Lost Planet 3
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| Developer(s) | Spark Unlimited |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Director(s) | Matt Sophos |
| Producer(s) | Kevin Scharff |
| Designer(s) | Richard Gaubert Edward Moore |
| Programmer(s) | Ike Macoco |
| Artist(s) | Mark Daniel Cabuco |
| Writer(s) | Richard Gaubert Orion Walker Matthew Sophos |
| Composer(s) | Jack Wall |
| Series | Lost Planet |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows,PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter, action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PC) 64.88% (PS3) 59.95% (X360) 58.93% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 61/100 (PS3) 61/100 (X360) 58/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 4/10 |
| Game Informer | 6/10 |
| GameSpot | 5/10 |
| GamesRadar |    |
| GameTrailers | 7.7/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Polygon | 7/10 |
Lost Planet 3 is a third-person shooter action-adventure, video game developed by Spark Unlimited and published by Capcom for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is the prequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and Lost Planet 2 and takes place on the same planet of E.D.N. III. The game takes a more story-driven narrative approach to the campaign similar to the first game. Unlike the previous games in the series, which were developed internally by Capcom, the game was developed externally by Spark Unlimited with Matt Sophos serving as game director, though series creator Kenji Oguro was still attached as franchise creative director.
A prequel, Lost Planet 3 takes place long before the first game, following the story of Jim Peyton revealing the events that led to the first game.
After nearly being buried alive in a cave an elderly Jim Peyton is found by his granddaughter Diana. Realizing that he does not have long to live he begins to tell her how he came to be on E.D.N. III. Fifty years earlier looking to support his family, Jim joins an expedition to mine the resources of E.D.N III. Funded by the NEVEC corporation, the expedition hopes to tap E.D.N III's "Thermal Energy", a blood like substance that could solve the Earth Energy problem. Jim meets Dr. Kendric Kovac, operations director Phil Braddock, Doctor Roman, head technician Gale and fellow Rig pilot Laroche. On a job to repair the comms relay, Jim begins to suspect there is a saboteur on the base when he sees someone near the damaged relays. He finds that Doctor Roman has had similar sightings, but dismisses his suspicions and focuses on working to support his family.
Some time later Jim stumbles upon an abandoned NEVEC base revealing that the expedition crew were not the first ones to land on E.D.N III as they were told. The last records detail the Akrid attacking the base and killing the inhabitants. Attempting to leave, Jim fights a massive Akrid leaving his rig damaged and himself close to death before he is saved by the woman he saw at the comms relay. He awakens in a settlement a few days later, healed. The woman introduces herself as Mira and her people as "The Forgotten", survivors of NEVEC's first colonization attempt. Their leader Soichi, Mira's father, does not trust Jim but allows him to leave their enclave after repaying his debt under the agreement that he not reveal their existence.
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