Helghast heading to Lost Planet 2

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 May, 2010

Exclusive skins next month. Vid inside.

Capcom has revealed that PlayStation 3 owners playing Lost Planet 2 will soon be able to download Helghast skins for the game for free.

The Helghast Assault and Helghast Scout troopers will both be made available at the end of June, according to the official PlayStation Blog. Check out the video below to see them in action.

The Helghast are exclusive to the PS3 version, obviously, as were the Monster Hunter skins.

Xbox 360 owners needn't cry though, because they got their own exclusives in the shapes of Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago, courtesy of the Microsoft-published Gears of War series.

Capcom has been pretty keen with the old downloadable skins and cross-series exchanges - Frank West from Dead Rising is also lurking in Lost Planet 2 somewhere, and Albert Wesker from Resident Evil was a pre-order incentive.

Lost Planet 2 came out for PS3 and Xbox 360 last week. Check out our Lost Planet 2 review for more.

The Helghast bring a touch of Milton Keynes to EDN III.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000. Follow him on Twitter.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • evilrobot #1 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 22:12:53 08-05-2012

  • GamesConnoisseur #2 2 years ago

    I really tried to enjoy LP2, I rented it for a week.

    Some good points but the negatives I felt far outweights the enjoyments so not a buy unfortunately. However for those who can get past the issues and are enjoying the game.

    Extra features, exclusives or otherwise, may help to bring extra fans?

  • INSOMANiAC #3 2 years ago

    Theyve tried shoehorning every character out of other more successful games into this cack, shame they didnt spend more time sorting out the controls instead of desperate attempts to piggyback the popularity of other games.

  • telboy007 #4 2 years ago

    Ha, that is quite cool.

  • alcides #5 2 years ago

    It's... just a costume right? Apparently it was worth making a nice CG.

  • FogHeart #6 2 years ago

    While I really liked the demo, I spent most of it praying that it would be patched for move so I could operate it like the SOCOM demonstrations we've seeing. With such fast-moving enemies twin-sticking a reticle onto targets was really painful.

    I don't understand the Helghast. Are they good guys or bad? In Killzone 1 it seems they are fighting a war of independence from a federation of Earth-centric colonies, and in Killzone 2 they are defending against an invasion to crush their rebellion. And this video shows them in a good light!

    I stand with my Helghan brothers!

  • muscleblade #7 2 years ago

    I can play as Wesker even though i didnt preorder. I think you can choose him if you have a RE5 save on your console.

  • muscleblade #8 2 years ago

    Funny how wesker,Marcus and co can speak without lip movement and breath under water. LOL. This works better with the Helghast as they wear helmets.