Lost Planet Colonies confirmed for $30, online not backwards-compatible

by Zack Stern { Mar 13th 2008 at 11:00AM }

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition -- known around these parts as Lost Planet: Colonies or Lost Planet 1.5 -- has finally been officially announced. The game is a repackaging of the full Lost Planet title, plus a bunch of additional multiplayer and single-player extras. The good news: It'll cost about $30. The bad news: Colonies Edition multiplayer will be incompatible with current Lost Planet games.

Scheduled for a May 27 release on 360 and PC, Colonies mainly adds new, creative multiplayer modes to the original game. Several are based on holding checkpoints and CTF variants. Our favorite, however, lets one gamer control an Akrid, with the others teaming up to try to take down the alien. Different creatures are available, and we recently saw a demo showing how a spindly, player-controlled giant can make quick kills with its swiping legs.

New playable characters, new weapons, and new levels are also added. Many of those are tuned for these alien battles, giving bunkers for humans to hide from the less-mobile aliens. Xbox 360 and PC players can play against each other using paid, Xbox Live gold accounts. Non-paying PC gamers will still be able to play online, but they'll only face other PCs.

Gallery: Lost Planet: Colonies Edition

Colonies single-player adds a few new ways to navigate the snowy wastelands. Score Attack awards gamers points for dispatching enemies and destructible objects. Another mode lets gamers fight each boss in order, one after another. And an extreme-action setting juices weapons, player speed, and lets gamers plow through, head-first.

All of this seems great for the Lost Planet newbie, but current players will likely balk at buying the game again. Capcom wanted the multiplayer modes to work between the old and new editions, but cited non-specific "technical reasons" for it not happening. And Capcom hasn't announced a PS3 version, so Sony gamers will also miss out on the newfound action.

Tags: akrid, capcom, colonies, lost-planet, lost-planet-colonies, lostplanet, windows-live, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

rhooke @ Mar 13th 2008 11:09AM

Hasn't the idea of cross-platform FPS been tried before? and it resulted in the PC users crushing the console ones with the awesome might of the mouse and keyboard?

i'd say $30 is worth that. :)

Grant @ Mar 13th 2008 11:17AM

you completely missed what the post said.
1. There is no cross platform play, there wasn't when it first launched, there isn't now.
2. This new release is incompatible with the original version of the game.

So you know all those million or so players that caused this game to be "platinum hits", yeah... you won't be playing with them.

DangerMouse @ Mar 13th 2008 11:23AM

"Xbox 360 and PC players can play against each other using paid, Xbox Live gold accounts."

What?

Grant @ Mar 13th 2008 11:23AM

ignore my first point, i apparently missed the last line of the post.

NATO_Duke @ Mar 13th 2008 11:30AM

I think this is pretty lame! No love for those who bought it a long time ago.

Anyway, to aid in the confusion - those with Live for Windows can play the new version of the game with people using their Live for 360 accounts.

Yet, unless you buy the new version of the game, Live 360 users will not play against PC users at all.

dark_inchworm @ Mar 13th 2008 11:34AM

Ownage of Grant successful; cookie awarded

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 13th 2008 11:09AM

SOLD!

xFenixKnightx @ Mar 13th 2008 11:09AM

This is definatly worth checking out now if you havent already. Its a solid title and I enjoyed it. I wish I would have waited now. At $30 this is a steal!

Jhongerkong @ Mar 13th 2008 11:14AM

What a fugly boxart. Wouldve been easier if they just took the original box and put colonies on it.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 13th 2008 11:15AM

Yeah, platinum hits box art sucks donkey balls.

deaftly @ Mar 13th 2008 11:19AM

Yea I have the platinum PGR3, pretty lame that the box isn't green also, it clashes dammit!

ThePremierAssassin @ Mar 13th 2008 11:46AM

Oh wow I just realized what yall are talking about...I hope thats not the boxart...get rid of that freaking Platinum hits sh*t MS.

Its not cool...

Grant @ Mar 13th 2008 11:21AM

i was excited until i realized it wasn't compatible with previous versions for online play.
That makes it pretty much worthless for online play until a shitload of people buy the platinum hits version.

Markez @ Mar 13th 2008 11:26AM

Haven't played this before, thinking it might be worth a pickup being that I've been bored to tears trying to complete the Halo 3 campaign (GASP! I know). Can't finish off the Darkness since I loaned it to a pal (so much better single player campaign as far as I'm concerned). All my time is being consumed on Smash Bros (SSE is starting to give me the zzz's), but I know I'll be playing that for years. Other than the Mass Effect DLC waiting there for me, I need some crack filler.

What's this game comparable to?

Abhinav Kumar @ Mar 13th 2008 11:30AM

Now we just need Dead Rising... Colonies?

ThePremierAssassin @ Mar 13th 2008 11:39AM

Wow thats an AWESOME price in my opinion...

I was scared they would charge $40 or even $50 at one point just cuz its the games industry and stores like Best Buy/CC are notorious for their inflated prices.

This is definitely a must buy now for me at least. I remember everyone talking about how cool the game was back when it first came out. So glad they added some substantial new stuff to this one...

Capcom is on top their sh*t and I'm loving them...

Marty @ Mar 13th 2008 12:18PM

Does this game count as a different set of Achievements too?

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Mar 13th 2008 12:45PM

Yes my sweet marty it does. See x360a.org for list.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Mar 13th 2008 12:42PM

Whats the point? Why not make a sequel instead? Or do this with dead rising and add coop!

Shimrra @ Mar 13th 2008 1:07PM

Yup looks like my friend just scored himself my old LP cause I am so getting this. At $30 dollars Capcom just scored some points with me.

Jayslacks @ Mar 13th 2008 2:39PM

Not online backcompact? Three words, Capcom: Re. Tar. Ded.

honkyjesusownsu @ Mar 13th 2008 3:55PM

The game sucks, regardless.

CB @ Mar 13th 2008 3:34PM

No thanks.

BIGGEN @ Mar 13th 2008 3:52PM

i bet the game will come with a patch to make it 'compatible' with the other games, just not right away. i played this game for about 8 months until i traded it in for halo3 :( unfortunately for me, halo3 multiplayer couldn't touch lost planet multiplayer.

so, i have now been playing the lost planet demo on ps3 and will most likely pick this new one up for $30. if any of you want to add me for lost planet shenanigans, it's biggen1103 on both systems.