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Shadow of the Colossus is an action game that squares a young boy against a group of towering colossi. You assume the role of a nameless hero trying to rid the world of giant creatures and find his lost love. With your trusty horse at your side, explore the spacious lands and unearth each Colossi. Armed with your wits, a sword, and a bow, use cunning and strategy to topple each behemoth. PRODUCT DETAILS
UPC:711719747222
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Playstation 2
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:...
Shadow of the Colossus is an action game that squares a young boy against a group of towering colossi. You assume the role of a nameless hero trying to rid the world of giant creatures and find his lost love. With your trusty horse at your side, explore the spacious lands and unearth each Colossi. Armed with your wits, a sword, and a bow, use cunning and strategy to topple each behemoth. PRODUCT DETAILS
UPC:711719747222
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Playstation 2
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:...
Teen
SKU:PS2_SHADOW_OF_THE_COLOSSUS ———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
SKU:PS2_SHADOW_OF_THE_COLOSSUS ———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
Talk about nostalgia….Ico was probably one of the very 1st PS2 games I ever played and remember it very fondly. SOTC is also an amazing, very unique, and quite visionary game. They are both set in the same video game universe and just have a certain feel to them that really resonates with the gamer in me. Too bad I’ve had to order 2 different copies of this game though. First copy, that’s being returned as I write, was misrepresented grossly by the shop and they refused to answer any emails so i left appropriate feedback and sent it back. Waiting for my new copy and I have much more faith in this shop. But the game? Man it’s great. Having these two titles in HD is super sweet lol and that ain’t a favorite word of mine. Great games man….great games!
Having played the originals on the PS2, I can understand why some would ask, why get this, its just and upscale in graphics right? Sure enough however, I feel that this game has defined an entire genre of games, and has so much replay-ability. Considering the Last Guardian is soon to come out in the future, its a great time to play these games to understand some of the world and universe that these games take place. Be sure to play it in the Order of Shadow of the Colossus and then ICO, while they were released in different orders, the developers have confirmed that the stories take place in that order. Personally, I would recommend that even if you have played the older version, pick this one up for your collection.
I was going to purchase Shadow of the Colossus on PSN for $19.99, but was reminded by a friend to try to buy a disk when possible so I checked on retrolio to see if it was still available. This disk comes with both ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, two major hits from Team Ico and Sony, now in full 1080p HD with optional 3D and a number of extras. Highly recommend these games, and this is a nice update if you have them or enjoyed them on the PS2.
BEST GAME EVER CREATED! Oh my gosh, i have been waiting for YEARS to play this game again, and finally got a PS3 so i could. Thanks so much for making my life wonderful again. ICO has been hard to get into, and it was as a teenager too. Its fun, but i a definitely in it for Shadow of the Colossus. OHMYGOSH. Its the best ever. thanks (:
Ico runs in 1080p native at 30 fps. It looks gorgeous and uses MLAA for jaggy reduction. Ico doesn’t need much explanation. It is one of the most wonderful videogames I have ever played and still holds up today. In fact, it looks gorgeous and plays well. Unforgettable.Shadow, though, is kind of dated. I put my PS3 into 720p mode only because the initial resolution they have uses an upscaled 1080p mode with rectangular pixels and does not play well with the MLAA post processing method they use here for anti-aliasing. It looks…. okay. LOD transitions are awful just like the original and textures are completely untouched and awful looking for the most part. The bloom is totally overdone and the lighting is a bit garish but the game does have some soul at least.It runs well in 720p mode and gets a little worse in its set 960x1080p mode. No idea why devs think that a little extra fill rate looks better than true squared pixels at 720p but it really does not matter. The colossi are awesome the horse riding is okay and the camera is ****ing awful. Good game but it honestly cannot touch Ico in my mind.A full win for putting a backwards cover with the true Ico artwork on it. AWESOME stuff marketing guys.
As soon as I had found out that Shadow of the Colossus was done as an HD remake for PS3, I definitely had to get my hand on a copy. Though I’ve never actually played ICO previously, i am excited to play it now for the first time knowing that Shadow of the Colossus is considered a “spiritual sequel” to ICO.the graphics of the games go amazingly on a nice LCD HDTV. I’ve tested the 3D for Shadow of the Colossus and it was aboslutely amazing. The 3D element brings a whole new style to the game when climbing up 50 foot tall idols. For anyone who played it originally for PS2, I would highly recommend getting this update.
I played this game on the ps2 and the ps3 was very nostalgic and fun. The graphics aren’t state of the art, but it still stands up well. Best of all the game is fun to play. The only thing that irritated me is that sometimes the game feels like it is a maze as you are running around trying to accomplish things. A map would have helped me from making repeated wrong turns. I love the game and my kids love it too. It was great to beat it again. I still haven’t played shadow of the colossus, but ico is awesome.
Team Ico is such an underrated developer. Anyone who has not experienced these games should do themselves a favor and play them. Beautiful worlds and touching narratives all mostly told without much dialogue. That is something to be admired. 10/10 for Team Ico
Ico and Shadow of Colossus are quite exceptional. They’re concurrently beautiful and minimalistic. There’s not a whole lot of music, but when there is it is quite becoming. Not to mention, they’re poster children for the argument of video-games-are-art movement. They have also paved the way for other games, like Journey, to be accepted by the masses. And that’s quite a feat in a day where Call of Duty is the norm.I won’t go into too much detail here because chances are you already are familiar with these games or have heard about them.In Ico you take control of a little boy with horns cast away into a labyrinthine castle. You must escape this castle with a female, Yorda, who’s stuck in the same boat as you. All the while fending off shadow monsters who attempt to abduct Yorda. It’s an escort mission at its core.Shadow of the Colossus throws your character in a large beautiful but desolate land in an attempt to awaken an unconscious woman. (Love interest? Friend?) It’s just you, your horse and sixteen giant colossi. Beat all the bosses and you win.Minimalistic in concept, stunning in execution.Frankly, the games are better on this collection than their PS2 originals. These games were built for HD before HD was even a standard! I mean that in the sense of the scope and presentation of the visuals lend themselves quite well to large format TVs that have become more and more the norm than, say, a 32 inch tube TV that I originally played Ico on back in 2001.The remas.
This will not be the typical review you’re used to; i’m not going to discuss the plot, characters or controls. I’m writing this review in response to the negative reviews of this collection i’ve read here. I’m not going to bash people for genuinely not enjoying the game, because I understand that some people won’t. This review will let you know what to expect when you first put the disc in the console.It seems as though (even a decade later) that people are picking up Ico or SoTC expecting an experience ENTIRELY different than the one the developers intended to provide. These games aren’t necessarily about epic battles in amazing set pieces (although SoTC has plenty of them), or engrossing highly detailed plots, or even intricate fighting systems and controls. These games are about putting yourself in the situations the two main characters find themselves in, and without hesitation accepting that completely. You MUST suspend your comprehension of reality; do not think of it as playing a game, but as experiencing something new. Playing both games I often times found myself stopping for a second and saying “what am I doing?” or “what’s my goal?”. Sure, there are stories there; as in: “here’s some general back story about what’s going on… well off you go”, and the developers kick you in the rear end and say “alright, now get to it”. You don’t know what the outside world is like – you don’t know if it resembles anything you would recognize, or if it is just something completely.