Lost: The Video Game Comments by Tom Bramwell

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

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.

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

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

"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.

Short? Great, this is for me then!

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 :)

who lost the video game?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I did light a torch.

The game is just a tedious affair with little to no gameplay.

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

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

7 was the magic number for me
/orders

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 :)

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.

This gets the same as Frontlines?

What a gyp.

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

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

Walt reappeared at the end of Season 3, though.

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.

Lost fanboys. Lol.

"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 ... ?

"Lost fanboys. Lol."

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

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

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.

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

5.5 on ign and 2/5 gamespy.

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

Well, Hurley does have a big appetite...

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

Eurogamer I am losig faith in you...

Kate. I would.

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...

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

As good as Assassin's Creed then?

/runs

"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.

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.

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.

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

@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).

fair.

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".

It's shit.

"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...

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.

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.

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

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.