Lost Planet - multiplayer hands-on

The first person to find the rocket-launcher-on-legs (also known as a Vital Suit) was able to murderize any unlucky straggler that happened to wander by. Even with sticky grenades and a very Predator -like, volatile disk weapon, we just couldn't bring this damn thing down. The player inside the Suit (from a rival gaming site, no less) kept hurling missiles our way, demolishing any cover we could find. And that's one of the coolest things about these multiplayer battles - the sheer force of impact. Fire, drifting snow and vision-blurring explosions put you in the action and create a sense of "Go! Go! Go!" like few other 360 games. All seemed lost... until we found an even bigger pair of walking guns.

After deciding a frontal assault wasn't going to work, we started exploring the blown-out environment around us. We just happened to stumble across a pile of snow with some metal sticking out of it - turns out we could bash on the B button here to dig up a Vital Suit that towered over what the competition had found. One rocket-powered jump later, we were bearing down on that pain in the ass with a hail of missiles and six-inch bullets. Boom. Then the fire.

If that wasn't enough, we then hopped out, dismantled the Suit and took its heavy duty gun out for a hot lead walk in the snowy park. This laughably huge cannon dwarfed pretty much everything else on the map, plasma guns included.

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A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE. 

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