Who's tried out the LOST PLANET demo on xbox live?

[DarkStar]

If you've got an XBOX 360 connected to live you owe it to yourself to check out this demo. It's a shooter with some extremely good graphics and tight controls. The explosions are just about the coolest thing I've ever seen in a game. Also, you've got a grappling hook that you can shoot out and attach to just about anything you want, Bionic Commando-style. There's also mechs, which generally I don't like in games, but for some reason these mechs are handled really well. They're more exo-skeletons than mechs actually, as they control really nice and have two weapons that can fire independently. You can even detach the mech weapons and carry them around on foot.

Anyway, this is one game I didn't give a rat's ass about before, but now is a sure-fire purchase after the demo. I can't believe how polished it is and they still have over a year to work on it.

 

[Griz]

Yeah i've tried it. Didn'nt think it would be my type of game after seeing the trailer a few weeks ago but after trying out the demo this is definitely one that i'll be picking up. Kinda like a Gears of War meets Starship Troopers (in a good way) with snow...

 

[Gray Fox]

Dammed it looks amazing, but the gameplay doesn't seem to be varied, and level design simplistic.

 

[Warbie]

I enjoyed it too.

The mech in the demo was more agile than I thought it'd be, which makes a nice change from the rigid and plodding sort usually found in video games. I also liked the way you could pick and choose which weapons the mech would carry and was impressed with the on foot combat.

Good gfx, simple and solid gameplay - could be sweet

 

[VirusType2]

Also, you've got a grappling hook that you can shoot out and attach to just about anything you want, Bionic Commando-style.

:O Bionic Commando?! My friends dad had that game and let me borrow it .. almost 20 years ago for NES. Damn if that wasn't the best game because of that grappling hook!

BTW, what do you know about Bionic Commando? You don't know nothin' about no Bionic Commando son.



I'd like to see a game-play trailer of them using the grappling hook, to see how that worked out. I'm partially interested in this game already, but not enough to get hyped. I'll wait to see the final result.

Added:
I went and looked for some images of the grappling hook (where does it fire from? a weapon?) need images. Found this though:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/5/16/3990

 

[Asknoone]

Looking forward to this game! Snow! Though I haven't played the demo, I'm afraid.

 

[Cerpin]

I thought the demo was amazing. I loved the firefights with the snow pirate guys, intense stuff, with all the rockets flying etc.

The graphics are very very good, and very clean. I like the art direction in the game, especially for the Akrid aliens. Sort of a trippy japenese version of the Starship Troopers bugs.

I also liked that you always had to be careful about not freezing to death.

 

[Jangle]

Never heard it, I'll get on xbox live and download it now though.

 

[destrukt]

graphics == excellent; blur, explosions & so on.
gameplay == fairly excellent; grappling hook, mech + on foot combat & so on.
level design == pretty good, kind of 'so-so.'

any word on what mp will be like ? also, is there a set release date ? i'm looking forward to this, gears of war and some other games [hopefully] coming out before the end of the year.

 

[Asknoone]

I hope they concentrate on the single-player, not the multi. Too much multiplayer these days.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Weird to get a demo so early...

So how's the story? Does the demo give you any feel for what its all about? Does it hint at a great and epic journey or is it just run and shoot and grapple and mech and snow and explode and repeat?

 

[bizzy420]

after reading this i had to download the demo.....................................................meh it was ok. nice gfx though.

 

[TCfromBN]

I thought the mission where you went into the alien hive was pretty neat, looked pretty too. Loved the mech, and loved the fact that it wasn't over done. Liked the explosions from the barrels in that parking garage also. Pretty good demo IMO.

 

[3ssence]

Dl'ed this a couple of weeks ago, and apart from very nice graphics, i can't say that it set my world alight. The gameplay doesn't seem to be anything all that special, fairly simplistic. Maybe i'll go and give it another try and see if i change my mind.

 

[Ren.182]

I downloaded this and I enjoyed it really. Graphics are really nice and I found the enemies fun to kill. The mechs and guns were pretty cool too.

Doubt i'll buy it though.

 

[Jangle]

I really liked it. It was like a fun, arcade-style game with hawt graphics. I'll probably buy.

 

[Epsi]

It's great fun, but I go inside the base on the second mission, and about 5 mechs and a bunch of soldiers shoot me to death in seconds... am I doing something wrong?

 

[Jangle]

It's great fun, but I go inside the base on the second mission, and about 5 mechs and a bunch of soldiers shoot me to death in seconds... am I doing something wrong?

I think it's meant to be super-hard, so you don't actually complete the demo or something. I tried that bit so many times, and no matter how much I killed, more enemies kept coming.

 

[destrukt]

It's great fun, but I go inside the base on the second mission, and about 5 mechs and a bunch of soldiers shoot me to death in seconds... am I doing something wrong?

just to the right is a mech, get into that asap and use the 'special function' thing (the boost thing) to avoid being hit, also ,there are some rockets around so pick those up as soon as the shotgun runs out.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

I played it last night and highly enjoyed it. Maybe it can get repetitious, but the gameplay feels good, beautiful outdoor and indoor scenes. AI a bit dumb.

But riding the MEchs was awesome, I'm gonna get me this game . Shame it will take a while: Q2 2007

 

[VirusType2]

I played it last night and highly enjoyed it. Maybe it can get repetitious, but the gameplay feels good, beautiful outdoor and indoor scenes. AI a bit dumb.

But riding the MEchs was awesome, I'm gonna get me this game . Shame it will take a while: Q2 2007

I think it's safe to say that AI is usually one of the very last things to be worked on in games. There are many reasons, mostly because you want to create the characters first... then you need to have the level layout set up, so that you can program them to know their surroundings...

I would bet the AI will be improved quite a bit, if the game isn't due until mid 2007, and it looks this complete already, especially coming from Capcom. The AI in their games has never seemed buggy or dumb to me.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

I think you're right, and I'm sure this will be improved in the final release. For a demo, this was quite impressive, the only thing that bugs me is that they tease you with a demo 1 year before the scheduled releasedate. Oh well, all good things take some time we'll just say.

 

[Stigmata]

What? Last time I heard, this game was coming out by the end of August. Now I've got to wait a whole year to see it... just like Spore...

The demo is damn fun, too. The only thing I don't like is the fact that the zoom button is Up on the d-pad. Personally I think that's a little retarded.

 

[DarkStar]

I think you're right, and I'm sure this will be improved in the final release. For a demo, this was quite impressive, the only thing that bugs me is that they tease you with a demo 1 year before the scheduled releasedate. Oh well, all good things take some time we'll just say.

That's just the thing. It seems to me like the game is pretty much done.

Judging solely from the demo, they could release this thing tommorow.

Maybe only the two levels contained in the demo are done and polished though.....