Lost Planet
October 18th, 2007
Welcome to Lost Planet !
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third person shooter video game created by Capcom for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It was produced by Keiji Inafune, the creator of the Onimusha and Mega Man series.
The game utilizes both vital suit (also known as VS, which is like a mecha or robotic armour) piloting and on-foot exploration and features Korean actor Lee Byung-Hun as the model for the main character, Wayne. Lost Planet was released on January 12, 2007, in North America and PAL regions. Lost Planet: Trag Zero, a prequel which focuses on the character of Gale, Wayne’s father, is also expected to be released on cell phones.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was released on Windows in June in Europe and North America. The Windows version includes DirectX 10 support, when run in Windows Vista, and enhanced graphics. A demo for the Windows version was released on May 15, 2007, which was the first playable game to showcase DirectX 10.
Lost Planet Story line
Lostplanet focuses on the amnesiac character of Wayne Holden, his father, Gale Holden, and the past and future of the planet E.D.N. 3. After a particularly vicious battle against a large Akrid “alien “ known as Green Eye, Gale is supposedly killed, and Wayne lost on the icy planes of E.D.N. 3. The planet of E.D.N 3 is cold and snowy, originally it was inhabited by a species of aliens known as Akrid, who forced humanity to abandon E.D.N. 3 by strength of numbers. Initially, the Akrid deterred humans from colonization, but this changed when T-ENG was discovered. Thermal Energy, or T-ENG, is a powerful energy source, found only in the Alien Akrid bodies, made humankind determined to fight them, for which purpose they created the Vital Suit, or VS, technology, essentially mechs powered by T-ENG, carrying mounted weapons.
At the beginning of the game Lostplanet, Wayne is found on the snow planes by a small band of snow pirates, colonists left behind after the evacuation. References from Rick, the gang tech wiz-kid, suggests that the gang may have been larger at one point, but because of an attack by a rival gang, they are all that’s left. The band consists of the cool-headed leader, Yuri Solotov, the wiz-kid Rick and his sister Luka. From the beginning, attention is put into a device implanted in Wayne’s Arm. Called the Harmonizer, this device feeds from Wayne’s T-ENG reserve, and uses this energy to heal his wounds. The game starts off with the gang suiting up for the trek trough the mountains leading to the dome where Wayne last saw Green Eye. Along the journey they meet a woman named Basil, who has VS piloting skills and an arm-mounted device similar to Wayne’s Harmonizer. She’s looking for a man named Solotov, who has apparently at this point vanished from their party. She also lets the crew know about a third mysterious faction called NEVEC. Shortly afterwards they find Gale’s VS, described by Rick as possibly the most advanced VS ever produced, and use it to defeat Green Eye. After the battle, NEVEC soldiers show up, along with a commanding officer, named Shane Bandero, who also has a harmonizer-like device though far more crude. His appearance triggers Wayne’s memory, making him realize it was not Green Eye who killed Gale, but it was Bandero who made his soldiers kill him. After a short battle between Wayne and Bandero’s VS’s, Wayne is forced to retreat on Luka’s scooter. They leave the dome to discover that their trailer has been destroyed and Rick captured by NEVEC troops. To compensate for their losses, and continue hitting NEVEC, they recede to guerilla-tactics, hitting NEVEC convoys and the like. After one of their raids, they discover Rick and Basil in a small shelter. Rick was actually attacked by NEVEC, but Basil rescued him and helped him though the year after his separation from Wayne and Luka. Now big events start to take flight. By capturing a NEVEC soldier named Joe, and negotiating with him, they learn about NEVEC’s Frontier Project, a terraforming operation to make E.D.N. 3 habitable by humans without the aid of T-ENG. At first, it seems harmless enough, though the truth is far from harmless.
