Resistance 3 goes cross-country in first screens

by Ben Gilbert on Sep 28th 2010 4:00PM

Like Batman: Arkham City before it, Resistance 3's possibly first, very convincing-looking screenshots were found on the Flickr account of user "1337guyzorz2." As seen in the gallery below, they're a melange of concept art and apparent in-engine screens, highlighted by screaming, murderous Chimera and a destroyed St. Louis.

Also seen are Resistance 2's Joseph Capelli and who who we believe to be Nathan Hale's sorta-sister Susan Farley (her screens are labeled "Susan," among other things), both of which will seemingly play key roles in the forthcoming game. Insomniac offered "No comment" and Sony hadn't gotten back to us on the authenticity of these images by the time of publishing.

Resistance 3 (first screens)

Source: Flickr of '1337guyzorz2 '

Tags: flickr, insomniac, insomniac-games, playstation, ps3, Resistance-3, sony

Reader Comments (57)

Love those Chimera teeth neclace sure beats having human ears :)

@MICHAEL ATKINSON

I just want to eat.

I want a baby chimera NOA

Yes, NOA. Well done

God...I can't wait for this game

When I saw this on my twitter feed my first thoughts were:

"OMGOMGOGMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG"

And I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

played all the resistance games, i know this game is going to be a fantastic experience like the rest.

Only in videogame "journalism" can you have the word "l337guyzorz2" in your source and sound somewhat reputable.

@Tapejara

Why'd you put journalism in quotation marks? Why you gotta be hatin'...

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

I only put it in quotation marks because some people consider Joystiq and other videogame news outlets to be blogs.

Those graphics look insane...

I hope there's an improved 8 players co-op mode.

dear god that thing looks like my 3rd girlfriend

@Special Agent Bob
Now I'm frightened as to how your first two looked...

The Gateway Arch wasn't built until 1963, a full decade after the entire country was destroyed in Resistance 2.

@pitchblack23

Alternate universe. Aliens are destroying the world, I'm not sure a bit of architecture out of place temporally really matters.

Though I do love worthless game trivia, so thanks for sharing!

@pitchblack23 We don't yet know the date in which this game will take place...it could be a decade after the events of the first two games. We don't know yet.

@Fluidshine

Regardless, if he is indeed correct (and he is), no one would be around to build it, and if they were, why would they? They'd be focused on Chimera-huntin'.

But I agree with above poster, it's an alternate universe. Humans didn't have that kind of weapon tech either.

@pitchblack23 I'm guessing you've never played Resistance? The whole backstory screams "alternative history" and even if you've never played it all of the tech in the screenshots should make that pretty obvious.

@pitchblack23

On top of what everyone else said already consider this: that particular picture you are talking about is not a game render but a concept art painting. They are created to establish the concept for the game or model. Designers are usually given a little more free reign during the design period to come up with places, styles, moods, and so forth. They don't necessarily research history to make sure everything fits. In short, that's just a concept that can (And probably will) change before the game is even released.

Can't wait.

I hope they bring back campaign co-op (even if it makes no sense in the story). Playing Halo: Reach this week reminds me that fun is more important than story consistency in some games.

@Courtney

yea that was a feature i missed in 2 as well. i liked the online co-op a bunch but campaign co-op was great in it's own right.

Nathan's sis is a cutie.

I hope to see cole.

The story in R2 was so great and underated, they told coles story in such an epic way. I know what happened to him at the end of R2, but they will be crazy not to involve him somehow, hopfully hes at least the last boss or somthink.

F it im going to go rape the story again now on R2 lol
Damb i cant wait for this game

(reading that and thinking "damb i sound homo" lol)

@MrVee PSN Vampah

What? R2's story was terrible at least by comparison to R1. R2 was nothing but Hale yelling at his men to keep moving and they were all slowly being taken over...that was the extent of it. We didn't get to learn anything new about the characters or the chimera really. It wasn't a bad game, but story-wise it was the worst out of R1 and the PSP game.

@MrVee PSN Vampah

Who's Cole?

@Tapejara

From Infamous? lol.

@Tapejara

OMFG, i cant believed i called him cole lol, (im playing through infamous again atm)

*Face Palm*

@Acefondu, I didnt get to play R1 sadly, but the resistance 2 ending totaly made me feel bad. and how he changed as you progressed was epic

@MrVee PSN Vampah

I think you mean Hale lol...

Anyway, I loved the story too. I actually like R2 a little more than R1. The only thing I didn't like was it seemed a little more "future sci-fi" instead of the "historical sci-fi" the first had going for it. It looks as if they're going back to that mood for the third, which is a good thing.

TRYING TO AVOID SPOILERS BELOW...

The ending to R2 was a great swerve and I'd love to see both guys from the last scene play a big part in R3.

@acefondu Actually if you read INTO the story of R2 not only just play and watch it, R2 has tons of story progression. Also included many themes, such as will to power, will to survive, etc. It also progresses the story on things in the US, and the pre-emption strategy they had tried to use, and the liberty defense perimeter. It also talks about Daedalus and goes more into depth about the Chimera. It showed that the Chimera weren't only a smart species, they were also strategic and had tons of evolutions and chains of command. It also delved into Nathan Hale's origin and along with the super soldier origin. The scientist Malikov or whatever explained alot and even killed himself because he saw himself as a asset to the genocide or extinciton of the human race. and also Daedalus being one of the leaders of the chimera has a origin of being human which leads to many possibilities. It also progresses the "Calling" in which we still need to find out.

@MrVee PSN Vampah The main character of the first two Resistance games is Nathan Hale. lol

@mgsbigboss
Not to mention the co-op intel that details the Prometheus weapon, the disappearance of every living thing on Hawaii, the civil war in Australia, and of course the amazing stories of the Cloven.

@MrVee PSN Vampah

Aha I know don't worry I think I remember hearing Cole's name was originally supposed to be Nate, so don't feel totally stupid for saying it lol.

But I'm going to agree with you on Hale's progression. It was sad, especially when you're on the last level and Capelli asks why the drones aren't picking you up as a threat, you know Hale's progressed too far.

@Tapejara

Oh yea and I didn't mean you are stupid when I said "don't feel totally stupid"; just making sure you don't take it the wrong way.

already has a great vibe imo...

This game will be awesome when it comes out. day 1!

Looks good, so far.

These screens are what I love about Insomniac, Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog - they share methods and as a result each game looks exponentially better than the last. It's the type of leap in quality you see between old and new consoles, not games 1-2 years apart. Really amazing what collaboration and desire to share can achieve.

Uncharted 2 > Uncharted
R&C: Crack in Time > R&C: Future
Resistance 2 > Resistance

...and thus far, from what we've seen:

Infamous 2 > Infamous
Resistance 3 > Resistance

Slide 15.

Isn't that evidence that this is more likely James Grayson as opposed to Capelli?

http://resistance.wikia.com/wiki/James_Grayson

@kentuckyfried
Look at the scar.

@aerospace10to1

?

(sorry, I like Resistance but I'm not super-familiar with the lore).

Looks like they're bringing back the grittiness

Well looking at this it does look like Nathans Foster sister, as described in the book. I feal as if Hale will not be takin out of the game. James kicks in here and Im guessing you can play as all of them Hale, Susan Farley, capelli and james. As Insomniac loves COOP. There could be a drop in drop out 4 player coop for it, or its a separate mode. But For a fact HALE is not dead in the past they seem to kill off the main character only to bring them back in the sequal or whatever. So all we can do is wait now. Hopefully we can see something of it at the VGAs or E3 2011 or even something sneak preview on GTTV. BTW Resistance would be nothing without NATHAN HALE!

I might have to play if not just for the St. Louis love.

Anyone else think that Nathan Hale is gonna a be a mega endboss in this one? They're setting it up perfectly, considering the two main chars already have connections to him.

@Gaddes

First off - spoilers. Second, I don't think Hale will be a boss. I'm hoping he comes back to being human (unlikely) or retains will to help the R3 guys.

@packy17

Considering how long this game's been out for, I figured it would be fair game to talk about that stuff without *spoiler* in it... If people haven't played it by now, too bad! :D

i got a good feeling about this game.

Looks like Resistance 3 is going backs to it's Rfom roots!
R2 seriously missed the dark gritty, Alt WW1 feel that Rfom had.

Lets hope they bring the weapon wheel and narrator back! :D

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