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Lost Planet 2 Hands-On Preview

By Jason - February 4, 2010 - 18:01 UTC

At the same event as Super Street Fighter 4, I had the opportunity to play Lost Planet 2, which I did.  Actually, it was the first thing I did, as some of community members, and staff, love it without any form of justification.  When I played the first one, I did it on PC, and I was not a big fan at all.  It was fun, but nothing WOW.

The level I played was fairly industrial, and whilst 4 player co-op was offered, I always end up being the early bird, so I jumped in with 3 bots.  My character was someone who looked suspiciously like Chun Li, but who oddly felt the need to cover her arms and face, but leave a decent portion of hers legs and ass flapping in the wind.  Interesting.  Throughout the level was a bunch of crates, conveyor belts and other fun little factory-esque goodies.  Now, I’ve not played the demo, so I don’t know if this level is different.  I can tell you, however, that it took me 45 minutes to complete the level, but some of that was me noobing around not knowing how to open a door (Hint, if in doubt, beat the hell out of it).

The conveyor belts in general were acting against you, so the action involved hiding behind crates, making a slow charge along the conveyor, hiding again.  If you stayed out of cover for too long, you got riddled with bullets; stay in cover too long, you’d be fed into a grinder.  Good times all round.  Did I mention there was also turrets and enemies trying to mow me down?

There’s plenty of weapons to be had, much as there was in the first game.  I also got to play around with the a smaller VS suit, only slightly bigger than the player.  This allowed for nice fluid movement, with all the benefits of higher armour.  When I finally did get a full sized VS, they were fairly clunky as you’d expect, I did spend a lot of time repairing them due to being useless at dodging.  What I did find awesome though, in the large VS’s, two co-op players were happy to jump on the side of my VS and shoot from there, giving me some extra firepower, and them some defense.

Lost Planet 2 reminds me of the original in a lot of ways, but it looks like they’ve added a lot of extra features to make the fans happy.  Dom, Yoda, you’ll love this game.  I’m not sold yet, but it’s early days.  I did have fun with it, but it didn’t blow my mind.