Lost Planet: Colonies

Lost Planet Sticks you in a harsh frozen environment, where swarms of hostile alien insects attack you for warmth. Like in Dundee. Colonies is a semi-budget re-release of Lost Planet, that adds new single and multiplayer modes, weapons, playable characters and cross-platform battles against Xbox 360 peeps - if you sign up to Games for Windows LIVE! of course. It's a reasonable blaster, but the new modes don't bring in much. Score Attack involves killing enemies to rack up points that you can upload to an online leaderboard, whereas Time Battle involves fighting one boss after another. Add to this clumsy platform sections often-tedious combat and an annoying and unforgivable checkpoint save system, Lost Planet-Colonies is a vague effort to breath life into a game that was on thin ice already.