Recently, Fumito Ueda, team lead of Team Ico, spoke about an ongoing trend in video game markets to re-release older generation video games onto newer consoles, both to introduce them to a new audience and to improve upon graphics. When asked if he wished to port Team Ico’s two titles to the PS3, the self titled Ico and its equally successful sequel Shadow of the Colossus expressed his interest at the concept. It would be a console port that fans had dreamed of for some time.

Upon its release in 2005 exclusively on the Playstation 2, Shadow of the Colossus offered an experimental new style in game play that challenged video gamers and critics. Since then it has garnered recognition as one of the finest games of the Playstation 2 console, of 2005, of that gaming generation as a whole and among video games that have since come and gone.

The game still garners attention as plans are made to adapt the successful game into a movie. So why has this game remained a pervasive memory in the minds of gamers when so many other games have come and gone.