Hands-on: Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection -- Examiner

Gaming has been caught in a perilous struggle to be regarded as an art form. Art is meant to move people in ways one cannot understand, invoke strong feelings of affection to a subconscious level, and to deliver an experience that cannot be recreated. Not all games can deliver such an experience, but Fumito Ueda’s masterpiece’s Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are among those life changing games.

[Rip-Ridah]

Nice hands on preview of the collection. I can't wait to get my hands on it. I need a 3DTV.

[FinalSpartan]

This should be great :P before last guardian fill in some people who don't know why people are excited about last guardian.

[Sticky__Rice]

I <3 You SONY!!!

Thanx for making this come alive!

[M]

Played them both in my PS2, cant wait to play this on my 3DTV. Thank you TeamICO

[MaximusPrime]

i played ICO demo and played SOTC full game, unfinished.

cant wait to play them again in good HD quality.

[Ascalon94]

This is good I played some of SOTC on a PS2 a couple of years ago, now I can play both together with better graphics and trophies.

[rrw]

Does Xbox fanboy play this game?
if you does reply me

[Flashwave_UK]

wtf man your evil you do know you can causes the xbots to over butt hurt them selfs to cause huge damage to.... on second thought continue

[FinalSpartan]

well i play both consoles..whats the deal? Xbox fans can also play this game, companies want as much people to play there games.

If you avoid a game because its connatations is xbox or ps3, then those people are those who are missing out.

[Bathyj]

Thats right.

If you missed these games before, for whatever reason, and you miss them again because you'd rather be a fanboy than a gamer, then hang up your controller, its time to find a new hobby.

The Team ICO collection is not just another game release, its not even a once generation event. The fact is you never know when a game of this caliber is going to come along, and we gamers were lucky enough to have 2 such examples of living art on one console.

In fact if more people had played these games, this console war wouldnt be at the state it is now. People just wouldnt have that kind of hate in them. Thats not what these games are all about.

[Dellis]

I gave SOTC, and I was always looking for ICO

I guess I will get this then

[poopoojames]

I really hate ICO. Poor mans tomb raider. Never played shadow but it looks cool.

[Nicaragua]

Its about as much like tomb raider as gran turismo 5 is like mario.

No more crack for you matey.

[Cenobia]

Yeah...that was a terrible comparison.

I guess that's what happens when you 'play' games by looking at screen shots.