Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Comments by Kristan Reed

I guess we'll know how much "we" like Capcom's view on western shooters when the sales figures roll in. The demo download stats looked pretty healthy, after all.

Shouldn't the sub-heading be Mountains of Wayne?

Good review the really funny thing about a lot of these games that have been given 7s by EG for me is invariably I love them. (CoD2, Enchanted Arms, Tomb Raider etc).
So going on that this is a definite must buy :D

@Barton

Indeed i have to agree with Enchanted Arms - its damy silly, but its pretty good game. COD2 >> COD3 x1000.

I'll probably give this a go. Should keep me rolling till crackdown and the like start arriving.

@ absolutezero

Gotta agree with Der_tolle_Emil man! Whaddya do, stick it on casual and then use a walkthrough?

It bugs me when people put a game on easy and then rattle through it and then blame the game. I think Gears on hardcore (I didn't play casual) took me around 12 hours...and I'm not too shabby at shooters.

I might try to pick up LP at some point just to play through the single player for the visuals. It really is a nice lookin' game.

Resi 5 this year please Capcom

Superb review.
I´v only played the sp demo but according to my experiences with that, this was spot on. I´l buy it when it gets cheaper.

@PearOfAnguish: Shouldn't the sub-heading be Mountains of Wayne?

No. Eurogamer is a music magazine. Haven't you noticed.? :)

Love the Fountains of Wayne tagline (but PoA is right, it should be Mountains).

Things like that and the Pixies analogy in the FEAR review are fun little referencesand show EG actually have some taste and knowledge of things other than games. Good show.

I've just read the review and it sounds quite boring. I'm not even sure I'll pick this up now.

Sounds about right, judging from the demo. That was quite a disappointment. It's probably not a good indication of quality when you're bored of a two-level demo halfway through the first level.

kalel: Well, he gave FEAR a 9.

If fear is a nine, then the 7 must be shit.

No-one should be paying £50 for any 360 game.

http://www.best-game-price.co.uk/compare...

Oh, no doubt the game will sell well. What else is there out now (not a few months ago) that has the same size profile? What competition is there this time of the year?
Plus, look at the pattern for an x-box 360 player over the last year. Basically, a big game would come out, everybody would play it, be done with it, and then another big game would come out which everyone then would buy. Only in November did an 360 owner have a choice between big titles. Now we seem to fall back into the pattern.

Awesome; Red Brick buildings on an alien planet; Genious!

To add to the quirks, you can only shoot above yourself to a limited degree, making it not only needlessly tricky to get a bead on the things above you without backing away

Given the amount of time and money that goes into producing a game nowadays it seems ridiculous that games can get bogged down by design decisions that should have been picked up on early in playtesting.

I recently played gears of war and loved it for the most part, but the section where you had to use the tank turret to take out the Krill (or whatever those bats afraid of the light were called) was so very badly designed purely because you could only angle the gun up so far. Every time those damn bats swooped down, as soon as they got close enough to do you damage they were so high in your field of view that they couldn't be shot. Millions of dollars this game cost, no one realised this section just wasn't any fun? Or was it just me.

Will pick this up sometime, enjoyed the demo, but just having too much fun with R6 right now...

@Mapster

I hear you, brother! Eventually just bought Tiger 2007 sans EG review in the end. Not too bad. A lot better than the previous effort, and more difficult too, though it's still early days.

I still get cold shivers watching my doppelganger stride up to the tee box though...gameface is unnaturally good.

@schoozzzmmii: It wasn't just you. This section is so broken it hurts. Especially because you die most of the time. Dying once or twice until I figure out how to best tackle the situation is one thing, dying dozens of time because the enemy pops up where I cannot even aim at is just no fun.

"If fear is a nine, then the 7 must be shit."

Yeah. I bought Fear on the strength of the EG review - saw it in Game for £30 and thought I'd pick it up. I'm a few hours into Fear now and thoroughly unimpressed. Does it EVER change from fighting those enemy soldiers in drab warehouses? Graphically poor too; actually reminded me of amateur HL2 mods featuring rigid geometric buildings filled with crates and shipping containers. Quite stunned Fear was regarded so highly here tbh.

Agree.
I bought it for pc recently.
Cost me around 8£.
Was not worth it.

Well as i'm a massive graphics whore and I really like blowing shit up good I'll still be picking this up on Friday,it had an 8 in Games Tm,and that's pretty much my most trusted review source.

"On the contrary. 10 Hour Single player sounds *ideal* to me. I get bored of run-and-gun games if they get too long. "

You must be fairly well-off...

Demo didn't do anything for me, but I thought the full game would score higher going by all the hype.

/back to Vegas

/skips to score

Hmm. First time in a LONG time I've ordered a game before seeing a review for it.

Just please no tearing......

"I will stick to R6 Vegas as it rocks with online DM, 4 player Co-op and single player..!

What more could you ask for."

A 360 game with decent graphics? I'm well happy with the 360 but RS: V is absolute shite. The dev should have had more time with the U3 engine. >:|

"No-one should be paying £50 for any 360 game."

I paid £40 for the 'special edition'.


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Hmm.

"@schoozzzmmii: It wasn't just you. This section is so broken it hurts. Especially because you die most of the time. Dying once or twice until I figure out how to best tackle the situation is one thing, dying dozens of time because the enemy pops up where I cannot even aim at is just no fun."

I breezed that and I suck at games. :\

I used to have l33t skillz but not now. They (the skillz) have gone!

Combat devolved?

Based on EG's claimed policy of rewarding innovation, I'm a bit surprised this got more than 6, based on that rather negative review. Did you find it hard to be harsh on a game that looks so very good, Kristan?

Disappointing that the single-player AI isn't better: I'll check it out when the price goes down 6 months from now. Oh well.

Sorry to say, but there's also some V-Sync tearing to report...

Not as bad as Saints Row, but it's definitely noticeable.

"Sorry to say, but there's also some V-Sync tearing to report...

Not as bad as Saints Row, but it's definitely noticeable."

o_o

It only has to be as bad as RS: V to make the game 'binable' for me. >:|

Please try and mention this in future reviews. Not that I actually waited for the review for this game. Ha!

/dies

What the hell is it with the 360 and tearing. Yes, i know Gears was Vsynced as have been several other games but the number of big titles that tear like my grandads pants is ridiculous.

Yeah. I bought Fear on the strength of the EG review - saw it in Game for £30 and thought I'd pick it up. I'm a few hours into Fear now and thoroughly unimpressed. Does it EVER change from fighting those enemy soldiers in drab warehouses?

If you'd really read the review, you should know that already.

It took me playing RS: V to take a second look at Gears and really appreciate it.

V-sync demands a lot from your system. I usually have it turned off on my PC.. and I am using a Radeon X1950XTX 512MB GDDR4!

I'm guessing they'll make more games with V-sync later, when they've mastered the hardware in the Xbox 360.

@krudster

For me a game really shows its worth on the hardest difficulty setting (Gears, Halo, Halo 2, etc). I'm assuming you played through and completed it on the pro (or whatever it's called) setting before writing the review, so how does the game play on the hardest setting? how much more of a challenge is it, and why?

I have to admit that I was surprised to see the 7 at the end after reading the review. I was expecting a 5, maybe a 6.

Why?

I'd very much prefer boss fights instead of slogging through level 1, level 2, level 3 etc without my abilitiess that i learned in the game being tested.

Baby please, leave the biker, leave the biker, break his heart.

"For me a game really shows its worth on the hardest difficulty setting (Gears, Halo, Halo 2, etc)."

Hmm, I agree legendary on Halo1 was excellent but Halo2 was terrible. The AI had 100% accuracy, never had to reload (for weapons that required it), never had overheating weapons ( for weapons that overheated ) and all the enemies just had increased shield (for those that had shields) and increased health. In other words it was just poor in this respect. What was even more annoying was that Halo1 committed none of these sins. Even if you compare it to something as old as Goldeneye it seems poor in this respect.

That's not to say I didn't like Halo2 and the Multiplayer was fantastic but as someone who likes to play Games on the hardest setting too, I found legendary on Halo2 very, very poor. I truly hope they get this right for Halo3.

@lambtron

Disagree. Sure, Halo 2 had different enemy dynamics, but if it hadn't it would have felt old. Remeber the time you tried to take on a Hunter in Halo 2 as you had in Halo 1? Exactly!

That said, where they ruined it for me was with the sniper alley sections. Halo has always been about cool face to face dogfights that are always varied due to the stellar AI. Throwing in memory-test-one-shot-and-you're-dead sections was dumb, dumb, dumb.

I hope to god they're not in Halo 3

Perfectly fair score, good but not great by any means.

This review has pretty much sealed my decision (based off the demo) to wait for this to drop in price a bit. It set off too many memories of Gunvalkyrie for me, especially with the unconventional controls and annoying respawning. Japan must look for different things in shooters.

People keep using the phrase "big titles" and I keep reading it as "big titties".

Just thought I'd share that.

Blimey! I forgot about Krudster's song title habit.
10-4 good buddy - kill all hippies.
Are the rest Primal Scream?
Is one of them Echo and the Bunnymen?

Damn - I'll have to check the previous reviews now to catch up. I'm a krudster fanboy, u c.

@Hughes.: Do you have a problem with 'Create an account' too? I don't suffer from the tittie one, but perhaps I should.

Crate an amount?

Talk sense man!

I've been very interested in this since the first demo, Dead Rising was great and I assumed this would be too. All of the reviews I've read say it's pretty average so I think I will wait till it's on budget if at all.

Oh and gears is still going strong and along with Viva Pinata are the two most "giving" games on the 360 (as long as you like multiplayer for gears).

Meh. After reading the review, not that interested anymore. In between the lines, this could've been 6/10... Well, only 5 months to Bioshock. :)