Friday 8 February, 2008

ENTRY #1

SUMMARY

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a first person shooter in which you control a character called Wayne in another world called E.D.N. III. You must shoot your wat through gigantic hostile bugs called the Akrid. All the while the player must keep himself alive by keeping the Thermal Energy Level up.

GAMEPLAY

The most noticable thing about Lost Planet is it's heavy emphasis on the plot and story. About 20 of the first 60 minutes of gameplay lend themselves to deeply informative cut-scenes. The main character which the player controls is Wayne. Being part of the new wave attempt to colonize the planet E.D.N. III you are confronted by a giant creature refered to as Green Eye. As the story and gameplay progress in the introduction, I felt confused as to what excatly to do while being chased by this gigantic creature. The controls do not seem very natural to the keyboard and they seem to be a cheap transition from the Xbox360 control scheme. Set-up of the controls was irritating and took a good 10 minutes out of play.

Ofcourse the game has majesticly amazing graphics, which of course lead to about 15 minutes of just configuring what would work best with my system. Once the tweaking of settings got out of the way, the rich gameplay bgins. It was fun to see yourself enter a Vital Suit (VS) robot suit and attempt to even harm the giant creature known as the Green Eye. I did feel flow during this game, but it was more of flow of the story as once the introduction was done there was easily about 5-10 more minutes of cutscene time. The cutscenes added to the interest I felt about exploring the snow covered tundra plains.

Where's the second entry?

Other than that, this is acceptable, with a decent summary and explanation of the basic setting, though low on describing the actual gameplay. Next time, just remember a second entry and it should be fine.

Amy Leek (grader)