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Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus

Console: Sony PlayStation 2
TV Standard: NTSC-J
Country: Japan
Developer(s): Team Ico
Publisher(s): Sony Computer Entertainment
Release Date: 2005-10-27
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: T - Teen
Type: Action, Adventure

Though the game shares many stylistic, aesthetic, and atmospheric elements with Ico, Shadow of the Colossus's core gameplay is quite different. The game focuses on a young man, known only to the audience as Wander (or "the Wanderer"), who is tasked with finding and killing sixteen colossi that reside in a desolate expanse of land, in the hopes of resurrecting a sacrificed girl named Mono.