When will we finally be able to get our first hands-on with Resistance 3 multiplayer?

We were told previously that the multiplayer beta for Insomniac’s amazing Resistance 3 would begin in August for European PlayStation Plus subscribers, as well as North American gamers who had received a code with the purchase of SOCOM 4.

But… what date?

Those North Americans we mentioned a second ago will be able to get into the Resistance 3 multiplayer beta on August 4th by redeeming that code on the PlayStation Store, while European PS Plus members will get into the beta on August 10th, simply for subscribing to the service.

Time to get mega excited!

What will be included in the online taster? The PlayStation Blogs tell us that we’ll get to see two “major maps” in Resistance 3, namely Seaside of Glamorgan, Wales as well as Trainyard in Bogota, Colombia.

Two of the five multiplayer modes will be included in the beta - Team Deathmatch and Chain Reaction (while Deathmatch, Breach and Capture the Flag have been omitted) - and you’ll additionally be able to “level your character up, buy and upgrade weapons and abilities, customise your loadouts and unlock new skins.”

The level cap will be set at 20 for now, so “you won’t be able to get the full range of abilities, modes, maps, and weapons until the game launches in September,” but the team at Insomniac hopes that you “enjoy this taste of the experience while helping us test our online infrastructure.”

El33tonline is desperately looking forward to the release of Resistance 3 in September, and you can bet members of the team will be playing the beta to death (to death) in the run up to the full game’s release on September 6th in the US, September 7th in European territories, and September 9th in the UK and Ireland.

El33tonline has amassed a considerable amount of coverage for Resistance 3, so be sure to flip through our past looks over here, and do yourself a favour by reading Lisa’s hands-on preview of the singleplayer portion of the game here.