Life, and the preservation of it is a key component of LP2. They all have glowing weak spots, but unless you’re careful your life will be drained in a few deadly strikes.
Whether you’re gunning down spiny creatures the size of horses or taking on a boss that’s bigger than an aircraft carrier, these guys steal the show. Encounters against human foes just don’t have the impact of the battles against the disgusting aliens. Disappointingly you’ll be fighting off a lot of human enemies, who seem to spawn out of nowhere, when you’ll really want to be blasting chunks out of the Akrid nasties. Gameplay is relatively slow compared to the lighting pace seen in the likes of Modern Warfare, but it’s certainly still action packed. There’s nothing complicated about it, but with armies of trigger-happy enemies and rampaging Akrid all after your blood, you’re going to die. Generally you’ll need to activate data posts scattered around each level and then progress through to the end of the area. These are mechs by another name and provide you with more destructive power and the option to take flight. With friends, where everyone is working together, using the tools the game gives you, the flaws are still present, but they become tolerable, letting the many great things shine through.Īs before, you play as a human (well, numerous different humans, but they essentially play the same way) able to equip a range of high powered weapons and use a number of nifty Vital Suits (VSs). Alone, with three AI buddies helping, is decent fun, but every one of LP2’s flaws seems magnified. It’s an important distinction, as your experience with the game will vary wildly depending on how you play it. It’s a cooperative game that you can play through alone. This isn’t a single-player game with the ability to play through with friends. All you really need to know is that you’ll be shooting things, all the time.īy far the biggest change to the Lost Planet gameplay is addition of four-player co-op.
The story, as in the original, is largely forgettable, but serves to bring together a series of separate episodes that form the campaign as a whole. Rival human factions are battling against each other to get hold of Thermal Energy, and they’ll all having to contend with the hulking great Akrid – an alien race of insect-like monsters that dwarf the puny men and women of the planet. If you wanted a more forgiving game, well, you better order some Rogaine now.ġ0 years have passed since the end of the first game, the planet E.D.N III has thawed, revealing a mixture of environments like we have on Earth: lush jungle, barren desert and stiff urban settlements. So, has Capcom made significant changes to Lost Planet 2 in order to make it the quality third-person shooter it had the potential to be, or have the changes not been made in the right places? If you wanted co-op Lost Planet without the snow, you’re in luck. It’s funny, though at the time the fact that it was rock hard (unfairly so at points) had a terrible save system, a crap grappling hook and a cheesy plot were all enough to make me want to tear my hair out.
I remember the great boss battles, the stunning visuals and the cool use of mechs.