The PlayStation Vita’s must have games list

By: Musa Afridi

  |   October 28th, 2012   |  

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Part 1: Wishfree.com goes through the Vita’s roster of titles and pick out the five games that you absolutely must own in order to extract the maximum gaming pleasure that the console has to offer.

The PlayStation Vita may only have been out for just over six months, having been released in Europe and North America in February, and although that is not enough time to boast an extensive roster of games, there are some titles that every gamer simply must experience on Sony’s second generation portable gaming console.

However, there may be a number of big titles that gamers should avoid, while a number of smaller, lesser known titles will surprise gamers.

Starting things off with Resistance: Burning Skies, from Nihilistic Software. The game was set to bring one of the PlayStation brand’s biggest names to the portable console.

It was not the first Resistance game to be released on a handheld device as Resistance: Retribution made its debut on the PlayStation Portable. However, Burning Skies demonstrated the fact that two analogue sticks are definitely better than one.

The game is the first first-person shooter to make its way on the console and it demonstrates that the genre does have a place on the system. In fact, that is pretty much all it does as the game overall is quite a disappointment.

The shooting mechanics and melee attacks are a joy, but when it comes to weapon types and storyline, they are both flat and fail to immerse players in the way that the series has done so on so many previous occasions.

It seems that all Sony and Nihilistic wanted to achieve by bringing this game to the Vita was that first-person shooters were viable on the console and the game shows that.

That is pretty much the only title to avoid, unless of course you want to talk about Unit 13. Developed by Zipper Interactive, the studio behind the classic SOCOM series, the third-person shooter was a similar exercise in demonstrating that the console could the specific genre as well.

The story mode was next to non-existent and the gameplay was simplified so much, that it felt like all the years of progress that the video game industry had made was forgotten.

However, both titles were the first of their kind on the platform, which is why they should be avoided, unless either a good deal is found for them or someone is desperate to see if the Vita can handle both genres. Take it from us though, the Vita can and there will be better games to find that out later on.

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