Hell is other people. Misery loves company. Everything’s better with friends. Poor third-person shooter Lost Planet 2 sits somewhere in the middle of these extremes, trying to work out what went wrong. Unfortunately, the answer is simple: it doesn’t understand the difference between being a great

Hell is other people. Misery loves company. Everything’s better with friends. Poor third-person shooter Lost Planet 2 sits somewhere in the middle of these extremes, trying to work out what went wrong. Unfortunately, the answer is simple: it doesn’t understand the difference between being a great singleplayer shooter and an addictive cooperative multiplayer shooter. Whenever it turns its attention to one side, it chokes on problems from the other, making neither as satisfying as they deserve to be.