Lost Planet : Extreme Condition

Here's my short review of Lost planet :Extreme condition, (lpec) another hyped up fps.

This last season of xbox 360 games has been a season full of hype, some of it true and some of it far from that. GOW turned out to be a really good game, albeit one that was rather short. I never actually completly finished the game. The end boss "Raam" must have killed me about 23 times before i gave up and checked on the internet that Raam was indeed the end of the game.

I have always disliked endbosses, most of them seem to be made just to have the game time artificially extended. You ussually die like 10-20 times before you figure out the exact pattern of movement or the weak spot. That is a type of gaming i really dislike, it's just a badly designed puzzle. The fun of restarting game passage 10-20 times really is beyond me. The endboss is a relic from the long gone past and should be used sparingly, or preferably, not at all.

Games like COD2 and 3 do not have endbosses and, luckily, GOW has only a few. Raam however is the type of endboss i really do not care about. Games with endbosses like that just get forgotten instead of finished.

Now that you have read my opinion about endbosses, you will understand my comments about LPEC.

LPEC really is only a game consisting of endbosses, you get one about every 10 minutes. All the missions are a short walk to a location where there is yet another endboss ready to annoy the cr*p out of you. Most of the endbosses in LPEC have a weak spot cleary marked by it's lava like glow, so at least you do not spend 30 minutes finding out where the 4 pixel square area is that actually hurt him/her/it. However the script that's operating behind the LPEC endbosses make pretty sure that the weak spot is only exposed for 3 seconds every minute.

Above : here is the guy that stopped me playing lpec.

The other 57 seconds is spend running around on foot or in battlemechs, trying to avoid the enourmous barrage of fire that these monstrosities shoot at you. There really is no learning experience at all, defeating the endbosses in LPEC comes down to trying to hold you gun stable for the earlier mentioned period and hoping that the monster does not hit you to bad for the rest of the time. Repeat untill you throw the controller to your new lcd screen in frustration.

Apart from endboss overkill, LPEC also suffers from long-boring-cutscenes that have you pressing the "skip" button about 5 seconds into the cutscene.

So it boils down to this : If you really look forward to battling with endbosses every 5 minutes and love restart screens ; Buy LPEC. If you don't leave the game where it should be : in the store.

LPEC no more.