You can in London!

I've had a very exciting week. I'm proper exhausted from all the action of the mid-week adventure down into London to play on a couple of Capcom's forth coming Xbox 360 titles.

I've already written a Hands on Preview of Dead Rising for BXB and I've got to say I really enjoyed playing the game. I felt that the game is easy to pick up and play, fun with some more depth than you'd think from a Zombie romp.

I also got my hands on Lost Planet, a full preview will be going up on BXB soon, and I really enjoyed that. Perhaps my favourite features was the ability to customise your Vital Suits weapons in game by finding other weapons lying around. This gives you plenty of tactical options when fighting fellow pirates or some the planets massive natural inhabitants.

It was a really eye opening experience going down to Capcom's offices and I found out that, as usual, things behind the scenes of these big companies is not what you expect of it. While playing Lost Planet I tapped X and left with an analogue stick and it made the Vital Suit (I can't call it a Mech because it's copyrighted) leap suddenly to the left using it's booster.

The PR guy sat opposite me (Sam) said: "Oh, I didn't know you could do that." When I questioned if the PR people were given a guide by the developers on how to play the games I was surprised to find out that more often than not they weren't and were left to discover the game on their own.

Sam also explained to me that Capcom (and Japanese developers in general) were very secretive over their code (which matches up with Sony's desire to make all the components for their consoles themselves) and hence I wasn't allowed to bring any home with me to have more of a play on.

After my afternoon at Capcom, I met up with good old Dan aka DJ NES from the currently defunct (but soon to return, I'm assured) Game Network. Since I saw him last at the Join The Ghosts event he's secured two new female presenters; asked me to join the GN team and had his hair dyed blonde and blue.

He explained that in London, you can get away with hair like that, despite the fact I saw at least 5 people give him double takes as we walked into the pub in Hammersmith.

Check out some photos from the day on BXB's Forum