As I'm sure many of you know, "Resistance 2" is coming out soon and I was one of those people that hadn't played the first one at launch. In fact, I hadn't played it for longer than two seconds at random kiosks. Just never seemed like my kind of game.. but then I was at E3 this year and I was accosted by a developer whom wanted me to know everything about the sequel.

I even said to him, "Well, this should be interesting because I didn't play the first title.".. to which he gasped. He asked my gaming genre experience and then told me he'd make sure I got the first game before the sequel came out. I spoke with the PR guy last week and he got me a copy, telling me that the PSP game "Resistance: Retribution" was going to be revolutionary in it's compatibility with the PS3. I was interested, I admit and so I immediately got excited when the first title showed up at my door. I put in and got comfortable..

..and then I realized that with a controller? I can't be fucking stopped. All my deaths were from wandering into my own traps or from getting blown up by gunfire that spurred detonations near me. Other than that, I was un-fucking-stoppable! The game moved pretty seamless for me and I started to worry. Was this game too simple? I was playing on the normal difficulty, but I was doing TOO well. I then realized that this was like other FPS games for me in that way. I'm really good at defeating the AI, but if I was in a deathmatch with someone - I was toast! For some reason, feeling like another person is hunting me makes me panic and I hide behind things and throw grenades. Terrifying.

So, I beat the game. Already. Had it for one day and just ravaged it. Easy AI and everything, I went a bit nuts. My largest complaint was that I wasn't.. involved enough with the main character. I felt like I was just directing some random guy through battle and nothing seemed to worry or emotionally check me if he died. If anything, I hope they give a bit more insight into the characters and catalysts in the next titles.. because I want more to go off of than "Oh, this Nathan guy is kick ass. Here is why!" and maybe Sony can give me that.

Completely off-topic -- what music do you guys listen to when you do online death matches or play campaigns online with people? I know you can't all just listen to the in-game music, so what do you choose to listen to? That's always interested. Posts your top three favorite songs to blast Chimera/Horde/Flood/Nazis/etc. to. :D