Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition provides explosive action for both online and offline players. Gamers who missed the original Lost Planet will have the opportunity to experience the epic gameplay that made the original a global hit with the added bonus of fresh new content and cross platform multi-play all at a great value price. Fans of the Lost Planet’s online action will be thrilled at the inclusion of new online modes, maps, weapons and models. XBOX 360 and PC users can now compete on the same battlefield. NOTE: Lost Planet COLONIES EDITION and the original Lost Planet: Extreme Condition are not compatible. Single-player saves and online rankings cannot be carried over and multiplayer games will be separate.
- New Modes for Single Player Campaign – Score Attack, Trial Battle Mode, and Off Limit Mode. New Online Modes – Akrid Hunter, VS Annihilator, CounterGrab, Point Snatcher, Akrid Egg Battle, and Egg Bandit.
- Four New Multiplayer Maps – Crossfire City, Area 921, Lost Arena, and Assault Space. New Playable Characters – Two female and two robot characters are added to the roster.
- New Weapons (human) – Hand Gun, Revolver, Flame Launcher, and Hand Cannon. New Weapons (VS) – Pile Bunker, VS Rifle, Rocket Pod, and Laser Lance.
- New Environments – Snowstorms, arctic winds, towering mountains of ice are all stunningly realized, creating a truly immersive and cinematic event of epic proportions.
- New perspectives – Switch to first person view or the over-the-shoulder view from Resident Evil 4 for even more intense action.
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 12.94
Frustrating, no attempt to port,
1 star seems harsh (i’m not sure if i’ve ever given a rating this low), and the game is adequately pretty, but there appears to be zero attempt to make this a PC game. All controls are the A or B buttons (you can use left and right mouse to simulate)? There’s no option you can see to exit the main menu (you have to use the X-Box B key, mapped to right mouse button, just like the zoom and robot firing functions are)? There are separate screens for Options and PC Options? The speeder doesn’t work on the PC because they only mapped the reverse key, not the one to go forward? (there might be a way to change the key mappings – it’s hard to say since you can’t do it while you’re playing)
The monsters vary from easy and impossible. The basic monsters can actually be ignored – as a test, i refused to attack and just walked through a level of bug lobster monsters, no problem. The giant worm, however, simply eats you, 20 times in a row. A single enemy in a mech that gets to attack first (with an attack that stuns you, preventing you from attacking), can wipe out 1,000hp in one hit (you start with less than that) and can move, aim and fire faster than any human can (normally means they didn’t bother to balance the AI). i’ve played enough FPSes that i know it’s not me – while there are people who can beat this game, they’re all far too studly to be normal human beings. i didn’t get too far in the game (despite playing a couple of days, the same level over and over) but i can’t bring myself to play it any more
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|A cautionary tale,
I bought this game after reading all of the positive reviews. For me, that was a mistake. I’ve finished the first two levels, and I’m not going to continue. The problem is the controls. This game was made to be played with an XBOX 360 controller, not a mouse and keyboard. The 3rd person camera is also highly problematic, as another reviewer noted. There is no way to customize the pc controls for a mouse and keyboard, and some of the default controls plain don’t work and make it very hard to beat certain stages. If you have an xbox controller and don’t mind 3rd person shooters, then you will probably enjoy this game. Its conception isn’t bad. But if you are a mouse/keyboard gamer like I am, stay away – you’ll just end up frustrated.
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