A great looking game, probably best used to show off your DX10 card when there's nothing else out there.
User Rating: 7.3 | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition PC
Writing a review for a game like Lost Planet can be confusing. While I continue to play it, I still wonder why I'm playing.. if it's worth it. The level design is good: the environments are beautiful and detailed, but the enemy AI is so stupid that you usually have time to update your PDA while they're in pursuit of you. The Akrid pose literally no threat to you at all. You can walk right past them, and out of the hundreds you'll take on, maybe six of them will actually attack you, lowering your health by about 10% which boots back up in seconds. Human enemies are incredibly stupid. Any change of depth other than being completely level with them and they'll sit and take fire until they fall. It's clear that this game was designed for close combat, as you can be as far as a few steps away and they won't even acknowledge your existence. The one saving grace for this game is the boss battles. They're incredibly fun and challenging, so much so that after taking down hundreds of Akrid, the boss at the end of the level will probably cause you to stumble to your knees because of how much more challenging it is than the rest of the game. On a side note, it's kind of lame that you have to be connected to the internet at ALL times to play this.. especially when you have a buggy wireless card that stops randomly, because when this happens, the game will crash. The gameplay is alright. It's fluid enough, but like most Capcom games, your character is THE single most unagile person on the entire planet, that's right, the mech units will move with more grace than Wayne, but that's just a Capcom thing I guess. So all in all, the only reason you should get this game is if you've got a nice dx10 video card and absolutely have to have something to show it off with before the wave of August games roll through.. not a bad experience though, I'm enjoying it, and for 39.99 it's not bad compared to the 60$ tag the 360 version still holds.
