Btw, I played and finish the Xbox port game 'Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions' over the weekend. I'd picked it up for cheapners a month ago at a games story and felt like some silly action gaming.
Overall, fun experience in an atmospheric setting (an ice planet abandoned by colonists and infested by huge alien insects). You fight on foot and in all sorts of mechs, all the while amassing 'thermal energy' as your health/fuel.
Most fights involve shooting the crap out of hordes of aliens or enemy soldiers, which can get pretty satisfying when you're in a shiny mech.
The entire game was basically a series of 12 missions of about 30-45 minutes each with a final boss at the end. Very traditional, but amusing.
The only big problem with the game is that it's a blatant console rip port. Stuff like you having to push a button to pick up additional ammo for a gun you're already using, instead of it instantly adding to your ammo pile. I mean seriously, what kind of retard-o design is that? How could I ever NOT want more ammo when it's me against hordes of aliens and soldiers?! Of course I'd pick it up. So yeah, that sucks.
Then there was the savepoint system. It only fucked me over twice or so, mostly because I was outperforming the game (being a PC shooter veteran vs. console), but I'd occasionally get cocky or fall into lava and have to start over again. Lame. Save points ftl. I didn't even know WHEN the game had saved. I had no idea until I died.
Last but not least the final boss, who required a pretty high level of obsessive compulsiveness to beat.
I think I replayed the fight like 30 times before I killed him. He has some retard attack that can pretty much kill you in 1 or 2 blows if you're unlucky, even if you've just spent 15 minutes hacking away at his ridiculous amount of health. Not cool.
All in all tho, enjoyable if a little short. It's worth 5 bucks if you're bored, but nothing special.
