Lost: The Video Game Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 29 February, 2008

It only took the bears two hours.

Version tested: Xbox 360

As I type, episode five of Lost's fourth season is showing in the USA. I'd like to know what happens in it. I'd like to know that a lot. If you couldn't care less, you might as well give up now; Ubisoft's Lost videogame, built around a story conceived by the TV show's executive producers, is not meant for you. There's probably enough here to grasp the basics of what's happening on this bizarre little island in the Pacific Ocean, but too much of it will be baffling or, worse, seem poorly justified. When John Locke tells you that the island has a will of its own, you'll look around at the invisibly walled jungle and beach and wonder if that's what he's on about.

It isn't, as disciples of the long-running series understand. Lost: The Video Game - or Lost: Via Domus, as it's known in the States - is designed to complement events in the first two seasons, so turn away now if you haven't got that far. It tells the story of a young man - another survivor of Oceanic Flight 815 - and his quest to recover his memory and understand the visions that he keeps experiencing of a young woman. Split into seven mini-episodes - complete with "Previously on Lost" bits at the start of each - it echoes the show's trick of inching through back-story via flashbacks as it floats through the present on a river of cliffhangers and people answering questions with riddles, sanctimony and bubblegum profundity.

'Lost: The Video Game' Screenshot 1

We're not telling you his name. It's part of the fun. Although it is a rubbish name.

When you wake up, it's to a wonderfully dense and detailed jungle rich with everything from banyan trees with their hollow-root hiding places to every manner of creeper, vine and long grass imaginable. As you pick through plane and human wreckage you come face to face with Kate, someone with whom you'll swap a lot of deep gazes and dialogue. Conversations unfold in the style of an old-days adventure game, with a selection of potential lines split across "Quest" and "General" categories. It's during this conversation that you experience your first flashback - to Kate's arrival on the plane, in handcuffs. Flashbacks show you torn-up Polaroid pictures and give you a camera with which to capture a moment to jog your memory, after which you can explore a small area to gather up to three further fragments of information. Then it's back to the present, where you can apply that information - you know Kate is a fugitive, and in putting this to her you're able to extract information, a process that sets the tone for puzzles that follow. It's all done with the show's trademark ears-draining-of-water whooshes and whomps. You'll feel right at home.

It's an action-adventure, then, with movement on left stick and camera on right, and with the needle pointing more toward adventure. You'll spend time on the beach, up near the hatch, and in various of the Dharma stations we've come to know and contemplate on message-boards, as well as creeping and scrambling through the thick jungle. You're only exposed to a dozen or so of the show's actual cast members - basically all the game needs to serve its plot and mechanics - and progress relies on looking at your current quest objective on the back-button's notepad and then either talking to someone, solving a simple puzzle or heading to a specific location. For instance, you blackmail Locke into helping you by going through the flashback process to "remember" that he used to be disabled - something he prefers to keep under wraps.

'Lost: The Video Game' Screenshot 2

The cave bits are genuinely spooky, with lovely use of light and shadow.

Other puzzles involve navigating the jungle using markers, often under pressure from - let's try not to cheapen the experience here - "hostile" elements. This once again speaks to the quality of Ubisoft's graphical work, as you click on a marker to find out where to go next and are either turned to face in the right direction or given a compass bearing and asked to swivel yourself around until you're on it. Actually picking the next marker out can be tricky in such thickly layered visuals, and in these sequences there are more paths through the jungle than you need - some offering up vaguely hidden items - and deviating or losing your bearings is genuinely hazardous to your sense of direction. If you get particularly lost, the game even offers to return you to your last checkpoint.

Among the more frequent challenges are electrical rewiring mini-games, which involve slotting and rotating three types of fuse into specific points on a network of circuits, the idea being to pump enough electricity into the dials at the end of each circuit that the voltage needle sits in the green zone - something that involves (gasp) a bit of maths as well as logic. The first and last of these are unexpected and complex respectively, while the others are quite straightforward, although satisfying enough. Less frequent but more powerful are the cave sections, where you have to use torches and lanterns to light your way and avoid plummeting into deep dark holes. It's here that the game borrows best from the TV show, conveying tension and peril very effectively through its use of music, pad vibration and subtle sound effects.

In order to get through them, and to survive some of the more rigorous challenges, you need to keep your eye out for food, water and other trinkets that can be traded with other survivors and, you know, others. Guns (very rarely fired), torches and additional fuses will be your main focus, and while the inventory - with a list of items, each with an associated dollar value - initially feels out of place, by the end of the game it's just part of the background.

'Lost: The Video Game' Screenshot 3

Yes, Jack's involved, ordering people around as usual. Can you kill him? The possibility alone is worth 30 quid.

You will notice by now that I'm trying to avoid linking these things to specific events. Obviously I don't want to spoil the story; it's what Lost does best, and it's what compels you through to the end of Lost: The Video Game. There are decent gameplay ideas, like chase sequences that involve vaulting logs and racing across narrow beams while being pursued, but on the whole the game is reliant on the sense of intrigue - not just in the story as it unfolds, but in being able to explore the Dharma Initiative's various stations, answering a few long-forgotten questions from the TV show's blink-and-you'll-miss-it past in the process - in order to maintain your interest. Puzzles are too straightforward, controls are a touch clunky, death - if you do succumb to it - kicks you back to the wrong side of unskippable cut-scenes, and nothing you do with your thumbs is complicated or especially taxing. There's very little hidden depth to the mechanics, which seems to fly in the face of the show somewhat, until you remember that you're not the only person who likes it; non-gamers do too.

It's for them, presumably, that the game has been made so short. The seven episodes are over in less than five hours, even if you take your time, and pretty much the only source of replay value is to go back and try and grab the rest of the memory items from flashback sequences, or snap photographs for each location - and this is probably only something you will need to do in one or two cases, since you quickly wise up to what the game wants by the time you've made it to episode three. Xbox 360 owners will see the end coming rather sharply thanks to the amazingly generous flow of gamerpoints - over 850 for all but the most cack-handed or inobservant first-timer - and it's thanks to the short run-time that Lost gets away with not developing its mechanics, where a longer game would depreciate more for their simplicity and repetition. A strictly single-player game, once it's over it goes back in the box.

'Lost: The Video Game' Screenshot 4

The jungle is spectacularly well done.

At which point you're left to ponder whether it was any good. I'd go with "yes", actually. It had the incredibly difficult job of creating a new character in the Lost world with an interesting enough side-story, able to exist without disrupting the timeline or feeling like an aberration, and able to expose fans to at least a handful of things with which they would be satisfied, even eager, to tinker. There's no question it achieves that, and that's what Lost fans will want. Even at its worst - a particular trek through the jungle to the Black Rock and its repeated abuse of one of the show's most perplexing elements springs to mind - it's never guilty of ruining the source material, and while the big question it leaves you with is akin to some of the TV show's goofier cliffhangers, it's still intriguing. I love Lost - it's stupid, brilliant, baffling, frustrating - and I'm really glad I played this. I think other Lost fans will be too. But we will all sit back afterwards and moan about the length, and so that's the thought I'll leave you on. Booouuum.

7 / 10

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Comments (73) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Tabasco #1 4 years ago

    I'm assuming that this is a full price game, so I'll wait for a 2nd hand copy methinks...

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #2 4 years ago

    Scouting around suggests PS3/360 cost £29.99 and PC costs £17.99 or thereabouts. I was talking to Kieron (who's reviewing it for someone else) and he gave me the impression that the PC one is a pretty rubbish port, though.

  • spookyzombie #3 4 years ago

    7/10? Can't agree with that at all. I found it really boring, and I'm a Lost fan.

  • Emortal #4 4 years ago

    Can a person who has never seen Lost appreciate the game?

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #5 4 years ago

    "Can a person who has never seen Lost appreciate the game?"

    No. It appears to have been designed to complement the series rather than help anyone into it.

  • Oceadge #6 4 years ago

    Short? Great, this is for me then!

  • Beano #7 4 years ago

    I bought this yesterday for PS3 since it was very cheap here and a I'm big fan of the show :)

    Haven't played it much yet but so far it seems pretty decent for a licensed game - however the graphics are not impressive (a lot of tearing, bad textures and aliasing) and the original actors were not used in the game for voices which takes a lot away from the "Lost experience".
    But still look forward to play it more tonight though :)

  • space_ace #8 4 years ago

    who lost the video game?

  • RobertFoster #9 4 years ago

    I'm surprised it scored so highly. Maybe TV -> Game is better than Movie -> Game...

    /Looks at Law&Order and CSI games
    Err :D

    Something to pick up cheap in 6 months then maybe.

  • DB2k #10 4 years ago

    uh.. I watched a series and a half of a show with a great cnocept that bored the shit out of me. I think a game based on this could realyl work but I'm a bit dubious on if i'll know what the fuck is going on, and if I'll like it.

  • inomine #11 4 years ago

    Seriously, how much effort would it have been to take some new screenshots rather than using the same ones that everyone else has? I know, I know, you probably only have a singly rig capable of taking HD captures, and that this rig is not necessarily in the same place as the reviewer. I still hate seeing the same publisher released screenshots on every single review on the internet.

  • Goodfella #12 4 years ago

    7/10? Can't agree with that at all. I found it really boring, and I'm a Lost fan.

    Same here. Love the show but got to the cave for the first time and that was it, dying 6 times in a row for no apparent reason wasn't my idea of fun and when I heard there are repeated trips to the cave that was enough to tell me to quit.

    5/10 at best.

  • XdarXideX #13 4 years ago

    I played it for a couple hours on wednesday and it gets more interesting the further you go into the game.

    As for dying in the caves... try lighting a torch.. or not stepping into a hole.

  • Goodfella #14 4 years ago

    I did light a torch.

    The game is just a tedious affair with little to no gameplay.
    Edited by 1 at 29/02/08 @ 08:47

  • Tzetrik #15 4 years ago

    The numbers are good! 7/10 is pretty reassuring. Not like there was any doubt about a fanboy like me buying it anyway..

  • Wyrm #16 4 years ago

    I got as far as the camera game. Balls to it.

  • espadachin #17 4 years ago

    7 was the magic number for me
    /orders

  • ZuluHero #18 4 years ago

    My wife is a non-gamer and loves the show (i can't see the point of it really) and I think this will be right up her street. Plus she used to love adventure games in her youth, so i might pick this up for her as a present from our daughter for Mother's Day :)

  • Darren #19 4 years ago

    The game sounds better than I thought and the gameplay footage I've seen from the start of the game on the beach looked great, it reminded me of an old-fashioned text adventure, only with a 3D face-lift. I'm very tempted to buy this for the PC, if only so I can avoid the screen tearing I've seen in the footage from the console versions plus it's only £18 so can anyone tell me how it performs? What engine does it use? Thanks.

    P.S. How come EG never use their own screenshots in the reviews? It would give the review a more personalised look if they did instead of using publicity shots which we'll have seen many times on other sites.
    Edited by 1 at 29/02/08 @ 09:55

  • sanctusmortis #20 4 years ago

    This gets the same as Frontlines?

    What a gyp.

  • killest #21 4 years ago

    WAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • DanWhitehead #22 4 years ago

    Walt reappeared at the end of Season 3, though.

  • XdarXideX #23 4 years ago

    Christ... it's not as if this is a "hardcore gamer" game. It's not a shoot-em-up either. Little to no gameplay? It's pretty much all gameplay... there's hardly anything in the game that doesn't involve you playing it. I don't know what you guys were expecting, but it never pretended to be anything more than it is.

    It's an adventure game that has a lot in common with point and click adventures and the sort and an enjoyable one at that.

  • jonsaan #24 4 years ago

    Lost fanboys. Lol.

  • Beano #25 4 years ago

    "Good grief, OLD. That guy hasn't been in the show for a year."

    Thank god for that!

    And hopefully he won't be back ... ?

  • NewbieZilla #26 4 years ago

    "Lost fanboys. Lol."

    Yeah, what a place to find them. Last place I'd look would be a Lost review, mind you.

  • bivith #27 4 years ago

    The show creators have said that it's not canon. Any "answers" provided in the game can be changed in the show.

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #28 4 years ago

    There's an exchange at the start of season 4 that goes along the lines of

    "Who told you [about something]?"

    "Walt."

    "Walt?"

    "Yes, but he was different... it was like he was older..."

    Which made me laugh. They got rid of Walt because it was supposed to be only 90 days or so from the start to series 1 to the end of 3, and he'd ages 3 years, and been through most of puberty. I wonder how many Aaron's they've got through?


    I might buy this for 25 or 30 quid, the wife will probably watch me play it, and short is a plus point in my book. The worrying thing is the list of 7/10 games from Ubisoft that I'm wanting to get around to, there's Assasin's Creed and Naruto and now this, too.

  • Daikon #29 4 years ago

    Do we get to play the type-in-the-numbers-or-else minigame?

  • NOSAVIOUR #30 4 years ago

    5.5 on ign and 2/5 gamespy.

  • DanWhitehead #31 4 years ago

    "I wonder how many Aaron's they've got through?"

    Well, Hurley does have a big appetite...

  • Milbe #32 4 years ago

    CUF:COD 5/10
    Frontlines 7/10
    Now this 7/10

    Eurogamer I am losig faith in you...

  • mcmothercruncher #33 4 years ago

    Kate. I would.

  • bitesize #34 4 years ago

    The show creators have said that it's not canon. Any "answers" provided in the game can be changed in the show.

    i think they said it's not canon because basically there aren't any answers to anything major in the game - they don't want people to have to play the game to get the full story. which is fair enough...

    i'm trying not to buy this but i think i'm just gonna have to. will probably manage to hold out till it's reasonably cheap mind...

  • GordonCaladan #35 4 years ago

    Let's be honest, it's derivative shite.

  • GregorV #36 4 years ago

    As good as Assassin's Creed then?

    /runs

  • NewbieZilla #37 4 years ago

    "CUF:COD 5/10
    Frontlines 7/10
    Now this 7/10

    Eurogamer I am losig faith in you..."

    Well, you've already lost letters. I guess something else had to go too.

  • Shabtai #38 4 years ago

    Avoid the game. Can't see any Lost fans having any fun with it. I also gave up on it in the cave part. Best thing about it is the installation window music.

  • Goodfella #39 4 years ago

    Gamespy (2/5) summed it up for me...

    Pros:- Kind of cool to explore some of the series' principle locales; flashback sequences are decently realized.

    Cons:- All the other puzzles are pretty bad; stand-in voice actors do a spotty job; occupies an awkward place in the series' mythology.

  • viper_h #40 4 years ago

    I read that they have about 3-4 Aarons on the set at a time just in case...

    And they go through about 25 a season

  • firefly #41 4 years ago

    @wired_protocol

    Sadly your suspicions are unfounded. After season three the show was commissioned for 48 more episodes spread over three years - initially 16 per season but due to the writers strike season four will drop three episodes and they will be added to season five and/or six. Then it ends. ABC couldn't axe it if they wanted to because they already have the contract in place for all the remaining episodes, and they wouldn't want to because it's still doing big business in the US (of course by now it's one of the few things still on so that helps). Plus to be fair season three did pretty well in answering a lot of the questions.

    But then if the show's not your thing it's not your thing, there are certainly popular shows out there that I hate (although I don't see a Sex and the City videogame coming out in the near future).

  • urban #42 4 years ago

    fair.

  • DanWhitehead #43 4 years ago

    Anyone who says that Lost doesn't provide any answers probably hasn't watched many episodes. They've answered a ton of questions since Season One and provided loads more background information on pretty much every established plot element. We know about The Others, we know about the hatches, we know about Dharma - hell, after the phenomenal conclusion to Season 3, we even know who gets off the island and some of what happens to them afterwards.

    What they haven't done is answer the big question regarding the purpose of the island and Dharma because that mystery is the whole point of the show, and its solution will come at the end - and they've already said when that will be. The whole show is a puzzle. If you don't like puzzles, if you don't enjoy the process of looking for each new piece and trying to put it all together, then you won't like the show but that doesn't mean that there's no forward momentum to the story.

    It's like saying that The X-Files sucked because Mulder didn't just walk into a room at the end of Season 2 and say "Oh, it's my sister. I wondered where she'd gone".

  • Landmaster #44 4 years ago

    It's shit.

  • CHAZBIGPOTATO #45 4 years ago

    "It's like saying that The X-Files sucked because Mulder didn't just walk into a room at the end of Season 2 and say "Oh, it's my sister. I wondered where she'd gone".

    Oh Yeah! Err..thats exactly what is was thinking!

    Imagine that, eh?

    Hmmm...

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #46 4 years ago

    It's like saying that The X-Files sucked because...

    The X-Files sucked because they drew it on for far too long before answering anything, simply asking more and more questions. Most people had stopped watching before Mulder's sister even came into it. And the quality of episodes took a dip after Morgan & Wong (writers/producers) buggered off. I can't see myself going to see the movie next year.

    Lost, though, to its credit has been a consistent series of revelations, all of which seem relevant to pushing the story along. Season 4 even has a guy doing physics experiments, seemingly as a framework for explaining some of the island's mysteries. I think where it lost a lot of faith with viewers was in leading them up a blind alley in Season 2, with the Tail Section characters. But that was because one by one the actors playing them got done for DUI and fired from the show.

    Luckily, they had Desmond to fall back on though. I'm fairly sure that the Desmond/Charlie plotline toward the end of Season 3 was originally written as a Mr Eko/Charlie plotline.


    Edit: I tell a lie, the episode of The X-Files that stopped me watching it (4x01, "Herrenvolk";) was all about Mulder's sister. But it was the least satisfying cliffhanger conclusion I've ever seen.
    Edited by 1 at 29/02/08 @ 14:30

  • DanWhitehead #47 4 years ago

    The problem with The X-Files was that it was never entirely clear what the mythology was about - what the Big Question was. Black oil? Alien bounty hunters? Alien embryos? Japanese WW2 Scientists curing cancer?

    Lost has been up and down some blind alleys, and had some less than stellar episodes, but on the whole it's always been absolutely clear as to where our attention should be focused - the purpose of the island. There's no way they'll satisfactorily explain everything, but that's part of the fun.

  • MightyMouse #48 4 years ago

    Like a lot of people, I felt cheated by Lost. The answers provided were such huge anti-climaxes :(

  • welshben23 #49 4 years ago

    How in the name of all that is holy do you get through the god damn cave?! I've got torches from Michael, can't use them! See a torch by a dead polar bear, pick it up and can't use it then I GET KILLED! WTF do I do? Please.

  • BillyBrush #50 4 years ago

    buy a better game

    this is a 7/10 in the same way Kanye West really is the best music artist on the planet

  • bitesize #51 4 years ago


    ^ in that it's one person's opinion that you don't happen to agree with?

  • Krelle #52 4 years ago

    dont fuck with Kanye

  • neuroniky #53 4 years ago

    Do I have a chance to date with Shannon in game? No? Outside of game? :D

  • HoriZon #54 4 years ago

    Gonna get it tomm i love the show and this sorta game sounds fun to me!

    Playing AC atm and just cant get into it seems a bit boring!

  • smelly #55 4 years ago

    "Like a lot of people, I felt cheated by Lost. The answers provided were such huge anti-climaxes :("


    I'm watching season 4 at the moment.. and it's fuckign ace.

    You're wrong :-)

  • smelly #56 4 years ago

    "nyone who says that Lost doesn't provide any answers probably hasn't watched many episodes. They've answered a ton of questions since Season One and provided loads more background information on pretty much every established plot element. We know about The Others, we know about the hatches, we know about Dharma - hell, after the phenomenal conclusion to Season 3, we even know who gets off the island and some of what happens to them afterwards."


    And i've just watched episode 5 of season 4 last night.

    And if that's not giving answers - i dont know what is!

    Wont print any spoilers.. but this season has been fucking ace. This is NOT x-files, they ARE answering questions. I firmly expect to FULLY understand whats happening by the end of the series in 2010. (i'm already fairly clued up after the MANY revelations of this season).

    They went a bit crappy during mid season 2 and 3 when they were FORCED to add "filler" episodes at request of studio to make the show last longer. But now they have a clear end date and it's obvious they're now working towards getting the story finished.

  • captainrentboy #57 4 years ago

    I fooking love Lost (will be watching episode 5 later tonight), and like a few of its fans have said on here, the old ''Ohhh it's crap it doesn't ever reveal any answers'' doesn't really apply any more. No it hasn't answered the massive questions, as I'm sure they'll slowly be revealed late through season 5 and all through season 6, why would they reveal everything now when they still have 40 odd episodes to get through. But things you would have been confused about in Seasons 1 and 2 have more than likely been answered by now.
    What's getting to me now is the writers continuous hints to the work of C.S Lewis, there's even a Chartacter with the same bloody initials all of a sudden.
    And what the fuck was a Dharma collared polar bear doing in the desert off the island? :)
    Back to the game, I was looking forward to it, played it in work today and was massively dissapointed, the big thing that's bugging me is the fooking dire voice acting. When I first heard Sawyer I actually LOL'd, it was that awful, it's the type of thing that's always going to annoy me so I might not be getting it now.

  • smelly #58 4 years ago

    >You know something is wrong when IGN are rating games lower than Eurogamer...

    Not really. Americans and english enjoy different things.

    There is no "right" or "wrong"

    Personally I only get suspicious if a suspiciously high review score is accompanied by lots and lots of ads for said game.. Like a certain popular shooting game..

  • NumberNone #59 4 years ago

    Been playing this with my better half and enjoying it for what it is, a half-decent adventure game. TBH anything more taxing than the gameplay here was always going to be off putting to the core LOST audience of non-gamers. Probably trade once complete as no real replay value though. And Season 4 does indeed rock. Episode 5 was awesome, Desmond and Penny FTW!!!!!!!

  • welshben23 #60 4 years ago

    twinberettas how the hell do you light a torch in the cave?! I really think EG were having such a bad day when they gave this game the same as Frontlines. Saying this is as good is like saying Port Talbot Town are as good as Arsenal!

  • muscleblade #61 4 years ago

    Played this for free this weekend. Borrowed it from a game shop to test it. Much better than i feared. Still not a 7/10.
    Its about average. Ill give it 5/10. The story is very good actually. The gameplay is boring though.

  • RamblinSydRumpo #62 4 years ago

    I'm a diehard Lost fan but this game is really abysmal. Doesn't deserve more than a 3. It degenerates very quickly into a coconut trading game because you can't get through the caves without light, you can't have light without torches, and you have to trade with the characters to get them. What this has to do with Lost I don't know. The voice acting is mostly dire, particularly the guy trying to do Terry O'Quinn and the sound levels fluctuate wildly so you're constantly upping the volume because you can't hear someone only to be deafened seconds later. It would be passable graphically if it weren't for the dreadful tearing and the clunky animation. I would think most Lost viewers will give up after the first terminally boring trip through the caves (if they make it) and definitely will when they're presented with yet another ludicrously contrived reason to force them into the caves again. That is if the crap circuit board puzzles don't get them first.

  • viper_h #63 4 years ago

    I also died in that stupid cave. Just died, for no reason.

    Only gave this an hour or so last night, so I'll come back to it soon.

  • Harmonica #64 4 years ago

    The game isn't canon, so for all the graphical set dressing (..obviously I'm not talking about those character models which are screamingly awful) it's entirely pointless for any Lost fans to play. The whole point of Lost is unlocking a mystery, sodding around on some island with polar bears or having Conversations With Kate Which Never Happened, is all by the by. It's entirely alien to a show which is crafted around intricate details (even if sometimes it goes a bit awry - hello season three).

    It's obviously worth disregarding this game unless you have a wad of cash to burn.

  • darc #65 4 years ago

    "The first and last of these are unexpected and complex respectively"

    Now half-true. Damn you, Heisenberg!

  • tinners #66 4 years ago

    6/10 caves are easy but also trial and error of extreme frustration if you dont save up enough tourches.

    shame - the story is cool and the gfx are really well done to recreate the LOST theme, but those electrical puzzles OMG! overused and badly made makes you think your an electrician rather than a reporter, must lame puzzles and badly lit areas make up a game which could have been far more promising had i not finished it in 6 hours!!! and thats after trying to make the most from the casts one liner response to every question you may have no matter how big or small.

    "wheres meh boy!"

  • longtimer #67 4 years ago

    Really disappointed with the game and I completely disagree with the reviewer on many counts. I'm a big lost fan and I'm most certainly not happy I played this.

    First of all it doesn't feel at all like lost. The characters don't act like their on screen counterparts, the script is abysmal and character traits are thrown at you like a wet nappy wrapped around a large rock. They try and catch you up on everything you've found out about the characters over 4 seasons in the first encounter you have with them eg. Locke screaming at a shopkeeper "Don't tell me what I can't do" after a reference that he's in a wheelchair.

    Secondly, contrary to what the reviewer wrote, I don't think it ties in very well with the series. Not wanting to go into spoilers or anything but the ending is absolute rubbish and fits in more with bloody Dallas then it does Lost.

    Previous points coupled with boring mini games and being left thinking "Why did I even bother" and "That was completely pointless" I think it deserves no more then a 3/10.

    Oh Eurogamer, you so very rarely steer me wrong, but when you do...

  • biglime #68 4 years ago

    I've never been so disgusted by a game in my life. I am going to kill you.

    http://www.consolevania. com

  • endent #69 4 years ago

    biglime - Your Lost: Via Domus review was one of the best pieces of work I've seen on videoGaiden. It's reviewing the game from a reasonably objective standpoint rather than gushing about the fan service as Eurogamer does here, and happening to be very funny at the same time.

    For everyone else, see it at http://www.bbc.co.u k/videogaiden/

  • DFawkes #70 4 years ago

    I actually liked this game quite a bit - makes a nice change of pace from shooters. But unskippable cut scenes are criminal, checkpoints that send you back before these cutscenes are death penalty worthy.

  • stevebmryan #71 4 years ago

    Just finished the game...Love the show...This was crap!!!!

  • Tomo #72 3 years ago

    This is the worst game I have ever played.

    /end of unnecessary bump

  • DFawkes #73 3 years ago

    Almost a year since I played it last, I see from my comment a couple up. Regardless, I bought it for 360 for £1.99 since I've been in a Lost mood recently, and it's still alright. Certainly for Lost fans only, but for them it's a good little story.

    Plus, given recent developents in the TV story, I think the ending makes more sense if you play it now. maybe that's just me :)