Robert Seddon has made us to notice about an interesting article at Team ICO Gamers Blog: they have discovered an huge, unused architecture hidden in the Eastern area of the game map. This discovery was made by Pikol, thanks to some codes, and as they wrote on the article this unfinished building “looks unlike anything else in the game. Architecture wise it looks much more modern than the temples and arenas where colossi roam. It actually looks more similar to the castle in ICO.”
As Robert said, we can only wonder if this place was going to be used for one of those unused colossi that were made in the beta of the game. Huge props to Pikol for this find! Take a look at these pics and especially at the video:
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5 Responses to Shadow Of The Colossus: unused eastern area discovered!
AndrewFM
August 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Here’s also a version of the map with the eastern lands included, and no clouds obstructing any of the areas. It was ripped from the PSU demo of the game:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9505/396ppr221pcsx2texe0xf4b.jpg
monokoma
August 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Thanks Andrew! I will add the map in the gallery later :)
Robert Seddon
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:21 pm
And a dicarded item here.
Robert Seddon
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Sorry, *discarded*.
monokoma
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I already added the “Eye of the Colossus” video in the Shadow of the Colossus Beta page :)
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/19/shadow-of-the-colossus-unused-colossi/