The Xbox 360 is about to get “extreme�. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, that is. Award-winning game developer Capcom has announced that the new science fiction action game is in development for the Xbox 360.

Although the game is currently slated for a winter 2006 release, nearly a year away, the buzz over Lost Planet has already started. The game’s official Web site, http://www.capcom.co.jp/lostplanet, was just recently launched. The site is obviously still in the early stages, as is the game, but features several game screenshots and a teaser trailer to wet the gaming audience’s appetite. Though the screenshots and trailer suggest a third-party point of view, Capcom has revealed that Lost Planet will be part of the first-person shooter genre.

Gamers have good reason to be excited. Lost Planet will feature the talent of some of the most well-renowned game developers in the industry. Keiji Inafune, the creator of Camcom’s Onimusha series and Mega Man series, has been tapped as the game’s executive producer. Assisting him will be Jun Takeuchi, the acclaimed producer of Resident Evil 5. Heading up direction will be Kenji Ohguro, best known for his work on Onimusha and Onimusha 3, and Shin Kurosawa of the Mega Man Battle Network series.

Imagine Starship Troopers (the Hollywood flick) meeting Stephen King’s Dark Tower novel series, and you have some idea of the basic storyline for Lost Planet. Modern-day Earth is gone, replaced by populations struggling to survive on a frozen world with the help of protective vital suits. Human live in fear of the native insectoid monsters, called eigrids, of the planet. Gamers play the role of a mysterious man named Wayne, who is discovered frozen solid in a vital suit. Wayne suffers from amnesia and doesn’t know how he got there – but he does remember witnessing the death of his father and the eigrid who murdered him.

Capcom has revealed that Lost Planet is being designed with Xbox Live in mind and aims to mimic the solid online multiplayer modes that have made some of the original Xbox Live games so popular.

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