Lost Planet

Last week we held a special private pre-launch event in San Francisco, inviting members of the press and a few lucky Capcom fans. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go, due to both my nasty cold and my nasty work load. But Tony L, who you may remember covered the Gamespot After Hours event for me, did this nice write-up of last week’s event.

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Greetings! Tony here, filling in for Brian and comin at ya with a recap from the Lost Planet press event we held last Thursday, December 14 at Fluid Bar and Lounge in San Francisco, conveniently located a few blocks from the Metreon parking garage. Although, it didnt seem quite that convenient on this particular night, as Bay Area dwellers would know, it was rainy and pretty darn cold. Trying to escape the weather as quickly as possible, my partner-in-crime (who you all might know as Lost on the Capcom BBS) tried to pull a VIP style entrance. He walked right up to the bouncer and proclaimed were with Capcom, fully expecting to just glide right through the doors only to be stopped and carded by someone who most would be careful not to argue with.

Once inside, I discovered I was escaping the rain only to be met with a penetrating blue ambient light coupled with 16 stations of snowy Lost Planet multiplayer madness and a 50 plasma looping one of the latest trailers. I headed straight to the open bar for some instant Thermal Energy and, let me tell you, the folks at Fluid know how to warm a guy up! I spent the next 20 minutes or so snacking on some of the goodies at the appetizer bar and roaming around trying to size up the Lost Planet competition.

Once my hands had defrosted enough, it was time to get down to some gaming. I took over the host station and set up a plethora of matches, testing the waters with different starting weapons, match types and time limits each time. My personal favorite of the night was an Elimination match with rocket launcher starting weapons, played on Dilapidation (which some of you might recognize as the bonus multiplayer map). Within the first minute of the game, I scored a 5-chain killing spree before someone wised up to my location and made me eat a rocket to the face. I also learned a valuable lesson on why not to jump into a VS when 15 other people are already holding rocket launchers, especially on such a fast-paced map. There were alarms going off telling me to eject basically the instant my VS was up and running!

In addition to Pirate Fortress and Dilapidation, we were showcasing 6 other multiplayer maps that youll all have to wait until launch to play! Some of the maps are so vast, they warrant rifles as starting weapons. Some maps are even more action packed than what youve seen so far. You guys will definitely be supplied the means to have some battles of epic proportions.

As the night winded down and the war cries became farther and fewer in-between, we finished up our drinks, put away the equipment and said our goodbyes. It was a great night of gaming, eating, drinking and general merriment all around. To top it off, I had just enough Thermal Energy left in me to last me the walk back to the car.


—Tony

—Brian