Bionic Commando Rearmed not on Steam tomorrow

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 14th 2008 at 6:00PM }

Capcom's Christian Svensson informs on the company's site that Bionic Commando Rearmed won't be available tomorrow on Steam. Apparently, Capcom and Valve could not come to agreeable terms at "the last minute," meaning the game will have to be purchased through other outlets.

BCR will be available tomorrow on Direct2Drive at 8AM Pacific and on other sites later in the day. Considering Steam has become many people's trusted go-to PC digital distribution source, it appears the group getting hurt most by Capcom and Valve's standoff is the consumer. It's worth pointing out that the game is available now and $5 cheaper on consoles ... just saying.

[Thanks, AtomicPlayboy]

Tags: bionic-commando-rearmed, steam

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Superstar90 @ Aug 14th 2008 6:09PM

This game is so hard, I can't even beat the demo :(

bigD @ Aug 14th 2008 6:42PM

Were you able to make it to the boss and then got the "buy the full game to play more" message? I found it pretty easy to get there.

Ihavepants @ Aug 14th 2008 8:00PM

He just said that he couldn't finish it... so why are you bothering to ask?

Mr.ESC @ Aug 14th 2008 8:32PM

For the sake of the achievements I'm playing it on hard and boy they are not kidding in took me a while to get to Zone 4.

You should buy it,it is pretty awesome but some parts are really hard regardless of the dificulty.

WarchildX @ Aug 15th 2008 9:11AM

On Hard? From what I could tell based on reading the achievements, it seems like the only "difficulty influenced" achievement requires you to be playing on "Super Hard." Do you have to finish Hard mode in order to get it?

Chavelo @ Aug 14th 2008 6:09PM

Pfft... their loss. Valve (Steam) is pretty much kicking butt right now, and is weird that Capcom won't realize that.

And pay 5 bucks more on PC? Why?

Haggard @ Aug 14th 2008 6:29PM

I wondered that. PC games are usually cheaper, and the excuse for it being more expensive was "we think it's still worth it".

WhoMe @ Aug 14th 2008 7:44PM

Maybe cuz valve wants a big piece of the pie?

Anyway, playing this on a PC? I shudder at the thought of it. I guess it could work, but it's old, old, incredibly old school in terms of controls.

Ihavepants @ Aug 14th 2008 11:21PM

It's using a D-Pad anyway, so I don't see any problem with using a keyboard.

Haggard @ Aug 15th 2008 5:50AM

You could always plug in a 360 controller if you feel that strongly about keyboards.

Ihavepants @ Aug 15th 2008 6:31AM

And it's extra on all downloadable sources on PC, Valve has nothing to do with the price rise.

ChimpWithAHandgun @ Aug 14th 2008 6:33PM

Direct 2 Drive is a good service, and it seems that it too often gets a bad rap. I never understood that.

I love Steam as much as the next guy, but really, considering that any game that makes no use of Steam's features is really just another game (that you happen to purchase through Steam), what's the difference? You can enable the Steam overlay through almost any game regardless of how you purchase it.

I understand wanting to support Steam, but just because it's not a game that they offer doesn't mean you can use another service that is of good quality.

bigD @ Aug 14th 2008 6:45PM

The ability to install any game you've bought through steam on any computer is a real selling point to me.

mismajor99 @ Aug 14th 2008 6:48PM

it is nice having your online library in one place, not to mention, the way STEAM handles downloads is second to none, unlimited downloads on all your PC's is a great thing, and not having to worry about another online service is great. D2D isn't a bad service, just doesn't hold up to STEAM.

ChimpWithAHandgun @ Aug 14th 2008 6:50PM

I've bought many games through D2D (as much as I have through Steam) and had no problems installing them on other systems, or in reinstalling. You can also burn the games to disc pretty effortlessly.

mismajor99 @ Aug 14th 2008 6:44PM

yepper...so STEAM , No Sale. That's my deal.

I'm sure it's great on 360 and PS3, but I really want it for my laptop. Heading to the shore this weekend, and it would have been great to have but oh well. I don't use D2D, so there's that.

Count me in as one lost sale for now...

Ihavepants @ Aug 14th 2008 7:01PM

Fuck, I was wondering what was happening with that.

cyrax @ Aug 14th 2008 7:25PM

I'd say the majority of people hurt by this are the customers, but Capcom also takes a bit of hurt as well. Not only the fact that people can't buy it on steam (for now), but it'll be up on warez before then. Free or $15, 5 more than consoles? I don't know which one I'll pick.

Ken @ Aug 14th 2008 7:26PM

Will wait for Steam... I got plenty of other stuff to play in the mean time.

Span_Wolf @ Aug 14th 2008 7:44PM

Rearmed is already available on Direct2Drive and the extra 5 bucks for the PC version is offset by the fact that the PC version is going to get extra bonus content. Might want to change the article just a bit to point out that you can buy it now on D2D.