Lost Planet: Extreme Condition: The Cold One
Capcom’s 2006 sci-fi shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition features the most annoying gimmick on this list: freezing to death. In the distant future, after ruining Earth with pollution and global warming, humanity seeks to colonize a planet called E.D.N. III. Unfortunately, E.D.N. III is already inhabited by the insectoid Akrid. It is also in the grips of a brutal ice age.
The Akrid aren’t that much of an issue. The bigger ones have large glowing orange weak points for protagonist Wayne Holden to aim at. The problem is the cold, and how it makes you have to constantly seek out something called T-Eng in order to keep from freezing to death. It’s a pointless, annoying gimmick that had barely any bearing on the rest of the gameplay. When Lost Planet 2 came out in 2010, the T-Eng malarky was nowhere to be found. Good riddance. I only like warm gimmick shooters.
