Lost: Via Domus - Playstation 3

by Ubisoft

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VNS9CW
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 27, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,010 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation 3

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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 41 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time - and an insult to LOST fans. February 29, 2008

By The Matrix Fan TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE

Platform for Display:PlayStation 3

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

Well, I won't give out any spoilers, but I will say that this game was definitely pushed through for gullible LOST fans (and I'm one of them) to snatch it up for top dollar.

The voiceover acting is good in some points, terrible in others. Lots of characters are here, but there are some glaring omissions like Boone, Shannon, Rousseau, and Mr. Eko. For some inexplicable reason, the LOST theme music is intact for the first chapter but is subtly changed for all subsequent chapters. Why change it? It makes no sense.

The movement in this game will be either a slow walk or jogging - the character moves like a mannequin with overstarched underwear.

Sure, the facial animations are nice, but the synching of the lips is completely off - there's no excuse to skimp here, because we saw facial animations and lip synching done to perfection in Heavenly Sword.

Play time in this game consists mainly of jogging, wandering around, shooting, taking pictures, jumping, sliding under trees like Pete Townsend, and figuring out fuse puzzles. (Yep, you read that right, FUSE PUZZLES.)

This game is very quick - with only seven levels, most gamers will probably finish it in 3 days, which is hardly worth its high price tag.

It would have been wiser for the game developers to wait and release this game 6 to 8 months down the road and give it more quality. Some of the unlockable extras are nice, but there could have been so much more to enjoy with more effort.

Die hard LOST fans and people looking to become LOST fans will be totally confused at why a show that receives such high ratings led to the production of such an inferior game.

Save your money, folks...this one isn't worth it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Over with too quickly March 4, 2008

By MN08

Platform for Display:PlayStation 3

Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   

It was a great entertaining game but frustrating at times- why the heck can't you jump over anything? It was fun seeing everyone from Lost and interacting with them but it came off as lame sometimes. My biggest complaint is that I breezed through this game in about 2-3 days- and that was not playing non-stop either! There is a reoccurring game where you have to "match the fuses" which is fun at first but quickly got old for me. The graphics were nice but nothing spectacular but over all I would say save your money. I would say rent it if you can- its nice to play if you are a lost fan, but not worth the $60 price tag and all the hype.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag, recommended at a cheap price January 18, 2010

By Moonwalker

Platform for Display:PlayStation 3

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

First of all, if you're not a die-hard Lost fan, don't even consider picking this up. The game has terrible game play, overly frustrating (yet entirely boring) puzzles and even worse voice acting. This is for the true Lost fanatic only.

For the true Lost fanatic, some of the game's shortcomings can be overlooked in favor of the story. You are a survivor of Oceanic flight 815 who has amnesia. Through your flashbacks, you will discover your past and weave a fairly engaging story that actually does provide some hints on the future of the series (at least, the future of the series as of the time this was released shortly into season 4). It is possible that the ending of the game may shed some light into season 6, but as of this writing (shortly before the season 6 premiere), that is impossible to say. Suffice it to say, the story is solid and was worth the purchase for me as a hardcore fan.

It was also pretty cool to have the ability to walk around the island. Mind you, the entire island is not presented, so you're limited in where you can go and it's not always entirely show accurate, but the major points of interest that were shown on the show up to season 3 are there.

Now for the downside; the game really is annoying to play. You find yourself constantly falling into needless death traps (especially in the caves), and ALWAYS needing to solve fuse box puzzles. Were someone unfamiliar to the show to play this game, they would definitely come away thinking that Lost is a show about people on an island who fix fuse boxes. The fuse box puzzle idea was interesting at first, but after several of them, it got VERY annoying. Couldn't they have come up with other puzzles for the game? The means by which you activate your flashbacks is also overly annoying and the voice acting is terrible (some of the actors do provide their voices, but the main cast do not, and the people they got to replace them don't sound a thing like the characters at all).

The Xbox 360 version seems to have Achievements for when you take pictures of certain items in the game, but the PS3 version does not. However, it would appear as though the game was just ported over to each platform from the same source, so all of the hints and the character's nagging to get you to take the pictures are still in the game, even though they serve no purpose on the PS3.

I was able to pick this title up from a marketplace seller for under $10, so the experience (about 8 hours to play for me) was great considering the low price. However, if I had to pay anything over $10, I very likely would have felt very ripped off... I feel terribly sorry for those who paid the full $60 upon its original release. Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Reviews are relative to the price October 22, 2009

By Ted Bergeron

Platform for Display:PlayStation 3|Verified Purchase

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

When this game first game out I was excited to get it, but hesitant, knowing that TV/Movie based games disappoint 90% of the time. The bad reviews here made me decide not to purchase. After a while the standard full msrp price (sixty) was cut in half to thirty. These days its cut in half again, going for around fifteen. The reviews seem to be rated fairly based on the price.

For sixty, this is a 2 star game.
For thirty, this is a 3 star game.
For fifteen, this is a 4 star game.

A few characters are voiced by the real actors. Many others are not. For a show with the attention to detail of Lost, that is terrible. Comparing the game mechanics to GTA, Resident Evil or Uncharted makes it look terrible. The combat is very limited and only occurs a couple of times. Being spoiled with the freedom provided in a GTA game, its terribly obvious how boxed in you are in Lost. The areas you play in are beautifully rendered and very interesting to explore, but when you hit the edge of a space even a small log is a solid force field.

Reviewing this purely as a video game its not so good. However, if you are the type that:
* Bought the seasons on DVD, if not blu-ray
* Listen to the official Lost podcast, if not 3rd party podcasts
* Wanted the show to move slower and cover the story in more detail

Then this is a game you'll enjoy. Its only 5-7 hours of play time, but fun while it lasts. Damon and Carlton assisted with the game design and stated that everything is true to the story. You get to explore areas of the game in detail which was great. Especially nice is the chance to explore the Swan hatch from season two and see exactly how everything is laid out. The game also gives a better sense for where some island spots are located relative to one another. The story was pretty good, and does give the sense of watching a few extra episodes.

Ideally, the game would have had:
* combat like Uncharted, as the show had plenty of that with the others
* much more freedom to explore the island GTA style
* more episodes (levels)
* Downloadable content to extend the game as seasons of the show passed.

Not what it could have been, but I'm very glad I picked it up at current prices and played it. Read more ›