- Jan 29, 2005
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It has beautiful graphics, but the rest is a let down. It runs smoother than the demo, however.
My personal complaints for the game are:
-Poor A.I (especially humans, they stand at one spot as long as you don't throw a grenade, and sometimes they move to reload, and that's it, otherwise it's like "hey look I shoot at you and I don't care if you're shooting at me since I have no waypoints to move thanks for the great A.I programmers).
-Animation delays (something I thought could never be annoying but suddenly becomes so in that game ... like a rocket is fired at you, or nearby, well it happened a few time to me, and my character simply stopped moving, on his feets, in thin air, and then only once he touched the ground then the "blew off the ground" animation started playing, it was kinda funny for a moment).
-Unresponsive controls (especially in those machines you control sometimes, but it might be related to my own mouse, but I doubt it).
-Short game (I haven't beaten it, but I called a friend who rented that game for his 360, he never bought it though, and he said he finished it within the two days renting limit, like 6 or 7 hours of total play he said, and that ain't very long, similar to ... say hmmm H-L 2 Episode One).
-Enemies avoidance ? (new category please) ... seriously, I'd swear I unintentionally reached "bosses", somehow, without fighting much at all, any humans and/or any Akrids (those alien creatures). It's not like there is any clear evidence or any set path so that you have to avoid them or anything, but the environment, sometime, is big, and big enough to just go around and explore it a little, even if there's only snow to see pretty much anywhere you go ... but then you walk and you walk ... and then you walk more, but without being aware of it you're just making your way to a boss and you just "missed" on the two, three or more groups of foes that should have been standing in your way). Add the fact that, as I said, the A.I won't go around and search for you, or just go around and just "search for something", covering more areas of the maps you play in, they always remain in specific scripted areas, if you go around those areas ... well, you won't have much to kill.
I also noticed (just before writing this) that IGN reviewed the PC version, and they gave it a score of 5.4/10 (Mediocre), and for once, and sadly I say it, I completely agree with them, but I'd have scored the graphics 10/10 though, I just love those particle effects and the snow effects, it's awesome, but I have low graphic standards so it does help. I honestly expected more from that game. I am left disappointed but somehow I also want more, because I believe that the concept behind it is great, but really ... PC gamers aren't used to arcade'ish game-play, and that's just what Lost Planet is, an arcade/console game on PC, somewhat not very well ported (history repeats itself of course). Meh ... at least I'll play it on-line when the developers decide it's time to let us play it on-line in the first place, because right now there are no stable servers (only found one, and it crashed just like the guy at IGN experienced).
My advice: don't buy it. Rent it if you can on the 360 if you have one, or ... I don't like to say this but really ... just download it, try the single player, and if you like it then buy it, but don't go out and buy it without trying it in a way or another first ... like I did.
My personal complaints for the game are:
-Poor A.I (especially humans, they stand at one spot as long as you don't throw a grenade, and sometimes they move to reload, and that's it, otherwise it's like "hey look I shoot at you and I don't care if you're shooting at me since I have no waypoints to move thanks for the great A.I programmers).
-Animation delays (something I thought could never be annoying but suddenly becomes so in that game ... like a rocket is fired at you, or nearby, well it happened a few time to me, and my character simply stopped moving, on his feets, in thin air, and then only once he touched the ground then the "blew off the ground" animation started playing, it was kinda funny for a moment).
-Unresponsive controls (especially in those machines you control sometimes, but it might be related to my own mouse, but I doubt it).
-Short game (I haven't beaten it, but I called a friend who rented that game for his 360, he never bought it though, and he said he finished it within the two days renting limit, like 6 or 7 hours of total play he said, and that ain't very long, similar to ... say hmmm H-L 2 Episode One).
-Enemies avoidance ? (new category please) ... seriously, I'd swear I unintentionally reached "bosses", somehow, without fighting much at all, any humans and/or any Akrids (those alien creatures). It's not like there is any clear evidence or any set path so that you have to avoid them or anything, but the environment, sometime, is big, and big enough to just go around and explore it a little, even if there's only snow to see pretty much anywhere you go ... but then you walk and you walk ... and then you walk more, but without being aware of it you're just making your way to a boss and you just "missed" on the two, three or more groups of foes that should have been standing in your way). Add the fact that, as I said, the A.I won't go around and search for you, or just go around and just "search for something", covering more areas of the maps you play in, they always remain in specific scripted areas, if you go around those areas ... well, you won't have much to kill.
I also noticed (just before writing this) that IGN reviewed the PC version, and they gave it a score of 5.4/10 (Mediocre), and for once, and sadly I say it, I completely agree with them, but I'd have scored the graphics 10/10 though, I just love those particle effects and the snow effects, it's awesome, but I have low graphic standards so it does help. I honestly expected more from that game. I am left disappointed but somehow I also want more, because I believe that the concept behind it is great, but really ... PC gamers aren't used to arcade'ish game-play, and that's just what Lost Planet is, an arcade/console game on PC, somewhat not very well ported (history repeats itself of course). Meh ... at least I'll play it on-line when the developers decide it's time to let us play it on-line in the first place, because right now there are no stable servers (only found one, and it crashed just like the guy at IGN experienced).
My advice: don't buy it. Rent it if you can on the 360 if you have one, or ... I don't like to say this but really ... just download it, try the single player, and if you like it then buy it, but don't go out and buy it without trying it in a way or another first ... like I did.
Right now I don't wanna make a fool out of myself running it with a 7600gs 
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