A bit of an let down, but its still worth a try.
Now that I got that off my chest, Its time to focus on better things, when you stare down at lost planet from the store shelf and think its a epic must play experience, turn away immediatley and buy something else. but if its a straight foward, no hassle treat you'll looking for, then step right up in your spaceship to explore.
The game takes place on Edn.III, a icy, snowy planet that is filled with Giant insects called the Akrid. These supernatural monstrosities are very lethal and ran out the humans that wanted to colonize on the planet. Those that were unfortunate enough to escape ,are trapped on Edn.III and are forced to fight the Akrid and the planet's deadly elements. Also, there is an small group soldiers and a mysterious organization left to strive and face the akrid and find means to warm the planet. you are Wayne. one of these soldiers. One day you and your father are on a mission to stop a monster called "green eye" ,but all goes wrong and your father and your squad mates die in front of your eyes. But as always nothing is what it seems. After the confrontation, you are left stranded on Edn.III but you have seemed to lose your memory of the events that took place previously of the attack. you must attain your memories, survive, and take down a mysterious organization. The plot is well done, and its action packed its just that the story is weak in its other points. For one thing, i felt like it was rushed a bit, everything went so fast you will be asking yourself a line of questions and a lot of pieces of the cutscenes could of been expanded or added, and some more polish to narrative as well. It is emotionless in some ways, I wish there was something other the game's main fight against the akrid and the organization but its nothing other than that, the connections between Our main protaganist and the Npcs needs to be more Dramatic and such. Otherwise, The game wouldn't feel so stale in some respects. But there are also points were you have been no stranger to the concepts, as sometimes the game can be predictable.(fallen hero faces evil forces, bad diabolical villain etc.)
Lost planet plays exactly like a third person action title, but with the core concepts of both shooters and Giant Mech fights latched on. The battles rarely get intense in its main gameplay, but lost planet's strongest showing is in its spectacular boss fights. Besides that, The little battles in between; against a range of different enemies such as Robots, The Akrid, "space pirates", and so on are little bit boring and repetive. Its not too bad to face them, but you'll never really get a kick out of facing the game's repetitiveness. As I said the game shines in its boss battles, every single bout is different and its such a blast to take on Collosal sized monsters that gives you chills. The reason though for Lost Planet's repetiveness is that the game seemingly throws the same challenges at you. For one thing, i hate attaining my thermal level(which you have to keep up before freezing to death.),shooting the boring weakspots in the minor enemies over and over, and grappling(x button) all over the place. The game uses no puzzles, no Shock and awe exploration(which is a serious downer.) and its split up into levels. I don't expect it to be a free roaming game, but with this much potential in lost planet's world, its bound to be at least interconnected areas, with hidden hotspots and so on. Instead we get generic runs through decently sized enviroments. with that, capcom could of did much more with its story, its cutscenes, and action points. The shooting doesn't take much skill, but its not complex either or strong enough to compete with other third person shooters, but gladly its slanted towards the action side more than its shooting roots. The giant mech units are a welcoming feature, that grants the user a line range of brute force and abilities, sadly your buddy wayne isn't that fun to go around with, cuz he is so ability empty. You should be able to do a lot more than shoot with weapons, not because im picky, its just than it feels more like a action title than a shooter, that its demanding.
Graphicly and sound wise, I've seen better. As for the graphics its presented in poor fashion threw its menus, but its also very visually stunning, with a decent art style and animations. The snow is very lifelike, and is used in many ways, it'll fly towards the screen, enemies will kick it up, you'll leave footprints and so on. But sometimes the ragdoll animations of wayne got get a bit annoying, especially when your enemies won't let you get up. sound wise, the game is slightly medicore. The sound effects are nice, but its way too silent, and uninspiring, with solid voicework.
Online play is complete garbage, Its just too hard to find a game in its unpopulated network. And when you do its nothing very exciting, and you've played way better. the weapons don't have much balance either.
In conclusion, you'll have a decent time with Lost Planet if you work with its huge problems, and slightly poor playability. But in the end, its something unique and fresh but its just not that good. But should be played, if you enjoy great action titles and shooters alike. As I said, if the game was given more time we would have ourselves a completely different game,.But as for now.,Lost planet is shockingly decent.
*Subscores are out of 10
Graphics- 8.0
sound-6.5
controls-7.5
story-7.75
gameplay- 7.75
Fun factor-7.5