Lost Planet PC Demo(s) Launched

As we wait for two of the most popular multiplayer games on Xbox Live to be released for the PC, irony has it that we first get to play the PC demo of Lost Planet - released on the Xbox 360 just a few months ago - while there's still no demo for Bungie's Halo 2 PC port, which is due for release next week. With the risk of repeating ourselves, that's two and a half bloody years later than the original Xbox version! Hmmpf... no matter, let's just get to the point.

So, as Capcom kindly informed us late last week, and again today, they have just released a PC demo that includes the content from both of the game's earlier Xbox 360 demos, for single- and multiplayer. Aside from that, it also features a performance benchmark tool, showing your computer's wootness (or crappyness) - measured as usual in frames-per-second - during a flyby sequence.

The Lost Planet PC demo is available for download from nVidia in two variants: one for DirectX 9 (i.e. Windows XP), and one for DirectX 10 (Windows Vista). Pick whichever suits you best, they're both about the same size, 370 MB give or take...

If you're getting some errors at launch on DirectX 9, try downloading the latest DX version from Microsoft's website. Although I for one was still unable to run it afterwards, for reasons that might have something to do with my lack of recent hardware upgrades. Bah, consoles aren't that evil after all.

The final game is expected to ship on the PC at the end of June.

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