Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

You have never played anything quite like 'Shadow of the Colossus' before. It represents the absolute pinnacle of adventure gaming in so many paradoxical ways: The story is enchanting, yet barely anything is revealed. The focus of the game is on combat, yet there are only 16 battles in the entire game. The world you inhabit is remarkable, and yet also empty. Confused? The reason is basically that you cannot do this game justice with a handful of words. To put it as well as possible, the atmosphere the game creates is just as potent as the effect it has upon the person playing it. Facing the seemingly insurmountable task of locating a giant beast, that wanders somewhere in an enormous world, and then slaying it using only a sword and bow, is extremely daunting. But the feeling of elation you experience from defeating each foe is incredible. The actual battles are all utterly brilliant: whether you're gripping for your life on an airborne colossus that's twisting and diving around deep marshland, on carefully stalking an enormous walking giant, or navigating your way along a water-based colossus as it twists and squirms through the chill depths of an ancient lake, you're bound to remember the experiences. The graphics and score are perfect, nothing else to be said. Only that such a brilliant graphical experience would have been done a little more justice with some more powerful hardware: but don't let that put you off, the PS2 may strain at its limits with this title, but the results are both admirable and jaw-dropping. You really must play this game: it's one of those you will never forget, and they are a precious rarity in the mass-marketed urbania that seems to clog the shelves these days. Do yourself a favour and give it a try, you won't regret it.

If you're reading this review to see whether or not this game is any good I'll put it simple. This game is possibly the best Playstation 2 game and has aged tremedously well. The game features you, a dashing young warrior named 'Wander' with your horse named 'Agro' and you're tasked to defeat 16 Colossus in order to resurrect your love whom had perished before the game started. The Colossi are, as the name implies, colossal beings which each having a unique shape, size and tactic necessary in order to defeat them. Trust me when I say I spent 11 hours straight, that is how immersive this game is. It's a simple story but complex game and how many games are like that? You don't gain any mandatory upgrades thus forcing you to rely on your own skills to tkae down the beasts. The game rewards you with satisfaction as taking down the monsters and has high replay value. Easily one of the best Playstation 2 games out and a high ranker for best games of all time. It has a decent plot twist at the end and makes you want to play it all over again. It does what a game is supposed to do well which is to entertain.

This game in my opinion is easily one of the best game for the PS2. Although the game is repetitive, as the review below says each colossus requires a different method to kill it. This creates enough change to keep most people's interest. The story does not hold your hand and leaves much to the imagination which I like. The gameplay is extraordinary. Control of the horse is fairly good though there are some undocumented controls that you'll need. Look around for guides on the web to find them. The sword, when the sun is out points in the direction of the next colossus. It is also your main weapon. Basically each colossus has weak points both major and minor. Major weakpoints are ones you must stab to kill the colossus. Minor ones are places you stab to make the creature do something whether it's falling to their knees or trying to grab you with their hand. The main concern when killing the colossus is the grab/stamina/breath meter. This is a colourful circle which gets smaller as your strength runs out. Don't worry though if you stay still you regain your strength. I won't ruin anything else but just to tell you that once you finish the game make sure you save it as you unlock both time attack mode and hard mode. Time attack mode generally gives you 4-6 minutes to kill a colossus. You don't have to find them again you start from when you first see the colossus. I find this the most enjoyable. I don't like the searching bit as the landscape graphics IMO are not great... nothing compared to God of War. Everything looks blurry until you are fairly close. However the battle graphics and especially the fur on the colossi is excellent. Anyway every time you beat two colossi in TA mode you get an item from different arrows to an invisibility cloak. Hard mode is excellently replayable. The colossi do more damage to you, are harder to kill and aswell as that most of them have extra major weakpoints that you have to get to and stab. And once your finished hard mode you unlock HARD time attack mode. The replayability is awesome. This game really is excellent and most people especially those who have played ICO will love this game.

Maybe I missed something.. The scenery in this game is beautiful.. the colossi are beautiful This is only a sequel to ICO in so far as it happened afterwards.. But as far as I got, it involves little more than repeated butchering.... find it, climb it, find a vulnerable point, and then stab it a lot... I gave up after it dawned on me that it involved little more than repeated butchering of the colossi fantastic as they were.. I just found it tedious, hanging on to the creature for dear life and stabbing away until it died or I fell off. Youtube is full of "I did boss 14 in 35 seconds" bragging videos.. do I really want to do that? If you like repetitive brutal mindless violence.. and for you stabbing slaughter is fun, particularly dressed up in fantastic scenery, atmostpheric graphics and all that... then this it.. or maybe I missed something?..

Ottimo gioco difficile trovarlo nuovo. Mio figlio ci gioca tanto ed è davvero soddisfatto.

Todo bien, aunque ponga que es la versión en inglés y la portada esté en inglés el juego lo puedes poner en español. 5/5

per chi ha amato ICO,questo nuovo titolo degli stessi sviluppatori sarà un'esperienza indimenticabile. nonstante sia un gioco datato,mantiene un livello di coinvolgimento altissimo.

Se nota que el producto es antiguo y lo que es la caja, tiene esa pérdida de color casi oxidado el cartón. Con un canto en pequeñez deteriorado. No obstante, el disco está bien. Y el manual está nuevo. Es una reliquia de videojuego 🎮. Y es una alegría haberlo obtenido. Buen empaquetado de Amazon y buena la relación calidad precio. Gracias.