![]() ![]() ![]() "The more I earn, the sooner I get to hold you both again," he says, with a rustic drawl. He does dangerous work on a hostile world to support his wife and baby back home on Earth. Jim is a warmer, more human hero than you might expect in a game about mech suits and alien monsters. ![]() Down on the ground, he is much more vulnerable-especially once he jogs and grapples far from the rig, out of signal range, leaving himself isolated in a way more befitting a crack at survival horror. In the cockpit of his mech, Jim brings powerful robotic arms (one claw, one drill) to bear against the glowing weak spots of the enemy. The shoulder plates of his armoured work-wear resemble those of Isaac's spacesuit, and where Isaac's signature weapon was the primary tool of his day job, a plasma cutter, so too is Jim's: a mech suit meant for construction work, but handy also in a brawl with a giant akrid beastie.Īnd so this Lost Planet prequel combines third-person shooting and exploration of indoor spaces with the first-person piloting of a mech on E.D.N. Much as Isaac was a blue-collar type, Jim is a colonial labourer. In place of necromorphs, there is a small and vicious variant of akrid, eager to gnaw Jim's face off in a quick-time struggle. In place of Isaac Clarke, there is everyman protagonist Jim. III is an abandoned underground base, which, with its spooky metallic corridors and sinister spinning generator core, could have been plucked from a deck of the USG Ishimura. ![]() Hidden beneath the alien glaciers of E.D.N. Rumours place Dead Space 3 on a mysterious frozen planet, while in Lost Planet 3 the series' titular ice world looks, in places, a lot like Dead Space. It is an unlikely spot of franchise convergence. ![]()
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