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Old 01-29-2012, 08:32 AM   #17
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Resistance 3

Insomniac's WWII Alien Invasion story comes to an end with the best game in the series.

After the misstep that was Resistance 2 it's good to see that Insomniac went back to the drawing board.

This time around it is a more personal story of Joseph, he and his family are living underground, barely surviving in a chimerian controlled world.

Their survival is interrupted by a scientist looking for Joseph to help him win the war and stop the chimera once and for all. Reluctant to help, he is forced to when the enemy attack the town forcing everyone to run.

Sending his wife and child to safety you have to escort the scientist to New York to shut down the tower that is generating a wormhole to the alien home planet. Along the way you will fight a wide variety of aliens as well as a bunch or Rednecks in a Prison.

Fabulous lighting and graphic models show of the post apocalyptic America as you work you way towards the big apple.

However the mainstay of every Insomniac game has always been the weapons and you will not be disappointed here. There are 12 weapons from a Sledgehammer to a Rocket Launcher, the obligatory shotgun and machine guns and the unique Auger (shoots through walls) and mutation gun.

All the weapons are upgradable based on usage and have secondary fire modes. It's a complete blast learning which guns are best for which situation.

The pacing of the game is pretty much spot on from all out action sequences to more quiet and emotional story telling parts, by the end you want Joseph to survive and get back to his family. Surviving in this world is made harder by the need to find health packs, foregoing the usual health regeneration of most other shooters to make you think about shooting it out on the battlefield on one health slither or hunkering down.

Overall it was a decent story (although too much of it is told on "notes" found in the game world), great graphics and fantastic weapons and gameplay.

Insomniac retired from this series on a high.

4/5

Game Time: 7:13:05
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