Team Ico HD Collection In Good Hands

The Team Ico Collection, no longer a distant rumour and now very much fact (and coming soon) is being handled by Bluepoint – thanks Tim Moss – the guys behind the wonderful, masterful HD remakes of God of War.

It looks like the Collection is shaping up nicely, write-ups from a recent press event in New York showcasing some of Sony’s upcoming games are starting to hit the net and Gamepro’s impressions of Fumito Ueda’s classic double act are largely positive.

The idea is two-fold: to introduce new gamers to two of the best PS2 games ever made, and secondly to refresh hardcore PlayStation fans before The Last Guardian (from the same developer) hits a little later next year. Both remakes are now in HD, and will feature 3D for those lucky enough to have compatible sets.

The games are timeless masterpieces, and haven’t been dulled much by the generational gap we’re all used to, so we’re hugely looking forward to seeing what Bluepoint have managed to do in terms of the resolution jump.

The Team Ico Collection will feature Trophies, but no ‘gimmicks’ so don’t expect Move support.

26 Comments

  1. I want it!

  2. Looking forward to this :)

  3. i want this and i still havent gotten the sly collection

  4. Considering how the GOW collection ran like clockwork on my PS3, I suppose I’ll add this to my list of games I should buy next year.

    • I’ve still to get the GoW collection, I know I must but haven’t got round to it yet! My copy of GoW3 remains unplayed still too, I wanted to do them in order. Going to be getting this collection too, hopefully it’s out before the Last Guardian!

  5. Looking forward to all the emotions SotC brings!

  6. Wait, what did I miss? TLG has a confirmed release date?

    • Speculation had it penned in for April 2011, I think. :-\

      • Thanks for the info bunimomike. I hope we get to see more of it in the near future. I’m really looking forward to playing that game.

      • You sure about this? If I remember correctly, the Tokyo Game Show TLG trailer stated Holiday 2011. And that might only be for Japan.

  7. Looking forward to this, never played the originals, so my expectations are based on everyone’s excitement – no pressure then! ;P

    • Same, I love the HD Classics, I’ve completed Sly 1 and onto Sly 2 and I have Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time drawing to a close. GoW 1+2 were great too as I missed GoW 1 on PS2. Bring on Ratchet and Clank 1+2+3+4 [I never got my hands on Ratchet and Clank 4 cus I didn’t know the name of it in the UK and Game were far from helpful at the time I wanted it]

  8. The God of War HD remakes were superbly done, they look amazing for previous gen games – except for the cutscenes which i understand they couldn’t redo. Hopefully the cutscenes in Ico/SotC won’t suffer too much. Ico is one of my all time favourites so i can’t wait!

  9. SoTC is the best game I have played. Ever.

  10. I totally missed those games. Can’t wait to experience these masterpieces.

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