"We're gonna need a bigger boat"

It looks exactly the same, tonally. The conversion facilities already in Resistance 1 were fucking grim, and so were the Spinners in 2. Sure you're not confusing it with Ratchet & Clank? :P

I really didn't feel that R1 was generic, but it was certainly an aggressively flimsy, weightless and average playing game. It had cool twists to the weaponry and a good blend of "period piece" and sci fi that I thought gave it a certain flair though.

Resistance 2 is where things get generic. That's a more capable core game, and a lot of the progression in it is (and I've said this before) evocative of how Halo carries itself, although with infinitely less sophisticated encounters, because R2 is super arcadey.

However, whatever unique streak R1 had going for it, R2 squanders with its move from europe to america and tricking everyone out with typical sci fi shooter gear. Gear which has become uniform with the sort of arsenal you get with any game. No more nutty "bullet swarm" or incendiary foam stuff, just your stock fucking space marine gear. And perhaps most importantly; It's no longer about humanity with pea shooters in contrast to the relentlessly alien Chimera, the way R1 so successfully portrayed.. now it's kinda just your usual sci fi freakout.

For 3 I hope they tap into the things that set Resistance apart to begin with. I know that's a foreign concept to people who wrote it off along with the entire Playstation 3 platform for all those years, but there was something fairly appealing buried within that original game. I hope they can have R3 evoke it again, and finally make a proper great shooter out of it in the process.