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This is what I want you to do: get together with that friend with whom you always play online and go and buy two copies of Lost Planet 2. Why?
Because until Tuesday July 20 Capcom’s excellent – yes, it really is excellent, please ignore the litany of misguided reviews out there – co-op shooter is only $49 at JB Hi-Fi.
And because you’ll thank me when you do.
I like how you are continuing with the sell, and understand it’s not a standard 3rd person game, so it misses the “mainstream” tag and becomes a cult game for a small community. There is just something about the game though that put up red flags on the ‘Don’t Buy’ list for me.
Don’t mind a different sort of game myself and I’d like to hear what you think about Vanquish?
Certainly not a standard 3rd person title and does look to have some slight similarities with Lost Planet, maybe it’s a bullethell version of it. Vanquish overall looks far more appealing than Lost Planet to me though.
sucks as much as the first IMO… and it was about $25 at one of the many online stores the other week… thats how bad it is… lol
Really???
I am a Transformers fan, and I was disappointed.
It was a fairly sub par shooter with a lot of repetition and some fairly horrible controlls in vehicle mode.
I am not saying it was a bad game overall (I would say it’s good, but like I said, I am a fan), just that it was disapointing, the PS2 Transformers game (based on Armada) was far better.
(I only played trough the single player game on PS3, haven’t tried multiplayer, and I doubt I will)
Damn by the sounds of it this games sounds like a flop, after playing the first one ages ago I was looking fwd to this one… maybe just renter for a couple of days 🙁
If you enjoyed the first one, you’ll LOVE this game. It’s in every way a better game.
It has horrible deep flaws in its design (eg the singleplayer campaign is just the multiplayer campaign with stupid bots that don’t do anything) but it’s still a lot of fun.
How does this play as a single player game? Because I’m really not into co-op or online multiplayer. I need a great single player experience. Still, I’ll look into it. The game looks pretty good.
It’s still enjoyable completely singleplayer, but it would be pretty much impossible to finish it on hard or extreme difficulty by yourself. The levels are often designed around needing to rely on your team mates (eg you have to guard two points across the map at once) but you cannot rely on your AI team mates at ALL, so you end up having to do EVERYTHING by yourself. That simply isn’t possible on harder difficulties because you’ll die while trying to run back and forth doing everything yourself.
So if you’re not interested in the multiplayer at all, I’d say rent or wait until it’s like $20. It’ll be great value then.
No. No. No.
The AI is terrible, and the game was not made to be played Singleplayer. There is no story to speak of and the game isn’t that great in Co-op, let alone singleplayer.
It really is designed to be played co-operatively. You miss out on so much of the resource management and collaborative depth when playing on you’re own. When Lorrie says the AI is terrible, he means the AI of your squadmates is fairly ineffective – they never take the initiative and mostly leave you to do the work of four guys.
Having said that, I’ve enjoyed flying solo when replaying levels to gain experience. But I wouldn’t recommend the game overall if you aren’t going to play co-op.
I think you guys are crazy for missing out I bought this game at launch and it didnt let me down story is alright nothing spectacular but the gameplay is what made me want to just keep on going to the end plus all the customization options are crazy too.
Is this experience from singleplayer or co-op?, I’d like to know because the game is really appealing to me at the moment but the bad reception is putting me off.
I thought the game kicked ass, purchased it day 1, got home, played with some friends that Night and I had a blast.
Sure it’s not for everyone, and its controls weren’t copy pasted from MW2, but it is a solid co-op shooter with decent online vs and tons of customization.
I hated this game at first. With a seething, controller-crushing passion. Only persisted cos my coop partner wanted to continue.
Then something clicked. I have never gone from hating something so intensely to loving it so much. Its not a great single player game, but its the best coop game I’ve ever played. (Can’t speak for the multi player, all I know is I suck) Better than Gears for sure. Gears was a smoother, friendlier experience, but compared to LP2, it lacks imagination and variety.
Also, Vital Suits forming Voltron, or team support-weapon attacks, complete with superhero poses are bloody awesome.
I’m kinda sad so many people dismiss this out of hand. It’s sorta the game’s own bloody fault in being so spiky – it annoyed me no end at first too- but there’s a lot of awesome underneath the initial layer of turd.
Loved the first game, but I’m waiting for the PC release of LP2 (I’d rather play shooters on PC)
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