Resistance 2 community sneak peek

by James Ransom-Wiley { Jul 17th 2008 at 9:00PM }

Insomniac carved out its fourth "C" behind closed doors at E3 this week: Community. (Can you name the other three?) Bungie has put the pressure on other FPS developers to serve their dedicated player base, and Insomniac hopes to respond by relaunching myresistance.net alongside Resistance 2 this fall.

We were shown some concept slides of the new site design, beginning with a landing page with links to three distinct experiences. To the left was an entryway into the community pages, in the center was "game info," and to the right was "chronicles" (a section of the site that ties the franchise together with content like a timeline system). The landing page will be customizable to some extent. We saw a mock "ticker," which could run along the top of the page displaying various Resistance related feeds (news, developer updates, friends activity, etc.). But what happens when we jump into the community portal?

Step 1 is "your own personal baseball card." Literally, a virtual player card (um, gamercard?), this is your community identifier. Known as the "Combat Badge," the card displays icons for three distinct attributes that ideally represent a player's strengths and achievements. While users can handpick these, the system will actually recommend a set based on a player's play history in Resistance 2. We saw a card that featured icons for prefers multiplayer, grenade tosser and prolific forum poster (just the kinda guy we like to avoid -- good to know).

Delving deeper into the experience, we landed on the player page. Insomniac's design focuses on modules, which can be added, deleted and rearranged on the page to suit players' preferences. Example modules include: friends tracker, personal achievements, uploads, personal snapshot, active streams (who's doing what), and recent communications. The team is currently considering pushing some of this content to widgets that could be featured on external sites or dashboards, but a final decision has yet to be made.

The Resistance 2 community presentation was brief and conceptual. What we saw of the new myresistance.net looked familiar and usable, but nothing to topple bungie.net. The tools are there to support a connected, competitive hardcore base, and the rest of us will simply go on about our playing.

Tags: community, e3-2008, insomniac, myresistance.net, resistance, resistance-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

j.howlett @ Jul 17th 2008 9:15PM

i was just at myresistance.net earlier today. i finally got the latest unlockables. and its tracking my stats again. is this myresistance.net different from the one i was on?

Dwag @ Jul 17th 2008 9:31PM

NBK all day!!!!!!!!!

Dwag @ Jul 17th 2008 9:36PM

Nope it's the same as always fully functional so why still keep the that beta tag up there.

When do we get a date?

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Jul 17th 2008 10:08PM

"What we saw of the new myresistance.net looked familiar and usable, but nothing to topple bungie.net."

im completely ignorant to what Bungie.net does that is so above and beyond what you just described. i mean ive used myresistance.net before but never Bungie.net (since i dont play any bungie games). can somebody fill me in?

(P.S. yes this is a serious question)

Dwag @ Jul 17th 2008 10:19PM

Well I would if i could i never used Bungie.net much either other than to check my kill count and thats rarely. I've used myresistance.net rarely but with a actual purpose because Clan members send me a message saying this and that about a big match and do I wanna participate and that I have to go to the website but that again happens rarely the last time it happened was like a couple of months ago.