really fun and great snow effects... by far the best seen in an xbox 360 game! really fun... get this game!

this game was one of the games that made me buy a 360 and i was far dissapointed i was not interested in the story and the only thing thats saving this game is how good itlooks but besides that this game is worth no more than a rent not a buy

There is nothing special about this game. I admit, i like the snow environments, but its just like any other game with the repetitive killing of monster after monster. It seemed when you were surrounded by 50 enemies, there was no need to panic because of the weak AI. I see potential but it didnt pull it off.

Lost Planet is by far one of the top games for the 360 in my opinion. It has a great storyline and a really fun multiplayer. The gameplay is incredible with it's explosive detail and weapons firing. The games story is an interesting one that deals with a man named Wayne that joins a group of people that discover groups of snow pirates and NEVEC soldiers. They set out to try to abolish all of the akrid. The game does have a short amount of levels, but that's all made up in the intense multiplayer. The multiplayer includes tons of different maps that are widely spread and have tons of nooks and crannys. If you do get board of all the maps you can buy new ones on the Xbox live marketplace. There are also tons of different team matches and layouts of how you want people to respawn. The weapons and Vital Suits also add for a wide range of explosion based fun. Overall along with Gears of War, this game is a great title to buy.

lost planet is amazing! the graffics are incredibul and i think its safe to say that the controls are the best ever in a game. n trust me i am veeeeeeeery picky about controls. there is a pretty good plot goin, alot of action and i like the way that thermal energy keeps regenerating ur health so as long as ur have that u will live. the boss battles are perfect as in they are def beatable but contain a challenge. the only reason on dont give this a 5 is because im a big time co op fan and this game is only 1 player so if u dont need co op in a game and love nonstop action with a good plot behind it u'll def love this game

Ok this is a good third person shooter! Finally something else that is a good third person shooter other than Gears of War. The Graphics are beautiful and the snow is very realistic. The sound quality is great! The killing of certain monsters is kind of repetititve. That doesn't keep this game from being good. It has Xbox Live Multiplayer and Downloadable content. Plus it adds a decent challenge.

Humanity just can't catch a break, can it? We have to abandon Earth for a planet which doubles as a cosmic snowball, and we get attacked by aliens. Shoot. Here's the deal: You have a health meter and you have a number. The number is how much thermal energy is in your protective suit (it's cold out there, remember?), and the life bar is...well, life. When your thermal suit runs out of energy, your life starts going down. When it gets to the end, you lose. So how do you get thermal energy? By killing things and grabbing glowing things that come from their bodies. If that sounds tough, it's not. It's actually fun. The rest of the gameplay is fun too, once you learn the controls. But this game's strength is graphics. There was a reason they built the 360 with so much horsepower: It was for games like this to fully take advantage of that. Lost Planet does.

Unlike many other reviewers i really enjoyed the game. The whole thing is amazing. It has great gameplay and the picture perfect graphics make it even better. The only thing that i didnt like too much were the onlineb battles. This is one of the War or shooting games that's online or multiplayer mode i didnt enjoy a lot. But overall it is a great game and if you have a 360 you should get it.

As videogames evolve and become closer to interactive movie experiences, two things happen. First, the graphics become so close to mimicking real world physics, lighting, and textures that the aesthetic layer that separates us from the world we are playing becomes so minute that we become much more immersed in these incredible little experiences. The second, and much more important of the two, is that the challenges that await us become much more dynamic and challenging through intelligent game design and freakishly human-like enemy tactics. And the one thing I have been noticing is that most Japanese action games lack the second of the two needs of a next-gen title. Lost Planet is one of these Japanese action games that suffer this extremely frustrating fate. First, however, I will concentrate on the games good points. The graphics, for one, are phenomenal. The alien creatures are designed with great animations and the explosions blind the screen with oversaturated light and the smoke plumes into an impenetrable fog. The amount of action onscreen is often astonishing and the environments, especially the tunnel areas, are breathtaking works of interactive art. You really must see this game in action to understand how good this generation of consoles is going to look. The sound is also first rate work. The explosions are loud and thunderous and guns crack piercingly through the air. The sounds the Akrids make are also original and just plain fun to hear. Something about the sound of shotgunning a giant bug just makes me feel good inside. And for a surprising turn of events, the voice acting in this game is pretty damn good. Good voice-acting in a Capcom game? How did this happen? The controls are another one of the games good features, mainly due to the original handling of aiming. Its like a regular first person control scheme, but the aiming places your reticule in a kind of circular range of motion before you start to actually turn the screen in a different direction. It makes aiming incredibly precise in the middle of the screen, but gives you the ability to turn quickly around if need be. I havent seen this in a game before and I definitely hope to see more of it. And now for the bad. As I have typed above, this game does have a big problem. The problem is that a lot of Japanese action games of late have been relying on old, cheap ways to make a game more challenging. Back in the day, developers did not have a lot of processing power to push advanced tactics and A.I. into the games enemies, so they relied mainly on overwhelming odds, enemies and bosses with too much health, and limited aid to the player. Lost Planet is one of those newer games that rely on those old, cheap tricks to make the game challenging. In the first two levels, it is not apparent as the game is fairly easy, but after that you realize the developers werent too smart. In the game you have to constantly collect thermal energy dropped by enemies before your health runs out, yet you have to remain tactically sound or you will run head first into a rocket. The enemies become too many and too strong fairly quickly and after playing over a certain section of the game for the fifteenth time; you will begin to question your faith. Now Im not saying the game is too hard or too challenging. Its just poorly designed. Games like Gears of War, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and Call of Duty 3 are very hard in certain parts, but they are hard because the enemies are smart and the game is designed very intelligently and not because the developers are lazy and put in cheap game mechanics to make the game hard. Now, there is a multiplayer option to fight against less annoying opponents, but this game was obviously made to be a single player game. The most frustrating thing about it is that there is a great game in here; you just have to go through hell to find it.

mechs are a bit slow and frustrating at times but gameplay is fun. nothing too new about the game in terms of evolution of gaming. bosses around every corner make this game a must have for sure.