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Lost Planet 2 Collector's Edition

XBOX 360
Also available on:PLAYSTATION 3
Lost Planet 2 Collector's Edition
Capcom5/13/2010Europe

The Lost Planet 2 Collector's Edition on Xbox 360 gave you a monster to put on your shelf, literally. This edition centered on an Akrid figurine, backed by a premium dashboard theme, four postcards, a making-of DVD, and special edition packaging in a deep DVD-sized box.

The Akrid are what made Lost Planet memorable. Giant insectoid creatures erupting from frozen landscapes, forcing players to pilot massive mechs just to survive. The figurine captures that alien menace in physical form, giving collectors a piece of Lost Planet's most distinctive design element. It's the kind of figure that draws questions from anyone who sees it on your shelf, because the Akrid don't look like anything else in gaming. The making-of DVD dives into the development of Lost Planet 2's ambitious co-op campaign, documenting how Capcom expanded the series from solo survival into a four-player monster-hunting experience. The four postcards offer glimpses of the game's diverse planetary environments, from frozen wastelands to tropical jungles, and they're the sort of small physical extras that age well in a collection.

Lost Planet 2 leaned hard into cooperative play during an era when every shooter was chasing that formula, and the Collector's Edition preserved the excitement of that moment. The special edition packaging gives the whole set a presence that standard releases can't match. For Xbox 360 collectors, the Akrid figurine alone makes this worth tracking down. It's a sculpted reminder of a franchise that dared to build its identity around fighting skyscraper-sized bugs with grappling hooks and thermal energy. Capcom took a swing with Lost Planet, and the Collector's Edition is where that ambition lives on.