Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

Fumito Ueda and his team were responsible for creating one of the most original videogames of all time, the great ICO. Excitingly the same team developed the action adventure game Shadow of Colossus (SOTC). The game was released in February 2006 in Europe, exclusively for the PlayStation 2. --------Storyline-------- I will start by saying that this is not a sequel to ICO. Similarities exist though, such as the game being set in a similar (if not the same) world, and the fictional language from ICO returns. Without a back-story, prima facie SOTC has a rather basic plot. After travelling via horseback to a forbidden land an unknown warrior is on a ...

When this game was released I had such high expectations for it, its been a long time since I have got excited about a new and unique game. I was getting bored with the countless updates and sequels available and this was billed as a truely unique title. So soon after its release I packed myself off to GAME to spend my (hard earned) birthday money......... I had previously heard a lot of good things about this game. How it involved a new style of game play and was literally "thinking out side the box" in-terms of its approach. I had also been told it was visually stunning and had such a moving a story line it would tug at anybody's heart strings. ...

Updated 13 April 2006 Game Info Genre = Action Adventure Developer = Sony Publisher = Sony Players = 1 Player Online = No Age = 12+ Memory Usage = 320KB Minimum Released = February2006 --------------------------------------------------------------- STORY: Exclusive to the Ps2 from the makers of ICO comes an extraordinary game called Shadow Of The Colossus. You play as a boy/young man called Wanda who has traveled very far on his horse, Agro. He arrives at this strange forbidden land to see if the legends are true, that say that he can save his loved one by returning her soul that was taken from her ...