Bionic Commando Rearmed in May

By Robert Purchese Published 21 February, 2008

Simultaneously on 360, PC, PS3.

Capcom is aiming at May for its remake of the NES shooter Bionic Commando.

The publisher aired its plans to videogaming247 at GDC, tentatively promising a simultaneous launch on Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC.

Bionic Commando tells the story of a strange man with a mechanical arm that has a grappling hook in it. He never gets past security in airports but he can swing around computer games like Spider-Man. Shoots guns, too, and throws people around with his grappler.

Bionic Commando: Rearmed will have 2D gameplay in 3D environments, and apparently looks quite smart.

It's a clever way to get the word out about its proper 'next-gen' Bionic Commando game, too.

Take a look around our Bionic Commando gamepages below, maybe you'll find something.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • rhinoxious #1 4 years ago

    Looks more interesting than the 3D version.

  • DAN.E.B #2 4 years ago

    Yeah im not convinced about the 3D one at all

  • Nithron #3 4 years ago

    Anyone else notice that the stretchy-arm thing in DMC4 is a direct rip of Bionic Commando's stretchy arm thing?

  • crashVoodoo #4 4 years ago

    360 one is the only one that won't get an install feature.

    /feels left out

  • dadrester #5 4 years ago

    i keep reading it as "Bionic Commando:Reamed"

  • konnsky #6 4 years ago

    those gdc gameplay footage only shows that the game handles like an utter crap.

    /hint - develop it for the wii instead.

  • Kenshin001 #7 4 years ago

    "360 one is the only one that won't get an install feature.

    /feels left out"



    Ironically Capcom indicated the PS3 and PC versions will be superior to the 360 version because of the size cap on XBLA.

    According to a 1UP interview with Capcom's Ben Judd:

    When the game hits this spring, the PlayStation Network version (as well as the PC incarnation) will have higher-res textures than the Xbox Live Arcade version. Blame Live Arcade's 150MB limit on file sizes, Judd explained.

    Still, MS will probably sort it out.
    Edited by 1 at 22/02/08 @ 04:00

  • Slipstream #8 4 years ago

    lol why cap the file size limit anyway? Simply inspect the titles in question and decide whether or not what they are trying to do is worthy of exceeding the limit.
    Edited by 1 at 11/04/08 @ 13:58