Lost Planet 3 Preview: Surviving the Pressure
“This is the closest that the franchise has come to my original vision,” says Lost Planet’s creator Kenji Oguro seconds before we first lay eyes on the surprise third entry in Capcom’s extreme conditions action series. That may well be the case, but Lost Planet has had to travel some 5700 miles from where it was first conceived to get there. Once the lights come up after an impressive and generous hands-off demo of Lost Planet 3, there’s one image that lingers long after that of the stomping mechs facing off against giant enemy crabs against the cold, blue backdrop. It’s that logo in the lower-right of the screen as the credits fade in, revealing exactly who is behind this expansion of a series that started at the dawn of this generation of consoles, and a series that looks to be sending it off in no small amount of style. Spark Unlimited, it says – and anyone who can remember as far back as 2008 will forever associate the Californian developer with two of the most turgid games to grace this generation: Turning Point and Legendary: The Box. Read more…
