January drought? There's no stinkin' gaming drought here: Lost Planet hits store shelves this Friday. Do we have another third-person hit on our hands or will critics give Lost Planet the cold shoulder?

IGN has this to say:

Lost Planet is a great game that suffers from a few bad design decisions. The graphics are excellent by any standard...The enemy design and amount of action they deliver makes for great gameplay that is hampered by control mechanics that get in the way of the experience...The bottom line, though, is that the game is a lot of fun and that's all that really matters, isn't it?