Widely expected to be the case, to the point that studio chief Ted Price was surprised it made big news, Insomniac has confirmed that it is finished with the Resistance series it started in 2006.
With Resistance and Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games going multiplatform, bringing an “all-new franchise” to the Xbox 360 and PS3, a look back at one of its cancelled original games seems timely. Meet Girl With A Stick.
The next big gaming franchise from the creators of a decade and a half’s worth of some of the Playstation’s most beloved titles is coming to the Xbox 360.
When Insomniac co-founder and CEO Ted Price gets his hands on the creation tools in PlayStation 3 exclusive ModNation Racers, Ratchet and Clank get lucky. Aw yeah.
If you’re reading this chances are you’re a night owl. Good thing too, tonight’s episode of GameTrailersTV has Geoff Keighley pulling an all nighter with Insomniac’s Ted Price as the two check out some never-before-seen single player campaign footage from Resistance 2. The show will also include some new multiplayer footage as well as a peek at some new cities, enemies and weapons from teh game.
If you’re up for some Resistance 2 and can’t sleep than check out the show on Spike at 1 a.m. Yes ONE in the morning.
Multiplayer bedlam got you down? Endless cross-map sniping bumming you out? Insomniac Games honcho Ted Price feels your pain and he’s doing his best to fix some of things that often plague the best of multiplayer shooter matches.
He has to. Resistance 2 online play will support up to 60 players on one map, and without some way of sorting through some of those problems the matches just wouldn’t be any fun to play.
If you really don’t care about the confusion of such a mighty match, if you revel in the disorder, you can still play the matches you want, but for the rest of us Price and his team has some pretty neat ideas.
We sure liked Resistance. It’s a good game! So good that some people wish that they could take it will them on the bus and train and shoot-up aliens. That’s be super! But is it going to happen? Insomniac Games bossman Ted Price says: Sure. I think that’s possible… I think Killzone demonstrated that it doesn’t have to be a first-person shooter. I think Killzone: Liberation was a fantastic game, but a very different game from the original. Anything is possible.
You heard that? Non FPS Resistance on PSP, cats living with dogs, mass hysteria — anything is possible! Ted Price Part 2 [MTV]
Now that Insomniac has found success with both the Ratchet & Clank and Resistance franchises, you might expect them to simply sequel the IP as long as the checks come in, staggering each title’s two-year development cycle to release one game a year. But Insomniac’s president Ted Price explained that such a schedule ping ponging Ratchet and Resistance wasn’t the plan. Instead they intend to, “continue to produce new IP, there’s no question about that”.
So a new IP is coming from Insomniac in the semi far to far future? Sounds good to us. Insomniac’s Ted Price Talks ‘Ratchet’ Sales Surprises, New IPs [MTVmultiplayer]
