as one new mini-game mode called "Scavenger Hunt".

Downloadable Content[]

The downloadable content for Resistance 3 includes the "Survival" game pack along with the "Brutality" game pack.

Both packs were removed in March 2014 from PlayStation Store, although only in Europe, around the same time of the multiplayer server's closure. However, the Brutality pack returned shortly after, possibly due to being also playable in single player.

Owners of specially marked copies of SOCOM 4 were able to download and play the beta on August 4 using the codes provided with that game, while PlayStation Plus subscribers in region 2 territories gained access on August 10. On August 23, the beta opened to worldwide subscribers of PlayStation Plus. Insomniac announced that they would give away codes via Facebook and Twitter to join the beta. The public beta began on August 30. The beta offered two multiplayer modes: Team Deathmatch and Chain Reaction. These modes were playable on two maps. People that played the beta between August 30 and September 4 received a SRPA Nathan Hale skin for Resistance 3. The beta ended on September 4. Resistance 3 has two demos, one for purchasing Battle: Los Angeles on Blu-ray and the other is downloadable from the PlayStation Store.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

Concept Art[]

Videos[]

Trivia[]

  • Resistance 3 is the first PlayStation game to require Sony's Online Pass. It was also the first in the series to support 3D and PlayStation Move.
  • A poster for the game appeared in the movie Battle: Los Angeles, which is also centered around a human-alien war. Subsequently, a demo for the game was included in the movie's Blu-ray release.
  • Although the ending and credits imply that humanity has won the War, the Chimera are still dominant while humanity is still struggling to survive. It should also be noted that the Pure Chimera are still active and may continue to be a threat in the future.
  • The logo and box art for Resistance 3 was created by Olly Moss.[6]

References[]

Resistance series
Main games Resistance: Fall of Man · Resistance 2 · Resistance 3
Spin-off games Resistance: Retribution · Resistance: Burning Skies
Special Editions Resistance Dual Pack · Resistance: The Trilogy · Resistance Collection
Viral marketing games Project Abraham · America First - America Only · Get A War Job · SrpaNet · Metastasis
Comics Resistance
Novels The Gathering Storm · A Hole in the Sky
Strategy guides Resistance: Fall of Man Signature Series Guide · Resistance 2 Signature Series Guide · Resistance 3 Signature Series Guide
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