Resistance: Burning Skies

pro

The old familiar weapons along with some new make up a diverse and fun arsenal of destruction. Using the alternative fire is easy enough by touching or swiping the screen depending on the weapon. The fact that all your weapons are upgradable is also neat. To use the Auger shield you put to fingers together and swipe in opposite directions, which looks neat. Painting targets with the Swarm is simply a matter of swiping your fingers across your targets to mark them.

pro

While the game is very short, they still managed to pack in a few franchise familiar sized bosses. A few new enemy types also makes an appearance.

pro

Yes, a portable FPS works. The chapters are on-the-go short and the twin-stick action is like you would hope and expect.

con

The game looks and feel really bad. Bland looking characters and badly textured surroundings wrapped in red and brown doesn't do the Vita justice at all when you know what kind of crisp and radiant visuals it is capable of displaying. Ellie, who you spend most of your time with, glitches into key positions as you progress, as if you're playing the game too fast for its comforts.

con

There's a severe lack of music and thus a severe lack of atmosphere. The fact that most of the sounds come off as muffled doesn't help at all.

con

It might be technical reasons for this, but the low number of enemies that assault you simultaneously takes away the tension and epic feeling the series is known for. Since you're never in any real grave danger, the game won't get your heart pumping. Not even the few huge bosses present a challenge.

con

The story about saving your family and hunting down a mad doctor fall short very quickly. The brief moments with your family is not enough to create any emotional ties, something Resistance 3 did so successfully. It doesn't take very long during your axing down of chimeras before you try to remember what it is you are trying to achieve.