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Review: Lost Planet 3 (DarkZero)

Added: 06.09.2013 16:18 | 4 views | 0 comments

"The Lost Planet series and I have had our shares of ups and downs. I adored the first game, but loathed the second. When the original game released on the Xbox 360 there was a sense of next-gen about it - the gorgeous looking ice world, the grappling hook mechanic, huge, exhilarating monster battles, and of course, you could pilot a mecha-like robot. Lost Planet was a cool (pardon the pun) and exciting third-person shooter. Then Lost Planet 2 arrived and I was hugely disappointed in the direction Capcom had taken the sequel. The single player was the main reason why I loved Lost Planet, so to have that stripped away and replaced with a focus on cooperative play, well, you can imagine my upset. Sure, Lost Planet 2 was fun with friends, but I felt that the smaller stages were broken up too much. Now were on to the third instalment, created by a different development team, Spark Unlimited, who doesn't exactly have a proven track record (Legendary, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty),...