

The old faithful standby whenever you start a new level or sublevel, you'll be carrying a machine gun into battle with you.


The machinegun will be a handy tool for most of the game. Weapons are divided up into three categories: personal guns and rifles, grenades, and VS weapons and rifles. While your choice of VS will usually be a matter of finding whatever's available, you'll generally have a bit more flexibility when choose weapons. You're going to have plenty of weapons to choose from in Lost Planet, and you're going to have to use most of them to get through the game. You can expect videos for all of the bosses, as well as some tips on getting through the levels and which weapons to select as you play. GameSpot's Game Guide to Lost Planet is intended to be a walkthrough for the single-player portion of the game, first and foremost. Lost Planet lets you take on the role of Wayne as he battles across the ice-covered surface of the world, into NEVEC's underground facilities, and through the heart of a volcano. The action, though, should sustain most gamers for a few hours of fun. Characters come in and out of the story, plotlines pop up and disappear just as quickly, and there's never really any coherent theme to the game. Honestly, the story in Lost Planet is about as confusing a hodgepodge of random cutscenes as you're likely to find anytime soon. The largest faction is NEVEC, a scientific group that's attempting to terraform the planet, while the ice pirates, of which Wayne is one, wishes simply to be left alone to live their lives.

After the colonizing project took off, though, the planet's intimidating climate and fiercesome fauna became problematic for the settlers, which quickly factioned and split. III, which was intended to be a new outpost for the human race. Lost Planet tells the story of Wayne, a colonist on the planet of E.D.N. Now, in winter, Capcom's shipped its long-awaited game Lost Planet. In fall, they released Street Fighter II for Xbox Live Arcade, which quickly became the quickest-selling XBLA game after its launch. Last summer, they released Dead Rising, a critically acclaimed (and fan favorite) zombie adventure game. It's been a good year for Capcom and the Xbox 360. By: Matthew Rorie Design: Randall Montanari
