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Lost Planet coming to PC

Published on 17th April 2007 by Joe Martin

It seems like Lost Planet will soon be finding a second home on the PC

News has been filtering down through the gaming grapevine that Lost Planet, the gorgeous third-person shooter for the Xbox 360, will be coming to the PC later this year.

Originally reported over at IGN, the move marks a continuing effort by Capcom to make their games available on multiple platforms.

Capcom will also be bringing Devil May Cry 4 to the PC and Xbox 360 in addition to the Playstation 3. Sony has traditionally enjoyed the franchise exclusively.

PC gamers will be happily able to boast some major improvements over the console version of the game. In addition to increased resoloution and the improved weapon effects made possible by DirectX 10, the original development team is being reunited to create additional content for PC players.

Capcom will also be improving the controls for the game, allowing players to use the mouse to aim and turn with, something which was originally difficult on a 360 controller.

Did you pass on Lost Planet the first time around thinking it would always be a 360-only title? Looking forward to the extra eye-candy of the PC version? Share your thoughts in our News Discussion forum.

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TheSaladMan 17th April 2007, 14:04

Yuck, not only was this an awful game, but it's also the type of console game that never works on the PC.

Hey Capcom, make some good games for the pc instead of just porting over all your console games.

pendragon 17th April 2007, 14:31

I've always enjoyed Capcom games.. however I dont think I've ever played one on the PC before ..this could be interesting

devdevil85 17th April 2007, 17:04

DX10 graphics, better gameplay, more additional content; Why not give this game a chance? I want to see more Multi-Platform games coming out. It would give me more reason to upgrade. Speaking of that, what happened to XNA and it's so-called "promise" to help port 360 games over to PC? I think I've seen like 2 games that are on 360 also on PC, but I think it was the opposite: they were meant for the PC and then went to the 360. Anyways hope someone can try and fill me in on that.

Peace.

CardJoe 17th April 2007, 17:58

I for one am torn. I really like it when a game is designed for a specific platform as it allows the game to be much more focused for that system. On the other hand, I hate it when a game I like is for a system I don't have.

devdevil85 17th April 2007, 19:36

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Originally Posted by CardJoe
I for one am torn. I really like it when a game is designed for a specific platform as it allows the game to be much more focused for that system. On the other hand, I hate it when a game I like is for a system I don't have.

XNA was supposed to help improve MP and allow game developers to have more time to work on the game itself and not getting the game to work on another platform. That is the reason why I ask that question, but I do agree with you on focusing more on one platform would make any game better, but that's not going to work financially for any game developer, except maybe Valve, but then again they sent HL2 to Xbox, so....

CardJoe 18th April 2007, 10:06

There are a lot of games that are exclusive to one platform, like MGS series on the playstation.

heir flick 18th April 2007, 10:14

like devdevil85 says, lets give it a chance, at the mo any games being devloped for the pc should be welcomed