Lost Planet PC demo available on 15 May
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Those eager to traipse through an unforgiving climate and annihilate despicable alien creatures without the aid of an Xbox 360 won't have to wait much longer. A PC demo of Capcom's Lost Planetis set to materialize online next week, May 15th, and finally give those DirectX 10 cards something to do. Indeed, they'll be expected to utilize "the advanced features of Shader model 4.0" in order to render those frigid landscapes and enormous plot holes.
Older hardware isn't quite given the cold shoulder, however, as Lost Planet also supports Windows XP and DirectX 9. If monsters and mechs do it for you, find it on store shelves this June, priced at a totally last-gen $39.95.
Little effort seems to have been made to adapt this to the PC, it's still shows "press button A", etc and the aiming is obviously still geared to an analogue stick as it's a bit unresponsive. Aside from these issues there's some fun to be had here.
I wouldn't buy the full game but I enjoyed the two areas included in the demo, loads of bullet spraying, some rocket launcher action, exosuits and best of all nice big explosions. This demo is well worth the money in my opinion.
I tried it very briefly, but didn't like it much. The monsters seemed to take a million hits to kill and it was hard to see anything with all the snow. I'm sure it was all very clever techincally but it just looked a mess.
FatherJack wrote:I tried it very briefly, but didn't like it much. The monsters seemed to take a million hits to kill and it was hard to see anything with all the snow.
I too noticed that the start of the first area on the demo was a bit rubbish in that respect. But once you get passed that first bit it gets better, less snow and more guns. Well it amused me for about 30 mins.
Lost Planet PC demo available on 15 May
Those eager to traipse through an unforgiving climate and annihilate despicable alien creatures without the aid of an Xbox 360 won't have to wait much longer. A PC demo of Capcom's Lost Planetis set to materialize online next week, May 15th, and finally give those DirectX 10 cards something to do. Indeed, they'll be expected to utilize "the advanced features of Shader model 4.0" in order to render those frigid landscapes and enormous plot holes.
