Resistance 3 reviews round-up

A small avalanche of Resistance 3 reviews have hit the web today, marking the Insomniac-developed game’s US release. The critics have been kind to the PS3 exclusive first-person shooter with uniformly positive reviews (although as you’ll see the words don’t always match the score).

The upshot of almost every review is that this is a very well-made, deeply impressive single-player FPS game but with little new to bring to the FPS genre.

EL33tonline whoops it up with a 5/5 “outstanding” from reviewer Lisa saying it delivers “one of the most excellent gaming experiences you’ll have this year”. Gamersyde doesn’t do scores but “strongly advises” you to buy Resistance 3, calling the FPS an “impressive roller-coaster ride”.

There are more references to fairground attractions over at IGN where Stephen Lambrechts sums up his 9/10 score by saying Resistance 3 “is a surprisingly emotional cinematic roller-coaster of a campaign that never lets up”.

Joystick’s Griffin McElroy kicks off with one of the worst opening intros we’ve read for a while  but warms up and ends by calling Resistance 3 “a declaration of intent to become the new heir apparent to the sci-fi shooter throne”, along with a 4.5/5 score. Another 4.5/5 from JustPushStart where Damian Antony Seeto is touting Resistance 3 as a game of the year already.

CVG’s Tom Pakinkis agrees with most when his 8.7/10 reviews notes that Resistance 3 follows “the classic FPS formula” but does it “with more polish and playability…and big blockbuster moments.”

While the scores remain relatively high there are a few downbeat comments in the reviews. Eurogamer’s  Dan Whitehead enjoyed the single-player emphasis of Resistance 3 but his 8/10 review bemoans Imsoniac’s “cautious approach” that makes for an “extremely enjoyable” play that is “never as imaginative as you want it to be”.

John Robertson over at IncGamers also goes down the blockbuster route, although he seems less impressed by it that others (“Resistance 3 begins with the kind of intensity you’d expect from a big-budget, all-out action blockbuster title backed by one of the industry’s wealthiest and most-influential publishers.”). In fact he’s the only reviewer to really take Resistance 3 to task, with a 7/10 scoreline and an attack on a “dodgy middle act that relies too heavily on encounters with the Grim ‘zombies’” and a pop at the writing. Strangely, though, he still manages to call it a “great game”. A 7 is the most argued about score in games but whatever it is (shit, average, disappointing) it’s not a score for a ‘great’ game.

PlayStation Lifestyle is the counterweight to this, offering a very big score – 9/10 - and praising details (the “weapon design is genius”) while not really pumping us to head to the tills (the Move element “feels tacked on”, apparently). There’s a similar feel about Ross Lincoln’s GameFront 93/100 review where he condemns the “big pile of well cooked clichés” while summing up that Resistance 3 is “engaging, extremely fun and worth repeated play-throughs.”

You can keep track of all the reviews on Insomniac’s Facebook page.

For more Resistance 3 fun and games there’s the Kevin Butler advert with the VP of PlayStation on a horse pushing the Move Shooter bundle or if you want to spoil the game for yourself you can view the final 10 minutes of Resistance 3 gameplay over on Analogue Hype.

And, yes, the Made2Game review will be along shortly.

 

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