“Battlefield 3″ or “Modern Warfare 3”? Which one, when it comes out in the next couple months, will be more deserving of shooter fans’ hard-earned cash? Well, it might be time to declare an early winner: “Resistance 3.” How does the third installment of the PlayStation 3 series separate itself from the back? One word: guns. Not since 2001’s “Serious Sam” has one game had so many fun weapons.
Take the handgun, usually a perfunctory starter weapon that’s used in the first level and never again. In “Resistance 3,” your revolver fires small mines that you can detonate all at once with the press of a button. This gives the gun a dual functionality: Turn enemies into mobile bombs, or set up a defensive permimeter by embedding mines at the entrance of a room. It seems at every turn, the folks at developer Insomniac asked themselves how they could make the game more fun, what extra step they could take to make their game unique.
