Resistance: Burning Skies

Delivers everything you want from the first ever real first person shooter on the Vita: action, story, and multiplayer.

The hype machine put a lot on the shoulders of Resistance: Burning Skies and the initial multiplayer snags didn't help matters. Still, I have enjoyed it and I think anyone who likes the series will too.

Burning Skies does a decent job in terms of experimentation, thanks to the "hybrid" controls, but the graphics are worse than expected and the single player campaign does nothing new for the series.

Resistance: Burning Skies had every right to be an excellent product from nihilistic, but the lack of innovation makes it feel like chewing gum.

Saying Burning Skies is a bit too linear for its own good would be a little bit unfair since the FPS genre has become synonymous with heavily scripted and action packed events. But that's exactly what is missing in Burning Skies: the action. [June 2012, p.84]

What happened? Boring graphics, too short a campaign and bad level design. Too bad.

It is visually atrocious, interactively vapid and incomplete to a degree that a full retail price is an insult. It's tempting to buy this just to have something new on the system, but good things come to those that wait, and it's hard to imagine anything not being good compared to this mess.

THIS GAME IS EXCELLENT! Critics and people who claim to be resistance/ps fans unfairly disrespecting this game is absurd. Burning Skies is exponentially better than the subpar Unit 13, Burning Skies actually has a campaign unlike unit 13 and a standard (current day 6-8hr) length campaign that is really good. Burning skies has better graphics that are pretty good actually, a much better frame rate than unit 13. Unit 13 has a horrible frame rate do people not notice this? Yet, Unit gets compared to Burning skies by uninformed people and it out sold BS. I was weary about this game but i still got it because i am an actual playstation and Insomniac fan unlike all you other people down rating this game. So you say you played the game so you obviously have a Vita but you don't deserve to own a Vita or any playstation product if you don't support good sony exclusives go buy Call of Duty on xbox or the ultimate "dude" "Bro man" silly looking muscle bound charactor modeled Gears of War which really has gripping story huh? To the people saying the story ****, it doesn't at all and even gets strongly emotional when you are forced to do something terribly heart breaking late in the game, now that is a gripping and sad emotional moment granted it doesn't last long enough but it is better story and more emotional than anything in halo or gears and that is one scene on a handheld! Not to mention a good setting taking place in ny/nj even a level inside a giant organic chimera ship where the walls are tissue matter ect. not to mention a battle on a crumbling George Washington bridge! I've heard people say that "how come citizens aren't all over and you only encounter stray random groups or just random individuals a little bit?" The chimera rounded most of them up and put them into camps as outlined in the game. Besides the rest are in hiding as shown the strays you find quivering behind a car or in a basement. Your character Tom Riley is an awsome character he is a 3rd generation nyc fireman on the search for his wife and daughter who uses his dead father's badass fire axe to slay chimera on the streets of nyc. You slash and smash chimera with touchscreen controls using an axe The controls are spectacular and easily the highlight of the game. It handles every bit as well as a console FPS and better than most. For being the frist dual analog FPS on a handheld and nailing the gameplay and controls making it feel seemless to any console FPS fan Nihilistic deserves respect and so does Insomniac for their help and input. Nobody can deny the controls are great and shooting down chimera ****, remember that fun thing that so many games neglect.WEAPON WHEEL, nobody can deny that the weapon wheel returning is awsome. IT has a variety of great guns some classics like the bullseye,auger,fareye,hedgehog grenade, the carbine and more. Weapons like a double barrel shotgun with a crossbow attached to it (yes it is as cool as it sounds) the bow part can shoot exploding arrows which you can increase the explosion size with grey tech upgrades as all the weapons in the game are massively customizable from scopes to bigger explosion radius to faster reloads to clip size to more unique upgrades each weapon has i think 6-8 upgrades if you find enough grey tech which is scattered in obscure areas. The game features front and back touchscreen controls which do not feel tacked on at all. They make the game more fun and are precise like touchscreen slashing your axe is great, touchscreen grenade controls and many secondary fire touchscreen controls. They even have a touchscreen control for reloading your arrows in the crossbow which works really well is simple to master and fun. Masterfully crafted controls all in all, huge boss fights on a dual analog HD FPS are you kidding me giant satisfying boss fights, fun multiplayer granted the maps are a little small it has all the current day perks of a console multiplayer obviously an xp leveling with weapon/ability and skin **** infected mode for multiplayer was borderline genius as well as getting infected through near and getting double xp, you play as chimera or soldiers in multiplayer and it is **** the game is easy to platinum if you beat the game you will likely be close to a platinum but you still have to go back and do a few more things, since when did people complain about a platinum being too easy? Or maybe you want the trophy setup like Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus for the Vita making it virtually impossible to platinum-or at least forcing over 150hrs of game time to platinum thanx ninja gay den but no thanx i can proudly say i platinumed Burning skies and im not mad about that. score 9/10RBS

While it has some considerable problems in it's lack of functional movement, some level design is made without no fairness to the player, and the story is pretty meh, the quality of the gunplay, variety of firearms, and overall enjoyment of the game makes it the best fps ever made for a pre-switch handheld.

Definitely not the best Resistance, its bottom tier for the series. Seems like the direction Sony was going with this game was to show off the PS Vita features and add a game with more intensive FPS Combat. The only thing lore wise this game added was that the citizens made secret militia getting ready to fight the Chimera, which sort of makes sense but doesn't because even the military wasn't fully ready outside of the secret branch that dealt with the Chimera. this game was pretty baseless to make a full summary. The combat and visuals were good for a portable console though.

I got Resistance pretty late - I just finished it a few days ago and I can safely say that even had I gotten it at launch I would have been unimpressed. This title would have been solid game - on the PS2. While the shooting mechanics were good the rest of the game is sorely behind the times. There were countless graphical glitches (characters randomly appearing, guns/enemies sticking through objects), a very underwhelming atmosphere, and a really bad story. I would not recommend this game to anyone unless they are a trophy **** a very easy platinum.

Seeing how the Vita lacks strong titles this game was rushed out and plain and simple dont look ready, im guessing that's why this game came of with sucha poor result. Gameplay is weird, graphics could have looked alot better, and the soundtrack just dies of from time to time, leaving you with nothing to hear then your own footsteps, it feels alot like a mid 90s FPS game.