The end result is a bloated, confusing story that lacks personality and any plot devices that will pull you through the episodes. Idiot AI: There's more than one reason you're going to want to play through Lost Planet 2 with a friend or friends. Playing on your own means you have to rely on up to three of the biggest idiots found in gaming.
These guys will stand statue still as they absorb clip after clip of bullets. They'll refuse to help you complete mission-ending objectives that are nearly impossible to finish on your own. They'll even disappear at times, as if the three of them ran out to buy a six pack of beer, leaving you to blow the building-sized kneecaps off the latest Akrid horror to dig its way out of the ground and into your path.
Cooperative gaming should be a choice, not a necessity. To make matter worse, the enemy AI was blessed with the sort of intelligence that borders on psychic.
Somehow predicting when you would pop your head out of a train door, or building and timing shots from across a map to kill you instantly. This is most frustrating on a level about halfway through the game. A level that was so long, so peppered with control and AI issues that it could cause people to just give up on the campaign entirely. Loading Walls: Just when I thought we had gotten past invisible walls in games, Capcom comes up with a new and more frustrating use for them: Loading screens.
Often they don't even bother to hide these loading walls behind a bit of sensible graphics. Instead, you'll be walking through a jungle, or winter scape when you see a red line on the ground and a few feet later you're just unable to proceed until the countdown hits zero. Funky Split: I'm a big fan of split-screen gaming, but don't even ponder playing Lost Planet 2 with a friend without an oversized TV. That's because Lost Planet 2 goes out of its way to not use all of the space it can to show gameplay.
Instead of splitting the screen in two, the game creates rectangles of gameplay in opposite corners of the screen and then fills the considerable black space left over with rather small maps. Grappling with Grapple: The grapple ability of Lost Planet 2 is tons of fun, but man is it glitchy. I lost so many lives and had to restart so many levels because my grapple decided mid-zip to stop and drop me to my death.
These glitches sometimes had to do with walls, or blocking objects, but more often than not it was a random, painfully annoying occurrence. I decided not to list online multiplayer as either a loved or a hated, that's deliberate. While playing the game in multiplayer matches online is fun, it doesn't rise to the level of supplanting any of the things I felt needed to be pointed out about the game, both good and bad. I ended up playing through Lost Planet 2 nearly one and a half times.
First playing through more than a third of the game with my son cooperatively using final, but not retail code, on the Xbox Then finishing the campaign completely on the PlayStation 3 on my own.
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English and 8 more. Publisher: Capcom. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. We are temporarily disabling the purchase option on Steam while we investigate the matter further. We will keep you informed of the progress of the investigation. Thank you for your patience. View Community Hub. Lost Planet 2 offers deeper insight into the world of E. N III and the uncertain fate of future mankind. Current page: Page 1. Home Reviews. Pros It's really pretty Staggeringly huge enemies Some great co-op ideas.
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