At last, PC gaming is looking better:

[Admiral Huddy]

When I first saw Lost Planet advertised on TV, I was begining to feel a bit down about PC gaming in general... but hey

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/lo...g=images;img;4


I hoping this is a decent game and a good portal. It looks surperb although I don't know to much about it.

There are some god titles coming: Crysis, Bioshock, HL2 Episode 2, Alan Wake, Unreal 3, Portal, Spore, Medal of Honor Airbourne, Tomb Raider Anniversaries, Hellgate London etc. oh and a new expansion pack for CoH \o/

All of a sudden, things look better compared to this time last year

[Haly]

I think it got reasonable write ups for the 360, but it's meant to be hard iirc.
Hopefully the conversion process from gamepad to keyboard will go well and it won't feel too consoley.

[Admiral Huddy]

Let's hope so. Halo 2 is a doomed failure so the platform need a decent shooter. With Crysis a long way off yet, this will be a goof fill-in. Hopefully!

I'm puzzled as to why PC gamer missed this as a forthcoming title. Are they asleep or something?

[Haly]

I've not read PC Gamer in a long time, it didn't seem as good as it used to be then it went and published an article about women in games that imo was unbelieveably patronising so I cancelled the subscription.
I get PC Zone now till I get round to cancelling it. Much better read though. And it had about 4-6 pages on Lost Planet iirc.

[Admiral Huddy]

oh yes I remember that article.. caused quite a stir iirc ..

PC zone is worse.. I used to like a mag called PC|G... used to be a little more of an enthusiasts magazine. IT wen under with out any warning which was a shame

[Haly]

I tend to just read Edge or Games, both multi format but more mature reads if you ask me. Especially Edge which has a lot of industry based news rather than just jumping on the hype machine.

[Admiral Huddy]

According to Gamespot.. Lost Planet is to be the first DX10 game but a DX9 game will also be available.

I'm a bit confused by this..

1. How are they going market/retail two different versions of the game? It'll cause no end of confusion for the casual gamer, let alone cost.

2.Since this is a port of an xbox version, i'm sceptical as how and why the developers would bother with a dx10 version when it's already a dx 9 game. Doesn't make sense?? Therefore, I'm wondering if the dx10 version is just commercial PR to sell the game and corners will be cut.

Not that i'm complaining.. this sounds like a great game. Looking forward to hearing some reviews.

[semi-pro waster]

1. If there are two versions I'm guessing they'll probably just package one as "Vista edition™" and leave the ordinary version (DX9) as it is.

2. It is the same with Halo 2, clearly a DX9 (or even DX8.1) game but some of the multiplayer functionality is done in Vista apparantly. I don't know what they would do to improve the gaming experience in DX10, maybe tag on a couple of additional graphical features plus different/better multiplayer code?

The screenshots look decent enough and I hope it does turn out to be a good game but I tend not to have high hopes for console ports in general.

[Dutch Guy]

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...0_performance/

More info and benchmarks, strange that DX10 performance is down though :undecided:

[Admiral Huddy]

Yes, this is what makes me think that the interface isn't being used as should be.. Maybe the code has gone through some conversion routine rather than being writen as a native DX10, thus making the code inefficient. Given the time element they have had, creating a DX9 and DX10 would be two seperate projects.