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Peyton’s video messages with his wife hold emotional potential, but the thread never pays off. Lost Planet 3’s campaign doesn’t disappoint because it feels different it disappoints because it’s not better. There's even a little bit of Dances with Icicles once other inhabitants of the wasteland turn up. Peyton carries out mandatary and optional tasks for several clashing figures on the planet, including a forthright weather nut and a brutally focused scientist, who can't help but view a colleague's death as a productivity issue. Lost Planet 3 is most thoughtful in its cliched but well structured story, which pares down the sci-fi to tap on issues like militarization, corporate responsibility and restrained use of environmental resources. It's a game that manages to make third-person shooting feel like work - and one that makes work feel like something that more games should explore. It's worrying when the nicest thing you can say about a game is that the early sections manage to be boring in an interesting way, but it's true for Lost Planet 3. More Kerry Katona than Heston Blumenthal. Enemies are dull, weapons are lacklustre (the shotgun is one of the worst I've ever used and the melee attack is appalling), the mech isn't fun, and the multiplayer is blighted by similar issues that real-life foes can't fix. Spark has made its best game to date, but fails on so many levels the end result is still only a notch above a complete washout.
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If not for level design that’s full of frustrating inconsistencies, it might even have been good enough to fully recommend. Jumping in and out of the mech keeps it from being just another cover-based shooter. Lost Planet 3 at least has a respectable story and some combat variety to it, even if the pieces don’t always come together quite right. It went beyond predictable third-person shooter conceits often enough to make me glad I explored it, even if I wondered where the "could have beens" would have gone. Spark Unlimited has made a game that is both more and less than the sum of its parts - but there’s enough ambition there to see what Lost Planet 3 could have been. There’s a constant tug of war between the excellent structure and world that Spark has in Lost Planet 3 and the basic mechanical foundation they don’t quite nail. Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, X360