Magazine Watching: New Lost details found in EGM @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on August 30, 2007

News: I can't tell you my secret, it's complicated.

Ubisoft revealed the first trailer to Lost: The Video Game at Comic-Con this year and it left many fans scratching their heads. Thankfully, the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (October 2007, issue number 220) has attempted to clear up some of the details with a new preview.

First, the game will not star Jack or any of the other Lost regulars. The faceless hero of the trailer (who looks an awful lot like Jack) is actually Elliott, a photojournalist with amnesia. Throughout the course of the game (which takes place over the show's first three seasons), players will attempt to restore Elliott's memory and find out why he is on the island.

We also now know that the game's story (and Elliott's) were plotted by the show's executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. This story will be broken up into seven episodes of "roughly an hour-and-a-half each" of gameplay.

Gameplay is based around Resident Evil-style fetch quests and puzzle solving, island exploration, taking pictures, interacting with the show's stars (Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, Locke and Sayid for sure) and several action setpieces including hiding from The Others, running from the Smoke Monster and raiding the Black Rock. The gameplay moments will all be interspersed with character flashbacks that reveal Elliott's past.

Ubisoft has also promised a conclusion that "lives up to the finales of the show's first three seasons." After the season three finale, that is big talk indeed.

Lost: The Video Game is scheduled to ship early next year (alongside the start of season four) for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.