So much has been said about Resistance: Fall of Man over the course of the last twelve months that your opinion has likely already been influenced one way or another. That's the folly of journalism - you're just one voice amongst the masses. What make IGN a little different is that we can take different angles within the site; each region can cover any game and apply any mark - within reason of course. For Resistance, the US clearly loved the title, giving it a very generous 9.1. The UK were a little less convinced by the experience (a respectable 8.0), and having logged a lot of hours into both the single and multiplayer components of the game, we tend to side with them.
Resistance is a good game; really good in fact. We enjoyed the story - an alternate, early 1950s encounter with aliens who are spreading outwards from Russia, slowly infecting the population and wreaking havoc as they move. We enjoyed the typically brilliant weapons - a trademark of Insomniac Games' other series, Ratchet & Clank. We savoured the 40-player multiplayer games, where chaos reigned and bullets rained. But the whole of Resistance, the overall experience of playing the final game, just doesn't blow our collective skirts up the way we hoped it would.

Ms. Pac-Man is the lady-friendly follow-up to Pac-Man. It's the same basic dot-chomping, maze-navigating concept, but it's expanded. There are now multiple mazes, the fruit hops around, and the cutscenes are slightly more elaborate. Oh, and Ms. Pac-Man has a bow on her head. Like the other Namco releases for Xbox Live Arcade, Ms. Pac-Man is a straight-up emulation of the original game with no additions beyond an online scoreboard, some achievements, and colorful side graphics that surround the emulation. If the idea of a bare-bones emulation of Ms. Pac-Man sounds like it's worth five bucks to you, then you're in luck. But the standards for Xbox Live Arcade are a bit higher than what this game offers.