15 out of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Back to the old skool.

brassodin from from GOSBERTON WESTHORPE, SPALDING, 15th March, 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.

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8 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Mindblowing....definitely at first, anyway

The Black Ninja from Birmingham, UK, 20th April, 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.

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7 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

This is a fantastic game

Chantal from , 19th March, 2006

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

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

ITS GOOD thats all

A Customer from DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW, 20th July, 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.

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The greatest game of all time!!!

Jimbobia from , 14th February, 2010

You know that feeling when you have been personally touched by something so great, you feel you have been changed forever? That is how you will feel after experiencing The Shadow of the Colossus. Of all the games I have every played, Shadow of the Colossus has proved the most replayable game ever! The controls are easy to adapt to, the Colossi are challenging to defeat, but not too much to annoy you. And the excecution of it all is unlike anything you have every seen. The beauty of this game is jaw-dropping, the music is fantastic, and the overall design and camera work are spectacularly done. The overall atmospherics is what draws you back, immersing you into a stunning fantastical world. Although relatively simple and short, this game holds its ground as the most fantastically accomplished games of its time. And even with the titles available today, few can even compare to the magnificence that is the Shadow of the Colossus.

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1 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

not as good as expected

BaronB from from Hull, 28th November, 2009

after reading a lot of hype and seeing this game sell for silly money on ebay, i had to see for myself. What did i think? It was too easy, i was bored a lot of the time, the controls are wishy-washy and often unresponsive it isnt really what i would call an RPG, it was boring, it was too easy, and did i mention it was boring. Far too much endless travelling with nothing happening. But, the graphics are lovely, and some of the music wonderful, and for that it is worth renting, it is a short game, the story is so-so, but the scenery is damn good. BTW I played this from beginning to end on my 60GB PS3 with no problems, i noticed someone said it wasnt backwards compatible, but it was with mine, which is one of the original PS3's brought out (Although i have a PS2 anyway). At least I wont have to waste my money buying it now.

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Amazing!!!!

A Customer from Stratford-upon-Avon, 19th October, 2009

If you like horses,killing monsters,happy endings and doing this for a life of a young girl then you HAVE TO GET IT. You will not regret it. Sometimes it gets anoying if the beam from the sword points one way but you have to go another but even that is fun.

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0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Not for PS3

WlLKO from , 7th October, 2009

DONT rent this if you want to use it on a PS3. It is not a backwards compatable game.

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