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Quick Look: EX: Shadow Complex

Chair's Donald Mustard drops knowledge on this hot-looking 2D action game.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 7 2009

Cast: Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Brad

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Shadow Complex

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Edited By SlimDogg95

Can not wait for this game.

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Definitely excited for this game, A LOT.  Reminds me of last years summer of arcade with Bionic Commando.

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WOW,Ya know I wasn't really that interested in this game before,but after watching this video I'm very excited about it.I always loved the Metroid and Castlevania games and this looks like those mixed with some uncharted.Very nice,i can't wait for it to come out.

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Looking good! 
 
Reminds me of Black Thorne... great game!

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Edited By singular

Looks like a great game.
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Edited By darkjester74

Awesome!!  Day one purchase for me!!!  =D

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Edited By Leviathan2000

the guy who played enjoyed it so much that he just went only playing after the video was finished!

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Its die hard in the woods.

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Edited By Renegade

This looks alright. Might be a Day 200 purchase for me.

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*Adds ACII to prostitution page*

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Edited By divakchopra

isn't Epic doing something similar to this?

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@divakchopra said:
" isn't Epic doing something similar to this? "

Shadow Complex is being done by Epic...
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Looks awesome!  $15 makes this a no-brainer purchase.

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Edited By ProfessorEss

I soo want this. Looks good, looks fun, and it looks like something that I've been wanting for so long.
 
I really thought Konami would be the first to deliver this with a brand new XBLA Castlevania but it looks like Chair with the help of Epic have beat them to the punch.
 
Hope it's as good as it looks and if it is, I really hope it does well and prompts others to follow this formula.

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Edited By bricewgilbert

Texture pop-in how dare you!!!!!!

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looks good - can't wait

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So it's Super Metroid with a "Nathan Drake~esc" main character using Unreal Engine 3. SOLD!!

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I cannot wait to play this game.

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Put this out on PSN and you'll have another customer.

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I wish this was on PS3 so a lot more gamers could play this, sorry Sony consumers. 
Fortunately for me I can get this, and will be playing a lot.
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Full priced game I wouldn't be getting it. But at $15, I am seriously considering it.

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That looks much cooler than I anticipated.

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@Poki3: Just get a Xbox 360 you fool. I have both you should too.
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@CrazedJoker: It's not worth it for me to buy a 360 with all it's US only features. I'll just wait till SC comes out on Steam or something of that sort.
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i'm gettin' it

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Edited By Bigandtasty

Finally got around to watching this and now I am definitely getting some MS points. 
 
The guy from Chair seems pretty cool although he is stretching the truth a bit about the length, heh.

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Great now I have to get an Xbox. now I have a machine gun.

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TODAY'S THE DAY! YAAHOOO!

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How can GB talk so much about this game without saying "Rolling Thunder?"

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Doesn`t anybody remember Duke Nukem, Manhattan Project? Shadow Complex already to me is great, but that was a good Duke effort, also, and was more aware of itself . Here i`m seeing somebody going, Well it was a bad day to be a nice guy, while his primo girlfriend gets the S**te knocked out of her.  Guess  ole dad was right, after all.The Duke would have already wasted a couple dozen bad guys, proclaiming nobody does that to earth women, especially the strippers he hung out with. 
 
 But more to the point, the Manhattaqn Project was a good study of enhanced 21/2- d graphics, which Shadow Complex also is, but yeah, more so. Just the same, the side- scrolling Manhattan Project should be resurrected , would make an over the top XBLA game!
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See, Konami!?  This is what you could've done instead of those half-ass 
Castlevania 3D things you puked over my N64 and ps2!

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I was going to buy this but i have no money atm . Looks as i expected .....awesome

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I just noticed Ryan has a big Brown Nose in this video...hmm...Odd.

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@bybeach said:
" Doesn`t anybody remember Duke Nukem, Manhattan Project? Shadow Complex already to me is great, but that was a good Duke effort, also, and was more aware of itself . Here i`m seeing somebody going, Well it was a bad day to be a nice guy, while his primo girlfriend gets the S**te knocked out of her.  Guess  ole dad was right, after all.The Duke would have already wasted a couple dozen bad guys, proclaiming nobody does that to earth women, especially the strippers he hung out with.   But more to the point, the Manhattaqn Project was a good study of enhanced 21/2- d graphics, which Shadow Complex also is, but yeah, more so. Just the same, the side- scrolling Manhattan Project should be resurrected , would make an over the top XBLA game! "
No offence or anyting but Shadow Complex is lightyears better then DNMP so its not really two games that are comparable on a quality level. DNMP was a mediocer game at best. It didn't do anything special and even when it came out(2002) the whole badass actionhero thing was so played out that it was hard to enjoy the game and agian by that times standards it looked pretty bad too. Now I'm not saying that SC does anything special(except for maby the fome gun) but unlike DNMP it refines the core gameplay and brings a classic genre to the 21st century in a big way.
Also the Status Update: Single achievement(or what ever the special ones are called) makes for the best ending in a game ever, and the most realistic in a sence. 
 
!!SPOILER!!
Seriously, would you go run after your "girlfriend" you met the day before if she's getting the shit kicked out of her buy guys whit huge guns and an underground base? No, I dont think so.
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@Poki3 said:
"Put this out on PSN and you'll have another customer. "

Make that two!
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@Spike94 said:
" @Poki3 said:
"Put this out on PSN and you'll have another customer. "
Make that two! "
That probably will never happen seeing as Epic is publishing this game.
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Wait... is it on x-box 360?!?!
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@Gearhead: 'Cuz Epic has never released a game for the PS3? Huh... that seems like an... Unreal... statement? Get it? Unreal? Like Unreal Tournament? Get it? Oh, never mind.
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@Gearhead:  What JohnnyBarnstorm said. 
 
It may eventually come someday. Never know. :D
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Donald Mustard in the antechamber with the candle stick.  I am so freaking addicted to this game right now.

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THIS WAS A LIE BRAD WAS PLAYING THE WHOLE TIME!!!

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THIS WAS A LIE BRAD WAS PLAYING THE WHOLE TIME!!!

I feel betrayed. The truth will SET YOU FREE.

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#braddidshadowcomplex

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@flanker22 said:

THIS WAS A LIE BRAD WAS PLAYING THE WHOLE TIME!!!

I feel betrayed. The truth will SET YOU FREE.

Cancelling my subscription!

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I feel like my whole world is a lie. Brad, how could you??

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It feels crazy there are comments on this site from six years ago.

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@brad: I much prefer your grenade throw in the Uncharterd multiplayer segment.

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Brad spilled the Beans !

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magical!

isnt jason flemyng that guy in lock stock?