Your AI mates are surprisingly competent with a gun, and when the game is at its best there is a sense of spectacle that you'd have to go to the likes of God of War III, Gears of War 2 or Bayonetta to really match. In order to work as a four-player game, many of the missions have been made deliberately brief, and there's a huge emphasis on using teamwork to complete objectives, guard key points and tackle the game's truly awesome bosses. To say this has repercussions is an understatement. Top Nintendo Switch games 2021: Best Switch titles every gamer must own

The insects - known as the Akrid are back - as are the mechs, but the gameplay has seen a revolution. Clear plotting was not exactly the first game's strength, and that goes double here. The single strand storyline has also gone, to be replaced by a fractured narrative that shifts from faction to faction in some kind of slightly bewildering civil war. Thanks to developments on the titular planet since the first game, frozen wilderness is no longer the sole order of the day, and we now get verdant jungles, scorching deserts and grimy industrial cities to explore. We can't blame the team behind Lost Planet 2, then, for junking a lot of the stuff you might just maybe sort of vaguely remember about the original. 3 years on, and with the exception of the epic boss-battles, we struggle to remember anything of the game. Setting the game on the surface of a frozen planet didn't help, but for all the spectacle of its icy landscapes, huge weapons and vast alien bugs, Lost Planet always seemed a little short on thrills. The game looked great, with gorgeously detailed characters and critters and had some brilliant ideas, but it was, unfortunately, a little bit boring. Designed as a flagship title for the Xbox 360, Capcom's game was a conscious effort to marry the dynamics of a Western shooter with the style of a Japanese action game, meaning that on top of the usual blasting, sniping and grenade-lobbing, we got giant robot suits, gruesome insectoid monsters and a grappling hook thrown in. (Pocket-lint) - Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was a game that nearly had it all.

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