Evan Sims

“Lost Planet: Extreme Condition” for PC is Gorgeous

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: I’m not a hardcore gamer. I may be looking at designing them for my career, but I don’t enjoy spending all day playing games- unless it’s a game that really pulls me in (which hasn’t happened since Final Fantasy X.) I’m what the industry defines as a casual gamer. To make matters worse, I’m a loyal PC gamer, a tier of gaming that is seeing a rather ugly drought in new titles right now. I don’t like playing consoles in general (except perhaps for the Wii), and if I buy a console I usually do so only at the end of it’s lifetime. To put this in perspective: I haven’t owned a console since the PlayStation 2. Yeah. Shameful.

Why do I bring this up? Because I’ve just discovered a game on the PC that’s been out on Xbox 360 for awhile now, and I’m in awe of it’s visuals. It’s called Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. You can find it on Steam, and the damn thing is gorgeous if you’ve got the hardware to support it. You’ll need a beefy processors and an even beefier graphics card- I can’t even crank up the graphics all the way on my NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640MB and Quad Xeon Mac Pro. (Sidenote: If you’ve got an 8800GTS and are having crash issues; check the Steam help pages for a link to some beta drivers that fix the issue right up.)

The screenshot above isn’t CG, or pre-rendered video. That’s real, in-game cutscenes rendered in real time. Like I said, the visuals are just incredible. The detail that Capcom put into everything - the environments, the characters, the animations, the special effects - is really just top notch, and I haven’t seen anything like it before.

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