Lost Planet 3
How is still the worldview of people in different hemispheres of the Earth is still very different. In many ways, it was thanks to this that we rejoiced for many years of diverse and original games, starting with the adventures of mustachioed plumber and ending with fantastic shooters about scientists with a mount.
However, the trend is such that Japanese studios are increasingly looking at overseas Dali. Apparently, soon one studio with a unique look at things can become less. Capcom expansion (for a moment, one of the largest gaming companies in the Land of the Rising Sun) is gaining truly frightening momentum. Revivation of Bionic Commando, Dark Void, Dragon’s Dogma and Dead Riding initially rushed to the audience of Hajisins, and Devil May Cry and Resident Evil gradually changed under the onslaught of globalization. Now this list has replenished Lost Planet.
The wonderful original was somewhere at the junction of two cultures, while the dubious second part lost the self-identification and went into the jungle of a super-modified multiplayer at that time. Therefore, from the third part we expected primarily a return to the origins – an exciting adventure, full of dangers, combat robots and snowy plains.
It seemed that Capcom also think so. More precisely, they probably really wanted to make an exciting game for us. Only now to hire the right people from the Japanese does not always go out. For some reason, they equipped Spark Unlimited to develop Lost Planet 3, the authors of the mediocre shooters Turning Point: Fall of Liberty and Legendary, who are strict production of the decrease, alas, did not help much.
I went to work
With the plot itself, the game has a complete order. The action takes place on the same ice planet E.D.N. III, long before the events of the first part. The new main character is a caring husband, father and master of all hands Jim Payton – one of the first immigrants from the ground.
He moves far from a better life: the energy crisis is raging at home, and an increase in the family just happened in the family. So the trip to the distant worlds saw Jim in a good way to make money.
[[Bullet]] that the developers transferred from previous parts is the love of orange color.
The guy would know what troubles are waiting for him on the planet forgotten by God, it would be likely to find a job easier for himself. Although the first time everything seems very rainbow: Payton literally immediately becomes a favorite of the authorities and the most effective employee of the base, and not freeze during severe colds, he is helped by touching video offons of his wife.
The script is hard to call a revelation, here and there, borrowings from a variety of sources are regularly slipped from, from " Avatar "James Cameron and" Star landing "Verkhoven to the beautiful" Moon 2112 ". However, he performs his function properly – motivates to pass and makes him break through to the next video. For this, first of all, it is worth giving thanks to the characters: rare appearance in the frame of the aforementioned spouse, some small scenes with partners or unsuccessful jokes of the mechanic Gail, even if they cause regular attacks of dejaugu, but still carry some kind of warmth and make them smile. So to engage in the drilling and genocide of monsters living on the planet – giant beetles – I want to find out how to find out how the stories of the beloved heroes will end.
The warmth of your bodies
But when it comes to work itself, the picture looms far from so rosy. There are no special problems with mechanics: despite the apparent primitiveness, it is very interesting to shoot here. Acrids boast not only a variety of appearance, but also a unique approach … to you. Some simply attack close, others prefer to tickle the nerves from the air, others are curled up with a kalachik and roll straight to the hero, and some even know how to shoot with some kind of acid. Thanks to this, the style of the game is constantly changing: here we just fought off from all sides of alien cockroaches, as if from a zombie from Resident Evil, and the next moment the gameplay turns into a positional action like GEARS of WAR.Only with his ancestor, the first Lost Planet, the game has little in common. Two central ideas-a hook-cat and dependence on T-energy, even do it remain, but perform slightly different functions. So, now it will not be possible to climb the roof of the building and from there with impunity to water the opponents with fire. From now on, the hook is used only on holidays and only in those places where it is planned by designers.
[[Bullet]] Bosses still “understand” in parts, only now they go on the stage too often.
Our life also no longer depends on thermal energy: in Lost Planet 3, the orange slurry acts as a currency, and the hero cannot freeze at all thanks to his “magical” costume. This is not that the gameplay spoils greatly, but significantly slows it down and … makes a little more standard. If in the original we rushed at the speed of Sonic, flew from one place to another and constantly shot in attempts to get as much as possible for the survival of the resource, then here the gameplay became much more calm and measured.
[[Bullet]] The game looks quite weak, but beautiful landscapes and good facial animation pull it to a decent level.
Trips in giant armored boats, which so loved many in the original, slowed down. Not only weapons and perspective have changed – now we look at the world straight from the cabin – the fur itself has become much more heavy and clumsy. A huge car moves no faster than the turtles, is very vulnerable in battle with small enemies, and in battles with large monsters of the gameplay, it boils down almost to QTE: I pressed the button on time-I repelled the blow, pressed one more thing-and now the Bur with the characteristic sizes with the characteristic sizes with the characteristic sizes drilling someone's carcass. It looks, of course, spectacular, only for the second time it no longer causes much interest.
Working days
But it spoils the game not at all. To rummage through abandoned complexes, listening to benefits and looking for vulnerable places from new monsters is still interesting, in the battles, obsolete mechanics manages to look much younger than his age. The problem is different – the developers do not allow her to open up, do not try to entertain us. There are simply no memorable or original situations here. The process of destroying acrides is interesting in itself, but in Bonus Strike sister sites Spark Unlimited do not know how to submit it correctly. Instead, for some reason, for some reason, from time to time they try to portray horror and, attention, flirting with Openvorld.
[[Bullet]] Sometimes Lost Planet is trying to pretend to be a fantastic horror. Unsuccessfully.
The trouble is that the signs of an open world and a real open world are two different things. Lost Planet 3 has side quests, and upgrades, and NPC, and vast territories. But in fact, we are constantly driven by the same locations with tedious assignments: twist it, repair it, kill those. In attempts to convey the flavor of the life of the research base, the developers were too carried away and transferred boring workdays to the game, forgetting that we are primarily waiting for epic achievements from action. In the end, you can beat the stones with a brick in the country, but do this on the mysterious planet of the future? Ugh.
Passing it in the right hands DMC , On the other hand, Capcom nevertheless missed. Spark Unlimited had good ideas, but they did not have enough experience and talent to implement them. Lost Planet 3 is a pretty good game, it is better than the second part and can give a lot of pleasant emotions, but the non -working open world and repeating tasks quickly cause boredom. Even an interesting plot is not able to help her break out of the list of projects that are forgotten immediately after passing. Alas.
Reigracy:
Cool plot:
Originality:
Easy to master:
Gameplay:
6
Graphics:
7
Sound and music:
7
Interface and management:
7
Waited?
Capcom has become a victim of its own ambitions. Instead of a saturated plot action, we received a crooked Openvorld structure, in which a fascinating, but ruined game is traced.
Mania rating: 6.5
"Above the average"