Lost Planet: Colonies != Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Okay… I have a bit of buyers remorse.
A week or two back I bought Ninja Gaiden 2, and since I saved $10 when I picked it up (Best Buy was slow to get me my on-line order in the store), I also bought Lost Planet: Colonies. I teetered between the two versions, but decided to go with Colonies since it was newer.
Later I find out that the two version are completely different in the way of achievements. I started playing through the single player game and after clearing the first few missions and not getting achievements, I started digging around the inter-web and found that Colonies is more geared toward the on-line portion - to an extent. I have no real desire to play through the game multiple times on different difficulty levels or really jump on-line just to get a few gamer points - I don’t have the time.
So my dilemma is this:
- Do a find someone to do a straight up-and-down-trade - My Colonies for your Extreme Condition?
- Do I post it on Goozex.com (get 700 points for Colonies and then get Extreme Condition for 500)?
- Do I use it to trade in at GameCrazy or GameStop?
- Buck up and deal with it?
Thoughts? Wanna trade?
[UPDATE 06.19.08]
I ended up trading LP:C in at GameCrazy last night and getting my Halo 3 disc buffed (stupid 360 drive - maps wouldn’t load - nice ring around the outer edge). I managed to get an extra 20% on my trade in so I actually ended up with some store credit after the swap. So now I can start earning normal achievements in Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.
I did contemplate going the Goozex route but didn’t want to wait.

June 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I enjoyed the single-player component of the Extreme Condition version of this game quite a bit, and with a gamefaqs guide beside you, you can grab almost all 1000 of the GS in one playthrough. I’d say Goozex it, and get the EC version, play it through, and then goozex it again.