Multiplayer has a lot going for it, while I prefer single-player as a general rule, playing excellent games like Time Splitters or a sports game along or against someone can make for a fantastic afternoon. Far better playing as Chester, or another lowly club, alongside a friend and trying to storm them up the table or trying to defeat a close friend. All great fun but were I really am thankful for multiplayer is with old, cheap and the not very good games that allow you to play alongside another.

Sometimes it is simply a once decent game that is past it's prime, as the Simpson's PS3 game was, sometimes it is a good game that just doesn't suit my tastes as Resistance was or a very flawed game like Untold Legends. Two of the games were cheap and Resistance came free with the PS3 so I can't complain, I would not have enjoyed any of the three greatly if just single player. However playing the campaign modes alongside my sister, put on some good music and suddenly it was a real joy. The frustrations that come from bad games vanished as we laughed along, everything turning into little joy. Suddenly it isn't so repetitive, that bad camera angle is just a minor irritant, I'm having fun. A real saving grace is cooperative campaign mode for mediocre or bad games and sometimes the games are worth getting just for that.

I was looking forward to Resistance 2 but I hear that, unlike the 1st game, you can not play the campaign alongside someone and for me, that is a great disappointment. True, Dynasty Warriors has taught me the need for games to learn how to balance cooperative which DW failed that, but that wasn't a problem for the first Resistance. With their ability, why change from that and take away a chance for friends or family to play it through as a team? Like to see more genuine cooperative campaign modes in the future.