Shadow Complex Remastered Powered by Unreal Engine technology, the “modern and masterful side-scroller” Shadow Complex became an instant classic when initially released exclusively for Xbox 360 in 2009. The fan favorite won more than 50 Game of the Year and Editor’s Choice Awards and was one of the most popular console games of the year. See the latest trailer for Shadow Complex. Find out more here: Rated Teen.
Shadow Complex is one of those titles that shouldn't be on Xbox Live Arcade. I'm not saying it's not good enough; nuh-uh, no way. I'm saying it's too good for XBLA—it makes everything else in the li Contributed by on April 8th, 2010 in Categories With content involving Tags,.
System: Microsoft Xbox 360. Genre: Action. Max Players: 1.
Age Rating: Teen 13+. US Release: August 2009.
Developer: Chair Entertainment. Publisher: Epic Games. Similar Games: Metroid: Zero Mission, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Shadow Complex is one of those titles that shouldn’t be on Xbox Live Arcade.
I’m not saying it’s not good enough; nuh-uh, no way. I’m saying it’s too good for XBLA—it makes everything else in the library look like a ROM packaged with an emulator.Last year, Microsoft ran a promotion called “Summer Heatwave” on Xbox Live Arcade, releasing a new Arcade title every week, and giving a rebate to those who bought them all. If you bought them all, then that means you bought TMNT: Re-Shelled and Trials HD, which were both massive rip-offs in my eyes. ( Re-Shelled managed to completely ruin one of the best games of all time, and the remake was based on an inferior version of the game, as well. They might as well have not bothered, because once again I got my blasted hopes up for no reason.)One of the last games released in this promotion was Shadow Complex.They kept the best ’til last, as they say.Shadow Complex takes its main inspiration from Castlevania and Metroid, arguably two of the greatest action-adventure game franchises of all time.
Retro-minded development team Chair Entertainment is made up of Epic Games members, and that gives the game a feeling reminiscent of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, one of my most favored underrated platformers on the PC platform.Also, parallels can be drawn to Contra and Super Contra (especially in regards to shooting toward the background), and for its use of three-dimensional graphics while retaining 2D gameplay. That, in turn, makes for a round trip of adventure, platformer and shooter—all welded together almost perfectly. Foam is one of the cool 'new' ideas. (Click to view.)So far, a great start.
But like we saw with, having its heart in the right place isn’t everything—so it’s good to know that Shadow Complex can hold its own as well as it does.Besides being a mish-mash of some of the greatest games of all time, Shadow Complex is also a game of its own.
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Keep in mind you’ll need to have sufficient hard drive space for each new install.See also: Xbox One backwards compatibility – How does it work?To turn the Xbox One into a backwards compatible machine, Microsoft has built an Xbox 360 emulator that will run on the new console. This basically means that Microsoft has essentially built an Xbox 360 in software, which then runs within the Xbox One.
This emulator does all the same things as the Xbox 360, but it just sits inside the newer console.The emulator springs into life when you insert a compatible Xbox 360 disc and lets you download and install the title right to your HDD. A. A Kingdom for Keflings. A World of Keflings. ACE COMBAT™ 6: Fires of Liberation™.
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