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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JUNE 4 | E3 2012
The Curious Convergence of Dead Space and Lost Planet
Cover Story: With their third chapters, EA’s and Capcom’s sci-fi shooters could be mistaken for twins.
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he sound of bitingly cold wind echoes in your speakers as you lead your hero into an ice-encrusted open space. Sprays of snow gust around your heavily suited protagonist. A harsh alien sun glares, blinding you in the whiteout conditions. Suddenly, the ambient music spikes to a sharp crescendo to announce the presence of danger: A deadly creature has appeared, a wild beast defending its turf from the otherworldly incursion that you represent, or maybe just a roaming predator that sees in your hero a tasty foil-wrapped snack. Your on-screen avatar whips out his weapon and you take aim, shakily lining up the reticle with the glowing vulnerable points on the monster’s body to the best of your ability as you dodge and juke through the snow. Suddenly, the creature leaps and you’re forced to fend it off with desperate melee strikes aimed carefully at the creature’s exposed maw. Finally, after a fierce struggle, it goes down. You relax slightly — but not too much — and pause to recover before making a break for a nearby pneumatic door that leads you into an enclosed space where countless other creatures are bound to lay in wait within the claustrophobic corridors ahead.
