Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

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7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 365 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 234 out of 365
  2. Mixed: 56 out of 365
  3. Negative: 75 out of 365
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  1. MichaelG.
    Jul 3, 2007
    0
    Nothing worse than having steam d/c you when you get to the end of level and haveta do it all over again. And the worst thing is that multiplayer doesn't work for most people.
  2. LoganB.
    Aug 5, 2007
    0
    Steam is totally useless. I would give the game a 7 if it were not for steam but the constant updating, using 130mb ram and always trying to get online just dragges the game down to steams level.
  3. StuartLipscomb
    Dec 29, 2007
    0
    Steam ruined this game. First, it took about 20 minutes to install. Though I can't really complain about that. It is a big game. But then I went and tried to play, only to find out that I could not play until it updated. This update is still going after about two hours. It's at 94% now and I have 1.5Mbit download speed. Also, it took several tries to make it install. TheSteam ruined this game. First, it took about 20 minutes to install. Though I can't really complain about that. It is a big game. But then I went and tried to play, only to find out that I could not play until it updated. This update is still going after about two hours. It's at 94% now and I have 1.5Mbit download speed. Also, it took several tries to make it install. The installation is handled by Steam and it is buggy as shit. I don't care how good the game is. I'm going to see if I can exchange it for something else. I'll grab a copy of Lost Planet off the pirate bay if anyone ever manages to remove Steam from it.… Expand
  4. KyleD.
    Jul 19, 2007
    0
    Badly made game! So many glitches and bugs in it. Runs like crap on the pc and Capcom wasn't smart enough to make two versions, one for xbox and one for pc so everything is messed up when played on pc. Don't Buy!!
  5. HobbyB.
    Jul 22, 2007
    0
    Only having problems with this game, it just does not want to run under vista. I have no hardware problems (computer is new), even cannot run it as admin.
  6. ElmerM.
    Aug 16, 2007
    0
    From what i've seen of the game it looks great.but i spent more time logging onto steam servers an getting updates than i do playing the game . bottom line is ,if steams gonna support a game at least make so plp. can play a game they paid for.this is as bad as ea games taking over ultima online , they've just took the fun out of the play.
  7. TylerB
    Dec 29, 2009
    0
    Why would a crappy port like this ever be allowed to be sold? I got it free as a present and still want to uninstall it. Crappy controls and the engine lags on a quad-core PC on lowest settings, it's just designed to NEVER RUN RIGHT. Controls as mentioned already are not good, very hard to aim or steer a VS. Guns are unrealistically balanced out and overall the idea of the game is Why would a crappy port like this ever be allowed to be sold? I got it free as a present and still want to uninstall it. Crappy controls and the engine lags on a quad-core PC on lowest settings, it's just designed to NEVER RUN RIGHT. Controls as mentioned already are not good, very hard to aim or steer a VS. Guns are unrealistically balanced out and overall the idea of the game is stupid with the thermal energy, you're always on the clock. If a planet is that cold there would be ways to live extended amounts of time without extract of alien monsters. Lastly story, typical Japanese 'long-haired hero goes through trials to find out he is a man after all' kind of story. He even holds a grudge against a monster that got his dad. A grudge on an animal is a pre-juvenile sort of thing. Overall the game itself is not the best, mounted on top of a super ineffecient engine that will never run fast and you got the makings of a crappy game no one should buy. EVER.… Expand
  8. TitaniumDragon
    Apr 30, 2018
    0
    Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions is a game that very much shows its age. Dating from late 2006/early 2007, this third person shooter was praised on its release for its graphical fidelity; today, however, all of the clunkiness of the game is on full display.

    You play as Wayne, a man who fights aliens that live on a snow-covered planet, but which have thermal energy buried in their bodies.    Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions is a game that very much shows its age. Dating from late 2006/early 2007, this third person shooter was praised on its release for its graphical fidelity; today, however, all of the clunkiness of the game is on full display.

    You play as Wayne, a man who fights aliens that live on a snow-covered planet, but which have thermal energy buried in their bodies. Killing them allows you to collect that energy, which serves as both a backup health bar as well as gradually depleting over time as you freeze in the cold environment. Run out, and you die. However, given the number of enemies you fight, that’s very, very unlikely – I regularly ended levels with close to 10,000 energy, which depletes only slowly.

    From a mechanical point of view, this game really shows how bad some old third-person shooters’ controls were. You can’t run while on foot in this game, instead moving around at a constant, quite slow pace. You can jump a short distance. You can fire a grappling hook, sort of Ocarina of Time hookshot-like, but you can only target the walls, so you can’t use it to travel around more quickly on foot, and it doesn’t control very smoothly. You can shoot, and the shooting is… vaguely competent, but not very satisfying, and feels kind of clunky, in part due to your low walking speed. You’ve got grenades, which are not terribly satisfying to throw, but get the job done. There are a few mecha-type vehicles you can climb into, but none of them really spice up the game all that much.

    All in all, then, this game is kind of hard to love. The aliens are theoretically interesting but in practice ended up feeling kind of samey, as you fought many of the same types over and over again, and while they’ve got some “shoot the weak spot” mechanics which should make them more interesting to fight, in the end, they actually didn’t feel all that fun to combat. The human enemies are pretty standard, and weren’t terribly exciting either. And all of this is overshadowed by an overarching “this game feels so clunky” feeling that is hard to shake.

    The actual plot is pretty mediocre as well – you are an amnesiac hero with a special power (namely, absorbing thermal energy), but there’s nothing to really love there. The characters are okay but nothing to write home about, and while the humans have not aged as badly as the terrain has graphically, they clearly are a product of the early Xbox 360 era.

    Perhaps the worst thing about this game is its use of Games for Windows Live, a now-dead service which requires a workaround to make function with this game on Windows 10 – and indeed, even on Windows 7 and 8. It took me close to an hour to find a way to make this game work, and it really wasn’t worth it.

    All in all, this is something that should be relegated to the dustbin of history – while the core concept of fighting aliens for their heat energy seems kind of neat, in practice it is a bog-standard third person shooter with nothing really remarkable about it save for how poorly it has aged.    … Expand
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#71 Most Shared PC Game of 2007

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Metascore
66

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. GamesRadar+
    80
    Shot-for-shot this is the same game console players had in January - a fantastic, hard as hell shooter that'll knock your eyes out of your head. But with no new content at all and a lack of the ultra-cool bonus multiplayer maps, we've got to dock it a bit.
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  2. 1UP
    50
    Talk about the old sound and fury saw -- you'll finish Lost Planet too soon and won't go back for seconds. That's really the definition of why not to buy something, isn't it?
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  3. GameSpot
    70
    Lost Planet's strong single-player campaign stands out, in spite of buggy online functionality and other missteps.
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