Capcom Answers Pleas for Lost Planet Fix

Standard definition TV owners take note: Capcom has heard your gnashing about the text size and it is doing something about it.

Capcom won few friends earlier this year when its face-feasting zombie thriller Dead Rising proved something of a chore on standard definition TVs thanks to overly small text. Worse still, gamers' pleas for a fix were ignored. The recent Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions multiplayer demo seemed to suffer from a similar problem, but this time Capcom is acting quickly.

The big complaint was that some of the text overlaid during certain modes was practically unreadable on smaller, SD sets. Capcom won't be sending a fix down the wire for the current demo, but it has rectified the matter for the final version.

"Capcom is listening and taking our community to heart," a representative said in a statement at GameSpot. "We have noticed the recent concern about the text size in Lost Planet for SDTV users, in particular the Elimination mode of the multiplayer game where players' scores are displayed on the top left of the screen. We want to assure gamers that we have already implemented a solution for text display in Elimination, which will be reflected in the final game (although it's unfortunately not in the demo)."

Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions is a Japanese-developed third-person shooter where you tackle all manner of alien beasties in a world where the weather has gone awry. The game is coming for the Xbox 360 only in early 2007.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo