Gameplay-5/10
Good
-non stop adrenaline arcade action
-arcade type boss fight
-T-eng is a great concept
-mech action ftw
Fugly
-if you cant find the weakness of the boss, you will be raped for hours till you find it
-mindless killing and action get boring over sometime
-cutscenes too long?
-not worth getting at all if you have the original Lost planet
Visuals-7/10
Good
-look pretty good even though its an old engine
-impressive explosions and snow particle
Fugly
-motion blur looks bad in many situations
-HDR overbright effect is set too high
-texture arent sharp when seen closeup
-when u have lots of cutscenes, u better do facial expression right...
A re-release of Lost planet port with some extra game modes which imo, should have been present in the original game package.Or at the very least, released as a free patch, not re-release it as a platinum edition or whatever fuck they call it.But for someone that have not tried Lost planet before, it may be quite interesting game to pick up in such a boring month with no AAA releases...
Background for story is the first colonised planet by humans being resisted by local bugs and got push back real hard due to large number of bug phobia in their space marines.Starts out where you get bash real hard on the head by some green bug,get knock unconscious and have your dad killed by some other mysterious events.Conveniently, you become some amnesia dude wondering in snowy waste land picked up by yuri from mother russia.Well, with yuri being seperated from his mind control hat and have grown some nice silver hair, trap far away from motherland , you can bet that hes real pissed.So with angry cockroaches,commies running wild on a new colonial planet, you get a nice mindless action game.Ok fine, i confess the commies part is my bullshit, i m having periodic red alert 3 illusion while writing this... XD
Since i cant talk about the story line as i will unconsciously write time travel machine from einstein into the fray lets talk about the gameplay.Although you have a life bar, it will be replenish automatically with T-ENG when you are hurt.But the catch is that your T-ENG will slowly deplete even without being leaded.Although you can earn T-ENG from fallen enemies and capturing points but its still insufficient if you proceed like you do in tatical shooters or u are just some cowards that camp kill AIs.So you get a nice arcade style game that encourage you to kamikaze from start to finish point.At every finish point, you be warmly welcomed by a boss that has its own characteristic and weakness.I prefer Akrid bosses as they are unique in its own ways and much harder to take down.Mech bosses are easy as you just watch from their actions before carrying out an attack, memorise, evade and spam him.
You get lots of cutscenes before and after a mission, thats tells you the story, but its facial engine is totally horrible compared to a 3 years old half life2 engine, which makes it pretty unenjoyable...
Its using a enigne which is more than a year old now, but it still render impressive visuals.In fact it has most of the technologies implemented in current engines but some of them isnt implemented properly.Mainly, the motion blur and HDR.HDR is the most irritating of the lot since the overbright makes some locations almost unplayable.And since its an arcade style game, it has linear progression and you can never find an alternate route to ease your searing eyes.Other than some weak textures here and there, this engine still gets the job done to give u a ratehr enjoyable experience most of the time.
As stated above, if you played the original Lost planet dont bother getting this no matter how hardcore and fanboy you are.Even you havent, which is like me, this game may ease your gaming itch while waiting for devil may cry 4 to be released on pc.
Chiou bu is always welcomed.
Sobx, why no golden crown with green eyes for mech designs...
I love spiders.
I love flies too.
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