Shadow of the Colossus on PS2 (2006)

brassodin from GOSBERTON WESTHORPE, SPALDING , 15/03/2006

I love this game. For a while now, I have been getting a bit annoyed at the complexity of some games nowadays. Unlike in the old days where you could just pick up a game and play when you wanted something not very taxing, these days it sometimes feels like you always need to read a novel and work out what you were doing before you can even continue. Do not get me wrong, I sometimes like deep, well thought out games, but sometimes you just wanna pick a pad and kill something, without to much studying. This is were this game is great, the graphics are amazing and the bosses are massive and the landscapes are huge. But there are no items to collect, levelling up to do blah blah blah blah. All it is, you have sixteen bosses, that are really really really huge, using your sword and trusty horse you search the land for these colossi, when you find one you have to find its weakness and take it out and thats it. This game you can pick up and play whenever and the atmosphere it creates is really good, we was amazed at how addictive it can be.

  13 out of 17 people found this review helpful

Read all reviews

The Black Ninja from Birmingham, UK , 20/04/2006

In many ways this game is awesome...the concept is so bravely innovative too; a sort of 3d adventure/exploration game just made up of massive bosses to kill. Deserves 5/5 just for the originality. Beautiful graphics and visual effects, stunning monsters and enemy AI, varied and huge landscape to explore (although you don't really need to to find most of the colossi)...shame that it's such a marmite job; everyone is either gobsmacked by its ease, innovation and beauty, or others moan that its just repetitive and dull. Either way you can't beat the feeling of finding your first colossus at the top of that cliff and being stunned at the sheer scale of it, then the rush you get when you kill it for the first time. Brilliant and creepy cut-scenes, too - it all adds to the storyline. Shame the dynamic orchestral backing music gets a bit cheesy, but hey go with it. Games like this that tick all the boxes don't come along very often.

  7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Read all reviews

Chantal [Highly rated reviewer] , 19/03/2006

I couldn't stop playing this game, it made me cry when it finished. I want more Colossi to kill, please, pretty please.

  7 out of 9 people found this review helpful

Read all reviews

A customer from DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW , 20/07/2007

the game is good though its repetitive. you have to find then kill the beast then do it again but it is quite fun to kill the beasts.1 small thing there is no henchmen or anything like that just the beasts dont get me wrong its still good .but again repetitive i recomend you rent it and try it out.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Read all reviews

pyromantis from Nottingham [Highly rated reviewer] , 14/06/2008

I rented this because OPS2 magazine have been banging on about how good it is since it came out. I played a demo of it on one of their discs and liked it. But, to my horror, the full game is probably the most boring peice of gaming software i've ever come across. The whole game is, in a nutshell: boring cutscene, long trek, struggle with huge beast (not to mention the fiddly controls, terrible camera and a character who moves like a crippled chimp), finally kill huge beast, back to the temple and repeat. Basically a string of boss battles. I only got to the 3rd collossus and was in no way compelled to carry on. The story is boring like one of those supposedly enchanting tales that in reality put caffine addicts to sleep. After falling off the beast for the hundredth time because my little bloke couldn't hang on for more than a minute, i just lost interest. If you like boss battles, awkward controls and a story that moves as quick as a tranquilised granny then rent this. If you actually want to have FUN, don't.

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Read all highest rated reviews

Michael Irving from East Sussex, England , 19/07/2007

The first thing im going to say is that im glad i didnt buy this with my own money. I agree that it is inovative in the sense of the idea of the game and the graphics were good. With most games you go through long stages just to get the thrill of killing the boss and in this you dont have to which is a nice change but i found it very repetative and often found myself wishing for more inbetween. With a total of about 6 hours game play in my experience as im sure many other hard core gamers would find, is a bit dissapointing. Saying that, i have played many fantastic games that have ended sooner. This is my first review and i generally never read them and decide to make my mind up for myself. More people have liked it than not so give it a go, one man's misery is another man's joy.

  4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

Read all highest rated reviews