In Shadow, Sony’s Japan Team created a gorgeous, minimalist experience on the PlayStation 2, full of quiet moments and vast landscapes, punctuated with massive battles against overwhelmingly huge creatures. It challenged many of the ideas of what video games were and could be. It redefined scale, challenged players’ wit and intelligence rather than their twitch reflexes and button-pushing skills, and threw out a few conventions of gameplay and storytelling.
Shadow of the Colossus' is a towering remake of a landmark game