Rent it First
Lost Planet came out on 360 roughly a year ago now capcom have decided to port over its arctic shooter to the PS3 with some decent results. The best way to describe lost planet is conundrum it takes quite a while to wrap your head around the controls, which is this games first fatal flaw. The controls are so awkward take for example zooming in and out is handled with the D-pad instead of clicking the R3 this will frustrate many shooter fans like myself but you eventually get use to it. Aiming is also some what weird its really hard to describe it in words but play something like gears of war or ghost recon and then jump into Lost Planet you'll understand. The difficulty of the game is also in question, in traditional capcom fashion each boss has a pattern that you must learn but what makes this game so frustrating is getting shot and stumbling, it seems Wayne the main protagonist of LP has legs made of noodles because he stumbles for everything an enemy slams his feet he stumbles, you get shot you get stunned and slow down for a couple of seconds which makes firefights some what a pain. Like traditional shooters you have a rebounding health meter but here you need Thermal Energy. Thermal Energy is very much mana in this game you need it to get your health back, want to pilot mechs you need TE, but fortunately there is plenty of TE to go around because everytime you kill an enemy they drop TE. Lost Planet length may vary on your skill I clocked in around 4 hours and 53 minutes, after you've beaten the game there really isn't and reason to go back. You'll probably get more play time out of the lost planet's multiplayer which is surprisingly good you get your standard modes team deathmatch and deathmatch but no capture the flag instead you get Post grap which is very much territory from battlefield. Overall Lost Planet is a decent game the good news is that its going at a budget price of 40 dollars but its still hard to recommend I suggest rent it first and if you get into the Muiltiplayer then go for it.