Kraken

Kraken
Distinctions	Drill-tipped tentacles
Weapon	Drills, Roar
Games featured	Resistance 2 Resistance 3

"That's too big to be a fury."

―Aaron Hawthorne at SRPA III

The Kraken is a Chimeran strain that first appears in Resistance 2.

Overview

"Seal the shutters! Now! It's a Kraken!"

―Major Blake in San Fransisco base, moments before a Kraken breaches the security perimeter

The Kraken is a large aquatic creature with four tentacles, each tipped with mechanical drills that can split into claws. It has a "four-flapped" mouth.

Resistance 2

The Kraken smashes a hole in San Fransisco's SRPA base.

The Kraken serves as a boss enemy in the San Francisco level, where it attacks SRPA 3. The Kraken acts to breach the base in an attempt to flood it. It encounters Nathan Hale before being driven away by a Pulse Cannon before finally confronting him during his escape from the base, in which he fought it from the water's surface on a VTOL landing pad. The Kraken attacked using its tentacles and rammed the platform Hale was on, attempting to swallow him, while it would also dive underwater to evade his attacks. Hale endured its attacks and killed it with a Pulse Cannon when it attempted to swallow him.

Strategy

The Kraken is battled twice in two different locations and has different attacks at each location.

Inside SRPA 3

The player will go on the elevated platform, to prevent the player from swimming there are furies in the water. The Kraken breaks in and the player should rush behind a group of crates in order to prevent the taking of damage from the roar of the kraken. The kraken will break the group of crates and the player will get a chance to fire. Repeat this step until the kraken escapes.

SRPA 3 North Landing Pad

This time, the player needs to finish off the Kraken. The kraken will scream, giving the player damage to a fatal rate. This is the opportunity for the player to fire. Repeat this step until the Kraken gets different attacks. When it swims far from the pad and appears above, DON'T fire and wait for it to come closer. While it's swimming, move as far away from the edge (where the kraken is headed to) and as it grabs the pad and opens its mouth wide, fire. Repeat this step until the kraken is killed.

Resistance 3

Joseph Capelli and Fyodor Malikov encountered a deceased Kraken in Wrightsburg. Malikov theorized that the creature may have lost its way from deeper waters from swimming up the Mississippi River before dying from unknown circumstances, in which it had been left with a disemboweled midsection. It is possible that as it swam into shallow waters, it beached itself, which would then have made itself vulnerable to whatever creature(s) that had killed it. It is also possible that Krakens are categorized as Feral Chimera, and the militarized Chimera have completely or almost entirely eliminated the Kraken strain.

Gallery

Resistance 2

Kraken concept art by Rodrigo Ribeiro.

Resistance 3

Leapers are seen devouring the dead Kraken.

Trivia

Resistance 2

• The name Kraken is related to the mythical giant squid-like creature in Norse Mythology that was believed to terrorize and sink ships on the high seas.
• The Kraken was originally going to be in Resistance: Fall of Man but was removed from the game for unknown reasons.
• The hints mention that the Pulse Cannon is very useful against Krakens, implies that they will be faced more than once through the game, although only a single Kraken is faced throughout the entirety of the game. 

Resistance 3

• The deceased Kraken that appears in Resistance 3 is much larger than the one that appears in Resistance 2, which could, or may not, indicate that the Kraken strain may be created in varying sizes.

Resistance: Burning Skies

• Though it never physically appears in Burning Skies, there are several photographs of the Kraken and photographs of the Fury and the Leviathan were shown in newspapers found in the Richard Gorrell's office in Ellis Island with words "DIFFERENT RACES?" before Ellie Martinez and Tom Riley retrieve the film and escape from SRPA Station Kali.