By Adam Smith on March 7th, 2013 at 4:00 pm.
Lost Planet 3 would like you to know that it has a plot, with characters, betrayals, twists and all sorts of things like that. Judging by this new trailer, it’s basically the plot of Fern Gully, Dances With Wolves and Avatar, except colder. I can’t help but think that’s a step down from Lost Planet 2′s narrative, for which I have the original script here:
Act One: It is not snowing. A moderately sized gun appears.
Act Two: It is still not snowing so there is a steaming, tropical jungle now. A large gun appears.
Act Three: There is such an incredible lack of snow that everything is a desert now. An enormous gun appears. Oh, and a mech too, I guess.
Let’s see what sort of scrape Bearded Space Jim has gotten himself into today.
At twenty five seconds, just after the crash and the black screen, a man furiously yanks at his reproductive regions and then our hirsute hero awakes, reacting to life in the same way that I do every single morning.
“We’re alive…”
Lost Planet 3 is out at the tail end of June.
07/03/2013 at 16:03 Discopanda says:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbclvfkrhI1rubjl2o1_400.jpg
07/03/2013 at 16:43 Paraquat says:
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
08/03/2013 at 00:40 Dave3d says:
LOL
Love Futurama.
OT
Would probably buy this if the first 2 were included with it.
07/03/2013 at 16:05 SkittleDiddler says:
Capcom has the most subpar IPs out of any AAA publisher that I can think of. The fact that a mediocre series like Lost Planet continues to exist is only proof of that.
07/03/2013 at 16:15 guygodbois00 says:
My thoughts exactly.
07/03/2013 at 16:39 Kreeth says:
It’s astonishing that something as utterly mediocre as the first one even got a sequel, let alone a THIRD outing. Was there genuinely nothing else to play when they came out or something?
07/03/2013 at 16:40 EPICTHEFAIL says:
Your writing is bad and you should feel bad. /Zoidberg
If the best that Capcom can come up with is “Avatar, only more idiotic” then they have truly hit rock-bottom. Also, thermal energy. WHAT?!
07/03/2013 at 17:06 bhagan says:
It’s the name of the game.
07/03/2013 at 20:45 Morlock says:
Lost Planet: Thermal Energy
07/03/2013 at 17:02 Hoaxfish says:
I think the ideas in some of their IPs are pretty good, and they have quite a lot of them… but the execution is certainly a problem.
07/03/2013 at 20:29 Wedge says:
Except Lost Planet is a fantastic, if extremely misunderstood series. Or it was anyways, when they were still making it, instead of all this awful outsourcing.
08/03/2013 at 03:22 Kestilla says:
I never played the first, but I played the hell out of Lost Planet 2. What pissed me off about it is after playing it, I realized the major reviewers not only lied about the PC version, but copypasted their original years-old reviews for the console versions, citing problems that had been removed from the PC game.
I also get the distinct feeling the vast majority of people who talk about it have never played it and have no idea what it’s actually about / why it’s fun. Of course they haven’t played it, the reviewers were dishonest and lazy.
Great fun, though. Ridiculously over the top, but excellent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijCUIzuwdQE&list=UUKUOA5V8CD1aKsCL3Ag4D4Q#t=1m42s
Wish I could find a better video than that terrible recording.
07/03/2013 at 20:55 Jonesy says:
Capcom has Dead Rising, a game which never let poor story get in the way of killing zombies with CHAINSAWS ON A KAYAK PADDLE!
07/03/2013 at 16:09 samuraidino says:
Am I the only one whos getting a weird Nicolas Cage vibe from that main character?
Im assuming so….
….god I love Nicolas Cage so much more than the Lost Planet series.
07/03/2013 at 16:17 DrWafflespHD says:
I created an account just to say that I completely agree. We can only hope Nic Cage would be on-board for the inevitable film adaptation.
07/03/2013 at 16:31 Trent Hawkins says:
Nick Cage doing a McReady impersonation, yes.
07/03/2013 at 16:38 Hardlylikely says:
Thanks, you just reminded me how disappointed I was with The Thing game. I don’t remember it well, I just remember feeling let down.
Thanks again, now I’m going to re-install a game I don’t recall enjoying to find out why. Awesome.
07/03/2013 at 18:11 Jake says:
Maybe Nic Cage crossed with Domhall Gleeson: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wlTGFkeclnM/URn8Xir6OCI/AAAAAAAAAfI/wBZJNEN5gWE/s1600/gleeson.jpg
07/03/2013 at 16:10 mehteh says:
His shoulders remind me of Dead Space 1 http://images.wikia.com/deadspace/images/4/47/Dead-Space-Wallpaper-.jpg
07/03/2013 at 16:15 Hardlylikely says:
In the screenshot it looks like a robot is hanging on to his shoulders from behind. I wonder what it is doing back there?
07/03/2013 at 20:27 Koozer says:
For a strange moment I thought he had glowy gloves and was doing a Wallace & Gromit impression.
07/03/2013 at 16:12 neolith says:
Will it once again come with the parody of a service that is GFWL?
07/03/2013 at 16:20 nimzy says:
He does look a bit like Jim doesn’t he? And if that’s any indication then Jim should start growing a well-groomed Space Beard immediately.
07/03/2013 at 16:22 Jesse L says:
Our protagonist looks like a total dongo in the header image.
07/03/2013 at 18:48 Colonel J says:
Looks likes a young Alan Rickman. Is he a dongo? I don’t know.
07/03/2013 at 16:33 LTK says:
I don’t know anything about the Lost Planet games but I am seriously impressed by the expressiveness of those faces. I wonder why this is so rare in games, or in the ones that I play.
07/03/2013 at 16:38 EPICTHEFAIL says:
Dude, Half Life 2 called, it wanted to talk about your Attention Deficit Disorder.
07/03/2013 at 17:50 Jesse L says:
He said it’s rare, not nonexistent.
07/03/2013 at 18:01 Low Life says:
Maybe that will change in the future, with the new consoles (or at least PS4) being able to render huge, realistic floating heads in empty spaces!
07/03/2013 at 16:37 PC-GAMER-4LIFE says:
Hope it comes with endless/mindless QTEs like RE6 did….oh wait that’s Tomb Raider !
RPS please do an article where you talk to developers about why QTE’s are becoming the new gameplay replacement as few gamers actually want them in any shape or form do they!
07/03/2013 at 16:40 HermitUK says:
The second one had its moments in co-op, when fighting some of the alien bosses, but they were few and far between. Really, this series needs to be a sci-fi Monster Hunter with big stompy robots suits. Rather than, as was the case in 2, spending 2/3 of the game focusing on various different human factions vying for control of a particularly large train.
07/03/2013 at 21:33 analydilatedcorporatestyle says:
I bought Lost Planet II(two, no really!) from ASDA and played it for five minutes after activating on Steam. Jumped back in my car and got a refund from ASDA(DRM’s early days). Still on my Steam games list, just for the street cred I guess.
07/03/2013 at 21:50 SuperNashwanPower says:
There is only one good thing that came out of the Lost Planet series. That thing is this:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/394-First-Place-Unskippable-01-Lost-Planet
08/03/2013 at 02:07 JKjoker says:
hold on…. hoooold on… we are going to spend the whole game murdering crazy wildlife that wants to eat us so that we can save them in the end (and possibly touch some blue alien/rebel daughter boobies) ?
the entire combat footage is against biological creatures so its either that or they are lying to us and it will pull a colonial marines by replacing enemies with humans/robots early on
you know… just pay up, lets kill everything, screw the planet