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Excellent Game unfortunately Xbox 360 is a joke

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: August 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is excellent however it you play it on the Xbox 360 console don't get to atttached. The console has lots of problems and you will eventually be forced to play the game on a pc.

not that good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

ai sucks and recovery time from hits will piss you off...rent dont buy

The online play saves this title...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had already purchased this game (collector's no less) before the reviews came out and was only able to play it once or twice because I grew bored with it so quickly. Finally, I decided to give it a shot and play it all the way through to be fair to both the game and my wallet.

Disappointing really sums up how I felt about the campaign. It's been said but bears repeating - the story is laughable, think "2nd grade writing contest." The graphics are good, not great - I consider GOW great in comparison. I was getting ready to just toss it to the side in favor of GOW - but then decided to give online a shot.

Wow, online battles totally saved this game from being a disaster. Online is extremely fun, fast paced, and user friendly. The maps are plentiful, huge, and beautiful. Worth the price of the game just for the online experience - the closest thing to Halo for the 360 yet.

If you play online, you owe it to yourself to at least give this a rental shot. Don't buy if for the main game, buy it for the online battles. I still prefer to GOW on all levels to this, but the online battles really are fun and very different from GOW.

5 Stars for online fun. (2 for campaign)
3 Stars overall (saved by online play)

Good, has some bad and ugly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I first started playing I really enjoyed it. Now when I play it seems like a chore. I think gee, how am I gonna die in this level? I do have fun still, but only for a few minutes. Recover time from getting shot is horrid. A rocket hits you, you fall over and lay there then get up in time for another rocket to hit you and repeat. This can be annoying for boss battles as well, as they are challenging but not fun challenging. Especially in the the green eye fight. When he slams on the ground and if you're on the ground it paralyzes you wherever you are. Even if you're a football field away. Then you get hit several times with ice shards but guess what? You can't move! HAHAHAHA eh...most of the boss battles seem like a pointless uphill battle.
As far as story line, I'm not big into storylines anyway they're like icing on the cake. Very thin icing. Graphics are good but just like storylines they're just there. Gameplay is what matters most to me and the game gets three stars out of five. Starts out great, downhill from there.

Not bad for a Third Person Shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't really like TPS (Third Person Shooters) as much as FPS (First Person Shooters) and mecha doesn't thrill me (I hated Mechassault) but this one does a pretty decent job.

PROS:
- excellent graphics, good environments, snow, smoke, etc
- some fantastic fire fights
- multitudes of enemies and bosses all with there own behaviors and characteristics gradually introduced to you throughout the game
- tons of work put into the cut-scenes (as much as a half-hour or an hour or so - almost like a mini-movie) and you can thankfully bypass them!
- decent amount of weapon variety with there own characteristics; you can also detach mecha weapons and drag them around
- decent length to the game
- although a TPS, you can zoom in with many weapons to make it appear as if you're in an FPS (although certain actions like reloading will throw you back into TPS).
- vehicles - the game shines here. It's a mecha game (they call it a V-suit) so you get a lot of different things to operate. Big boss anime-style mecha toward the end.
- decent button/stick configurations (although no exact mapping)
- never had to consult the internet because of some glitch or something I was required to do that wasn't intuitive.

CONS:
- No save anywhere (though for the most part you will not need it)
- the entire game bends on you collecting thermal energy (like collecting health packs or armor) or you die, but there is so much of it laying around that it never affects game play. There is no dire urgency to collect it much of the time. Plus, collecting 100 bits of it scattered all over the battlefield is rather annoying. Why not have the game require you to collect 1 pool of the stuff every so often.
- camera isn't always cooperative. your view will occasionally go off into a place you didn't want it to.
- main protagonist character acting leaves much to be desired. Plus he's a bit of a puss and never hits on any of the hot anime chicks in the cut-scenes. 10 million cut scenes and he never even gets to first base.

I'm going to place the story/plot somewhere in the middle even though I didn't really get into it. They put a lot of effort into it (you can tell with all the cut-scenes) and it's a little unfair to criticize games for bad or non-stories (Doom3 didn't need one). Overall a good combo of mecha/TPS.

Extremely Conditional

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lost Planet is a third person shooter spearheaded by Keiji Inafune (creator of the Megaman series) in which manages to place equal emphasis on both on-ground and mecha battle sequences. The setting takes place on an entirely cold driven planet. So cold in fact, that the player is required to gather "Thermal Energy" while in battle to maintain their body at a substantial temperature. You play the role of an amnesiac character by the name of Wayne of whom must unravel the secrets of his past, in the process bringing unity to the land.

The graphics and physics in Lost Planet are easily some of the best seen on a console game by far (rivaling that of Gears of War). In some instances (where the climate is cold as can be) excess snow can be seen accumulating on your character's clothing and track (on the ground) once having entered an opened door area. The particle effects and audio are perfectly done, along with debris physics. There are cases where you can interact with the environment, like say, shooting down a boulder (which will dissipate into rubble) on a mountain or fort to clear from an enemy stronghold. Another instance, is how you're enabled to shoot down a steel rail from a ceiling ontop of the enemy. The smoke effects can come with a price, as at times, it can be hard to maneuver yourself once enshrouded in large amounts. This helps add to the intensity of the battle. Music is also very coherently composed. Mostly orchestral, which helps give the game it's cinematic feel.

The detail in each enemy is simply amazing. Some boss characters are so well detailed and animated that they practically look tangible on the screen. Several enemies can been onscreen at once with rarely a trace of slowdown or a single drop in framerate (and some bosses take up nearly the entire screen).

However, that doesn't go without saying, as there are a few notable issues (nothing breathtaking) in LP. For one, the enemy A.I. is dimwitted for the most part. Snow pirates can easily be mowed down with simple run and gun tactics. It's also discouraging as to how (in some instances) an enemy can be knocked off of a mech, and won't even bother to get back on it. This is especially questionalable when there are several unused vehicles spotted on point, yet the enemy won't even bother to use any of them to their advantage. In other cases, the a.i. comes off too sensible, with the slightest sound setting them off on full alert without scrutiny. All in all, the enemy a.i. is a mixed bag.

Another complaint is it seems as though your character is constantly getting knocked down, then heaving (rinse, repeat). For instance, there was this time in which I was hit by a laser (which sent me sprawling to the ground) only for my character to raise and immediately get blown away by a rocket launcher. This can be frustrating at times. A better wake-up mechanic/command could have helped out to suppress this problem. Especially when you're having a hard time locating your character on screen due to all of the smoke and debris particles surrounding.

Last complaint is the lack of NPCs'. During the very first mission in LP, (the backstory stage) your character Wayne is fighting alongside multiple NPCs. This was a unique trait and feature, and it was rather disappointing to discover that none of this was carried into any of the latter stages in the game (unless you count the online mutiplayer). From that point on, you're all on your own.

With all of that said, Lost Planet is still an exceptional action-shooter. Some critics have panned the game for it's lack of innovation. Who said the game needed to be innovative, much less claimed to be unprecedented? The title does what it promises; deliver an action filled (but rather short, the game can be completed in under ten hours) shooting experience. While LP's not tactical like say, Rainbow Six or Gears of War, it's still a masterful shooter in it's own right, in how it manages to blend the words of third-person shooting and mecha immersively into one.

Lost Planet managed to sell over a million copies just two days after it's release in both the US and Europe. It's fairly safe to say that we'll be seeing more from the franchise on the 360 in the near future.

Why collector's edition?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the collector's edition of Lost Planet because I always like to view the special features on the second disc. Only problem is, the second disc is set up like nothing I've ever seen before, and I can't figure out how the heck I'm supposed to use the darned thing! Also, the inside of the package that holds the discs in place is a literal pain to use. You will tear your thumbs up trying to get the discs out. I had to start storing the main game disc in a separate box so I could actually use it without destroying my thumbs. On the other hand, at the time I bought the collector's edition, it was actually cheaper than the regular edition, so that's always a good reason to buy something. Just be aware of the problems stated above.

As for the game itself, it's pretty good, but some of the bosses are REALLY hard (one in level three is optional, but worth 50 Gamerpoints to beat), and the picture isn't all that great on an SDTV (Capcom Xbox 360 games are made specifically for HDTV's and text is often very hard to read on SDTV's). I'm planning to get an HDTV in the near future, and that should clear up that problem. So if you like a challenging third-person shooter and you have an HDTV, this should be a game well worth your money.

So cool its cold

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Circa 2007

GOOD:
- Tight fitting responsive controls (which can be adjusted).
- Great looking graphics and effects, also the animations are done very well.
- Shooting feels spot on, with more then a few guns (a grenades) to choose from (like rocket launchers, energy guns, ect... - as for different types of grenades, you get ones like sticky and EMP to name a few). It should be also noted that while on foot you could pull weapons off mechs (only when the mechs are not in use) and use these over sized weapons.
- Grappling hook -Shot (like the one in the Legend of Zelda Series or like the grappling hook from Tenchu), which lets you scale tall buildings, and fly across the landscape.
- Online Gameplay (versus other players), this really helps extend the life/fun of the game long after you have beaten it.

BAD:
- Enemies can be pretty cheap, Example, after you get hit with a powerful weapon like a rocket you go into a fall and have to get up to recover, during your recover animation many enemies will strike at you making you fall over again. What ends up happening is you get stuck into a cycle where you fall over after getting get shot at or hit and while getting up it happens again (enemies shoot you or hit you) so you never fully get back up and fight back, you just fall again. It is very hard to break this cycle after it starts; usually it only ends if the enemies miss or you die.
- Using mechs or any energy weapon uses up you reserve of "Heat Energy". If your "Heat Energy" runs out you can't pilot any Vital Suit or use any energy weapon. It should be noted that in this game "Heat Energy" ties directly into your life bar if you run out of this "Heat Energy" your life will slowly drain till you die. This makes prolong use of any Vital Suit (Mech) or any energy weapon a risk to your health.
- Pretty confusing story which many people will not get nor care to understand.

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- Sci-Fi 3rd Person Shooter (camera behind the player).
- The game takes place on a world covered in ice and snow, lots of levels have snow and winter theme.
- Life energy or Heat energy plays a big role in this game, this energy ties directly into your life bar if you run out of this energy your life will slowly drain till you die. It should also be noted that this happens even while in doors and underground not just outside in the cold. The only way to refill this energy is to kill enemies or destroy objects in the game, by doing so you'll see a pool of gold colored substance when your characters body touches it your energy bar will refill.
- Fight lots of "Bug" like enemies as well as human enemies.
- Lots of mechs and Mech Combat - mechs are robotic suits of armor you pilot, in this game they are called Vital Suits, they can also equip their own weapons.
- Game is broken up into 11 levels (so essentially this a fairly short game).
- Shoot at to collect "markers" for a higher score (there are "markers" in every level and the look like big spinning coins).
- Wining matches online unlocks new character dress options for your online avatar.
- Online portion of this game has your standard set-up with Death Match, Team Versus, ect...

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (Xbox, PS2)
- Armored Core: Last Raven (PS2)

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- This is the Special Edition of this game that comes in a metal case and comes with an Art book as well as a Mixed media CD (that contains Videos, Wallpapers/Photos, Music, and windows icons for your PC). This Special Edition also comes with a new multiplayer level (Battleground), which will be available to all Xbox Live players for free a few more months from now (people who got/get this Special Edition can play this multiplayer level early).
- There are already a few new multiplayer levels available to buy over Xbox Live. The 4 new Levels ready for download and use in online multiplayer action they are called Radar Field and Island 902, which come in one pack and then there is Hive Complex and Trial Point which come in a second package. Both packages sell for 400 Microsoft Points or $5.00 USD each.
- The Korean actor Lee Byung-Hun is the model for the main character named Wayne.

Good fun...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Part mech warrior, part fps, Lost Planet is an enjoyable shooter with a simple run and gun approach featuring linear boss based level design that is appealing as a throwback for long time gamers, though it will likely hurt the campaign replayability. For a $60 game thats a bit unfortunate, but if you have xbox live the multiplayer content should make up for that. Elsewise it would be better off as a rental.

As far as the controls and what not, it's not overly complicated but remembering which mech you are in and what the controls are would really be the only issue there. Well that and the annoyance of trying to pick up weapons for the mech itself. The B button serves several functions and if you don't line up properly over the weapon on the ground and press B you will exit the vehicle, especially bothersome during boss fights when you need to get weapons on the ground as quickly as possible...

The graphics are amazing, no arguing that, however the story really is pretty weak. It feels foreign, like something was lost in translation, which probably wouldnn't bother anime fans because the characters are basically cookie cutter stereotypes from the genre.

All in all, its fun but I must admit I was hoping for a more tactic based campaign with intuitive AI more in the vein of Gears, but LP is still a lot of fun and while not really offering anything new the gameplay feels very familiar. But like most others have already stated the multiplayer is really where the game shines.

Collector's Edition

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The box is one of the better limited edition packages. The bonus disk contains sound tracks, wallpapers, artwork, trailers etc. The case is slim, light and firm. A code for an extra map for multi-player is included as well as an additional booklet.

The game itself disappointed me somehow (I had some very high expectations). Nevertheless, it has its better game-play moments despite the awful story.

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