Exclusive Preview: Resistance 3

Jamal Wright September 7, 2011 0
Exclusive Preview: Resistance 3

I love a good preview event, and this time I was treated to “Darkness Descends”, an event held by PlayStation to promote a new game, Resistance 3. Whilst the game playing was great, the highlight of the night was a real life horror sequence provided by interactive theatre group, Punchdrunk.

Resistance as a series has kind of been over shadowed by Call of Duty or Battlefield in a heavily convoluted first person shooter market. But, even compared to other PlayStation exclusives like Killzone and Uncharted – both earning mass praise from reviewers – Resistance has been on the fringes.

Cue Resistance 3, hoping to finally break out and be counted among the big boys and stamp Insomniac’s shooter on the world stage, and i’m feeling convinced.

Resistance was obviously a key part of the event with multiple kiosks

The event had multiple kiosks showing a range of soon to be released games such as Dark Souls, God of War Collection, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One, Journey , Fifa12 and of course Resistance 3.

An impressive floor of gaming galore

Part of the event was a live experience inside the world of Resistance taking the part of a real life horror movie, this was quiet intense mainly thanks to the brilliant performance and work by Punchdrunk.

With our secret mission taking place between Resistance 2 and Resistance 3 we had to link up with the resistance and send a message to the resistance factions in America.

Before being sent to join the resistance each group of participants were briefed in a “your life is at stake” manner which helped set the tone, not to mention being given only three torches between ten people meaning many were left just hoping to make their way out alive.

We had to overcome many challenges cracking in to a computer, finding security cards and key all feeling just that little bit Hollywood even down to our last minute escape from a Chimera infested room sadly not all made it.

Some may have been a bit more scared then others

Sadly I did not get a Chimera head for my trophy room – but overall it was a very nice experience a little different than the game as I missed my trusty revolver or bullseye.

Finally, getting to play some Resistance 3 I could feel the difference from the online beta proving just how much a game can grow between alpha, beta and the final release. The game has kept the fun frantic game play that has become a staple of the series with what felt like a tighter overall game.

So… join the Resistance, save earth and have a blast doing it!

For more information or photos on the event as well as other PlayStation Access events held all across the UK visit Here.

Resistance 3 is out September 9th 2011.

 


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