The player 1 waysider notices a giant, glowing orb in the distance and declares "I'm so going to shoot the shit out of you!" and presumably fires at it. As they continue towards their home, it starts snowing heavily, burying their home. After seizing control of the gun, they are once again attacked by Red Eye, this time they are able to kill it though. After stealing a train from the sandraiders, the group is ambushed by Carpetbaggers on the railway gun. On the way back home, they are ambushed by a Category-G Akrid, dubbed "Red Eye." After loading the remaining Thermal Energy on helicopter like VSs, they make their escape, only to be shot down by sandraiders. They are returning from a raid on a carpetbagger city, apparently with heavy casualties and not much Thermal Energy. The story once again shifts, this time to Waysiders, snow pirates now living in the desert. After it is killed and the members evacuated, it is revealed they are clones of Ivan Solotov, a character from Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. After failing to succeed, a "space Akrid" appears and begins to attack the group. The game then shifts to NEVEC's Black Ops, Task Force First Descent, who fight their way through a Carpetbagger city in an effort to capture a railway gun, a train mounted with a massive cannon. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates. The Akrid have expanded their armies and return much more powerful in Lost Planet 2. Player(s) assume control of several different factions such as Yuri's Snow Pirates, NEVEC (NEo-VEnus Construction) and many other groups battling the Akrid, a race of large insectoid aliens native to E.D.N. The game centers on an ongoing civil war to gain T-ENG ( Thermal- ENer Gy). The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. III 10 years after the events of the first game. Super Street Fighter IV is released on 30th April and Lost Planet 2 on 18th May, both for Xbox 360 and PS3.The story takes place back on E.D.N. The maps are Helix, an underwater mining facility where you swim between levels, or Back to the Island, a sandy atoll with wide-open spaces and a bridge to control.ĭetails of which retailers will be offering which specific pre-order bonuses are yet to come from Capcom.
People committing to buying Lost Planet 2 early will get a similar choice between an exclusive T-shirt, a collectible figurine of an Akrid monster, or a download of two multiplayer maps for the game.
The costume pack offers new costumes for Gen, Dhalsim, Blanka, Fei Long and Guile before they go on general sale.
Super Street Fighter IV pre-orders will come with either exclusive iPhone covers showing stylised Street Fighter characters, a T-shirt from an exclusive limited edition range, or a downloadable costume pack for the game. Early birds get a choice between three items for each. It also announced the European pre-order bonuses for Lost Planet 2 and Super Street Fighter IV. Lost Planet 2 also features four-player online co-op and 16-player multiplayer. Capcom has confirmed that sci-fi shooter Lost Planet 2 will support split-screen co-op gameplay, in the tradition of the previous game from the same development team, Resident Evil 5.