The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is a video game bundle that contains high-definition remasters of two older PlayStation 2 games for the PlayStation 3, and was developed by Bluepoint Games and…
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is an adventure developed by Team Ico, released 22 September 2011 on PlayStation 3.
What The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is an adventure game developed by Team Ico and released in 2011. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on Bluepoint Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ico: Ico (イコ, pronounced "Ee-ko"), a horned boy, is taken by a group of warriors to an abandoned castle and locked inside a stone coffin to be sacrificed. A tremor topples the coffin and Ico escapes. As he searches the castle, he comes across Yorda (ヨルダ, Yoruda), a captive girl who speaks a different language. Ico helps Yorda escape and defends her from shadow-like creatures. The pair makes their way through the castle and arrive at the bridge leading to land. As they cross, the Queen, ruler of the castle, appears and tells Yorda that as her daughter she cannot leave the castle. Later, as they try to escape on the bridge, it splits up and they get separated. Yorda tries to save Ico but the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ico series
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is the third of 8 entries we hold in the Ico series. It arrived 6 years after Shadow of the Colossus: Limited Edition. The next entry was Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection: Limited Box in 2011. Its critic score of 95 is 3 points above the series average of 92. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 27 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection launched on 22 September 2011, within three weeks of Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3 and The Binding of Isaac. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3, The Binding of Isaac.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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