Lost Planet: Extreme Condition -- Initial Impression.

Next up for me is a bit of action in the form of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for the Xbox 360. The game hit the Xbox 360 in late January of 2007 and here I am just getting to it thirteen months later. The game is Capcom's second foray into the current generation of consoles and their second Xbox 360 title. The game became a critical and sales success just like their first effort Dead Rising. Capcom seems to be embracing the current generation and reaping the rewards more so than their Japanese brethren. Capcom's embraced western design principles and have successfully employed them. Something the rest of Japan has just now begrudgingly gotten around to admitting they might need to do let alone successfully employed them. Let's see if Lost Planet is as successful as Dead Rising was in my eyes. I'm expecting a great looking game with some good run and gun 3D action versus a whole lot of space bugs on a frozen planet with a massive hunk of the typical Capcom story cheese. Lost Planet seems to come with a notoriously hard reputation. Hopefully it's not too frustrating. Time will tell...