Shadow of The Colossus

I have this thing where Sony sends me game demos to kind of give a final test of their games. And today I received a demo for the game Shadow of the Colossus.

It's very, very good. It has beautiful open landscapes to go explore, and the battles against the Colossi [I believe that's what the massive creatures are called] are brilliant. It was literally amazing first seeing and fighting the creature. It has a great sense of realism. The graphics are'nt the best, but they sure are good. The gameplay is great, the controls are a little weird [but you get used to 'em fast]. Overall the demo was just a great experience.

I know this is all based solely on the demo, but if the demo is anything like the game, it's gonna be one great game. What do you guys of think of the game?

Although the E3 demo was a little too choppy and grainy, they've certainly cleaned it up from then and the game looks even better then it did before. I had no doubts on picking it up, and I certainly don't now.

IGN's got a nice little video comparing the old and new too:
The Evolution of Collosus

i've heard and seen a lot of good things about this game, and i can't wait for it to come out. when is the release date? did they give one? the game looks beautiful, but we'll just have to wait until we have a finished product before we can truley critique the game.

The release is actually next week for the states, believe it or not. The 19th to be exact.. can't wait!

Oh God, I can't wait for this game! It looks unbelievable! It's actually responsible for not making me care that TP got delayed. Does anyone know when it's getting a European release? I really need that game...

Well from what I've found, it looks like it'll be released around the 27th in Europe.

Plainly put, this game just looks really good. It's showing us how the PS2 still has a bit of life in it. Hope it doesn't disappoint.

Yeah, I've got the demo too, I'm very surprised to see how much of the overworld we are actually given. You can ride around for hours in the seemingnlt gigantic play area, but there comes a time when you realize that youve only been given a grain of sand(the demo area) in the sahara(the full game), and you put the controller down, and sit there with your mouth open.

The actualy world in this game will be MASSIVE, I'm talking about hours of pure exploration, it would probably take days to find every single little uneeded offshoot and ruin in the game. You see, the developers decided to take a new route in videogaming, make places that youlle never visit if you conservativly play the game (genious!)

Here's a bit from a thread a made some time ago when the actually title of the game was released as opposed to the strange "wanda and the colossus"

Originally Posted by vacumgod

The more I watch this game, the more a sense of spirituality I gain from it. This game definantly has an extremely Zen Buddhist quality to it. You gallop across the world never disturbing anything (except for the giants of course), its almost pure wu-wei, even the hero's clothing looks as if it was made with great care, a very romantic (literature wise) individual. The main character has a sense of nirvana about him, or perhaps he's a boddisvatta, helping his supposed love before he can help himself. Often times we wish we were such great video game hero's as megaman, or samus, many of us here at ZU wish we were link, but afterward we realize that we are not brave enough, or we are not healty/physically fit enough to perform such great tasks... But the hero in SotC, I feel for him, I wish I was him, a beat hero taking in the beautiful world about him... and sometimes, after I'm finished daydreaming, I become confident that I can be this sort of hero

This game looks really spectacular, and it's one of the PS2 games that I really want. I don't have a PS2 yet, but when/if I do get one, this will definetly be one of the game's I pick up.

Originally Posted by Invaded Karma

Well from what I've found, it looks like it'll be released around the 27th in Europe.

27th of what? October? November? December? As long as I can get it for Christmas I'll be a happy man.

Originally Posted by Re-Dead

27th of what? October? November? December? As long as I can get it for Christmas I'll be a happy man.

Heh, sorry.. guess I should've clarified that it's the 27th of this month.

Too bad I don't have a PS2 though *sigh* but it looks really good. Huge land scape, giant mystical creatures and all of the sort!