Lost: Via Domus
by UBI Soft
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Product Summary
Brand: UBI SoftRelease Date: 2008-02-27
Platform: Xbox 360
Model: 008888523819
Publisher: UBI Soft
Product features:
- Play as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815: Confront your dark past, seek your redemption, and ultimately find a way home
- Explore familiar locations, unravel mysteries, and interact with the main characters from the show
- Solve puzzles, outsmart enemies, battle the smoke monster, and overcome many other challenges to survive the island and come out alive
Video Game Reviews of Lost: Via Domus
Customer Review: Not Worth It ...
Summary: 2 Stars
Being a modest fan of the show, I was looking forward to checking 'Lost' out at some point. Recently my local library actually started to lend out a small selection of 360 games; so when I saw that 'Via Domus' was among the games I grabbed it for myself. Now that I've finished it, I can say that although the game isn't offensively bad, I'm really glad this isn't one that I paid for.
As for the good, the rendering of the island itself is really quite good and the jungle certainly has the right, lush, tropical, look and feel to it. It still travels sort of linear though. If you travel too far off track, you'll just be bounced back on the correct path. I think it would have been more fun if it was a little more open so you could just carve your own paths with a machete and map out the island on your own.
The music for the game uses the score to the TV show, so the sound to the game is completely authentic and terrific. The voice acting, on the other hand, is god-awful. Virtually nobody from the A-list cast showed up and nobody sounds like themselves. John Locke's voice in particular, I didn't think was even close. It's strange too, because I remember several interviews with Matthew Fox doing press for the game. I just assumed his voice was included, but it isn't.
The game includes a bartering system to gain objects; you'll trade papayas and coconuts for a torch or a lantern, for example. Unfortunately, outside of a couple of torches and one gun (which, I kid you not, you shoot no more then three times ... only one of which is a person) you don't really need anything. The whole trading system turns out to be kind of a farce.
The story is OK and mildly interesting, even if the ending had me scratching my head, but it is REALLY short. I finished the game 100% in what couldn't have been more then 5 hours of play. I was hoping that, to some extent, 'Lost' would use games like 'Drakes: Uncharted' or 'Tomb Raider' as a template for it's game play but instead the game play itself FEELS like an episode of the TV show and its not very interactive. This has the game commit the mortal sin of just being dull.
Simply put, there's just no meat here to sink your teeth into and with very little else going in the right direction, there's not much at all working for the game to justify a purchase. If you were a die-hard fan of the show and, somehow, fall into a copy of 'Lost' I can honestly say it's worth, at least, checking out. That said; however, if you have to plunk down so much as a nickel to play this, skip it. It's just not worth it. I'd have been really disgusted with myself if I paid anything to play this.
Description of Lost: Via Domus
As a passenger of Oceanic flight 815, you survived the crash and find yourself on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. As you begin to unravel mysteries of the island, you begin to discover secrets of your own. You will have to understand your past mistakes in order to survive and find your way home?You and other survivors are marooned on this mysterious island - lost from civilization. But there's more to the island than meets the eye. It is a civilization onto itself with an ominous history and present. From invisible creatures and forces, you are not alone. Is it possible that the crash was not an accident? Each character must discover a path, a very special path, where the core of energy meets the individual. Through adventures against hidden mysteries, you need to find answers that may help you find the way home.
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