The Resistance series made its mark by tearing up the history books and rewriting the script on 20th-century conflict. Now, for its Vita debut, the concept has been taken to weirdly literal lengths in a game that seems to go out of its way to pretend the 21st Century never really happened for the first-person shooter.Which is an odd thing to say about the first full-fat, high-definition FPS ever to appear on a handheld gaming console ? and certainly not what I hoped to be writingThe tantalising appeal of Vita for many gamers was never really anything to do with the touch panels, cameras, motion sensors, 3G connectivity or any of that bullet-point-bingo frippery (as compelling as some of those features are when smartly deployed). No, it was simply those two analogue sticks, either side of the screen, that promised core console gaming without compromise.
The good news, such as it is, is that it works. Here?s proof positive that Vita can deliver a proper FPS experience on the move, with twin-stick control and lag-free online multiplayer. The bad news, as you may have divined several paragraphs ago, is that Burning Skies is not the great shooter we?ve been waiting for.
It looks beautiful in screens, and on occasion can be a very pretty game. But it?s also riddled with bland corridors and dodgy textures.
It?s the little things that add up, one by one, to an often hypnotically bland, slapdash campaign. The core is sound enough, but Burning Skies is far too shabby in places for what is supposed to be the flagship first-party shooter on the Vita ? indeed, the flagship shooter on handhelds, full stop.
Perhaps, as I suggested above, the single-player is in fact an elaborate meta-joke in which we travel back to gaming?s past to experience the rough edges, brain-dead AI, clumsy scripting and general absence of finesse that today?s elite shooters ? including the trio of Resistance titles on PS3 ? left behind in a previous generation. Better to believe that than to swallow the bitter truth that says this is really the best Sony could have done with Vita?s first shooter.
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Source: http://www.infoforgamers.com/ps-vita-resistance-burning-skies/
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