- Alternative usage: see Intermediate circular orbit.
The American box cover for ICO... ICO is a PlayStation 2 action-adventure game. The player takes on the role of Ico, a young boy born with a pair of horns, who must escort a princess safely out of a castle without her being kidnapped by the animated shadows that infest the castle or the player being killed by the castle's numerous environmental hazards. Despite high critical reviews, the game fared poorly in stores, though it has developed an undercurrent of devout respect among video game enthusiasts.
ICO is noted for its highly individual artistic style. Key factors contributing to the game's absorbing atmosphere include the lack of any HUD; a bleak and washed-out use of colour; low key use of in-game music, played only in selected scenes of the game; and atmospheric ambient background sound effects.
A successor from the same studio, ostensibly retaining the atmospheric style of ICO, is in development; it does not yet have an English-language title, but the Japanese title may be translated roughly to "Wanda and the Collosus".
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