Lost Planet 2 is, like its predecessor, an extremely straightforward shooter. After that, you're bundled together and whisked off to a jungle environment for the initial mission proper.Īnd then things seem to get immeasurably less interesting. There's no threat of death, and everything synchronises perfectly, including cutscenes, with a neat boss battle rendezvous at the end. We did eventually realise that Lost Planet 2 does something that, for some reason, isn't commonplace in co-op games: it starts with two teams of players doing entirely different things, and they only reconvene after their own particular prologue. I was starting to wonder if I'd joined the wrong multiplayer session. Unless he'd suddenly transmogrified into Chuck Norris, this scenario seemed unlikely. I was bleating about mounted guns and flying enemies and he claimed to be piloting the vehicle, which on my screen was a drop ship whistling through a canyon. The Time It took for my co-op buddy and I to wrap our feeble minds around what was happening during Lost Planet 2 prologue was embarrassingly lengthy.

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