Bugs sounded juicy and explosions felt powerful. These were well-directed and action-packed with numerous “wow moments.” Even the soundtrack and audio made the experience more involving. One thing I did thoroughly enjoy were the cut scenes. I can understand this from a mindless bug but not from the most evolved species now known. If they do notice that they’re almost dead or have an object to deactivate, they’ll run in a straight line oblivious to cover or impending death. Even firing on said enemies might not cause them to react. It’s a common occurrence to run into an area and see the enemy just standing around or looking at a wall. Or they’ll stand there taking pot shots at a bug the size of a skyscraper when there are heavy weapons laying right beside them.Įnemy AI doesn’t fare any better, though, so at least it’s a level playing field. Your teammates would often run right past these without activating them, making you backtrack to do it yourself. These act as spawn points when you die (you’re given a certain amount of lives before you see the game over screen) and also enable the mini-map that shows the location of all enemies in an area. Like the first game, Lost Planet 2 has various data posts that should be activated. Scratch that - I would prefer rocks that I could throw at enemies instead of the horrid placeholders running beside me. It’s made even worse by the fact that your teammates are dumb as a rock. Why should I be concerned about a haphazard plot when all of the characters are stripped of all vestiges of humanity? Even your AI-controlled teammates are “random” players that are given a new name each time you login to the game. During a game, you’ll end up controlling a few different characters with a severe lack in individuality. Granted, some of them are clones but that feels almost like an excuse to fall asleep at the creative wheel. Each human is just another face behind a mask, all looking the same. Character models were shown loving attention, but there just isn’t enough variety in the humanoid characters.

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