Resistance: Fall of Man - hands-on

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The PS3's alien infection may also be its salvation. We dive into this massive hit-to-be headfirst and pull out its steaming guts for you

The weapons are amazing. The Bullseye we just mentioned is a prime example. It fires like an assault rifle, but if you use its secondary fire, you'll shoot a "tag" that'll stick to enemies. You can then duck behind cover and shoot in any direction, and the bullets will automatically race to hit the tag.

But there's another feature, too - if you hold down the secondary-fire button, you'll be able to tag the ground or an object, and any bullets you fire will swarm around the tag like lethal gnats. Fire another tag into the ground, and they'll follow it; fire it into an enemy - like, maybe, a big, tough enemy - and all those bullets will hit it at once. Granted, it's a little hard to use right when you're under heavy fire, but like a lot of the weapons in this game, we can see it getting easier with practice.

Then there are the Black Ops weapons, human-made blends of human and Chimera technology. The weirdest one we saw was the Sapper, which spewed weird, explosive alien egg sacs that work like mines... well, like globby mines that stick to walls and each other, enabling you to form disturbing structures just by spraying them around creatively. You'll have unlimited ammo for these, too, so their potential is literally endless.

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.