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Yesterday, Sony surprised PSP fans by announcing a brand new PSP-exclusive expansion of the
Resistance franchise. Very little was known about the game from its initial debut: all we knew was that it came to us via Sony Bend, the incredible studio that brought us last year's PSP Game of the Year,
Syphon Filter. The engine that they developed for that third-person action title was stellar, but from the early looks of
Resistance, the team at Bend has just begun flexing their PSP muscles.
Unlike
Resistance on PS3, the upcoming PSP titles will play from a third person perspecitve, just like the
Syphon Filter franchise on PSP. The story takes place in between
Resistance and
Resistance 2. Set in the weeks after
Fall of Man,
Retribution follows the story of former British Marine James Grayson. He is forced to kill his own brother inside a Chimeran conversion center, and thus inspires his bloodlust to destroy every conversion center he can find. Unfortunately, the Chimera have figured out a new way to convert humans ... and he must join the Mquis, the European resistance, in their fight against the deadly Chimera army.