Tight corridors largely replace the open canyons that provided the setting of the first game, and most of the highly unique, snow-covered environments are now replaced by genre-standard desert and jungle stages. It feels like Capcom tried to craft a campaign out of bits and pieces from Lost Planet's sharp multiplayer component, but in doing so, neglected to consider some of the core elements that make the series unique. I'd forgive this narrative lapse if the campaign's action lived up to its potential, but the occasional glimmers of hope are subverted by dull, segmented missions and an outrageously poor checkpoint system. It doesn't introduce its characters or explain their loyalties or motivations instead, you take control of a fresh faction with each new episode without really being told who they are and how they're involved.
Unfortunately, Lost Planet 2 fails to deliver a comprehensible narrative to make sense of the conflict. Lost Planet 2 takes a markedly different approach, scrapping all known characters and replacing them with several different factions, each fighting for T-ENG - a valuable resource akin to Dune's spice - about 10 years after the first game's conclusion.
The original Lost Planet centred on a somewhat ambiguous hero named Wayne, and while his dialogue and exploits weren't always exciting or memorable, the character grounded the campaign with a semi-established narrative that gave you a sense of what you were fighting for. In fact, the dramatic transformation of the campaign in Lost Planet 2 sucks much of the expected excitement out of the game, resulting in an ill-explained co-op adventure that's a pain to trudge through. For those of us who battled monstrous Akrid bosses and launched our collective grappling hooks millions of times over in the original Lost Planet, the prospect of expanding its fertile blend of mechs, snow, and alien bloodshed with a four-player co-op campaign seemed like just the thing to propel the sequel to must-play status in 2010.
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