Lost planet will be lost from your memories in a few months.
The final game however just makes you wonder, "why did i think it was fun a while ago?"
Seriously, lost planet really has a lot of good qualities to it, but also it has many major flaws.
Lost planet has a story, but the story is so confusing and uninteresting that i really didnt bother to remember it and tell you it in this review. All i can say is that you start off fighting roly poly monster bugs with your father and a couple of comrades. Then this giant monster called green eye comes and freezes everything. The story breaks apart from there.
Lost planet is basically just a shooter with mechs and some platforming qualities.
You have many weapons that are really unnecessary. There are machine guns, rocket launchers, shot guns, and these mech weapons that you can carry, except all of these weapons do the same thing. Not literally though, its just that there is no certain weapon that makes you say to yourself "okay, im in this level, i need to use this weapon now."
All the weapons just shoot and kill, some might kill in a much more fancier way but it gets pretty boring and the laser weapons do get pretty tedious to use.
Lost planet has a strange "heat" meter that shows how much heat you have left. this is a really annoying and unnecessary gameplay gimmick because it is really tedious to have to find some when you need some and most of the time you have enough of the energy to not even care about it. The only times you would care is when you are almost out of it.....and that part is annoying. one thing thats pretty funny is when you destroy heat filled containers, you get heat power, yet when your in the level where you are in the planets core thats filled with rivers of lava, you dont get any heat.......
Lost planets shooting action is really pale when you are on foot because shooting soldiers is really boring. Your enemies are really stupid and they have stupid physics. human enemies are really boring to fight because your weapons dont seem to affect them in the right way.(you could shoot a guy with a shotgun and then he flies away, you think hes dead but then he gets up, its pretty confusing)
Shooting action with the akrid(the giant bugs) is actually pretty fun because they explode and they seem to act right with their AI. The wierd flying akrid that overpopulate the sky are probably the worst enemies in the game because they always get in the way, having a rocket launcher when these guys are around is headache inducing.
Fighting bosses in lost planet is pretty intense and some of them are fun to play, but most of them are fought in the same way as every other boss and it kinda just gets boring. The cool this is is that the bosses look really cool, and the cinematice of some of the boss fights are really amazing.
The flaw with on foot action is that things are pretty clunky. the camera follows your aim, and turning around can be a pain. There are buttons that let your camera shift left and right but its pretty hard to get used to and you'll find yourself just guiding the camera.
The grappling hook is okay but it makes you wonder why it just can be used when you are jumping so you can act like spider man.
Getting tumbled by an explosion or a charging enemy is really stupid because you have to go through a 6 second scene of your character stumbling and getting up, only for it to happen again.
The cool thing about lost planet is the mechs. There are over 20 mechs in the game, some of them are redundant but a lot of them seem really cool.
Some have special abilites like a saw for meeleing, and some might have and glider, some might have boost jumps etc. A lot of the mechs however are only used in certain levels, and the coolest mech can only be used at the end, and it rapes!
Lost planet really doesnt have much depth to it. Its sad to see such a beautiful game with amazing graphics, amazing boss battles, and great mechs, has nothing to it.
The game is very linear, and there are no side quests besides the "find these tokens" which is boring and pointless unless you want the achievement. the story is terrible and the acting is pretty straightforward. The characters arent lovable or memorable. This multiplayer in this game is cool but has many problems. The game is glitchy and the mechs arent balanced. Its actually not that fun to try and find a game, and once your in it, it just gets buggy.
This game is only looks...........
try it out, but your not gonna remember this game anytime in future.