Right about when everybody had decided they'd had more than enough of this whole EDN III business, some bright spark realised why it was that the Akrid were all bright orange: a substance called thermal energy, which just so happens to be a tremendous source of energy and a surprisingly good way of stopping yourself from freezing to death if you happen to be an alien hiding underneath the snow! It's also the main fuel source for gigantic robots that people can ride around in, known as Vital Suits (rubbish name), which were invented as an attempt to level the playing field with the gigantic alien menace. Erm, both attacks by aliens which are massive and attacks by massive numbers of aliens, that is. As though that wasn't bad enough, ice-freezy-ball-planet was also infested with a race of incredibly violent and inexplicably luminescent aliens known as the Akrid! Still, stubborn as they are, NEVEC tried to build a load of cities and colonise the hell out of the place.Īll of the colonies that NEVEC had built on the planet were rather quickly wiped out by massive alien attacks. Get a cup of tea or something.Īlright, so, 160 years ago in the past (although many years in the future for us (I can see you slipping already, keep up)), humans flew off into space to colonise other planets because they'd managed to mess up earth with loads of wars and pollution and that-thanks, Al Gore, you prick! On their travels, a massive interstellar blue chip called NEVEC stumbled across a vaguely-earthy planet called EDN III which was almost perfect for colonisation except for the fact that it was in the midst of a massive ice age and happened to look a little bit like this. As you've probably surmised from that description, the story wasn't brilliant it kept everything chugging along at a decent pace and gave you reason enough to shoot some aliens, at least! If you're one of the few people who actually did play LP1, and you remember the story through some fluke, I'm going to take a minute to get everybody up to speed on the story of the last one so you might want to just wander off for a minute. It was a fairly successful and actually quite good third person shooter-thing which stopped itself fading into total obscurity by setting itself in the far-flung future and having you fight massive aliens (no, bigger than you're imagining) in big robots with extremely satisfyingly bang-y guns strapped to them. If you're a regular person, you probably don't remember Lost Planet: Extreme Condition as more than a tiny blip in your gaming peripheral back in 2006/2007. Hello, you! Happy our first anniversary! I've bought you something.