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From: Chair Entertainment
Category: Video Games


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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 28 reviews

Format: Download
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action_games
Media: Software Download
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Xbox 360

ASIN: B002LIT3F2

Release Date: August 7, 2009
Features:
  • Players experience superior gameplay variety via four difficulty settings, competitive leaderboards, challenge levels, clever achievements and bonus objectives.
  • Completely original game featuring full 3D side-scrolling action. The incredible next-gen graphics and robust physics combine with an open, evolving world design mixed with an awesome, compelling action-thriller story.
  • Seek out 17 unique game altering power-ups, with more than 100 additional items and modifiers to discover and use as you fight against a large variety of enemies and experience massive, jaw-dropping boss battles.
  • Super-tight controls are simple and intuitive but also allow advanced players additional depth and precision.
  • Shadow Complex features a script written by Peter David, one of the most popular comic book writers of all time and is set in the Chair's Empire universe and is based upon the best-selling novel by Orson Scott Card.
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Amazon.com Product Description
From blockbuster developers Epic Games and Chair Entertainment comes the next evolution in Xbox LIVE Arcade games. Powered by the industry-leading Unreal Engine 3, Shadow Complex is the height of single player old-school action side-scrolling design combined with the modern action of cutting-edge 3D gameplay. Originally only available only as a download through Xbox LIVE Arcade using Microsoft Points, Shadow Complex can now be yours via online game code, which can instantly be redeemed by anyone. Players will still need both an Xbox 360 console connected to broadband Internet and an Xbox LIVE Silver or Gold account for game download and play.

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Story
Containing a story written by noted comic book author Peter David, and set in the world of well-known science fiction author, Orson Scott Card's novel, "Empire", Shadow Complex is the story of Jason Fleming and his girlfriend Claire. While camping in the wilderness, Claire sets off to explore a nearby cavern and unwittingly stumbles upon a shocking surprise: an underground and heavily militarized base of a mysterious group known as the Progressive Restoration. Taken prisoner by representatives of the organization she is dragged into the bowls of a mountain, which soon incites the worried Jason to come searching for her. But what he finds is more than he ever could have bargained for. Facing a host of enemies utilizing advance technology, he uses his ever growing experience under pressure and every tool, weapon or gizmo that he possess or procures not only to find Claire, but also determine the truth behind the true aims of the Progressive Restoration.

Game hero Jason Fleming from Shadow Complex
Reveal the threat of the Progressive Restoration as Jason Fleming.
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Gameplay
Gameplay in Shadow Complex is centered around single player exploration of, and combat throughout the Progressive Restoration's complex, and eventually into the larger world surrounding it. Playing as Jason Fleming, action unfolds primarily via a traditional side-scrolling game mechanic, with environments, characters and action rendered in a mix of 2D and 3D, with camera angle changes adding extra perspectives. Filled with increasingly challenging, fast-paced combat players must gather game-altering power-ups and accumulate an arsenal of futuristic weapons which are imperative to overcoming obstacles and thwarting legions of enemies—both human and mech. The game world of Shadow Complex contains a significant level of open-world characteristics, allowing players to explore and choose how they will solve the problems and defeat enemies. Successes in these matters earns players experience points which can be used to upgrade abilities, health, weapons, ammunition and the game's powerful mechanized armor. The game also contains challenge levels, known as proving grounds, in which players take on specific challenges using specific weapons and abilities. Success in challenges are ranked and viewable on leaderboards on Xbox LIVE, along with other stats accumulated in the main campaign.

Key Game Features

  • Original Game - This completely original game features full 3D side-scrolling action. The incredible Next-Gen graphics and robust physics combine with an open, evolving world design mixed with an awesome, compelling action-thriller story.
  • Powerups - Seek out 17 unique game altering powerups, with more than 100 additional items and modifiers to discover and use.
  • Bad Guys - Fight against a large variety of enemies and experience massive, jaw-dropping boss battles.
  • Pick Up and Play - The super-tight controls are simple and intuitive, but also allow advanced players additional depth and precision.
  • Award Winning Talent - Developed by Chair Entertainment, creators of OXM's Downloadable Game of the Year, Undertow, and produced by Epic Games, creators of Gears of War.
  • Noted Scriptwriter - Shadow Complex features a script written by Peter David, one of the most popular comic book writers of all time. It's the first game to be set in the Chair's Empire universe and is based upon the best-selling novel by Orson Scott Card.
  • Gameplay Variety - Players experience superior gameplay variety via multiple difficulty settings, competitive leaderboards, challenge levels, clever achievements and bonus objectives.
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Close-up of melee action in Shadow Complex
3D action in a side-scroller.
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Battling a mech in Shadow Complex
Fast-paced intense action.
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Fighting above ground in Shadow Complex
Fight above & below ground.
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Using the foam ability while platforming in Shadow Complex
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Product Description
You’ve entered the mysterious world of Shadow Complex. Now you must save Claire and stop the Restoration! Discover game-altering power-ups and weapons, plus more than 100 other items. Use new abilities to infiltrate the secret underground base. Defeat legions of enemies and battle futuristic bosses throughout the huge game world, with hours of intense gameplay unlike anything on Xbox LIVE Arcade! There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts. (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB)

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5 out of 5 stars Hard to believe this is an XBLA game   August 1, 2010
Jonathan Mettin (Philadelphia, PA USA)
Shadow Complex is of such high quality it's hard to believe that it's a downloadable arcade title.

Anyone who's played any of the side-scroller classics, like the oft-mentioned Super Metroid, will feel instantly at home here. Though featuring beautiful 3D graphics thanks to its Unreal engine (the same graphics engine that Gears of War, also produced by Epic Games, uses), with rare exception the game plays as a side-scroller run-and-gun platformer.

Exploration plays a central role in the game, and in fact gets you experience. Finding items and killing enemies also net you XP. There are plenty of powerups to find, also worth XP, and every 10 levels get you a nice treat that carries over into every game you play from that point forward (for example, the first reward, at level 10, gives you a permanent increase of 100 to you max HP). The powerups are usually for the weapon you carry - either an upgrade to the weapon itself or its carrying capacity for special munitions - but there are also armor and ability upgrades (such as a grappling hook).

The game features four difficulty levels, and the standard 200G of achievements for an XBLA game. The game is solely single player, and to max out the achievements requires at least two playthroughs (the "Completionist" achievement requires you to finish the game with 100% of the items, while "Minimalist" requires you to finish with 13% or less). The achievements that require a sum total also feature a ticker, like we saw in Gears of War 2 and The Orange Box, which helps you keep track of how far along you are.

Expect the game to last between 5-10 hours on each playthrough. For the price, this is one of the best games out there.


5 out of 5 stars Stop reading the reviews and play this game already!   July 18, 2010
Joseph B. Hewitt IV (Las Vegas, NV)
The game is great and a lot of fun. The other reviews have already gone into great detail about how it pays homage to Metroid and Castlevania so I won't bother. I'll just say the game is fun and entertaining and isn't that what you are looking for in a game?


5 out of 5 stars Buy this game   July 14, 2010
mig029
I promise you will play through this game at least twice. Great throwback to an almost dead genre on the consoles.
I only wish that this game was longer, and had more abilities to unlock


4 out of 5 stars Bring on the Sequel ...   July 14, 2010
M. K. (United States of America)
I'm not going to go on about how great Shadow Complex is. There are many reviews that already say that. It's a much needed break from 1st person shooters or music games that I always seem to buy. As many have stated, it is very reminiscent of the 2D side-scrolling games of the 90s (Metroid, Contra, etc.). The game is a lot bigger than I thought it would be. I thought I would get lost for sure, but there's a map, so you'll want to explore every inch of it.

The only reason I gave this game four stars instead of five is because it has a major bug that many of you might not even get. Without giving too much away, there is a final gun that you put together and if you don't put it together in one of the correct orders, you won't be able to finish the game. I was in the final battle and without the last piece and even though I destroy everything in sight, the main bad guy ship can't be destroyed. The final rocket hangs in mid air.

It's not just me. It's a definite soft crash unless there is some kind of workaround. I was a tester for five years on games and there are other people on the web that had the same thing occur to them. This means that you must start over the entire game if you want to finish it. That's not too terrible because it's a great game and worthy of replay value, but it kinda ruins the chances for achievements the first time through. The game has been out for a while, so I kinda wish they'd fix the bug with an update ... but I know other things sometimes get broken when you fix bugs.

One other thing that I noticed (which isn't really a bug), but the easy mode is way too easy compared to the next step up. It's like there should be a difficulty in between the two or easy mode should've been a bit harder. Other than that, the game rocks. I wouldn't mind a full sequel that makes it a much bigger game.


5 out of 5 stars The best XBLA game to date...by far.   January 28, 2010
C. Thompson (Birmingham, AL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I knew nothing about Shadow Complex leading up to the game's release, but after hearing a few friends hype it up and watching a few videos I purchased it right after it's release. While the game is a bit short (if you really push it you can beat it in 2 hours or so) it is still a ton of fun, worth a purchase.

Tracing it's roots back to Metrodvania, Shadow Complex is a 2.5D side scrolling platformer/adventure game. Controls are a bit odd as one stick moves your character and the other aims your gun, but after playing for a little while it becomes second nature. You start off as a mere mortal and throughout the game acquire power-ups that turn you into an unstopable behemoth (to the point where at the end of the game if you've picked up all the items you are neigh invincible). You've got a few guns to acquire, different launchers (rockets, grenade, riot foam which is fantastically fun), health/armor upgrades and suit upgrades. Suit upgrades give you new skills and let you access new areas.

You will be hard pressed to find a negative review of the game from any of the major gaming publications/sites because, quite simply, there are very few areas to fault the game on. The story is decent, the gameplay is a ton of fun, the graphics and sound are excellent, and it has a very clearly defined gameplay style that it stays within and plays well in.

If you're a fan of the old 2D Metroid games or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night you are going to absolutely love this game from start to finish, through your multiple playthroughs. If you just like well made fun to play games you'll enjoy the game equally. Give Shadow Complex a whirl.

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