God of War raised the bar for action-adventure titles with expansive environments and stellar art ... the world itself. Ico was a far cry from anything seen on the PS1 or PS2, as it showed ...

25 years ago today, on March 4, 2000, Sony released the PlayStation 2 console in its native Japan ... titles that would arrive years later, Ico is still cited in any debate about games qualifying as ...

During the discussion, Yoko Taro named some games he considers to have had a major impact on video games as an art form, emphasizing the PS2 classic ICO in particular. Published by Sony in 2001, ICO ...

Shadow of the Colossus is an iconic video game first released by Team Ico for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. It later received an HD remake rebuilt from the ground up and released on the PlayStation 4 ...

Back during the PS2 and PS3 days ... and protect an NPC companion is nothing particularly rare, only Ico has a cooler art style. What’s stopping Ico from being made today is the fact that ...

As great as Sony’s first foray into the video game scene was, it would be the company’s second console, the PS2, that would set ... have plenty of time spare. Ico is the first game that ...

The best PS2 games were the ones that ... special was its visually appealing art, building on what the studio had created previously with Ico, and the way it fused its interactivity with those ...

That makes it difficult to look at games released for slightly more modern consoles like the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 2 in the same ... to be true. What Ico really did was change ...

The PlayStation 2 is one of the most revolutionary consoles ... to its knees as it buckled under the immense artistry of Team Ico. Players take control of Wander, who has brought the sacrificed ...

It was also home to games you wouldn’t see anywhere else, such as the atmospheric action-adventure titles Ico and Shadow ... They were art, and the PS2 helped usher in that idea to a larger ...

Hitting shelves less than a year after the release of the PS2, though, Ico arrived at a time when new ... uninspiring box art (at least in the West), shoppers just casually strolling through ...

Are video games art? Audiences and critics ... even taking the PlayStation 2's weak hardware into consideration. Moreover, "Ico" uses environmental cues and designs to tell a story and also ...