Game Overview
Lost Planet landed in our pigeon hole about a month before release and the buzz began, although we had to get a few other reviews done so Lost Planet had to go to the back of the pile for a few days, but then the moment came. A game we had been really looking forward too, it was top of our most wanted list, the demo was still getting the odd play now and again just to remind ourselves of the potential this game was showing, but now, all talking and dreaming had stopped, it was time to play the full game from start to finish.

The game loaded up and the first thing we noticed was how Japanese the game looked, and we loved it! The graphics were beautiful, the eye movements of the characters, the highly defined strands of hair it all sunk in so gorgeously that our excitement levels were going through the roof, this was something we had been waiting months and months for.

Then, the game started! We went racing into action (or rather plodding, for lengthy periods) killing things that already looked dead like flying fish carcasses. We collected heat from downed enemies as we ventured through the first mission. The first mission came and went without too much of a problem, although we did find that the game was incredibly slow. We know you are running through what appears to be about 2 foot of snow but the action was slow, there was lots of running and not enough shooting.

As the game goes on this, unfortunately becomes more evident, especially in the earlier levels, as you hit missions 4 onwards human characters start appearing for you to kill which does make the game a little bit more enjoyable and the action starts to get a bit more quicker and in your face but it is still nothing near what we expected from a game that showed so much promise.

The cut scenes are brilliant, graphics and especially explosions do look amazing, you can tell that a lot of time and effort has gone in to making this one of the best looking games to date, sound is pretty average and doesn't really do much in terms of roping you in to the game like you have come to expect from games nowadays, which is a big big shame in our books.

One thing we love though is the VS machines that you get to jump into and various times throughout the game, hovering around the map, firing rocket after rocket and opening up a can of whoop ass with your machine gun without doing any damage to your character, it really helps get through some missions where you seem to be outnumbered a thousand to one and there are explosions everywhere.

Live capabilities are there so you can play against your mates or as we did against 15 Japanese people who must have got the game months ago, but again, online seemed too slow and rather tedious at times. There are some good scenarios to be played online with Lost Planet but it's all about who has the quickest trigger finger, there really isn't any tactics involved, which will appeal to a lot of people out there but unfortunately for us we aren't big fans of this style of play.

Our Conclusions
The demo for Lost Planet really did too much and in our opinion built the game up way too much, from being really excited about the release of Lost Planet we were ultimately let down (controversial, we know, but that's what we are here for). Don't get us wrong, it's not awful but it could have been so much more than it is.

Overall Score: 7/10

Thanks to Capcom