Lost Planet Extreme Condition
by Capcom USA
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Video Game Reviews of Lost Planet Extreme Condition
Customer Review: Lost Planet got a little lost.... Its hit or miss, too bad, great potential
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm dumb enough to buy all the DirectX 10 titles, I have no idea why. Some are just really good games and look nice (Bioshock, Hellgate), some are severely overrated (Crysis), and some are just plain dumb (Lost Planet).
This was a serious console game, that went seriously awry on its way to the PC. Its actually the complete XBox 360 version ported to Windows. And man is is painful to play.
Good points are the visuals are terrific. The frozen world, the physics of gameplay, are all top notch. Not COD4 or Bioshock great, but nice nonetheless. The snowing, some of the character animation, the scenery all rate highly. The goofy mech warrior clones that you can ride around in are decent, as are some of the weapons (my favorite is the shotgun that hangs off the robots, its one of the most kick butt weapons I've ever seen).
But the gameplay just destroys ANY goodness this game may have. It is dreadfully slow, there is NO SAVE SYSTEM, which means you have to repeat the same checkpoints 1000 times. And, there are lots of "boss" battles, which I personally, find to be massively time consuming and annoying in general. And in Lost Planet they are even more annoying, as the "secret" to killing the bosses are always some ridiculous thing that takes 1000 plays to figure out.
And then there is the "waddya do?" problem. You know, where you wander around aimlessly for a long time, unable to figure out how to advance to the next checkpoint or cutscene. There is no navigational assistance, no direction pointers per se (there's a weak map, but it gives no info), and you can walk around for hours trying to figure out what to do. What a waste of time.
As many have pointed out, the story is weak, but serviceable. I can live with it. The characters are all video game cliche, large busted women, extremely handsome and pretty young men, all accompanied by cheesy voice acting in the badness scale of the all time winner of bad voice acting, Uber Soldier.
All in all, this is a somewhat weak product for the PC. What makes it sad, is that it was SO CLOSE to being really good. The studio that built it clearly has talent in the art department, just not in the game dynamics department. The slowness of movement, the mysterious and annoying "boss battles", the lack of a save system totally kill the gameplay for me. I can take all the other things, even the simple XBox 360 interface is workable (just dopey for a PC port). But the horrid gameplay kills it. Oh well, another waste of money
Customer Review: Blowing up Aliens never felt so good...
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a monitor that goes up to 1680 x 1050, and I jacked up all the settings to high, overclocked my visiontek ati radeon 3870 512 MB GDDR4 and my amd64 phenom 9600 2.3mhz to 2.7mhz. and it runs beautifully! playstation 3/xbox 360 high definition gorgeousness, and it responds well to a logitech controller I purchased.The game has great replay value when you just wanna hop in a game and just wanna splatter some alien guts. lolCustomer Review: Great game!
Summary: 5 Stars
This story it's quiet fun!
The graphics are outstanding and the characters are good enough!
The game itself it's pretty linear, but i didn't got bored of it, the VS's are incredibly fun to use, and gives a great sense of power to the character.
Even tho I had some technical issue running it (my pc literally melt down, I had to buy a new power supply), I loved it. One issue it's that it's Steam dependent, I have nothing against Steam, actually it's pretty cool, but it makes the installation take forever!
Customer Review: A Baby Step into the Future
Summary: 4 Stars
This is quite a pleasant surprise, as games go. Given Capcom's reputation for action/arcade style gaming, they've done something more than I'd expected. Lost Planet offers something I haven't seen before: a first-person shooter that would actually work well with a gamepad.
Usually for us PC gamers, it's strictly mouse and keyboard. Well, you can do that with Lost Planet and the game will play just fine, but if you're in third-person perspective, any gamepad will do a good job for you, too.
Now, about the future: I played this game on a Vista Ultimate machine (WEI 5.6). You can choose DX9 or 10 versions, but of course I went for 10. In the options, the only DX10-specific feature I can identify is "Fur Effects". Since you're humans going up against bugs, the only fur I've seen thus far has been sewn into the good guys' hoods.
Gameplay is an interesting mechanic: because you need thermal energy to keep from freezing to death, the stakes are raised, and you spend some time trying to balance the need to clear the place of hostiles, with the desperate need to collect the heat charges before they're frozen away. You spend some time in and out of mechanoid machines, stomping around and shooting things with minigus. The neat part is, you can detach the a minigun and go lugging it on foot, or if you find an extra mech-sized weapon, you can bolt it onto the mech.
The only downside I can see thus far is that if you crank the effects up too high, outdoor scenes are near-impossible. This isn't due to a flaw in gameplay; it is simply that you are in literally blinding blizzard conditions. Snow billows everywhere, wind buffets white clouds of it this way and that, and it all makes for shivering good fun when bugs seem to come out of nowhere and drop on you from above. Cutscenes can also run a bit long, with Final-Fantasy styled characters who have more personality in their voices than they do in their mannequin expressions.
All in all, this is fun to play, and an interesting look at where games are going, technologically.
Customer Review: Buy it new
Summary: 1 Stars
I tried the demo but couldn't get it to install on my pc. I got a copy from my local library to try the full version. You cannot install it until you set up a steam account online. Plus this had been borrowed before. Only one person can have an account associted with a product key. Do not buy a used copy buy a new one or you will have a useless copy. I already contacted steam and they said they could not reset the keys. Buyer Beware. Buy new. I look forward to playing this game. I like what I've seen but not sure if it will be a PC version or get a 360 and its version.