Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

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Description

Mankind left Earth 80 years ago in order to build a life on the planet E.D.N. III. As the colony grew, humanity encountered The Akrids, a bug-like alien race that declared war on the humans for intruding on their territory. The humans didn't have any effective means to defend themselves and had to retreat from the planet. During the course of the retreat, a young man named Adam had his father killed by a Akrid named "Green Eye". Scientists soon discovered that the Akrids were a source of precious thermal energy, stored inside their bodies. This needed resource gave humanity an economical reason to fight back. On Earth, the Vital Suit was developed, a heavy weapon mech-like vehicle, Returning to E.D.N. III, Adam is among the many Vital Suit pilots, and seeks to avenge his father's death.

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a 3rd-person shooter. Controlling Adam, the player makes war on the Akrid armies. Adam's main objective is to destroy Akrid hives, and ultimately defeat "Green Eye" but there will be several goals for him to complete along the way. Adam can hold two weapons and one type of grenade at the same time. In addition, Adam can find different Vital Suit upgrades to give himself new abilities. Since it's very cold on the planet, thermal energy is needed to survive and restores health energy. In order to get it, Adam can either activate Data Posts or destroy things that have it in them like exploding barrels or enemy Akrids. The thermal energy stored slowly decreases over time and needs constant replenishing.

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition also features a multiplayer mode where players can go online and play in four different game-modes against up to 16 other players. Besides the usual Deathmatch and Team-deathmatch; there is "Station Control", where players try to find and activate data posts on the map and "Fugitive", where one player flees from all the rest killing opponents and waiting for the timer to count down.

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Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: MT Framework
• Japanese PlayStation 3 game releases with full English support
• Japanese Xbox 360 game releases with full English support
• Lost Planet series
• Physics Engine: Havok
• Technology: amBX

User Reviews

Metroid meets Turok on a frozen planet

Windows

IKNOWPCGAMES81 (6)

Critic Reviews

Bravo Screenfun	Xbox 360	Jan 24, 2007	A-	91
Game Informer Magazine	Xbox 360	Feb, 2007	8.25 out of 10	82
TTGamer	Xbox 360	Jan 21, 2007	8 out of 10	80
Game Informer Magazine	PlayStation 3	Mar, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Xbox 360	Jan 11, 2007	16 out of 20	80
Futuregamez.net	PlayStation 3	Mar 26, 2008	77 out of 100	77
CanardPC	Xbox 360	Feb 01, 2007	6 out of 10	60
IGN	Windows	Jun 29, 2007	5.8 out of 10	58
1UP	PlayStation 3	Mar 04, 2008	C+	58
JeuxVideoPC.com	Windows	Jun 27, 2007	10 out of 20	50

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Trivia

Re-release

In May 2008 the original game was re-released for the Xbox 360 and Windows with additional features as Lost Planet: Colonies.

Sales

According to publisher Capcom, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition has sold 1.6 million copies worldwide since its initial release (as of June 30, 2016).

Technology

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is the first retail game to showcase DirectX 10 technology.

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Related Web Sites

• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (official website)
• Capcom - Lost Planet (Capcom's official site for Lost Planet games.)
• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Lost Planet.)