Ico Sequel Revealed

Jonathan Prugh writes "1UP has a story on Wanda and the Colossus, the "sequel" to Ico (formerly referred to by Sony as Nico). Screenshots are available at Namako Team, and IGN has an article on the sequel as well."

Comments

About frelling time !

[Maserati]

OMFG !!! This teh R0KZ !!!

Wait...

Ok, I feel better now.

But still, this looks amazing. The screenshots are from a movie made in the Ico engine, so if they just work on the anti-aliasing they already have a beautiful and moody engine in hand.

The story is of a boy (no horns) on a quest to awaken a girl. No details on the relationship are given. The player roams a vast lonely plain with only his trusty horse for companionship. Some of the enemies are huge and need to be climbed on; the gameplay for this will involve some maze-like elements and platforming elements to find a path up to the monster's weak point.

And there's some sort of colossus involved.

I'd say the outlook is for another critically acclaimed game that should sell pretty well based on Ico's word of mouth.

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

And just because YOU haven't heard of it, doesn't mean nobody else has.

Actually, according to sales figures, no one hearing about Ico is as close to fact as you can get.

Re:Huh?

[HAKdragon]

It's not so much the antialiasing that neededs work, but the fact that the game run in the Playstation2's low resolution (something like 320x240). If you go back and play it and then any other PS2 game you'll know what I'm talking about. But other than that, yeah, the engine for ICO was really pretty, especially considering that it's a first gen game.