Hot on the heels of yesterday's multiplayer trailer, Capcom has released more details about the modes in Lost Planet 3. The game will feature four multiplayer modes across six maps, and players will be split into the NEVEC and Snow Pirates camps.
Capcom Japan has debuted the multiplayer in Lost Planet 3, with a new trailer that shows it off in action. It's composed mostly of explosions, so the brief bits of Japanese aren't too insurmountable.
Lost Planet 3 was supposed to bring some winter weather early this summer, but Capcom has delayed the release of the game two months, until August 27. The publisher told Shacknews that the game was delayed for "business reasons."
Lost Planet 3 has moved out of its "early 2013" launch window and into summer. Capcom announced today that the game will hit PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on June 25, the perfect time to play a video game that takes place on an ice planet.
Spark Unlimited hasn't had the best track record, having worked on the poorly-reviewed FPS games, Turning Point and Legendary. It was odd that Capcom would assign such a shaky developer on the Lost Planet franchise. But lo and behold, Lost Planet 3 proved to be one of the surprise hits of E3. Capcom producer Andrew Szymanski discussed how this surprising alliance formed, and admitted that even Capcom was skeptical of giving the game to the team at first.
Capcom showed off a nice healthy chunk of Lost Planet 3 at Gamescom 2012, but like 99% of the game enthusiast crowd, you probably weren't there. Luckily, the company has released footage from the event, giving us a full 15 minutes of story content, shooting giant bugs, and mech action.
"Is this a reboot?" I asked a Capcom representative at a recent preview event. I had to ask, because Lost Planet 3 was not what I thought it would be. Beautiful, atmospheric, and intense, Lost Planet 3 is the rare game that goes completely against expectations, and offers something refreshingly new and exciting.
It's an odd admission to make, given the awful turn the franchise took with Lost Planet 2. Perhaps taking too many cues from Monster Hunter, Capcom's sequel became too multiplayer-focused. Battles against the game's many towering enemies felt like grinds, with the game's "shoot the glowing weak point for half an hour" gameplay growing thin. And with the franchise now in the hands of a developer as unproven as Spark Unlimited (Turning Point, Legendary), it's no wonder I was skeptical. However, after thirty minutes of hands-on time, I would say Lost Planet 3 is the game I always wanted Lost Planet to be.
Capcom is back on-board with Lost Planet and pushing the franchise hard with a new spin-off in addition to Lost Planet 3. The new action shooter is called EX Troopers, and is scheduled to hit the 3DS and PlayStation 3 later this year in Japan. So far, US plans haven't been announced.
Hot on the heels of the Resident Evil 6 trailer leak from the Captivate event, another trailer hit the Internet that outed an entirely new game. Lost Planet 3 is coming, this time from another Western developer with a history in the Call of Duty series.
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