Lost: The Video Game for the 360 arrived today. Being a fan of the show, I got excited. Not heaps excited, but moderately excited. The sort of excited a platypus would feel if it had any concept of just how uniquely freakish it is.
You want to know about the game, don’t you? Sure, I can do that.
It opens like an episode of the show. We’re introduced to a new character, Elliott, a photojournalist who turns out to be the player. The plane breaks up, people get sucked out of windows, etc., and the lights go out. Then we wake up on our backs in the middle of the jungle, Jack-style.
Except we can’t remember anything.
We get up and walk around, examining some plane seats using the Y button. Then, we see a figure in the distance. Is it Jack’s dead father? No, it’s not. It’s some chick we don’t know. As we run up to her, we’re distracted by a body caught in a tree. When we look back, she’s vanished.
Cue Twilight Zone music. I’m thinking it’s not so bad, a little linear, but it’s an adventure game so that’s how things normally roll. And then we had a flashback. More »
