Video Game Vintage Title: The Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus Collection

The Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus Collection

The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is a video game that contains high-definition remasters of two older PlayStation 2 games for the PlayStation 3. The two games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, were developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Team Ico, and who have assisted in the remastering alongside Bluepoint Games to provide support for high-definition monitors, higher frame rates, stereoscopic 3D, and additional features for the PlayStation Network. The two games, while fundamentally different in gameplay and story, are thematically connected, with Shadow considered a spiritual sequel to Ico, and the collection precedes the release of Team Ico's next game, The Last Guardian, which is also thematically tied to these games. Both games were critically acclaimed on their original release, while the remastered collection itself was positively praised by reviewers.

Reception
The collection received strongly positive praise from game reviewers on release, not only based on the original titles but on the improvements made in the high definition port, particularly on the patching of the frame rate issues present in the original version of Shadow of the Colossus.

During the week of its release, the game was the top selling game across all platforms in both North American and Japan, based on sales data from Amazon.com.