I am failing to see why Resistance is looked at so poorly. The story is pretty lackluster but I am enjoying it so far. For the record, I thought COD was horrendous. I couldn't play COD without getting motion sickness. Resistance feels like a real deal FPS to me.
A few reasons Resistance on Vita was awful:
Terrible graphics in many areas, with jarringly blatant seams in the geometry, glitches galore, and an unstable frame-rate that sometimes teethers on the precipice of unplayable.
Boring, PS2 era corridor shooting levels with nary any cinematic flair in sight.
Broken, piss-poor quality audio that makes N64 sound like a Dolby Digital certified home theater system.
"A to B" AI whose entire level of dynamism involves running out from a door to a certain spot and then just shooting until either your or it is dead.
And last but not least: a multiplayer mode so unfinished and unplayable, that I've seen better online experiences on N-Gage than what was so unashamedly put forth as part of the Resistance tradition of multiplayer.
So sure, if your benchmark is $5 iOS shooters, Resistance Burning skies isn't that awful. But under the Playstation brand it is pure garbage.