'Burning' for you

In a world obsessed with firsts, it’s nice to have a milestone that doesn’t call attention to being one. “Resistance: Burning Skies,” quietly competent, keeping its head down, does such a good job, you don’t think about how the job has never been done before.

Perhaps credit for the success of “Burning Skies,” as the first real first-person shooter to appear on a hand-held gaming system, should go to the hand-held system it appears on. Previously, game developers were stuck with the direction-pad setup of the Game Boy Advance, limiting their ambitions to “Doom” clones like “Dark Arena.”