Lost Planet is about a planet that we lost that is full of bugs that hate you. And theres like, this robot, that runs off body heat, so you gotta get real sweaty before you get in it.

You play as Wayne, a guy who, with his dad, controlled the sweatiest robots. But Wayne and his dad get smooshed by the biggest bug, Green Eyes Bug Dragon. Wayne is then saved by a Russian and his hot friend so Wayne goes on an adventure that is supposed to be about killing space bugs but you don't do that as much as you would expect.
Also, Wayne is based off a Korean actor named Lee Byung-Hun, who's name I accidentally spelled Lee Bung-hole 3 times now.. I never heard of him but he's very handsome.

Steam says I was playing the game for 4 hours, but Steam is lying to both you and me, do not trust it's lies. I was playing Lost Planet for maybe 3 hours or so before I slapped the last boss in the face with my big sweaty robot arms. Its actually surprising how much of the game was cutscenes, like an hour and twenty minutes out of the three hours I played.

There are some weapons. I think. I would hope.
You start each mission with an assault rifle that fires bullets. Thats all it does. You also get other stuff like shotguns, rocket launchers, beam rifles, sniper rifles, and- Wait no I think thats it.
They do their parts, which you would think wouldn't be something to right about, but you'd be surprised how often guns don't actually do what they're supposed to in video games. You also get a grappling hook to help you get to elevated positions easier, which is probably the best thing about Lost Planet, is how you can just jump a fool but getting on a higher axis and shooting down at him.
I wish I had a grappling hook.
It would make it easier for me to look into your bedroom window.

But the best thing of all is the Vital Suits, the sweat powered robots. They come in all shapes and sizes, like chunky boy, small boy, smaller boy, crab boy, and who could forget.
Arms boy.

VS combat is actually the funnest thing about the game, because shooting robots while being in robots is super fun. I can't really say more about this game so I'm going to start complaining now.

Every time there's an explosion, there is a lingering after effect of smoke that clouds your vision. Its cool looking. It is also incredibly annoying. The point is that human enemies have no problem tracking you through the smoke, so you can't even really use it as cover. You'll end up wiggling your mouse around trying to make your crosshair go red so you can shoot again.
Wayne also has the knees of a little girl with bone cancer because everything makes my poor baby boy shake. I get that they're trying to make the space bugs look massive, but please stop.

Also, a good chunk of the game is cutscenes, and not even very good one. Since the game is so short, everything just kind of comes and goes. The only name I remembered was Wayne and Joe, and that's because it sounds like name for a Diner.

Also, I got into a robot and the game gave me a tutorial that depicted a Xbox 360 controller. Way to go, guys.

I wanted to play multiplayer, because Lost Planet has really fun multiplayer. But nobody plays this game anymore. So all you're left with is a rushed singleplayer with graphics that were praised by Xplay back in 2005.

I would have recommended the game a few years ago when the multiplayer was still alive, because the multiplayer was fun way back when. But now everyone has moved on, probably playing Skate 3 or something cool.

Get it.
Cool.
Because the planet is cold.

Haha.
Don't buy Lost Planet.

Sheep can recognize each other in pictures.
Join the curator, where pogs are still baller.

IT's a third person shooter. Which means you don't get to be in the body of the shooter. Really sucks unless you just like watching from far away like some chicken-♥♥♥♥♥ looser.? I like being there and seeing right up front in a game or does not seem real at all. This game is just not what I was looking for. It should have been more like Bethesda's Fallout 3 & 4. Or like Skyrim's FPS in body action. They game has nothing like that. It's like they just sat there and threw it together and hoped someone would be dumb enough to purchase this crap game? Cap-cop is guilty of this kind of garbage.

A game that could've been really good! I'm a sucker for mecha in games from titanfall to battletech. My Dad got this game when we got our first Xbox 360, and I remember liking it a lot, but that ended confirming one of it's major failings. This is one of those games that teenagers with a power fantasy plays that has a lot of explosions and no challenge. The enemies are the worst offenders. The Akrid are the whole crux of the narrative and are played up as if they are on par with the xenomorph in lethality, but this couldn't be further from the truth. They are incredibly easy to avoid due to the grappling hook, and their weak spots are high lighted. Human enemies act as if want you to kill them. They almost never use covers, and their aim is almost as bad as stormtroopers. You would think the mechs would redeem this game, but they are unruly and don't fit in most large rooms. They might as well be over glorified forklifts. The one thing that attempts to mitigate the lack of difficulty is the thermal system. Our black haired, twink, protagonist Wayne is equipped with a thermal insulin injector that keeps him alive in the frozen tundra. If he should ever run out of his unsulin he will no longer be able to regenerate health and will slowly slip into a diabetic coma due to low blood sugar. The only problem is "every" enemy in the game drops thermal energy, and checkpoints give you thermal energy in the literal thousands. Unless you are trying to, it is impossible to die. This game has an amazing concept, and I wanted to to enjoy it, but like getting blown by a girl with braces, JUST DON'T.

Gameplay. Graphics. Level design. Music. Game design. Good. Bad. Good looking. Ugly. These are just tags that I use to prevent Steam from filtering this review and throwing it in the trash with the other "irrelevant" reviews when it is very, very relevant to the customer who is about to buy this precise game.

Capcom allows itself to update decade years old games in order to add Dancing Ratatouille Mesopotamia in its code, and Steam does nothing to prevent it. And they are slowly but surely doing it to their entire older catalogue of games. How can I trust what I buy from this publisher, on this platform, then ? They change their game decades later to limit the player access to its property (remember, we bought this game !).

Imagine Best Buy coming to your home ten years later to add a padlock to your refrigerator. That's precisely what Capcom is doing with all of its older games. Capcom customers are punished for paying their game while privateers and sea brigands live their best life on the internet's uncharted waters. You know what ? I'm done being punished for behaving fair by a company that thinks its owes me and is entitled to my money, and change the rules decade after I bought their product, even dare to police and limit my access to it. Give me an eyepatch, a wooden leg and a parrot repeating "pieces of eight ! pieces of eight !". I want to sail far away from Capcom's bank account. And I will.

DONT I REPEAT DONT PLAY THIS GAME.

I will just say that do not waste your money on this garbage. What you will get is very boring STORY and gameplay (god that gameplay is TEEEEERRRIBLE). Only challenge in this game is to try to stay awake through out the game.

Clearly not designed for PC. Good luck trying to keymap...

The campaign is set in the future where Canada's infested by alien bugs and Canadian fighting each other to obtain the source of the heat to warm themselves up in order to survive the winter. It makes no sense 2/10

NO multiplayer RIP BU LLSH IT

This game has aged poorly. The mechanics are punishing, the movement is janky, the scoring system is unfair. Consider that this game came out at the same time as Halo 3, and you realise just how much this game would have been at home on the original xbox.

Movement and animations:
Easily the worst thing about playing this game. Every action locks you into an animation, including being hit. You are invulnerable while being knocked over, but this is not a good thing. In campaign it is redundant because you are basically invincible anyway. In multiplayer it makes fights inconsistent, and forces both players to wait patiently if one is knocked down

Scoring system:
The multiplayer scoring system heavily rewards topping the leader board, and severely punishes coming last. If you come last in a game, you will receive 100 points, no matter what you accomplished in the round or how many hours you spent

Mechanics:
Almost never will you feel outplayed in this game. Most times you will be let down by the movement system, get stuck in an animation, get trapped on the terrain, or have someone spawn (invulnerable) behind you. This is on top of the horrendous weapon balance, unbalanced map design, and random damage/spread of weapons. This game does not teach you any of the exploits necessary to play multiplayer, so these must be learned externally or combat will be impossible.


I rate this game 4/10, the campaign was ok up until the last level.

I mainly played this game out of curiosity as I have a lot of childhood memories of seeing my brother play this back when it launched, and, to put it lightly, it did not age well at all. The only few good things I can say about the game is that its mech design is cool and I had some moments of fun with the boss fights even if they were brief. Everything else about Lost Planet is unremarkable or just outright sucks: the story is incoherent and badly written, character movement is slow (which makes sense for the mechs but NOT for Wayne) and the button mappings are weird. These last two aspects really make the game frustrating and take a lot of the fun out of the gameplay. Stay away from this one unless you've played it before and know what you're getting into.