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Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus, released in Japan as "Wander and the Colossus", is an action-adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game was released in North America and Japan in October 2005 and PAL regions in February 2006. It was directed by Fumito Ueda and developed at SCEI's International Production Studio 1, also known as Team Ico; the same development team responsible for the cult hit "Ico"
being acquired by a new publisher 2K Games, Levine wanted to develop a game with the free-form narrative of "System Shock 2", which ultimately became the game "BioShock".
"Shadow of the Colossus" was considered a spiritual successor to "Ico" by the lead director of both games Fumito Ueda; Ueda did not want to necessarily make the connection between the games one of a canonical narrative, but that both had similar narrative themes and elements that he wanted players to interpret on their own