10 Video Game Cliffhangers That Will Never Be Resolved

by Danny Meegan

1. Resistance: Retribution

Sony Bend has a habit of making great handheld versions of Sony's biggest console franchises, but years before they did it with Uncharted on the Vita, they did it with Resistance on the PSP. Resistance: Retribution is the best shooter available on the device, cramming Resistance's intriguing alternate history, creative array of weaponry and cool Chimera designs into a tidy portable package.

Taking place between the first two mainline PS3 games, this spinoff focused on Royal Marine James Grayson. After being forced to kill his own infected brother, Grayson is driven to breaking point and starts destroying Chimera conversion centres for sport. He gets so good at doing this that the game concludes with him and his allies wrecking the main Chimera tower in Paris, freeing Western Europe from the aliens. And while that's a happy ending overall, things don't end too well for Grayson himself.

One of the last scenes in the game shows Grayson standing in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, his back to the camera. When he eventually turns around, his eyes are glowing a bright yellow, a symptom of being infected with the Chimera virus. It's an awesome cliffhanger, but, annoyingly - considering the Resistance IP has been all-but abandoned by Sony - it isn't likely to be addressed anytime soon.

How did Grayson get infected? What will he do next? Will he turn into a full Chimera, or remain a human-Chimera hybrid? All questions that will never be answered. Sigh.

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Any other games with frustratingly unresolved cliffhangers? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!