Major changes to XCOM and Resistance 3 combat walkthrough
There has been some major changes over at 2K Australia. The studio is currently developing the PC and Xbox 360 game, XCOM. In addition, Insomniac reveals some nice details about Resistance 3’s combat system.
XCOM is a game I have been looking forward to with 2K’s Bioshock-like take on the classic series. The game has been under development for a while now at 2K Australia.
As reported by Supererogatory [via Joystiq], the head of 2K Australia studio suddenly resigned while in the middle of development of XCOM. This news was followed by a tweet stating that there was a rumor that XCOM is undergoing some “big changes.”
I would be absolutely shocked if the reboot of XCOM suddenly becomes an isometric simulator like the first four games in the series. XCOM is still slated for 2012 release.
In other news, Insomniac recently gave a walkthrough of some of the combat in Resistance 3 recently to G4TV. Marcus Smith, creative director at Insomniac revealed some interesting bits about Resistance 3.
As reported, the weapons wheel makes its way back to add to the survival aspect of the game. Gamers will have to scavenge for new weapons and strategically use them when needed. Also, health will not regenerate forcing gamers to play smartly when life is low.
Smith makes it clear that Resistance 3 will be “all about survival.” He also reveals a new threat posed by the Chimeran invasion called the Terraformer. This massive ‘mech’ or machine that flies in the sky shoots a energy beam onto the ground leveling everything in sight.
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February 28th, 2011
Hmm. Why change a winning formula?
I have the first resistance and it was awesome.
I would like more of the same.
March 1st, 2011
Thank you for the XCOM part!
Nice to know you care about the same game.
“suddenly becomes an isometric simulator like the first four games in the series”
I think you mean ‘first 3 games’. Interceptor was an awful game!
March 1st, 2011
XCOM is still slated for fiscal 2012 which is from March 2011 to April 2012. It could still come out this year. Birdman would be better to ask though.
R3 is looking better and better each time I see it. I’m glad the weapon wheel is back, and no regen health will actually make people try. Regen health is one of the laziest new game aspects recently. Thanks Halo.
March 1st, 2011
I love the look of Resistance 3 .. I think it just jumped to the top game on my list of games to get
March 1st, 2011
“and no regen health will actually make people try. Regen health is one of the laziest new game aspects recently. Thanks Halo.”
No it’s a good thing. Not everyone is a great gamer and you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy it. Why do you think games like Halo do so well? If we had to repeat the levels any more than we do now it would ruin it for most.
It should be optional like auto aim.
March 1st, 2011
Then not all games are for everyone.
March 1st, 2011
I preferred the old way. You had to be cautious. Couldn’t just run and gun knowing you could hide and all you’re health would just come back.
Games are more difficult a cheesier with the regen health…why you ask?
Game designers now, know you have regen health so, you get spammed with guys in cheap locations, grenade spammers, and more.
Resistance 1 had the regen and health at a good balance. It would regen up to one bar out of four.
March 1st, 2011
Nice to see Resistance 3 going back to its roots. I love the first games.
I agree with Phranc, not all games need regen health. Even Socon now has regen health as standard.. in all previous Socom games you had to complete the whole mission with one single life bar.
Bioshock and Resistance 1 did a good job with their health system.
March 1st, 2011
“Then not all games are for everyone.”
If the devs had that attitude then they should go bankrupt. No offence dude but that is just a stupid view. I am a Developer and if I had that attitude with the users I would be fired.
March 1st, 2011
There is no reason they can’t make that an option just like they make auto aim and option in some games. It takes little to NO effort to do so. Why limit your sales to a select few? That is just dumb. Obviously games that do regen sell more then the majority like it and are where the money is.
March 1st, 2011
Health regen along with autoaim can be the in difficulty option known as “easy”.
March 1st, 2011
does Forza sell more than GT even with its “auto-brake” and “replay” features?
March 1st, 2011
Yeah..lol. I don’t need the game to hold my dick for me while I piss..
March 1st, 2011
“Health regen along with autoaim can be the in difficulty option known as “easy”.”
Exactly what I was saying! Optional.
This article makes it sound like it wont be there at all.
March 1st, 2011
“does Forza sell more than GT even with its “auto-brake” and “replay” features?”
Don’t care. I don’t play racing games and Sims. But Phranc used the Halo reference. Uncharted 2 has auto aim and that is one of the reasons I was able to enjoy it. The same goes for COD games. You two probably don’t play on easy so you don’t notice it but they are there and it helps to sell games.
March 1st, 2011
It may become too easy if it’s optional. On one hand, with health regen the enemies are more difficult and there’s more of them, because developers realize that if you get shot you can recover. On the other, without it they have to make the difficulty of the game a tad easier.
I re read what I wrote and I hardly understand it so no big deal if it didn’t come over clear.
March 1st, 2011
U2 has autoaim? Didn’t know that.
March 1st, 2011
I’m not saying auto aim is the only reason these games sell. Some sell because they are pretty (GT5) and some sell because they are easy to play and fun (Uncharted 2). KZ2 is hard and it didn’t sell as well as KZ3 will because KZ3 is easier there for fun. I don’t want to play games that I can’t finish. I wouldn’t have finished or liked God of War if it didn’t have easy. Even on Easy I was stuck on some parts for days.
March 1st, 2011
I always make my first play through on normal. Then my next one is more difficult.
March 1st, 2011
I didn’t uncharted had an auto aim feature and that said I always play them on hard first.
P.S uncharted 3 is looking very good for a console game but if Kev where here he would say that HALO 1 has the better graphics.
March 1st, 2011
speaking of Kev…
Hey Mike did Kev got banned?
March 1st, 2011
Yes
March 1st, 2011
I useualy play on easy.
March 1st, 2011
Heres a list of games being released this year that I want
-Littlebigplanet 2
-Mass Effect 2
-Resistance 3
-Uncharted 3
-The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
-FF Verseu XIII
-FF XIII-PartII
-Doungen Siege III
and all I can think of right now and bye gotta go bus to catch.
March 1st, 2011
Sucker Punch will be announcing something new today…they posted this on their Facebook page:
“Today is very exciting day . We’ ve been
holding a big secret for the last two years
and at GDC later today … We get to tell you
all about it : )”
March 1st, 2011
Hopefully Sly 4 or something new. If they go multiplatform like Insomniac that’ll suck.
March 1st, 2011
their are not as big as Insomniac, which also has multiple studios…. I hope is a new IP or multiple player for Infamous (co-op?)
March 1st, 2011
A Sony acquisition wouldn’t be bad
March 1st, 2011
Sucker Punch updated their post:
“Sucker Punch Productions Ok everyone No
a sly 4 announcement is not the secret .
Sorry to disappoint some .”
March 1st, 2011
will they pulled a David Jaffe? lol
I bet only a few know what that means
March 1st, 2011
Sony buys the MS Xbox division.
March 1st, 2011
You mean lie about the TM game?
March 1st, 2011
Speaking of twisted metal. I would love to see some new stuff. The Eat Sleep Play forums have been a mess for months. They need to mod badly.
March 1st, 2011
Auto-aim? You guys mean aim-assist? There is a difference between the two. Modern shooters incorporate aim-assist so that when you iron sight on an enemy it shifts it slightly if your crosshair is close enough.
Its suppose to help compensate for the handicap controllers have as far as precision goes. However, just with everything in life, you can get good at it so that you can manually compensate the twitch movement.
Play Bad Company 2 multiplayer after COD. its worlds apart.
@Roca,
No, Kev was not banned.
March 1st, 2011
Yes I was talking about aim-assist. I can’t spend enough time gaming to master it. The mouse on the PC is a different story.
March 1st, 2011
is that call ‘quick-scoping’.
March 1st, 2011
I call it auto aim LOL
March 1st, 2011
I can’t see this from work but this is for you Capt.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/291448/news/pokmon-isnt-just-for-children-game-freak/
March 1st, 2011
Did anyone know they were developing one?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-panasonic-games-idUSTRE7201MD20110301
March 1st, 2011
@ncaissie
there was a story about it here.
http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/10/05/panasonics-handheld-jungle-may-reach-a-new-niche-market/
I guess the PSP2 turned out to be more powerful..so why even bother.
March 1st, 2011
I remember now. Yeah the PSP2 would be my choice.
March 1st, 2011
Resistance is my favorite PlayStation video game series. This game is awesome. I can’t wait to get my hands on the third one. XCOM never heard don’t care.
March 1st, 2011
Hey Ivan Aka retard, we don’t care either.
March 1st, 2011
Thank you for that article ncaissie. It’s not exactly my point, but it does paint a nice picture.
It’s not about acceptance for me. I have no problem bbeing ridiculed for the things I like. It doesn’t bother me what others think of me. Pokemon is a fun aand deep game, that I enjoy, and if others don’t care for it, they’re just robbing themseleves of a great experience. Their loss.
March 1st, 2011
I feel the same way when people bug me for being into games, comics and everything Superman. Lol
March 1st, 2011
Infamous 2 gets new innovative feature:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/03/01/infamous-2-user-created-missions-give-infinite-possibilities-limited-beta-in-april/
March 1st, 2011
Lmao I was just going to mention that. I just watched the IGN vid.
March 1st, 2011
Not IGN it was Sonys
March 2nd, 2011
I’m not buying into this create your own levels shit. It worked in games like far cry(PC) and quake but not on consoles.
Lbp and modnation are not that good. I wish I had my money back for mod nation.
March 2nd, 2011
It’s actually more streamlined and user friendly on consoles. I used to create UT/2k3/2k4 maps, and while you had amazing options where you can literally create from scratch, LBP and modnation are so much more user friendly.
You don’t have to like modnation or LBP to be able to appreciate limitless levels to play. MNR just hit 2 million levels.
There does not exist a PC game with 2 million user generated levels.
March 2nd, 2011
“MNR just hit 2 million levels”
Yeah and how many are actually worth playing? 10?
March 2nd, 2011
And Farcry had lots of fun levels. Quake had a lot more.
March 2nd, 2011
ModNation Racers have alot of great user created levels. definitely more than 10.
I have amazed by some of the level I’ve seen…ppl put alot of work into it.
There are many great levels:
-Batman’s Mansion (Bat Cave included)
-Jurassic Park
-Santa’s Toy Factory
Take a look at how well this level was done:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5197832192_a43fb3434e.jpg
March 2nd, 2011
Cool.
I have snakes.
March 2nd, 2011
check this one out:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5257895381_b43ae376c7.jpg
March 2nd, 2011
Geeze ncaisse. I expect asinine comments like yours from kev or CAD. *rolls eyes*
March 2nd, 2011
What are you talking about phranc?
LBP and Mod Nations sucks ass.
They are kids games. Why not play Pokemon if you are into those games? You can’t play LBP and Mod N and make fun of someone for playing Pokemon games.
That is asinine. I said 10 being a smart ass. I know there are more. But none of them are “Good” in my eyes because the game is for kids just like Mario Kart.
March 2nd, 2011
just stfu.
LBP kicks ass. My opinion is backed up by reviews.
I can’t comment on Modnation as I don’t own, but it’s reviews in the 80+ say you again, are wrong, and the game does not “suck ass”
You’re opinions however do.
March 2nd, 2011
I don’t think any kids would be able to win a single race in ModNation. unlike Mario Kart ModNation requires skills in order for you to win.
There are many great levels, so many that no one will probably experience them all.
LBP is a great game for a side-scrolling platformer..how many games side scrollers are as good as LBP? in fact, there aren’t that many games as good as LBP where the experience is limitless.
March 2nd, 2011
LOL are you in a mood today? Someone piss in your cornflakes?
What makes your opinion right and mine wrong?
Don’t say reviews because we all know reviews mean nothing.
I’m aloud to have my opinion as you are aloud to have yours. Gees dude lighten up. I’m only playing around.
March 2nd, 2011
“I don’t think any kids would be able to win a single race in ModNation. unlike Mario Kart ModNation requires skills in order for you to win.”
My daughter can and has done it no problem. I can’t but I have never claimed to be a great gamer.
“LBP is a great game for a side-scrolling platformer..how many games side scrollers are as good as LBP?”
The original Mario for one Donkey Kong Country for another.
March 2nd, 2011
Ncaissie
How meny side scrollers have as much gameplay as LBP 2?
March 2nd, 2011
Who cares? The game is not that fun. It gets old fast and the cardboard look is just awful. LOL
March 2nd, 2011
whatever floats your boat Ncaissie.
March 2nd, 2011
LOL exactly dude. The same goes for you, Roca and Phranc.
I don’t care if you like it and I wouldn’t tell you to STFU if you didn’t like a game that I do.
March 2nd, 2011
MNR was so hard that devs were forced to make a “casual” mode where you could win just by holding the the gas button as everybody else goes at a lower speed than you.
Also, It will take more than a kid to build quality tracks.
March 2nd, 2011
I only do that to Ivan, Kev, CON to get under their skin.
March 2nd, 2011
The ‘this sucks because I say it does’ is getting really old.
I personally couldn’t give a flying F about MMO’s but, I can stress that opinion and understand that the games could be good to a certain group of people without shitting all over the genre at the same time.
You don’t like LBP…fine. Most of the world disagrees.
March 2nd, 2011
Thanks for putting LBP next to the greatest side-scroller games of all time. That’s how good LBP is
March 2nd, 2011
Sorry Roca but Mario at the time is worlds ahead of what LBP is today. And that game only had 2 buttons. Maybe If I was a kid today I may think different about LBP.
Most of the world phranc? I doubt that. It’s ok for you to exaggerate and say most of the world but when I said 10 you jump down my throat? Whatever.
March 2nd, 2011
I’m just spoiled by games like God of War, COD and even R&C. Side scrolling just doesn’t seem right with today’s tech.
March 2nd, 2011
@nc
“Mario at the time is worlds ahead of what LBP is today.”
Side-scrolling Mario existed when most games were side-scrolling type games. It stood out from the rest and recieved critical and commercial success.
Whereas side-scrolling LBP exists in a world where the majority of games are 3D epics which deliver a far richer experience than a side-scroller. LBP, DESPITE being a side-scrolling game has achieved critical and commercial success.
March 2nd, 2011
@ncaissie
you judge games based on their looks..which is wrong.
You never got into Ratchet & Clank because of the way it looks but the games is one of the best PS3 games of all time.
LBP is much more than a game, I go into LBP think of it as something like a “app store”. bumber cars? there is a app for that. Basketball? there is app for that. anything you can think of you can find on LBP and have alot of fun.
March 2nd, 2011
You don’t get a 95% and 92% in Metacritic by being a “suck ass” game.
It also earned that without the laurels of any previous iteration.
March 2nd, 2011
Dans303 just nailed it.
great post.
@ncaissie
You enjoyed DCUO. Phranc doesn’t MMOs
does that give him the right to trash DCUO?
March 2nd, 2011
“you judge games based on their looks..which is wrong.”
No, any side scroller would pail in comparison to today’s 3D games like GOW and Uncharted. I have moved past SS games and so should everyone else. but yeah I don’t like the look of LBP. but thats not why I don’t like the game play.
You say it is wrong but you seem to prefer looks when it comes to KZ, GT, GOW and Uncharted games.
March 2nd, 2011
“You don’t get a 95% and 92% in Metacritic by being a “suck ass” game.”
Like I said, you can like a game based on scores all you want. I judge games based on the FUN I have when I play them. I don’t care what joe blow thinks of it I think it sucks ass. If you can’t form your own opinion then that is your problem.
March 2nd, 2011
“@ncaissie
You enjoyed DCUO. Phranc doesn’t MMOs
does that give him the right to trash DCUO?”
If he wants too. I wouldn’t tell him to shut the fuck up.
March 2nd, 2011
I believe you can like and dislike what you want. It’s called freedom of speech. I guess you don’t have that in the USA?
March 2nd, 2011
“You say it is wrong but you seem to prefer looks when it comes to KZ, GT, GOW and Uncharted games”
I also love the graphics and looks of Ratchet & Clank, Fat Princess, ModNation, MvC3 & many other games. It depends on the game.
Freedom of Speech has nothing to do with this. Defining the quality of a game based on its looks and your personal personal preference has nothing to do with freedon of speech.
March 2nd, 2011
I’m kind of surprised that you put down “kid games”.
Being that the difficulty level that “adult games” seem to give me, you may want to consider giving them another shot
March 2nd, 2011
“Freedom of Speech has nothing to do with this. Defining the quality of a game based on its looks and your personal personal preference has nothing to do with freedon of speech.”
It has EVERYTHING to do with it dude. I’m aloud to have my on opinion on the QUALITY of the game. You like the game so the QUALITY is good to you. I hate the game so the QUALITY is Shit to me. It doesn’t make either opinion FACT.
March 2nd, 2011
Difficulty has nothing to do with enjoyment.
Just like I enjoy DC and Marvel Movies and my wife thinks they Suck. It doesn’t mean they do or don’t.
The same applies to games and every other form of “Entertainment” My names not Ivan, I won’t say a game sucks and throw it out the window because I can’t beat it. I had a hell of a time with GOW 2 but LOVED the game.
March 2nd, 2011
Next time I’ll say “In my opinion” this game “Sucks Ass”. Would that keep the tears away? LOL
March 2nd, 2011
I’ll expect the same when you say a game is “great” k?
March 2nd, 2011
You are allow to voice your “opinion” but you are making a general statement about the quality of the game.
“LBP and Mod Nations sucks ass” <– your opinion, does not define the game for the general public.
But in reality they are great games and high that achieved critical and commercial success.
March 2nd, 2011
You seem to take it personal Roca. Don’t
Have you ever watched a movie and said that sucked? If you say no then I will call you a liar. It’s the same deal. A lot of people said the second Matrix movie sucked but I loved all three. It’s gust a game.
March 2nd, 2011
“your opinion, does not define the game for the general public.”
I didn’t say it did, did I?
March 2nd, 2011
The Matrix Reloaded sucked ass… wasted of money and time. It almost ruined the serie
March 2nd, 2011
LOL. I liked reloaded until revolutions came out and shit all over the premise of reloaded.
Why take the series one direction, and then completety abandon that direction?
F’in stupid.
March 2nd, 2011
I agree with Phranc Reloaded and Rev were shit.
March 2nd, 2011
I still remember going home after reloaded and revolutions with my buddy, and we were both kind of ‘that was good’, but we both knew we thought that they sucked
March 2nd, 2011
The fact that Neo is superman aside, so you can’t really fear for him since he could fly away……..
Reloaded introduced a concept that I was sure they were going to go with.
The matrix inside a matrix.
Some people escape as was said that they no somethings different.
The machines allow them to Op out of the original matrix while still maintaining a semblance of control as they only escaped one level of the matrix. Zion and all the humans were in a different level thinking they escaped.
it made more sense as Zion couldn’t keep getting destroyed over and over in real time. It had to be some version that needed to be rebooted. The different versions of Neo made this possible.
Reloaded introduced that….Revolutions chewed in up and spit it out.
They also should have brought more to the attention that the Oracle fed Neo a “virus” that killed Agent smith each time she offered him something to eat.
They should have let me make their movie. Then the next two wouldnt have sucked so bad…lol
March 2nd, 2011
“I still remember going home after reloaded and revolutions with my buddy, and we were both kind of ‘that was good’, but we both knew we thought that they sucked”
LMAO
I thought they “Kicked Ass”
How was it a different direction?
March 2nd, 2011
The first one introduced the Matrix. The second one extended the war and gave use more info on how the matrix worked. The third was more war based and Neo (The True One) ended the war and brought peace. I want a forth movie to show the humans overtaking the machines and clearing the sky. Most people expected a twist as big as the first movies in the second and third.
March 2nd, 2011
The twist was there was no twist! LOL deep huh?
March 2nd, 2011
who care about the machines, for me it was all about the virtual world – The Matrix.
March 2nd, 2011
For me it was about a war against the machines and the Matrix was just a prison. Just like in Games people have different views of the same game.
March 2nd, 2011
I just didn’t like the way the story went.
Tbh, I’ve always felt that it should’ve just ended with the phone call Neo made at the end of the first. Leaving just a little to your imagination. The story as a whole after The Matrix didn’t mesh with me so well.
There was also a general visual thing I didn’t like. Reloaded and Rev. had a better image quality, more money poured into constumes and it showed. Imo the costumes look too ‘well made’ to be ghetto as they were supposed to be. Things just looked more down trodden etc. in the first one.
What I enjoyed most tho, is that Morpheus never does get the best of any agent by himself
He always gets his ass kicked.
March 3rd, 2011
I like how Morpheus’s daughter is doing porn
March 3rd, 2011
He does the Doctor role well on CSI.
March 3rd, 2011
I would do porn with her for sure(free).
March 3rd, 2011
I haven’t watched CSI in a long time.
I liked him in Event Horizon
March 3rd, 2011
I watch all the CSI and Law and order shows.
As well as the Mentalist and the two criminal minds shows.
March 3rd, 2011
I have nothing against them, in fact I caught up with Bones on Netflix. I’ll have to give the Metalist a shot. CSI isn’t on Netflix.
March 3rd, 2011
SVU is great.
March 3rd, 2011
Have you been watching the new Spartacus, phranc? It’s still not out in the UK.
March 4th, 2011
At mike ferro
At your quote “try bf bc2 after cod”..
Yes when you cod fans are tired of the training wheels, I welcome you to a real fps. That is battlefield….you will NEVER go back to cod, unless bf is “just too hard to figure out where to go”
That’s the number Bitch fit cod players have…
You mean you just can’t run in guns blazing in your tiny map?? No Shit, go back to that arcade game, bf is.where its at for a true tactical military shooter, where the tanks aren’t just scenary but real threats, where you don’t.rely on a cpu controllled chopper, you rely on real peeps to fly in and bust some tanks….cannot fucking wait for.bf3 you read it here first, I believe cod is reaching its oversaturation point, and just like activision tucked the guitar hero franchise, its doing the same to cod…this fall.watch as bf3 mops the floor with cod
March 4th, 2011
“SVU is great”
Except when there are kids on it.