Resistance 3 will only be able to support 16 player multiplayer, instead of the 40 players featured in Fall of Man, and 60 featured in Resistance 2. The reason for this being so was that Insomniac Games wanted to streamline the features that were great about Resistance 1 and 2 multiplayer and bring them back for their 3rd instalment without all the failures. Furthermore, having less players on the map may make the maps that are played in much smaller and more compact which could result in more high intensity gunfights instead of the long distance confrontations found in a lot of games where there are larger maps. This could also be a reason why Call of Duty was popular that Bad Company as people preferred a match to have more action and explosions to Bad Company’s sometimes slow and more drawn out matches. Needless to say Resistance 2 in its day was completely different to Bad Company in that in a 60 player game there was nothing but chaos, which I mean don’t get me wrong, can be fun but can also be frustrating. The fact that Insomniac is reducing the players that can play at and trying to straight out the problems that were in the previous games’ multiplayer is proof that they are listening to the community.
By aharmlessflea