This means that should you die near the end of a chapter trying to figure out what the game wants you to do, which it never really tells you, you’ll have to play the whole thing over again.
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There are no checkpoints between missions, meaning you’ll need to complete a full chapter to save your progress in Lost Planet 2, which can often take more than an hour to play through. Lost Planet 2 is split into 6 episodes of multiple chapters each, and each chapter has several missions. Another problematic area is the game’s level design.
While each episode manages to show something different, the game feels disjointed and hard to follow, and eventually bogs down in anime and old-school video game cliches. Corruption of Champions 2Īs this squad and everyone else realize what NEVEC is up to, they… well, they pretty much all make their way in a prescribed direction without talking or communicating with each other, and only one group of pirates actually does anything meaningful. The game’s six episodes take place from several perspectives – including an extended and ill-advised jaunt through some semi-offensive ethnic stereotypes toward the end – though the focus sits mainly on a squad of NEVEC commandos that quickly realize, to quote the cliche, that they’re in for more than they signed up for. Meanwhile, military organization NEVEC has plans to exploit the massive Cat-G Akrid that have begun to appear for their valuable thermal energy, even if their goals destroy the planet in the process. Lost Planet 2 takes place ten years later, as the formerly frozen EDN III has begun to thaw, and even more pirate factions are fighting for territory. The story is, remarkably, even less coherent than the previous game’s focus on amnesiac Wayne and his quest for identity. Lost Planet 2 is fixated on elaborate activation sequences, and there’s generally at least one section per chapter that forces you to wade through some kind of convoluted Rube Goldberg machine in order to complete your objective – that is, when the game is good enough to tell you how you’re supposed to complete that objective in the first place. Even worse, you’ll often be forced to endure agonizing waits as you hammer the B buttons at data posts, or impatiently sit in a Vital Suit while it goes through an activation sequence that repeats every time you enter it. Every animation is over-emphasized to the point of getting in the way of playing the game. The grappling hook (or anchor) can still only be used with feet planted firmly on the ground, and your character jumps like their pockets are full of rocks. Want to activate that data post or Vital Suit? We’ve got a B button for that. Want to run? Well, that’s also the B button. The controls remain as clunky as they were last time around, and deviate from the standard third person layout in perplexing ways. The bulk of many levels lack any musical accompaniment at all, leading to an often quiet monster hunting experience. The music is also excellent, with sweeping, epic orchestration punctuating major moments of the game, though it would have been nice to hear it more often.
Control-wise, Xbox 360 controllers are fully supported along with the keyboard and mouse, which is fully re-mappable.
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However, you should know that the much touted DirectX 11 mode is only available with a DirectX11 compliant card (the 5xxx series for ATI and the GT4XX series and above for Nvidia). This got me a framerate in the high 30s to low 40s at 1920×1080. On my Core i7 3.2 Ghz, GT260 SLI system, I had to experiment a bit with settings to get something satisfactory, and finally settled on everything maxed and v-synced, with no AA. PC players can look forward to a very scalable experience with a fair amount of options to tweak.
There seems to be a bit less variety in the kinds of alien akrid enemies on display, but this is made up for by the variety of enemy factions you encounter – and play as. From familiar ice fields to jungles and cities and deserts, the world of EDN III is often a sight to behold. Lost Planet 2 is with few exceptions a beautiful game that always seems to have something new to show the player. We’ll get the good out of the way first though.
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