Lost Planet is third person shooter that isn't really anything special.
User Rating: 5.5 | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition PS3
Lost Planet is one of those games that that receives good or fair reviews, but you think it just doesn't deserve it. Lost Planet was an Xbox 360 game that was ported to the PS3. You can tell that there are rough edges. The controls are not very good and are not the best for a third person shooter. What bothers me the most is that R2 is to shoot. I understand that this is because it was ported from the Xbox 360, but still it's pretty annoying. If R1 could be shoot, this game could have been a bit better. There are vehicles, which are cool and fun to blow up stuff with, but again don't control very well. Now for the game play itself. It's kind of slow because the stages are big and you do a lot of running from place to place.The combat isn't sub-par compared to other shooters. I just don't find it that fun. A good thing is the boss battles. The bosses are huge and the battles are epic. You usually fight a giant snow worm or something like that and they are fun to fight, although they can get repetitive because they are mostly the same. Other than that there arn't many good enemies. What I think is the worst part about Lost Planet is that you always have a time limit. You have a thermal energy bar that basically acts as a timer because it goes down and if it runs out you die. When you kill enemies you can get more thermal energy, but it's still annoying to have to a time limit on every level of the game. The games graphics are pretty good for the most part. You see building, caves, hangers and they look cool for the most part. There are also times that you are in an open area and you see a lot and not much else. The on line I thought wasn't very good. It's hard to stay alive for very long because when you see the enemies you will usually be able to kill one or two then be double teamed then kill. There's not much to say about Lost planet so I'm going to end it here. Overall it is a mediocre third person shooter that doesn't do much to do anything better than what we have already and doesn't live to what a PS3 shooter could be. For these reasons, I probably wouldn't recommend Lost Planet.
