lostplanetboxCapcom’s highly anticipated shooter brought some great visuals and solid gameplay, but lack of a decent story and some design issues, to say the least, prevented it from being the first must-have game of 2007.

GameSpot (81/100) “Lost Planet is a great action game because it focuses on tense, thrilling battles that don’t require much input beyond a constant trigger finger and healthy desire to kill everything that moves. There’s very little downtime in the single-player game, and there’s always plenty of stuff to shoot. That makes it easily entertaining if you’re just in the mood to kick back and put your brain on standby for awhile.”

IGN (85/100) “Lost Planet is a great game that suffers from a few bad design decisions. The graphics are excellent by any standard with only v-synching issues preventing them from looking truly amazing. The enemy design and amount of action they deliver makes for great gameplay that is hampered by control mechanics that get in the way of the experience. Add in a stumbling story and you have a game that doesn’t quite reach the levels of some of the more outstanding titles we’ve seen in recent months.”

GameSpy (80/100) “There are some stumbles here, no question, but Lost Planet is a unique vision, a mix of NES gameplay and cutting edge graphics, with some great multiplayer to boot. Pick it up to see what happens when one of the industry’s biggest companies actually takes one of those “risks” we keep asking for.”

Eurogamer (70/100) “Lost Planet: Extreme Condition feels like it had the potential to be a pared-down shooter classic, but never quite manages to make the core combat exciting, varied or challenging enough to elevate it to the lofty realms that early showings suggested it would reach.”

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