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PlayStation Life is born, it is evident, with the idea of ​​offering the most complete portable game machine on the square. On the one hand, the presence - at last - two analog sticks opens the way for the creation of games "traditional" no longer stifled by the lack of this or that piece of hardware. On the other hand, the presence of gyroscope, cameras and touch the face / back meets all requirements related to the recent developments of mobile gaming, proposing new solutions and full of potential. In the middle, as is inevitable, it is possible to mix the two roads, enhancing both the experience of playing with ideas drawn from one school. And in this area is hidden Resistance: Burning Skies.

If there is no single universally appreciated feature of the controversial series of Insomniac Games, this is the study of firearms, the rest has always been the pride of the developer in California. And Resistance: Burning Skies absolutely does not want to be an exception, even suggesting an arsenal that seems well-fed, full of new proposals as well as the classic saga, and especially capable of surprise with unpublished trials. All weapons, or at least all the four we tested, because of the potential benefit of PlayStation Life Touch, which are used to act on the secondary fire mode. And do not turn up their noses, because it works like a charm.

If you want to throw a grenade rifle, for example, just tap the screen with your finger to aim, aim the target firmly and remove your finger to perform the launch. If you want to take advantage of the ability to lock offered by another weapon, however, simply slide your finger on the screen in search of the various targets to "lock" at that point will be enough pressure on the trigger to unleash fire on them . These are just two examples, however, that make the idea of the way in which the nihilistic teams are trying to apply the charge number of the inventive potential of the console.

Besides this, there are other aspects of the control system that bind to the touch functionality: hand grenades and the ax of the protagonist are linked to specific icons constantly present on screen. You can also select the two arms using the traditional controls, but do so with a quick tap nell'angolino bottom of the screen is much faster and convenient, why not also forces you to holster your gun bracing. Beyond all this work on the mechanics of control, then there are the usual characteristics of the series. At the start of the demo, for example, the protagonist breaks away from the body a yellow pipe that portends a bad destiny, in line with the tragic romance of the saga. And the alien Chimera are always the same: aggressive, combative, and perhaps not very intelligent, although we must say that during the test we saw them from the office and come to flush them out of our coverage (which, unfortunately, does not happen, then so frequently in the modern shooter). Just the covers, among other things, are the latest innovations evident, although in fact they were already present in the previous embodiment laptop ( Resistance: Retribution , unconvincing third-person shooter for the PSP). Pressing the circle there is China, but if you approach a cover from this position is hiding and you can then do some 'shooters all that we have used to do in this situation.

There are, however, some aspects that are a little 'turn up their noses, beginning with a technical realization revisable and not particularly improved compared to what we saw in Cologne. The game seems to boast a pretty spectacular graphic design in the construction of environments, but the smoothness of the engine is still to be reviewed with various stalls and lags on the agenda. Added to this is that, at least in the short demo we tried, the battles seemed to us rather than static, monotonous, and the hall full of tight spaces to defend from attacks en masse. The best moments of Resistance, however, occur on a large-scale battles, full of enemies approaching from all directions and possibilities of interpretation. If you take away that, he is stealing a big chunk of identity. We hope that this is only an impression of the daughter of a limited demo, which among other things ended, as so often happens, immediately before the collision with a big boss, at least the spectacular moments from the scripting should not be missed.