Lost Planet 2

[QualityChimp]

Only came out today in Japan.

Mystery: SOLVED!

[Eight Rooks]

Just co-oped my way through the rest of Episode 4. Christ, that was fun; decent team of pickups, and crappy AI or not the underwater level was hugely atmospheric. Wish I could afford the map pack! I always liked Island 902 in the first game, even if was Hu36!11!1!.

Speaking of which, I've only seen a couple of the maps for this one - mostly playing single and co-op - but they do seem equally impressive. The bombed-out warzone with the giant dome... thing in the middle was particularly good. (Plus spawn camping in a helicopter VS is the best kind of spawn camping. Tee hee. )

[Eight Rooks]

Okay, that was a frustrating and enjoyable night of multiplayer in equal measure - had some kind of horrible connection problems and dropped out three times in a row, whereupon Capcom's anti-ragequitting measures kicked in and I was told I couldn't earn any career points for the next eight games. So I gritted my teeth, switched back to wired (I seriously think the heat in this bloody room was playing merry hell with my ethernet cable), got eight successful games and had some of the most fun I've had with the game so far... only of course I didn't get any (tangible) rewards for any of it. Anger.

Eh, such is life. Christ, it was still good times, though - in particular one very frenetic match with heavy weapons on Cube and a game where the host jumped the gun and started early on one of the big levels when we only had eight people... which then turned into one of the most thrilling Enemy At The Gates experiences I've had online. Sniper battles in deathmatch games are quite often teethgrinding frustration, I admit, but every now and then they're pure gold.

[Riskbreaker]

Invisible ability and the Grapple make multiplayer for me. It takes a while to get into the mindset that you can ambush players from above or below. Had some proper Batman moments rappling out of the shadows from above someone, taking them out and then disappearing again.

Finally got Femmes upto level 80 last night, going to switch to NEVEC now and level them. Even with Superstar it's still a bit of a grind though.

[spagmasterswift]

Piece of piss!XD

[Riskbreaker]

How the feck did you manage that? I know there's some high scoring areas, but that's mental. You must have the patience of a saint.

I've got Nevec upto 85 and Femmes upto 80 so far. I'd like to max all factions, but it's taking alot of effort. Got one more chapter before unlocking Extreme, hopefully that playthough will power level one of the factions.

[spagmasterswift]

Its a secret...never teach the Wu Tang!

Had a crack on Extreme and its great, your health bar doesn't slowly refill so you need to be using lots of T-NRG to top it back up which makes you actually need to farm it for a change instead of just ignoring it for the most part in the lower difficulty settings. The akrid get proper eggy too!

[spagmasterswift]

Patch is out and it turns Easy into PissEasy. Your health bar regenerates faster than Recovery II ability so dying so far seems pretty impossible, you start with tonnes of T-ENG so if you equip a pulse weapon you have infinite ammo, enemies go down fast, VS go down fast...playing with no AI is just one big blast-a-thon. Great for grinding out those weapon Noms I guess or just messing around.

[Paulos G]

Indeed it is, Spagarooni. Had a quick blat on it earlier. Splendid fun.

[Riskbreaker]

Playing Extreme at the moment and it's still taking ages to level. A 6-4 run only netted me 40,000k which is only two/three levels once you get to 80+ Determined to keep going though. Might do an easy run just for the sake of it.

Glad the sprint has been tweaked though, much more useful online and off.

[Team Andromeda]

Indeed it is, Spagarooni. Had a quick blat on it earlier. Splendid fun.

Yeah ace fun

I can't believe the GFX in this game too , Framework II must be the best multi purpose and platform middleware engine there is . Better than Unreal III imo

[Decider-VT]

Well, apparently LP2 "underperformed" at retail. It's a shame really, as quite a lot of people wouldn't have been able to fully appreciate it by playing through to completion with a good group of friends (especially reviewers, apparently). Hope this doesn't hurt any chances of a third game or that the unexpectedly low sales figures cause Capcom to remove co-op from another sequel.

I still love the game (despite its flaws), even in single player. Can't wait to jump back in and get stuck into Hard and Extreme with a few friends.

[hudson]

It's a great game. One I need to get back in to.

[Kongster]

1.5 million copies sold worldwide represents underpormed sales of LP2? Blimey.

Great game all the same though and the free t-shirt rocks.

[MisterBubbles]

Anybody buy the DLC boss rush for PS3 , its fun and takes to the business end of the game.