You can go it alone if you wish, but take note that you’re always going to be playing a cooperative campaign, regardless. In the sequel, the story-driven single-player campaign of the original has been replaced by a cooperative campaign, which can be played with a team of up to 4 players, human or A.I. The unfortunate reality of Lost Planet 2 is that it’s a title so cluttered by poor and dated design choices that even the simple “kill some crap with your buddies” formula can’t save it from itself. Heads up: this description isn’t a rough draft or anything, it’s just that following the muddled story of Lost Planet 2 is mostly confusing and pointless despite slick, Hollywood action movie-style cut-scenes, there’s little substance, and it’s probably in your best interest to ignore it anyhow.īut who cares - this game’s about killing big monsters with your friends, and using big guns with even bigger mech-style suits, rights? That should be fun, right? Not quite. And something about snow pirates and big insect-monsters called the Akrid. There’s some stuff happening - a civil war, I think - and people are fighting over Thermal Energy (T-ENG), a precious substance that man is simply willing to die for. The story of Lost Planet 2 starts ten years after the events of the first title.
Lost Planet 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC ) Four players together? Killing huge monsters online? If Capcom could just address some of the issues players had with the original, what could possibly go wrong? Things were looking good when the publisher announced Lost Planet 2, a title that gamers hoped would trump the original, bringing with it a four-player cooperative campaign. It shipped with a decent multiplayer mode that Capcom continued to support, due to gamer interest, well past the game’s initial release.
It featured stunning graphics that drove home the point of high-definition “next-gen” visuals, with massive, elaborately detailed monster boss battles like we hadn’t seen before. In 2007, Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was a decent start for a franchise.