Resistance: Fall of Man

Ted Price, Marcus Smith, and Insomniac Games' premier flagship launch masterpiece on the PlayStation 3, released in November 2006 as the premier system-seller for Sony's next-generation console, winning PS3 Game of the Year from IGN and holding an 87% GameRankings and 86/100 on Metacritic, selling over 4 million copies worldwide, establishing Insomniac's mastery of dark, atmospheric sci-fi shooters, set in a terrifying alternate history 1951 where World War II never occurred and an unstoppable monstrous alien-viral scourge known as the Chimera has annihilated Asia and Europe, following infected US Army Ranger Sergeant Nathan Hale battling alongside British forces across a shattered, snow-blanketed Britain, single-handedly inventing the revolutionary Auger thermal rifle (shooting through solid walls with energy shields), the Bullseye homing tag rifle, hedgehog spike grenades, and massive 40-player PlayStation Network online warfare.