Capcom unveils Lost Planet, exclusive to Xbox 360

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 December, 2005

See the trailer on Eurogamer TV.

Capcom and Microsoft have jointly announced the development of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for Xbox 360, a science-fiction-themed third-person shooter due for release in winter 2006 in Japan.

Along with screenshots, Capcom released a trailer comprising a mixture of in-game and cinematic sequences. As well as being the first public footage of the game, the three-minute trailer is the first to be made available through our brand new streaming video service, Eurogamer TV, which launches in beta form today. You can stream the trailer from our website without having to download any new software, and we'll obviously be very pleased if you do because we want to see how the system copes with your interest.

Lost Planet puts players in the role of a character modelled on 35-year-old South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun, who appeared at the game's unveiling alongside executive producer Keiji Inafune. It's an approach similar to the one Capcom took with Onimusha 3, where French actor Jean Reno's likeness was used for one of the main characters. Byung-hun's as-yet unnamed character in Lost Planet is seeking revenge for the murder of his father at the hands of his freezing planet's dominant force, the Eecrid.

His struggle will often put him behind the controls of gigantic, heavily armed mechanised walkers, and in early footage of the game he's seen fighting against squid-like monsters and other flying beasts, appearing to target his enemies while stomping in other directions.

Lost Planet will draw on the power of the Xbox 360 to create the seamless tundra that provides the backdrop to Byung-hun's mission - the game's single-player campaign - while his efforts will be punctuated by highly detailed CG cut-scenes that make the most of his likeness.

Capcom is also planning several multiplayer modes, including team-based affairs, that take advantage of Xbox Live.

On the development side, Capcom revealed that Kenji Ohguro, whose previous experience includes design roles on Onimusha 1 and 3, is the game's lead designer. Ohguro will share direction duties with Shin Kurosawa, who scripted the game, while Keiji Inafune of Onimusha and Resident Evil fame will executive-produce and Jun Takeuchi is also involved as producer.

Lost Planet is Capcom's second Xbox 360-exclusive announcement - the other being Dead Rising, a Dawn of the Dead-inspired shopping centre zombie hack-a-thon under the direction of Keiji Inafune - and, as you've probably spotted, its announcement was timed to coincide with the launch of Xbox 360 in Japan on Saturday.

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Comments (44) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Syrette #1 6 years ago

    EurogamerTV eh?

    nice!

  • Furbs #2 6 years ago

    /hands over 20p towards bandwidth fee's.

  • Derblington #3 6 years ago

    In the trailer I swear the main character is called 'Wayne' twice. A very heroic name if ever there was one...

  • Huntcjna #4 6 years ago

    Both the trailer and the .tv service gets a hearty hand shake from me both excellent.

  • rauper Verified Managing Director, Eurogamer Network #5 6 years ago

    Disclaimer: This is a beta test and it may well crash horribly today... would love your feedback tho!

  • brainbird #6 6 years ago

    It didn't crash here...

    Very nice, this eurogamer.tv .

  • Derblington #7 6 years ago

    Rauper - it seems to work well here at work (and we have a shody, old and almost dead network/pc system). Smooth as a babies bum though :)

  • bootsy_NL_30 #8 6 years ago

    over here in holland the TV service runs like a dream, fast loading times, no glitches....awesome !

    about time!

    and the trailer looks really really cool,this is what I've been waiting for, to see what A list japanese developers can do with the next generation.

  • mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #9 6 years ago

    PN03 innit.

  • kenty #10 6 years ago

    it has the word 'extreme' in the title ¬¬

  • FaXeMan #11 6 years ago

    I really hope that this isnt a rising sun exclusive

  • Dizzy #12 6 years ago

    Well the trailer looks nice....

    Kinda hard to make out a lot of gameplay mechanics... after RE4 Capcom is back on my list so, who knows, this could be good. It certainly looks the part.

    And yes, Capcom continues the (Japanese) tradition of smacking two random English words at the end of their titles. ;)

    Oh and BTW... Eurogamer.TV works like a dream here. Good job guys....
    Edited by 2 at 12/12/05 @ 10:30

  • tengu #13 6 years ago

    Looks nice, even though it seems to be yer average generic shooter.

    But then, that's Xbox for you.

    Love the EGTV thing btw :)
    Edited by 1 at 12/12/05 @ 10:33

  • TipTop #14 6 years ago

    Love the service. Dont know if it's because there are few people using the service, but it ran very smoothly.

  • easy_lee #15 6 years ago

    the EurogamerTV service looks excellent !

    the game looks a bit meh though.

  • DiscoMike #16 6 years ago

    Had to trun AdBlock off, but after that, it worked fine.

  • Talha #17 6 years ago

    The service runs like a dream - just like the parent site I must say. When can we download free games from it?

    The game looks like Microsoft Third Person Shooter 1.00. Solid, but not really passionate - of course I wish to be wrong as this is just a trailer.

  • sharpkiddie Verified Lead Developer, Eurogamer Network #18 6 years ago

    Had to trun AdBlock off, but after that, it worked fine.

    That's the idea ;)

  • Kraftwurm #19 6 years ago

    Eurogamer.tv is great and streams perfectly through all the way to Switzerland! :-)
    I love it.

  • Tiiti #20 6 years ago

    EG.tv gets a big thumbs up from me too

  • Talha #21 6 years ago

    Oh, it gets a '4/5' from me!

  • 3william56 #22 6 years ago

    Pfft! Sweden. Awwstraaaalya mate!

    Works a treat, but do we *have* to turn adblock off? At least put a reminder on the screen - wasted 5 minutes looking at a grey box waiting for loads until I checked here (ta DiscoMike).

  • terminalterror #23 6 years ago

    I love the new service! Particularly as for some reason embedded streaming windows media video doesn't work on my laptop any more and I've given up trying to fix it which stops me watching any of gamespot's streaming stuff.

    Proprietary no software required video FTW!

    The actual eurogamer.tv site looks a little sparse though, both in Opera and IE. Obviously a cut down page is a good thing but it looks like it isn't finished yet or something.

  • Speedwolf #24 6 years ago

    EGTV works great for me too, looking forward to seeing new stuff there over time.

    I think Lost Planet looks as cool as, although the camera angle could have been better positioned abover one of the shoulders a la Freedom Fighters (another one of my favourites, which also has one of the best game soundtracks ever).
    I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one.

  • Speedwolf #25 6 years ago

    Both the trailer and the .tv service gets a hearty hand shake from me both excellent.

    Bipolar disorder rearing it's ugly head(s)?

  • TILT #26 6 years ago

    It's an approach similar to the one Capcom took with Onimusha 3, where French actor Jean Reno's likeness was used for one of the main characters.

    This should read: It's an approach similar to the one Capcom took with the Onimusha series, where taiwan-japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro's likeness was used for the main character. Seriously, who cares about Jean Reno? Not japanese women, many of whom told me TK was "hansomu".

  • rauper Verified Managing Director, Eurogamer Network #27 6 years ago

    terminalterror: It isn't finished, which is why we've slapped 'Beta' all over it. There's loads of things we're going to do with it...

  • asphaltcowboy #28 6 years ago

    EG.tv works excellently!

    Now that's out of the way - the trailer looks AMAZING! Winter 2006 can't come soon enough!
    (Assuming I buy a 360)

  • boyakoosha #29 6 years ago

    yay eurogamer tv worked sweet, trailer looks pretty nice, love the bits with the swarms of flying thingamajiggies!!!

  • sickpuppysoftware #30 6 years ago

    TV service works great. One improvement I'd add is the ability to alter the volume rather than just on and off.

    As for the game, as others have said the angle is wrong. It seems you have to mask the enemy with your own craft to aim at it. Why couldn't the camera be slightly higher or off to one side? Apart from that it's very pretty in a bland way. However there may be some interesting features we don't know about yet.

  • morriss #31 6 years ago

    Didn't crash for me either. Streamed on medium and no problems.

  • terminalterror #32 6 years ago

    "terminalterror: It isn't finished, which is why we've slapped 'Beta' all over it. There's loads of things we're going to do with it..."

    I did realise that, just when I first saw it in Opera I thought it might not have been displaying properly and you might want to know.

    Looking forward to seeing what you do with EGTV, as long as you don't end up having some sort of premium subscription streaming feed of your house or something :)

  • The-Bodybuilder #33 6 years ago

    Doesn't work for me.
    Are the EG staff discriminating against opera users? Like my university website?

  • Talha #34 6 years ago

    "TV service works great. One improvement I'd add is the ability to alter the volume rather than just on and off. "

    Erm... may I point out that you have a volume control in your Windows taskbar, and another on your speaker?

  • Fatfish #35 6 years ago

    This looks sweet - those shots of a thousand+ flying things coming at you through the cave - wow! I'm impressed - but then my girlfriend says that's easily done?!?!

    Nice one EG - the trailer worked beautifully for me at work. Will try on my half meg bradband when I get home and let you know. Excellent addition to the site - we salute you. :)

  • barchetta #36 6 years ago

    EGTV looking good on from my end. Tried MED and ran with no probs - not sure what this Adblock thing is - maybe using Safari (Mac) with block pop-ups sidestepped that completely.

    Not too auspiscious a title to christen system with. Typical floppy-haired spiky-fringed hero... WAYNE????....yadda yadda.

  • sickpuppysoftware #37 6 years ago

    "Erm... may I point out that you have a volume control in your Windows taskbar, and another on your speaker?"

    I do and it's set fine for normal use thanks for asking. It was a bit loud for this video and I'd rather change it just for that rather than for every other app as well. You'll no doubt be shocked to hear that WMP and QT have seperate volume controls but what do they know eh?

  • asha #38 6 years ago

    Eurogamer.tv was rather jumpy on my 2Mb/s BB, What are you using Quicktime, WMV or Flash?

    Also a side note on the look, did you have to use such childish buttons and colors?

    I think it would look best if you made the control bar dark gray and then rounded the edges of the buttons (Abit like the 'Game Info' & 'View Screenshots' buttons above) and then made the video distance bar light blue with a dark blue line showing how bar you are. What do you think?

    Other then those small distractions i think the service looks great and i cant wait for you to put more videos up. Thank you!

  • Kami #39 6 years ago

    I had no problems with EGTV, it was smooth and lovely to use. Kudos to EG.

    P.S. Soul Calibur 3 review anytime soon?

  • symmetry #40 6 years ago

    2 thumbs up for eurogamer.tv

    half a thumb for Lost Planet.

  • tengu #41 6 years ago

    "P.S. Soul Calibur 3 review anytime soon?"

    I was waiting for a review of this myself to see if it was any good, then I heard about that absolutely shite bug in every copy of the game and decided I ain't touching it until Namco do a rerelease that fixes it.

  • Feanor #42 6 years ago

    What's the bug, tengu? I hadn't heard about it.

  • jaa #43 6 years ago

    Nice service, chaps. You're becoming big, rauper. Murdoch must be getting worried...

  • Kami #44 6 years ago

    Tengu:

    The SC3 save file will become corrupt when you delete saves from your memory card - which to me says something about the data compression technique the game may use.

    And I want to review SC3. But I can wrap it up in a nutshell...

    "It ain't as good as Soul Calibur 2, but it's still a good fighter. 7/10"