Is an ICO 2 and Shadow of the Colossus 2 mixed game coming to PS3?

In an interview with Fumito Ueda at the Nordic Game 08 event, he mentions being at work on a game that combines both the graphics and gameplay seen in his previous games ICO (2001) and its prequel Shadow of the Colossus (2005). VGB looks into the questoin: "Could the lead designer of those PlayStation 2 games be at work on a mixed sequel for the PlayStation 3?"

[TheHater]

It doesn't matter what they do, we know it going to be great. Can't wait to see it in action, or better yet, play it

[gaffyh]

That is 100% true.

[ash_divine]

ditto

[eagle21]

Someone slap me, I just read: Is an ICO 2 and Shadow of the Colossus 2 mixed game coming to PS3? :)

[NO_PUDding]

We don't need to slap you.

As far as we know it's called ICO3.

And it won't be a thign liek ICO or Shadow of the Colossus, and this article is just gettign everyone's hopes up, I read the extensive interview from the Nordic Games Conference like the week after it happened (this is old now) and there is nothing he is giving away, I think they asked him directly, IIRC.

EDIT I know Issun34, he's called WanderIssun though. :D

[eagle21]

All we know is they are working on a PS3 game rumored to be titled "Last Canyon"?

And we have seen only one real screenshot, showing a chain connected to a mysterious hole or underground....

http://www.scei.co.jp/synth...

they may have plans for this as well, it's just a rumor....an exciting one!

[hack6464]

Please be true. Please be true. Oh god please let this be true!

[v1c1ous]

we're not psychics. stop hyping the game before we even have any clear news on it.

yes the ICO team is genius, but so is free radical and looked at what happened with Haze b/c of hype.

don't screw it up for yourselves.

don't confuse this with me dissing the ICO team either. i personally hold SotC as one of my top 10 games of all times. i LOVED their games and hold them in a high regard, but don't do this guys. it's dumb.

[Dir_en_grey]

A while back (beginning of the year I think) when I was searching for info on Siren 3 before they announced New Translation, I read from Team Ico Gamers about the info that Sony has like 10 secret projects and Siren was one of them.
Along side that was Team Ico working on 2 games for Sony.

Atleast one is confirmed by Famitsu, anybody here got inside source of the other game they are working on? Or at least confirm they are working on 2 games?

[NO_PUDding]

@Eagle21 : Last canyon was bull, and also the rumour that it was based on Nordic mythologies was bull (a suggestion in a community I was part of suggested it, and it was taken out of context). But we have seen one screenshot, that's correct.

@Hack6464 : It's real, but only listen to what Fumito Ueda says. He's not confirming anything really, about it being a mixture, and I sure as hell bet it will be something fresh and new again.

@v1c1ous : Speak for yourself, and don't tell people what to do. We can get hyped, because this developer is different. We won't be expecting more, because what we receive will be new, we won't have expectations, it's not a sequel per se. And also, Team ICO follows rules, and has passion to create and execute a game professionally. Free Radical struck lucky with TimeSplitters, and as soon as they try something serious, it fell flat on it's face, and it clearly wasn't executed with passion.

Dir_en_grey : There are 2 projects (that's confirmed), one is suspected to be a PSN project, and if not then the team is way too small to be working on two big budget titles at once so one will be purely conceptual.

[ThanatosDMC]

::drools::

[Bigbangbing]

please show us some video in E3 pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase

SOTC was not a game...it was a piece of Art

[TheHater]

couldn't agree more

[dachiefsman]

I agree. Like SToC but not ICO. Couldn't get into that one.

[Black_Jack]

....and so much more, the sheer mystery of what you were doing and how it built up to the climax (and anti climax for that matter) was pure brilliance.

the game itself in a way was simple in essence. but putting the whole thing together just made me feel so absorbed in what i was doing, and i believed in the cause. thats what is missing in this generation of gaming we're in.

hopefully team ICO can bring this back!

p.s. best horse animations iv ever seen.

bubble nbnt

[NO_PUDding]

It was totally simple. Ueda never wanted to embellish it.

It's gotta be the future for games. It's less narrative heavy, and more playable or objective, becuase it has the objective laid out for you at the start, and you can play it all in one sitting if you know how. But it's still got meaning.

Clever stuff.

Indeed, best horse animations, but also best horse controls. Most realistic, and really give you a sense of a horse, rather than a car.

[Vino]

Can't wait when they show their game.

[Rice]

OMG...No way...?!?!?! Someone confirm this or else i wont crap my pants...

[Closing]

ICO, and SotC stories are connected?

[AlienGorilla]

That's all I have to say to that.

[Azurite]

Yes.

[Closing]

Cool those are two games I really should have played. I Only got to play up to the first boss in SotC. Those two, God of War 2, and Okami are the only last gen games I still need to play.

[RiseOfMonster]

SotC is a prequel to ICO.

*SPOILER*

When you beat SotC the horned child from ICO is born and then in ICO the horned child has to help the princess (from SotC) escape.

[Azurite]

*SPOILER*

Actually, I don't think it's the same child.
In ICO it sounded like there had been many horned children born in the past.
I think Shadow of the Colossus was a long time before the events of ICO.

[lodossrage]

See when you guys refer to the horns on both of the lead characters of the games. At the end of SOTC, when the main character is reborn, he is BORN with the horns.

The main character of ICO only has the horns as head wear. In short, you can't use the fact that both characters have horns as a basis of the two games being connected.

[v1c1ous]

said that while the 2 games share a specific similarity, they are more spiritual cousins rather than the same universe.

[Closing]

@vicious: Yeah, I remember reading that somewhere that's why I was confused by this article stating SotC was a prequel.

[Adamalicious]

I think if you've actually played both of the games the connection between the two seems pretty obvious. There is a society that banished boys born with horns to a castle - and yes Ico was born with horns, they are not just a hat - because the horns are believed to be an ill omen or a curse. Now, where could they have gotten the idea that babies being born with horns are cursed? Maybe from the boy (Wander from SoTC) who went into the forbidden kingdom and released Dormin (pretty much The Devil) from his prison, destroying himself in the process only to be reborn as the first horned child. Fact: Fumito Ueda said that both games take place in the same world and that Wander sired the line of horned boys. There is abosolutely no question that SoTC is the prequel to Ico.

[RiseOfMonster]

Things have gotten a little foggy. I guess I'm off the replay both games but this time SotC first then ICO.

[NO_PUDding]

Lot's of incorrect facts beign given here. Lucky I am a knowitall.

SotC WAS a prequel,a nd was set in the same universe. Ueda left it to be vague at the beginning, but then wanted to reveal that they were indeed the same universe.

Wander in SotC started the line of horned boys. Many assumptions are made about the story though, so you have to play it and make your own judgement or stay impartial like me.

But ICO came an unspecified time after SotC, maybe short enoguh, so that the Queen in ICO was actually Mono from Shadow of the Colossus, or maybe there is a lot more that we don't know, and which I doubt we will be told in ICO3.

I think Ueda will never tell us that part, I don't even think he's definate.

[sandip787]

shadow of the colossus was such an undervalued game its unbelievable. it was a true gaming experience.

this news has made my day! mixing elements from both games and the horsepower that the ps3 provides will blow everybody away no doubt!

[DJ]

Its sales figures prove that. Plus it got numerous Game of the Year awards. I loved how the game was just a string of increasingly epic boss battles.

[cliffbo]

there is nothing new here at all, just a bored journalist digging through old news and adding spin

[Black_Jack]

but hey, it served as a tribute to remind us all of what we're currently missing and what we can look forward to. a potential AAA from the established ICO team.

[Seraphemz]

This is a game that i've been waiting to hear about since i got my PS3. I hope they talk about it at E3...

[Adamalicious]

I hope so too. Maybe at least a trailer. I think we can expect a few things - it's in the same universe as Ico and SoTC, it has a made up language, and it's awesome.

[master pain]

when superior devs makes the superior games on the superior console it
results AAA

exclusive for the superior playstation 3, to be enjoyed by its superior owners

play b3yond play sup3rior

[NO_PUDding]

Master Betty!

Bubbles for you, I am so immature to love that film, still, but it's funny.

[master pain]

"I am so immature to love that film"

*kicks NO_PUDding in de ballz,a random guy on the net* now now immaturity is what makes life colorful if everyone was teh mature (like n4g have mature ppl lol)things would be boring as microsoft press conference

imo its ok to be immature sometimes as long as you can keep it under control (dont JUMP IN like the xbots in public)

[ActionBastard]

Team Ico could make a game based off the Jean Claude VanDamme classic Street Fighter and I'd buy it. Well...maybe not.

[ChampIDC]

Street Fighter was such a bad movie, but I'd watch it again. It's bad enough to just be funny.

[princejb134]

unless is confirmed im not gonna get my hopes up
ill say this is a rumor for now
dont wanna get all happy like if i wont he lottery than later on a article stating it was fake

[NO_PUDding]

It's not fake, Fumito Ueda did say that, and he is the mastermind behind ICO and SotC, but he also sidestepped most questions about a sequel, which IS confirmed.

It was confirmed in a Famitsu last year.

[Bill Gates]

If there was one developing team I ever want to know what they're up to, it's Team ICO.

All this speculation is killing me.

[Silogon]

I don't care if he made a Frogger rip off, it'd still be the most incredible game ever made. SOTC was/is the best game I've ever played and that's a tall order when you're stacked up against super mario bros, Zelda, Crystalis, Alundra, Suikoden, Ratchet and clank going commando, uncharted, J&D and Crash team racing.

[eagle21]

SOC is an incredible game. The others you listed are too. SOC is in my top 5 games of all-time.

I have my copy, it's still in 100% mint condition (I will never sell it).....

[Potty Scotty]

Well, Ico was kind of in the same universe as Shadow of the Colossus. At least there's a hint of that when you finish Shadow of the Colossus and the boy with horns is born. I loved Shadow of the Colossus and would like some kind of prequel or sequel.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

ICO and Shadow of the Colossus are the same games. ICO came out first then Shadow of the Colossus was the prequel to ICO. So really the tile should say something like ICO 3 will take game play designs from ICO / Shadow of the Colossus.

Story wise they're the same game, game play wise they're totally different. One has giant enemies while the other has shadow enemies, go figure. Shadow of the Colossus is the prequel to ICO that has enemies as shadows. All I remember from that game was some kind of beach, man it was so long ago.

[Dmack79]

it would have to be this E3. If their still releasing their games every 4 years.

[tfur]

Someone was mentioning that Trico and Heavy Rain have been shown internally. The other person said that TGS will be the big reveal for Trico.

I would expect a taste maybe at e3.

[Tacki]

All I can say is that the team behind Ico and SoTC produces some of the most astonishing atmosphere in there games. The first time I played Ico I was just amazed with how the game makes you feel. There hasn't been another game I've played that's given me quite the same feeling. SoTC didn't even do that for me, though that game is still excellent and one of a kind. I think Ico was a little more about the ambiance and environment whereas SoTC delivered increasingly epic battles that I think few games can match. The final boss alone is just something incredible to behold.

Any way they go with the next game is fine by me... but I'd love to see a mixture of the two somehow. SoTC bosses mixed with Ico's puzzle elements... oh yeah, that sounds like it would be gaming at its finest!