For most, Lost Planet isn't a name that stirs up a lot of excitement. After two good-but-not-great outings whose main strength was their forbidding, frozen setting rather than their gameplay, it didn't seem likely that Capcom's team-based space shooter series would be making a return anytime soon. But Lost Planet 3, it turns out, is both a radical departure from form and a genuinely exciting prospect, a creepy, atmospheric action game that's part Dead Space and part well, MechWarrior, I guess...
