Lost Planet 2, one of my favorite shooters this year, is finally out for the PC. Sort of. If you download it from Steam, like I did, you'll be able to boot it up and briefly admire the main menu screen before being prompted for your CD key. Which is easy enough to input, thanks to Steam's handy-dandy "copy to clipboard" button when you buy the game online.
At which point Games for Windows Live (a.k.a. the scourge of PC gaming) informs you there's a patch available. Ooh, goody! I love patches. They make stuff better. So after a quick download, you're prompted to exit the game so the patch can work its patch magic. A brief install later and you're starting up Lost Planet 2, ready to play as space Mexicans who hijack souped-up Jawa landcrawlers or ridiculously be-helmetted soldiers shooting giant bugs that leak delicious orange Slurpee.
Oh, a SecuROM prompt to put the correct disk in the disk drive. No problem, I probably just have the disk in there for another game. Hey, wait, I bought this on Steam. I don't even have a disk!
Nice move to all involved. Capcom treated the PC version of Resident Evil 5 like a red-headed stepchild, and now they're throwing Lost Planet 2 under the Games for Windows Live bus on its very first day.
Fortunately, Lost Planet 2 works just fine on the Xbox 360.
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