Presentation:
Alright so overall the story is pretty well done. At the beginning of this story you are saying what the hell is going on or why was I there? Well apparently during the course of the whole game, you play as various factions in each Episode. The factions that you play as will be the Snow Pirates, Ex-NEVEC Soldiers, and Desert Pirates. Majority of the game you play as the Ex-NEVEC faction. The story does not unveil until the end in which you realize that the factions stole all those gigantic vehicles to be used for a purpose at the end. Even when you defeat the boss at the end, you are still pondering what is going on when everyone survives. The story really is good, but it needed to be more thought out better and more clear to players not only at the end, but at least some in the beginning. Unless you actually think about the story at the end, you will not know what has been happening the whole time and will still be in your WTF stage.
Graphics:
The game looks like pretty damn good. If you have played Gears of War 2, it pretty much has the graphics of that. The explosions and water look great. The characters also were put into massive detail, especially the characters of Dom, Marcus, Wesker, and Frank West. Oh yeah.... and servbot! They have the faces and body detail just as if you were playing the actually games for each character. The trees, snow, and destruction scenes are great. The jungle makes you feel like you're in a jungle, snow inside snow and a snow storm, desert as if you are in a desert storm, and rain as if you were in rain. Overall the look of this game was very well done. Some of the maps can be dull at some point and some of the vehicles such as helicopters blow up weird and sometimes disappear into the map.
Game-Play:
First off, if you never played the first Lost Planet, the controls will be kind of odd to you. As this was my first time playing Lost Planet 2, I was weirded out by the controls. The controls though are not bad at all, you can edit them on the options menu to suit your needs. The aiming is another thing to get used to, it swirves and is in free aim mode which gets hard to shoot moving targets. The controls for VS are pretty straightforward, and after you play awhile, you really get used to the controls. The only thing i wish for them was to stop working on the Emotes your player can do, and the names you can get, and work on Checkpoints in the actual game. There are no checkpoints, meaning if you die, you start almost the whole chapter all over. Also, as many reviewers have menchioned, they said the enemies have camped the spawn. This has not been the case for me and my friends. The people who actually reviewed the game must have sucked horrific nuts to get camped by these enemies. I have had no problems with the enemies camping my spawn because there are always multiple spawn points to choose from. During the couse of the campaign, you can level up a character you choose from My Page on the main menu, and you can customize it to you little hearts desire. Also some negatives are most likely when you are on a train, you always fall off by accident or get blown off which pissed me off and my friends the most. Over all, the game play is well done and it just takes getting used to, but has pretty good customizable characters.
Value:
This game has pretty high replayability. Not only with the ability to unlock difficulties and move onto the next one, but it also has a vast variety of items you can unlock. You have five different characters you can choose to play in the campaign, in which you can customize from how they look, the weapons they have, the perks they get, the names they have, and the emotes they can do. While playing the campaign you get points to max out the level of this c
haracter, in which you gain new looks, weapons, perks, emotes, and names for each one. Each character has different customizeable look options, while they have the same names, perks, weapons, and emotes all your other characters have. The campaign is fun to go through again with your newly powerful characters and weapons which makes the playability different. Not only does it have campaign co-op, but it has online multiplayer which is fun but has the occasional lag. With the high community of Lost Planet 2 fans, this game would probably last another 1-2 years of people playing it, unless they release a new one next year.Presentation: 7
Graphics: 8
Gameplay: 8
Value: 8
