Ico
- PlayStation 2
United States September 24, 2001 Japan December 6, 2001 Germany March 21, 2002 European Union March 22, 2002
- Republication
- PlayStation 3
Japan September 22, 2011
Ico (proper spelling: ICO) is a Japanese video game released in 2001 by Sony Computer Entertainment, which was published in Germany for the PlayStation 2 in 2002. The game was developed by the same developer Fumito Ueda below, which are also responsible for the game Shadow of the Colossus.
On 30 September 2011 a newly refurbished version of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus was released as part of the Classics HD series on one disc for the Playstation 3, which includes high definition and 3D stereokopischem.
Action
In a small village a child is born in every generation, which is a curse and therefore has strange horns. If the 12 year old child has dawned and the horns are very long, the villagers of the cursed child rid by banishing it to a remote and deserted castle and imprisoned, left to themselves to die to appease the gods and to break the curse.
As Ico, a bearing horns, damn kid, 12 years old, it will confront the villagers with his fate, to be damned to all eternity, and must therefore die. He is, as is common for generations, brought into the gigantic, secluded fortress and locked in a large hall in a stone of many cages. The accompanying villagers apologize to Ico and ask for his understanding, because it is so the best for all. Left alone and not ready to die, Ico tries to free himself and indeed he manages to escape from the crumbling prison and escape his gruesome fate. Only now he must find a way to escape from the huge, labyrinthine castle.
Ico is to find a way out of the hall succeed. He noticed a cage at high altitude, in which a girl is locked up, which he would immediately try to help. He manages to free them from their prison, and already appears a new problem. Scary shadow beings strive to promote the girls back to their cage, which tries to prevent Ico immediately with courage and determination. He can only flee with her from the castle, for it alone is in a position with a mysterious magical force to open specially sealed doors. Thus, the two make their way to solve the puzzles of the castle and to escape from their desperate situation together.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Michiru Oshima & Pentagon. In Japan, he was of Sony Music Entertainment Japan on the CD Ico - Kiri no Naka no Senritsu (Japanese ICO ~霧 の 中 の 旋律~ ) published.
Reviews
Ico was despite the very good prior reviews not the hoped for success and disappeared a short time later. The game was released in conjunction with the release of Shadow of the Colossus on 14 February 2006 new.
GPL violation
Ico used parts of the libarc library, but not published the source code of the affected site. One of the top GPL rules is, however, that all programs of a derived work under the GPL by licensees may be distributed only if it would also licensed by the terms of the GPL. Since libarc was released under the GPL, Sony should publish the relevant source locations.