There was not much to excite PSP players at the current CES held in Las Vagas last week. There was definitely some cool stuff on show at the Sony booth, don’t get us wrong! But little joy for PSP owners. Nothing new announced for the PSP console (no hoped for announcement that the !GO network is being extended to North America, for example!)
However, one tiny breadcrumb for us PSP’ers was the announcement, yesterday, by SCEA Bend’s John Garvin that Resistance Retribution goes portable on March 17th! They also released the trailer. The following video shows Garvin being interviewed about some of the special features of the game followed by that brand new trailer (below):
SCEA have developed this game so that it can be used in conjunction with the PS3. This gives the game a whole new dimension as the player can get extra features for the game and a weapon from the PS3 version of the game (Resistance2).
Garvin calls this feature “resistance connect for PSP” and it allows allows players who have the PS3 and Resistance 2 loaded -to “infect” their PSP. This allows access to two whole new modes - 1) it can change how James Grayson looks eg he gets bright orange eyes, can breath underwater and no longer needs health! And 2)the PSP can access the “magna” - a really cool weapon from R2 which fires of shots in rapid succession
SCEA also debuted a completely different way to control the game. with a feature he called : PSP plus. Again this capitalizes on the power of the PS3 by allowing the PSP to connect via the USB cable to play with its dual shock controller. As Garvin puts it:
if have the slim and the PSP 3000 then you can put the video out to a bigger screen and then you can use the dual shock controller to play the game that way…
This game is a great start for PSP 2009 - we can hardly wait!