Frank West Spotted in Lost Planet 2

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Dan Webb

During a Lost Planet 2 co-op presentation in London last Friday, Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 producer, Jun Takeuchi, whilst showing off the game's customisation options revealed that Frank West would appear as an in-game skin.

Frank West is set to join the likes of Albert Wesker and the Gears of War duo, and will feature in the title equipped with a teddy bear rucksack and his trademark leather jacket.

There is no word as of yet regarding which platform Frank West will appear on, but considering the presentation was carried out on an Xbox 360, I'd say it was safe to assume that he's 360 bound.

Could Frank West be a pre-order incentive now that Wesker is seemingly available to all? When we hear more, we'll be sure to let you know.

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  • Who is Frank West?
  • Wow a lot of gimmicks for one game!
  • @#1 : The guy in Dead Rising
  • never played the first one,is it worth picking up?
  • Ah ok, so who is lol Albert Wesker? lol
  • What will follow? The Arbiter, or maybe Bill from l4d?
  • cool. Still just a rent for me unless I like it a ton after renting it.
  • Frank west was in Collonies ...
  • Sounds like a Megaman or Zero skin is next...
  • FRANK!!!
  • @#5 - The villain from Resi Evil 5 =P
  • Thanks 3 and 11, can you tell I'm not a zombie game fan :P
  • Well technically Wesker is the villain throught the entire series but you only really see him in Res 1, Code Veronica and Res 5.
  • @1 He's covered wars, you know
  • @11 - He was not a villain he was a visionary that went a little too far ;P hehe j/k P.S. Yay Frank West, Dead Rising is such a great game, makes me want to take it off the shelf and dust it off to play another round ;)
  • Quality! But just release the game already all these screenshots ect are just a form of torture. And please hurry on the Monster Hunter Frontier release.
  • Wow...uh, I can't decide if this is awesome or just desperate on Capcom's part.
  • They just keep adding more to this game. Adding characters won't make your game better. It's still going to suck.
  • ok so frank west is the bloke from DR1 right? this games characters are so random haha
  • Gyaaaa just notice the pre-order bonus part! PISS OFF WITH THIS SHIT GAMES COMPANIES I'M GETTING REALLY SICK WITH ALL THIS PRE-ORDER BULLSHIT!!! i want to buy my games from where i choose not just select stores for christ's sake!
  • So.. whos next then?... hang on ... "google search for capcom characters/games..." ok!,,, We might also see...... anyone else think this gimic is going and Has gone to far?..
  • This reeks of mediocrity
  • Edited the last sentence. It appears that Wesker is no longer a pre-order incentive.
  • frank west? damn ill buy the game just for him. one of gaming's greatest characters imo
  • #20, get bent! Why yell and complain on a forum about what may or may not be a pre-order bonus. If you don't like them just don't pre-order anything. I don't understand how it gets extra sales but I like them so I do it with the games I'm going to buy anyhow. So in summary, you don't have to participate so would you kindly die in a fire?
  • Oh yeah, when are they announcing Hakan as a playable character for this? The new thawed out sections of the world would be great for his already luxurious tan. (it's not a tan, it's a lifestyle)
  • @26 ah, I see, I see what you did there look at my tan walk..........
  • I won't be able to recognize Frank without the Mega-Man outfit on and Real Mega-Buster in hand.
  • @21 the games not even a gimic. its a laugh, you unlock skins and play them, would you like to be a giant cock on MW2? actually cannot wait for this game, first one was amazing, colonies was perfection online and the this ones going to be mint with the bosses.
  • Wesker did not die in RE5. He learned a lesson though and became a good guy. He injected himself with an anti aging virus and in the future he moves to a distant planet called EDN3. Albert Wesker also became friends with the most famous zombie killing journalist on earth, Frank West. He also got an injection of the anti aging virus and joined Wesker to cover the story of the happenings on EDN3. When the humans won the war against the locusts on the planet Sera, Marcus and Dom soon started to miss the fighs against dangerous monsters and became depressiv and therefore decides to travel to the planet EDN3 colonised by humans just like Sera and fight in a new war. They team up with Wesker and West to fight against the Akrid and evil space pirates. Random? Not at all ;-)
  • @14 Beat me to the joke dammit xD Might pre-order this if he's a pre-order only skin, just cause I love Dead Rising, that game was the reason I bought a 360, bahaha.
  • @ 13 He's also appeared shortly in Resi 4 as well.
  • LP2 was shit, This will be no better.
  • @29 ... i know the games not a gimic im talking about the " MP skins" which to me just seem like a cheap gimic, Im looking forward to the game as well me and my mates have had it on pre order for a good 6months+ now, as for walking around looking like a gaint cock in MW2.. hell if IW can make money out of it expect it in a over priced DLC near you! lol
  • @33, Lost planet 2 was shit? So this would be no better? Oh the irony!
  • There already is a pre-order bonus...
  • @33 ... lets do the time warp again... *sigh* weres my gun...
  • pass.
  • Who are the Gears of War duo?
  • next character : Zangeif, or Hagar
  • @#39 - Markus and Dom. Check the overview page for loads of info on their appearance.
  • screw frank west ...... adam west now theres a MP skin :P
  • No link or picture? Haha, gotta love when news sites have no proof at all. Fail.
  • i dunno about all you, but i play games for the gameplay and excitement i get from them, not to have skins
  • @6: I would rather have Louis shouting "pillz here!" constantly, but Bill would certainly do >:)
  • they can throw as many cameos in as they want, the first one was garbage IMO, so im not getting this one.
  • wonder if you be able to use the real mega buster in it
  • Frank West lol... What's next maybe put int heir Sonic and Knuckles or sth^^
  • This turing into a joke.. how many more unfitting characters are they gonna shoe-horn into the game to try and up sales? whoes next... master chief, ryu?
  • @ 43 - Considering Webb see it with his own 2 eyes thats proof enough IMO. Cant wait to get my hands on this game, Hopefully the skins will be avalible in MP aswell.
  • I appreciate crossovers, but Marcus and Dom still come off as strange. Wesker and Frank West make total sense since its from the same developing company. Hope there is more unannounced characters we can play as.
  • Guys, i'm sure the game is great but it's like the developers are going all Nintendo on our ass and are throwing characters from different games at us. Please, no more.
  • #49: "this is turning into a joke." yeah, it is. how perceptive of you. i don't know if you've played lost planet colonies, but once you reach a certain level you get to run around as frank west in his underwear. it's just for fun...
  • I'm finding it very hard to take this game seriously at the moment. If the reviews turn out to be good, i'll have a look at it. The first game was mediocre IMO.
  • Well it is a Capcom game, Dead Rising is a fun game, pretty sure Frank will be smahsing aliens or such things, beside Zombies, Lol
  • If Mega Man & Ryu aren't in this game I'm not buying.
  • We want Sonic.
  • So how long until Capcom adds the guy from Dark Void as a skin?
  • When did the Japanese start developing completely unoriginal games like their western counterparts?
  • Next we need Jack from Bioshock 1 and Master Chief then we got this down :D
  • Meh
  • Nice! I'd really love to. See some crazy skins in this game like say, the Chief or a Big Daddy! I can hope... I've only played the demo for this and just from that I can tell it's a huge improvement over the already awesome 1st. Alan Wake and this in the same day!? It's gonna be crazy!
  • Nice! I'd really love to see some crazy skins in this game like say, the Chief or a Big Daddy! I can hope... I've only played the demo for this and just from that I can tell it's a huge improvement over the already awesome 1st. Alan Wake and this in the same day!? It's gonna be crazy!
  • SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! more charecters for DLC would be great.
  • this is starting to sound more and more like a shitty b movie that uses cameo appearances to sell the film, barely acceptable in the film world, and absolutely absurd for the gaming world....
  • Next week they announce 3 new exciting characters chuck norris, henry the hoover and tony the frosted flake tiger.
  • What are we going to have Ryu from Street fighter in their too so he can shout "Hadoken!" every time he shoots the orange bits of an akrid? This absolutely is turning into a Joke...
  • wesker is the dude from resisdent evil 5 and i think another resi :S the main bad guy pritty much, with a cool accent (Y) =]
  • wow, nobody understands the concept of fun anymore i guess. it's not like they're forcing you to play as these characters, it's just supposed to be a fun option.
  • Waiting for that cat girl, Felicity?, from Darksiders
  • Wow...they are trying to get everyone in this game to sell it. i won't buy it. They're turning into a Super Smah Bro.s for Capcom and change it to a shooter.
  • Now we need some random Street Fighter characters and we'll be all set.... yeahhh... It would be sweet to run around as Ryu and do some shoryukens on enemies online LOL.
  • i wanna see mega man in lost planet lol
  • I litterally 'lol'ed @14. I can't believe more people didn't play this game. Can't wait for dr2... multiplayer will b interesting tho
  • Billy Mays next plz =)
  • @ 14 - XD You ass, I was going to say that! Damn it, I am uber late. 75 comments, oh snap.
  • Dante from DMC maybe?
  • Wait, #54. 'I'm finding it very hard to take this GAME SERIOUSLY at the moment.' See, that's your problem right there. You're taking a game seriously. And a CAPCOM game at that.
  • I want Jim West
  • @30.....I like your explanation.
  • Why are so many people making a big deal out of this? JPN games (and western to a lesser degree) have been using alternate cameo costumes for as long as graphics have been good enough to show us the alterations, but now that it's not a secret code to be researched there's a problem? Capcom has one of the biggest treasure troves of semi-recognizable characters, let them flex their muscle (and tossing in some guys from another 3rd person, sci-fi, "kill montsers" shooter is hardly an incomprehensible choice).
  • @70 Felicia? Yeah, I forgot her name too (actually had to go load up MvC 2 to double-check), I'm sure more than half of these cynics would LOVE to use her for a little single-player private time. With the visuals LP 2 has, Capcom might feel inclined to downgrade the eroticism a pint or two
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