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Story:

The long awaited Lost Planet 2 is finally available on 360/PS3. The game picks up basically where the 1st one left off. Colonist have began settling on the planet E.D.N III and there has been a sudden change in the climate of certain parts of the planet. Areas once covered in desolate baron snow, are now filled with lush vegetation and in some parts arid deserts. This warming of the planet is thought to be the act of the appearance of enormous creatures known as “Akrid”. These creatures inhabited the planet long before the humans, “snow pirates”, began settling. The Akrid’s from the original are back along with a slew other different types. This time around the Akrid have grown to monstrous proportions, Cat G, making them and even tougher opponent.

Campaign mode places the players of up to four co-op, the story is told through three different factions. Snow Pirates, Jungle Pirates, and NEVC. The story is split into six episodes and varying in number chapters within the episodes. As the story pieces together the basic goal. NEVC is trying to awaken an Akrid known as the Over G, (Akrid bigger and tougher than Cat G), once awakened they will kill it and consume all the thermal energy produced from it and abandon the planet to it’s icy grave. Goal Stop NEVC.

Review:The game takes everything that I loved about the first one and updates it, Controls, Graphics, VS’s, and of course the Akrid. The addition of co-op mode is a definite plus. The story is pretty blah, but there wasn’t much of a story to begin with in the first one. Character customization is a pretty cute add too. Allows you to change the look of your character by mixing and matching different character parts, set different abilities and weapons. You can even take your custom character into the campaign mode after completing the game. Multiplayer mode

is back as well, and with that a new addition called faction mode. Where your team will consist of one faction against another team of a different faction.

The bad:I believe that this game is more geared to fans of the the series and wont really attract new gamers. It’s basically Colonies 2.5 with co-op. The difficulty can be a lil unbearable at times, even on easy. Some controls are really clunky. The biggest let down was NO AKRID HUNTER MODE. It was my favorite mode and was really looking forward to it, but all in all it’s a pretty decent game. Loves it. 3/5