There is a ton of eye candy to take in, and plenty of attempts to vary the pace. In other levels, red light bathes industrial corridors, lightning flashes brightly above a turbulent sea, and cyclones sweep across the desert plains. Some frigid areas hark back to the original, including the prologue, which features great Lost Planet standbys: giant mechs known as vital suits (or VSs), enormous aliens called akrid with glowing orange spots (hint: shoot them!), and snow flying everywhere. You'll sprint through a number of diverse locations, and fantastic visuals really bring the planet of E.D.N. This is a beautiful game you desperately want to like, yet it goes out of its way to punish you for it.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot'sĪt least the sequel offers up a lot more variety than its predecessor. Entertaining multiplayer modes and some enjoyable, larger-than-life battles against looming insectoids lift Lost Planet 2 out of the abyss, though even those aspects aren't without their problems. Not even replacing your three useless AI companions with real-life buddies alleviates all of the pain because the frustrations are woven into the very fabric of the experience. Awful mission design leaves you wondering how to proceed abysmal AI makes playing on your own an exercise in masochism and an overreliance on knockback attacks and other bizarre design choices are sure to inspire worldwide epidemics of controller-throwing rage. Fundamental design flaws inhabit almost every gameplay mechanism. Not only did developer Capcom not address the problems of the original, but it exacerbated them.
Yet amazingly, this third-person sci-fi shooter represents a major step backward for one important reason: It isn't much fun. It sports four-player online co-op, a robust multiplayer mode complete with unlockable goodies, and impressive visual design with lots of variety and artistic flair. Feature-for-feature, Lost Planet 2 should be an improvement over the original.
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