Shadow Complex A Bestseller
Shadow Complex officially a record breakerPublished 01/09/2009 at 14:15 by Raen
In news that is hardly surprising, but still nice to hear, Shadow Complex has been officially confirmed as having the best ever first-week sales for a single player game on Xbox Live Arcade. Epic Games and Chair released information, which was confirmed by Microsoft, showing that the game shifted more than 200,000 copies in its first week. Apparently this figure “exceeded sales expectations”, something which I don’t doubt. I’m sure they expected the game to sell well, but I doubt many developers expect their title to break sales records.
The news won’t have come as a shock to many reviewers, with the game recieving a 9 from our own review and averaging 89 on Metacritic, but I’m happy to see this game do as well with the public as it has with the games media. Hopefully these more than encouraging figures will lead on to a sequel to the game. Given that this is one of only two titles I own on XBLA (it’s not the line-up, I’m just poor) they’d almost certainly get some of my space-bucks for another title.
Source: Gamasutra
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Erroneus | 01/09/2009 14:20
Wanted "Trophy Hunter" but was too late.
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Tried it yesterday on a friends Xbox 360 and it’s awesome, almost made me wan’t to buy a 360…. almost. Damn you MS, make a Slim model!
Topgearsam | 01/09/2009 14:23
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cool might get it when get 360
illogicology | 01/09/2009 14:28
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I feel out of the loop, this is the first I’ve actually heard of it.
G_The_Enemy14 | 01/09/2009 16:26
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same,
Raen | 01/09/2009 16:53
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Really? It was a huge part of the MS press conference and the interwebs have been buzzing about it. Even if you only visit TSA we have a review up!
double-o-dave | 02/09/2009 16:50
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I’d never heard of it either – Just checked it out on You Tube, looks quite good.
Is it me or is he pretty similar to matey boy from uncharted… whats his name again… Nate???
Raen | 02/09/2009 17:04
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Well I believe it’s the same voice actor, it tends to happen with him for some reason.
Amphlett | 01/09/2009 14:29
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I don’t own an xbox but this actually looks like a bit of fun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOw0ETGDVH8&feature=related
dirtyhabit | 01/09/2009 14:46
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Played the demo thru a couple of times, it’s pretty cool, will buy it evevtually just hate the xbla top up scheme
Raen | 01/09/2009 15:41
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I agree, that’s the reason this is one of only two I have. I hate putting points on
Erroneus | 01/09/2009 17:39
Wanted "Trophy Hunter" but was too late.
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top up scheme? The points stuff?
Raen | 01/09/2009 20:57
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Yeah Microsoft points. It’s a huge pain in the ass, the major failing of Live in my opinion
vouzamo | 01/09/2009 15:15
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Hopefully the success of this, along with Trials HD, will encourage developers to make more 2d platform based games.
CaptainMurdo | 01/09/2009 16:38
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The demo was excellent but, for me, there was no replayability. Might buy it if I ever have some points going spare.
Raen | 01/09/2009 16:45
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A huge part of the game IS the replayability. The secret areas, the speed runs, the fact that it spurs you on by comparing your score to people on your friends list. They tried to build it so, while the level is similar, you can replay and find new routes etc…
CaptainMurdo | 01/09/2009 17:55
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I wouldn’t have noticed that in the demo. I did like the overall “feel” so I might buy some points, specifically for this. Oooh, my first points purchase!
dirtyhabit | 01/09/2009 20:02
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Careful not to end up buying loads of crap that you don’t want with the extra points they force you to buy. I hate that! 2000 points to get a 1200 point game. Then you have to put another 2000 on to buy the next game cos you’ve only got 800 left (granted some are cheaper but the good ones are 1200). Plus what’s up with points?, Just a way to dissacociate it from money so you don’t think about what your spending . Gggrrrrrrr! Sorry winds me up
Quinlank | 01/09/2009 19:54
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Bought this day one as I’m a fan of Epic and while I did really enjoy it, I found it was way too short and relied a tad too heavily on backtracking to be really worth the amount it cost, especially with no multiplayer to keep interest alive. Also had a fair few technical problems playing it, lots of screen freezes and frame rate dips.
Shame. Double the length, add some multiplayer and iron out the bugs and Epic could easily get away with selling the sequel as a full retail title. I’d certainly buy it.
Raen | 01/09/2009 20:58
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Weirdly I’ve had framerate dips in the cutscenes, that was deeply confusing.
Quinlank | 01/09/2009 22:16
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Yeah, but I don’t think that’s the fault of this game to be honest. Practically every game I’ve played that uses the Unreal 3 engine seems to get stutters in cutscenes that use the in game graphics engine for some reason. Never really got why. I just started playing Last Remnant in fact, and it’s doing the same thing.
In Shadow Complex, the only time the game seemed to get a bit wonky was when I jumped down one of the massive drops. Sometimes it would freeze mid drop and a second or two later it would unfreeze and I was already standing at the bottom. A mild irritation to be sure, but it takes nothing away from the game in general. This is very likely the best downloadable title we’ve had yet in my opinion in fact(Super punching soldiers clear across a ravine never gets old!). I’m just bummed there wasn’t more to it.
gurglesletch | 02/09/2009 00:24
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That’s insane but that is a good game from what i’ve seen.