Lost: Via Domus (Lost: The Video Game (PS3))

Member Name: dook86

Product:	Lost: The Video Game (PS3)
Date:	12/09/08 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: a couple of the actors did voice overs for their characters.

Disadvantages: most of them didn't. poor gameplay, fictional lost storylines added.

Ok, unless your a die hard fan of lost, then you would do best to stay clear of this game if possible.
Developed by Ubisoft, i must admit i expected better things.
Your part in this game is played not through the eyes of a current Lost character, but an entirely fictional one named Elliott Maslow, a photo journolist suffering from a bad case of amnesia. While stuck on the Island, your job is to see Elliott put the missing pieces of his jigsaw back together back helping out the real Losties with any problems they have.
This game is incredibly short, for me it clocked in at around 5-6 hours gameplay. It comprises mostly of finding items to to make other items work and puzzle solving. We do alot of to and throe here running from one spot to another and back again. It's ashame really because with all of Losts great locations on the show, we only really see a small selection of them.
We only see confrontation with enemies once or twice during the entire game which to me was odd. they had literally created a gun mechanic that is used 3 times at most during the whole game. We also Play several flashback scenes in Elliott's life, but these are short flashes in which we have to take a snapshot of a specific thing in the scene in order to progress. These scenes don't even really add anything to the game nor it's story and are uninteresting at best.
It has to be noted that this game also rips the story lines apart by adding in this fictional character, who often discovers things that in the show was discovered by a major character. All in all, i felt totally let down by this being a big Lost fan. It's really just tore the show a new one in more ways than one.

Summary: poor TV to game port of an amazing show.