Buy Lost Planet 2

WARNING to multi-hard drive users.

This game *MUST* be put on your C drive, or the DRM will not allow it to run.

This kills the game, personally I use a small SSD C drive for windows, and put all my other games on a second SSD, or my third drive an HDD. The only proposed fix from the developer is to "just put it on C"

♥♥♥♥♥♥ developer, using a now defunct DRM. Avoid at all costs just based on their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ practices.

Played the ever living ♥♥♥♥ out of this game on the xbox 360 when it came out. This game will always be one of my favorites. I still play it to this day.

10/10

Once you get past all the GFWL crap, it works just fine. I enjoyed it just as much as I did years ago on the 360, even when playing solo with bots.

Is it the best game ever? Certainly not. But it’s one of those games that I’ll always remember and think back on fondly. It’s fun, plain and simple.

though broken its multiplayer is great fun.. It is must fustrating that while being shot you can't shoot back. Also if anyone plays this online friend me on steam cause I can't find anyone to play with. Also the mech suits in this game are AMAZING!

had about 100 hours on xbox spent playing this saw it on steam and thought "oh wow this would be fun".
and upon starting it for the first time it just went to a black screen and stopped responding and no solution anywhere on the internet has done anything to fix it

0/10 broken port

This game needs Games for Windows LIVE (GFWL), and since Microsoft
closed the service on 15 August 2013, this game is no longer playable.

Overall Rating: 0 / 10

i read alot of reviews and people are complaining but i ignored them and tried to start this piece of sh*t but when i found the solution to launch it i immeadiatly discovered windows live i tried solutions for 20 minutes then decided i wasnt gonna bother with the bullsh*t and neither should you its a great game for console but they seriously fu*ked it up for pc dont ever buy this for pc

Dead Multiplayer focused game that uses GFWL
Stick with the first one

It's a decent, if "excuse plot" game with cool mechanics and excellent multiplayer. In fact, the entire game is built entirely for multiplayer, with even the main storyline being a connection of multiplayer-ish levels against AI bots interspersed with fighting Akrid and boss fights.

Gameplay is a bit clunky- the over the shoulder view doesn't always have your character aiming towards your reticle, and soemtimes performign actions will skew the camera - throwing a grenade for example will adjust your view- and also tweak where you're throwing your grenade, making proper aim take practice. The grappling hook, while useful as always, is a bit short, I'd say even shorter than the first game, and timing it's aim is quite the pain the ♥♥♥- you get a few seconds of movement before the "claw" hits an object, and god help you if anything hits your or happens to you in that time.

The thing you will curse 90% of the time is that you will be attempting to platform or make some precise jumps or move towards an edge to hookshot to a wall, and if you just ever so slightly fall off the platform, your character will make a "safety catch" where they stop whatever they're doing and hookshot back on the ledge you came from. This overrides all other actions, including hookshotting, regardless of whether or not there's safe ground below you. So say, you want to hop down a hole? Gotta have some distance, and JUMP down that hole, because ifyou try to just run off, you "catch" yourself. This action? It is very, very slow, and time consuming,and the only way out of it is to jump or drop, and the jump is more vertical and useless for clearing gaps, forcing you to hop back to the ledge you fell from, and try again. This makes the time trial training levels a sore pain because you'll find yourself running off a ledge just barely, and forced to waste 5 seconds pulling yourself back up, you'll make a jump and slide off the platform you land on, losing another 5 seconds, you'll hookshot a wall but inadvertently step one foot off the platform while doing so and thus lose another 5 seconds plus the time it takes to properly align yourself. In combat, this means thatyou're also completely helpless for 5 seconds because oops! Fell off a short ledge, better catch myself and let everyone shoot me dead.

Add onto this "stunlock", where being shot makes your character stop all other actions for a second- you cannot fire, you cannot run, dodge or hookshot. This makes any open firefight annoying, as you have a good deal of health but will be John Marston'd to death without even being able to dodge roll out of it. Platforming while enemies are nearby is impossible for this very reason, and the harder time trials are all about enemies with aimbot perfect accuracy pinging you with pistols. Naturally, at a few points in the campaign you'll also be asked to platform or navigate a large battlefield quickly while being shot at, making this quite frustrating. Certain inputs also edge out other ones, meaning timing your inputs in battle is important, or finding ways to do two things at once for maximum efficiency. For example, you can only move slowly while reloading, and cannot jump or run, and for a second after running, you can't jump or reload. However by jumping, then reloading, you'll move fairly quickly and perform a shorter reload animation.

Other than that, the gunplay feels natural, the "floaty" jump and hookshot let you pull off mean headshots from midair, with unparalleled freedom of movement while fighting.

Multiplayer is great, but finding people to play with is a bit hard, as GFWL is still on this game, and thus getting everything working takes possibly a degree in computer science, so you'll not see too many people playing this online. The game's also not interested in things like 'safe spawning' - enemies will spawn on top of you, you'll spawn in the same area as other players, and while you get some mercy invincibility until you fire your gun, expect to spawn, open fire on an enemy, have another enemy spawn immediately behind you and kill you.

Unlocks for weapons, skills, and character customizations are all random- you have a lottery adn all the item boxes you find just go into money for this lottery. Most of the time you'll just get nom de guerres- just names for multiplayer. Which are useless, because even if multplayer's scarce, a name isn't as important as getting a good gun- and in multiplayer your starting eqiupment is based on what you unlock! So expect to be curbstomped in even AI multiplayer battles, as they have a ton of equipment you haven't been rewarded with by random chance!

I recommend watching the lets play by "HiIamDan" and LithuanianDad on the LP Archive, as it gives a good look at the trials and travails of Lost Planet 2.

Take the giant creatures from Monster Hunter, the shooting and punchyness of Gears of War (plus some of the bro love), install some giant mechs from Mech Warrior, add the manic, over the top ridiculousness of Takeshi's, strike a pose and then you got yourself Lost Planet 2.

The real magic of this game is the multiplayer, but alas that was tied to Games fo Windows Live (GWFL). This was a bit of a mistake, GWFL was a horrendous beast. Still.. once you got past that ugly beast of a DRM gate there where greener pastures.

Not one for PVP my view is mostly of single-player and co-op. With the depth and breadth for weapons to choose from, the class and unlocks, missions rankings and awesome boss fights with different approaches, the game has a great deal of replayablility, I personally already played it on console many times over and bought another copy on PC hoping to play with others.

As a side note most negative reviews for this game appear to be about Games for Windows Live. While you can say that this is at the fault of the game developers and is reflective of the game itself I personally feel that that is unfair. GWFL is horrific and the game would be better without it, but once overcome the game is still just as enjoyable. As for the game itself it is well reviewed from what I can see (though I am clearly bias).

There are fixes for problems related to GFWL, I suggest heading to the forums first and checking to see if there are fixes available for you and your system before purchasing, and if they don't work you can always get a refund!