Oh man, this is sad news indeed. Hopefully there are just giving it a rest on the PS3, and holding out for more power with the PS4.

The best for me was Resistance 2, hands-down. While it lacked the campaign co-op, those eight-player side missions were a heck of a lot of fun, and I spent many an hour playing with friends and strangers. The three classes were done perfectly where you couldn't function without a good mixture of all three and the randomized missions made the same levels different each time by having several different branches to go through.

Couldn't agree more with Bob, and I'll add that it was so awesome that they added the Superhuman difficulty for the experienced players.

R3 has a fun co-op campaign, but I truly think R3 didn't sell well because of them dropping the 8 player co-op mode from R2.

Damn. This is really sad. RTFOM, R2, R3, and Resistance: Burning Skies were all lots of fun, and R2's online co-op was some of the very best, most awesomely fun co-op I've ever had the pleasure to play.

I hope Bob's right and we'll get some more Resistance on the PS4, but I doubt Insomniac will do it, since they've decided to go multiplatform and start doing Facebook games and weird (and maybe stupid) stuff like that. (I mean, come on, FACEBOOK games?)

@kevinclough thats true !

with the current R3 plus R2 co-op it would be totally a must buy !!

It's not really a bad thing. Better to give the series a rest rather than run it into the ground like some other franchises...

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You got that totally right. That was the reason I rented rather than purchasing the game. If there was a similar style co-op in Resistance 3 it would have been a pre-order purchase for me.

You know, it appears that I'm in the minority here, but I'm with Raines. Giving a series a break, or (gasp!) being done with it is a terrific idea. What did we see at E3 this year? Blops 2 (call of duty 9), AC 3, Pikmin 3, MORE Mario games, ANOTHER Tomb Raider, ANOTHER NFS, ANOTHER MoH, ANOTHER Splinter Cell, Dance Central 3, Just Dance 4, ANOTHER Rayman, etc. I mean, common. Look at the industry and tell me it's a good thing that 95% of the AAA titles are sequels--hint it's not--. I know that sequels are safe, but what about innovation? Indie devs. are just about the only people working on new IP's anymore. There's nothing wrong with doing a sequel, or even a trilogy, but games like Halo were supposed to be done at 3 titles. Same with Gears of War. I realize that Gears and Halo are pillars of AAA co-op, but still, I want something fresh and new. Halo 4 looks just like Halo 1, 2, and 3, but with better graphics. That's a problem because Halo 1 is 10 or 11 years old. Ten years from now I don't want to be playing MW8, Blops 7, NFS 16, Gears of War 7, and Halo 8. I want to be playing new games that hopefully offer something a little different.

Yup. This year it's gonna be Call Of Madden's Creed 2012: Rise of the Revenge of Electric Boogaloo.

You guys definitely have a point. Sequelitis is killing the industry and choking out creativity and new ideas. Of course, it's a lot easier for me to say that about sequels I don't care about, like anything in the interminable Call of Duty franchise, than about franchises I do care about, like Resistance and Ratchet & Clank, but I absolutely do agree that no Resistance is better than bad Resistance.

I'd even be willing to say goodbye to the Uncharted franchise if it meant Naughty Dog would be free to do more different and interesting things instead. That's not very likely to happen, though!

I'm sure i'm one of the many who passed on buying R3 due to the lack of the awesome coop mode from R2. Some games just dont sell well based off a versus mode and a simple campaign coop mode. Even call of duty is now implementing a coop specific mode into every yearly release.

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Holy smokes! You've got a billion dollar game right there! Except you missed a word, "Call Of Madden's Creed 2012: Rise of the Revenge of Electric Boogaloo Hero"

I don't mind sequels so long as they build on, and improve the series. Far too often it's simply a fresh coat of paint or they do the thing where they take away some features while adding new unnecessary ones and then in the following game add some of the removed features back in.

I'm leaning towards the side where I'd like to have seen just one more Resistance game. IMHO, the series never reached it's full potential.

The first game provided a satisfying co-op campaign. The second games' co-op was great but, despite offering a rare 8-player mission based mode, didn't have story co-op. The 3rd went back to story co-op and should have come with co-op modes instead of competitive multiplayer... a hoard mode out of the box or the 8 player mode but just more oriented towards survival (to match the theme) would have been better.

Lastly, Insomniac had built a great foundation in Resistance 2's 60 player online multiplay. They just needed to take it to 'Battlefield' territory with vehicles and large scale maps.

The series really needs a prequel showcasing the spread of the Chimera virus through Russia... a 8 player co-op campaign where a bunch of uninfected humans are trying to escape would rock. Couple that with the Battlefield style competitive multiplayer and the series will have finally made it's true mark.

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That is an excellent idea, and something I would LOVE to see.