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The earliest major inspiration for Shadow Of The Colossus was... Battlefield 1942: "I felt immense potential in the experience"

Sony and PlayStation's legendary sorrowful artgame was once envisaged as a group hunting experience, influenced by a notable ...

Incredibly, Battlefield 1942 inspired an all-time great videogame despite its total lack of guns, tanks, and multiplayer

Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda explains how the revered game was inspired by Battlefield 1942, and nearly had ...
Game Rant

Shadow of the Colossus Creator's Untitled Game May Have an Advantage

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter. It was love at first play. Since then, she has ...
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Shadow of the Colossus Creator Unveils His Next Game

Fumito Ueda revealed a new sci-fi game at The Game Awards 2024 with a similar isolated vibe to Shadow of the Colossus. The new game features mechas, climbing, and gameplay influenced by Shadow of the ...

Battlefield 1942 was the unlikely inspiration behind PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus back when it was a game "where you cooperate to defeat giant monsters"

Shadow of the Colossus, the legendary PlayStation 2 game about traveling a moody open world to slay melancholy beasts, was ...
GameSpot

Shadow Of The Colossus Is A Powerful Fairy Tale Because It Resists Condemning The Player

Unlike other games interested in questioning the morality of their protagonists, Shadow of the Colossus emphasizes distance, ...
DualShockers

Shadow Of The Colossus Director Says New Game Mechanics Are Dead

Remember when every once in a while, there's a new game that would appear and show you something completely fresh out of the oven? I remember when the first Assassin's Creed was released, it was ...
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Shadow of the Colossus Director Says 'The Era of Game Mechanics Is Over' - & He's Right

F or many years, a video game was only as good as its core mechanics. If a game feels horrendous to play, players will get ...
Game Rant

Shadow of the Colossus Film Gets New Update

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...