That complaint aside, this game delivers in the variety and monstrosity of the enemies you will face. NBA Live ’07 also suffered from some useless motion sensitive controls and it’s hard not to wonder if this will be a common motif in non-motorized vehicle games on the PS3. For example, shaking your controller shakes enemies off of you, but if you’ve ever played a FPS before, you’ll never ever need to use this feature, and if you haven’t, you’ll panic and maybe shake the controller as a natural reaction to being startled. All this means for video game players is that instead of the controller rumbling whenever we are hit or around a collapsing building, the programmers have added some seemingly intuitive features that will only be used twice in the whole game. For the PS3, Sony ditched the rumble packs and developed the SixAxis technology. One complaint is the gimmicky element of the shake function. When it comes to these three categories, Resistance does not disappoint. This is a FPS, and it’s all about shooting things, spilling blood, and the weapons you get to spill the blood with. Plotwise, that’s all I’m going to be spoiling for you. You start off the game being dropped off from a helicopter onto the edge of a battlefield and have to machine gun your way to pass the first level to find an alien weapon and possible regenerative powers. The real reason they’re ugly? Because it’s easier to kill something once you dehumanize it. It’s up to you, just you, to kill off hordes of Chimera while uncovering the secret to their success and the explanation for their hideousness. Creatures called the “Chimera” have come out of nowhere and have started attacking the allied forces.

You are (predictably) a badass White American with survival skills far superior to your Euro counterparts, and these skills pay off in the form of cut scenes narrated by a woman possessing an English accent that just happens to be quite sexy. You are Nathan Hale, and you are thrust into the European Theatre of WWII.

Resistance is a superb console first-person shooter (FPS) that is a necessity for anyone who owns a PS3, if you want to do more with the system than admire it’s beauty. Resistance: Fall of Man is the closest thing to a “killer app” the PS3 has. Sony should have had a “killer app” available for the PlayStation 3 launch.

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