X360 - Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Tetsuo_Shima

In Cryo Sleep
Here's an IGN review of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, which was released today (Jan 12th) by the way.

I'm not too up to speed with this game (I never really took interest in it) so my rundown might be a bit off in terms of accuracy.

Basically, you play a bunch of guys on a snowy (and very cold. very very cold.) planet who are being oppressed by a bunch of bugs, the Akrid. You can fight against them on foot with firearms, or you can fight with mechanical vehicles called 'vital suits' that are bigger and better (and probably more comfortable) than hoofing it about in the snow.
It's an action game, and to make sure there is plenty of action the developers have implemented some kind of jiggery pokery to do with collecting strangely resourceful orange goop (that the bugs handily drop) to keep out the cold winter. Your goop gauge is shown somewhere on the screen, and if it runs out (i.e. if you run and hide and don't kill kill kill for goop) your goop gauge hits zero and you start to freeze to death.

Anyway, I'll let you read the rest for yourself.
 

Iron_fist

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from what i have seen of this game i'm tempted to go out and get a 360.

I think the jist of the back story is that the humans colonised this planet in isolated "Biospheres" and then the alien things attacked them causing them mainly to leave the planet leaving only military forces the military discovered that the aliens survived by storing\producing thermal energy (the orange goop). the humans then developed a way to use this energy to survive against the harsh climate and now the fight is on between the humans and the aliens

some of the ideas in this are really quite ingenious (a grappling hook that clings to pretty much every surface) and some of the mechs that are avaliable look pretty awesome though i have yet to play it im looking forward to doing so
 
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