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Buy Battle: LA on Blu-ray and Get a Resistance 3 Demo With Your Mediocre Action Movie

Shoot aliens in game, then watch a movie that's like watching someone else shoot aliens in a game.

In a delightful bit of all-too-perfect shooting-aliens-in-stuff convergence, Sony Computer Entertainment and Columbia Pictures--a Sony subsidiary itself--have joined forces to give you a reason to maybe think about buying Battle: Los Angeles when it comes out on Blu-ray on June 14th.

 Make sure you don't mistakenly pick this up instead, or you're gonna be wicked pissed.
 Make sure you don't mistakenly pick this up instead, or you're gonna be wicked pissed.
Via a segment on G4's X-Play, it's been announced that the aforementioned Blu-ray will contain a demo for Resistance 3, Sony's September-bound shooter. It reportedly clocks in at around 30 minutes, and is presumably made up of single-player action.

The one sticky wicket with all of this, of course, is that it involves buying Battle: Los Angeles, the March-released action film starring Aaron Eckhart that most have described as not unlike watching someone else play a video game in which you shoot aliens.

Not that critics are to be trusted for anything, ever, but the movie currently sits at a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 34%. For what it's worth, Whiskey's own Matt Rorie said of the film, "...you’ll sit, you’ll watch, you’ll be on your way in a couple of hours, no worse for wear," and then he gave it three puppies.

Regardless, if you're a die-hard Resistance fan, this might be a worthwhile reason to drop a few bucks on the Blu-ray. 30 minutes of exhilarating Chimera killing ought to make up for the 114 minutes of your precious, unrecoverable life you dedicate to watching the movie, right? Right...?
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