It's been a while since I played anything on Xbox360 outside of P90X videos. This weekend, I finally had some time so I decided to get Lost Planet 2. Despite all the negative reviews of the game, Kingpet and I found the game to be quite awesome. It puts the focus of the campaign heavily on cooperative play. So much so, that without human players, it's almost too difficult to complete. From a solo player point of view, this sucks, but from a coop point, this is exactly how a coop game should be played. Every player's actions matter. For instance, the very first boss we faced, we actually had to strategize and come up with a plan of attack. Kingpet occupied the boss' attention and held the strong close ranged weapons, while I took the minigun and attacked the boss' appendages from afar. This caused the boss to collapse after enough appendages were taken out, letting Kingpet devastate the weak spot from up close. Before the plan, we had tried this level 3 or 4 times, with each time depleting less than 1/4th of the boss' life bar. With the new plan, none of us even died once. It's rare that a game gives such a satisfying sense of accomplishment.
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