Lost Planet multiplayer at GC

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 July, 2006

4v4 debut in Germany.

Those of you wondering what the multiplayer part of Lost Planet is going to be like won't have to wait much longer to find out - Capcom's planning to show it off at Game Convention in Leipzig next month.

In an announcement this afternoon, Capcom Eurosoft said that its stand would play host to four-versus-four team battles - with players struggling against the game's icy conditions almost as much as each other.

The full game will include "numerous multiplayer maps and modes", says Capcom. Speaking to Eurogamer at E3, Keiji Inafune said the team was aiming to support up to 32 players in the final game.

"The team keeps saying 16's more realistic, but I keep telling them to do 32," Inafune told us. "A lot of it'll be determined in the next few months, but we know we'll do the standard set of modes, and we'd like things like different factions of snow pirates fighting each other, with a kill-all mode, a territorial mode - and that'll obviously be slightly different to other similar games because colder, windier territories are going to be tougher to keep hold of because of the way they use up fuel."

"And of course you'll be fighting over the robots. We'll have people leaping into robots, and the guys outside reacting by ripping the weapons off the side of it and using them against it. There's a lot of potential and obviously we're going to try and exploit it all."

That's all on top of a big single-player game too, which will see players taking on snow pirates as well as nasty big bugs - and all the while trying to preserve heat to stave off death in the icy wilderness of the, well, lost planet they find themselves on.

The full game's due out on Xbox 360 exclusively in early 2007 - and there's a demo of it up on Xbox Live Marketplace too, which Capcom says has enjoyed more than 400,000 downloads since E3. Coo, eh?

For more on the game, check out our E3 impressions and interview with Inafune.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Darkedge #1 6 years ago

    2007? damn I was hoping before christmas :(

  • morriss #2 6 years ago

    It's always been slated for Q1 '07 release. I never did work out where the Q4 ´06 talk came from.

  • cyacomini #3 6 years ago

    I thought the demo was fantastic - best graphics on 360 of all the titles so far, although GoW may surpass it shortly.

    It was quite tough though, but well worth the effort.

    *returns to Uno.

  • repairmanjack #4 6 years ago

    Really , really looking forward to this. Thought the demo was great. Also annoyed we won't see it for Christmas - but then I don't really know what the Q4 release schedule is like. Ah yes... Gears of War.

  • hcg_wilson #5 6 years ago

    "I don't really know what the Q4 release schedule is like"

    Maybe Forza 2 (not gonna happen), but Dead Rising - Rainbow Six Vegas - GoW - Test Drive Unlimited could entertain you for a while :)

  • octo #6 6 years ago

    I thought the demo was solid. I know some people raved about it. I can see the potential and hope that over the coming months capcom turn this into a must buy for me. I can imagine the multiplayer being very cool.

    Also developers please take note - 32 players should be standard.
    Edited by 1 at 07/07/06 @ 16:25

  • MasterThief #7 6 years ago

    What's Lost Planets multiplayer like? Is it something revolutionary like Splinter Cell's?

    Or is it simply another mindless deathmatch sooter???

  • morriss #8 6 years ago

    @MTheif: The point of the article is that we don't know yet and won't find out until the GC in Germany....

  • Mordum #9 6 years ago

    The demo for this is great. If they can put together great online gameplay, then this is going to be one to pick up next year (I hope they achieve 32 players online).

  • zozart #10 6 years ago

    "I thought the demo was fantastic - best graphics on 360 of all the titles so far, although GoW may surpass it shortly. "

    Gotta agree with that! Took my breath away when I loaded up the demo. Gameplay wasn't bad either. A purchase is definitely on the cards, it's just a shame we've got to wait till next year.

  • Xerx3s #11 6 years ago

    Wow, this show is really building a name, isn't it?

  • Dreddnaught #12 6 years ago

    I'm a fairly fussy gamer, and as such don't really have any loyalty to any developer, but in the last 3 or 4 years, I've been consistently impressed with Capcom's output.

    No other developer, aside from Nintendo, can push my buttons like that.

    And as far as this game and the likes of Dead Rising goes, they're not about to lose my custom just yet.

  • Xerx3s #13 6 years ago

    Dead rising might be interesting, but I found Lost Planet a bit disappointing.

  • Inflatable #14 6 years ago

    I'm even more impressed with the demo now that I know the game won't be out until 2007.. I hope they'll release a MP demo of it too before launch, that will surely increase sales I think..