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The 3D setting looks great, but makes aiming the gun awkward sometimes. It's a nice setup that gives Shadow Complex a modern feel to it, but it does bring with it some issues. Enemies might come running down a hall in the background towards you, or a pile of boxes in the foreground might block your view of a hidden collectible. The game itself is drawn in 3D, though, which creates some intriguing situations. Like the games that inspired it, Shadow Complex restricts the player's motion to a 2D plane. Nothing is off limits if you have the right tools. It's about at that point that you'll start looking at Shadow Complex in a whole new way. Once you get the foam gun, a tool used to build your own platforms anywhere you want, you'll start to marvel at the possibilities. Eventually you'll get a booster pack that enables the always popular double jump and shoes that let you run on walls. Things start off simple enough with guns and grenades. And Shadow Complex does not disappoint when it comes to cool gadgets. There's something about the exploration and back-tracking to find previously unreachable goodies that is undeniably fun. The game design here isn't anything new, but there's a reason they call games like Super Metroid classic.

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Even once you're done with the campaign, there's still the Proving Grounds - a series of challenge rooms similar to what was offered in Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Whatever the motivation, I've found it very difficult to stop playing. Or, perhaps you'll just play it again and continue to amass experience points towards that achievement for hitting level 50. Or maybe you'll look for ways to sequence break the game and find some tools and weapons before you're normally supposed to in the hopes of beating the game in under an hour. On your next play through, perhaps you'll turn up the difficulty in the hopes of getting a top score on the leaderboards (Something the IGN office has already become hooked on). Exploring every little path to find it all in one play through will take you around six hours. With the foam gun, you can build your own paths. By the end of the game, there won't be anywhere you can't explore at will, or anything that can stand up to your awesome arsenal. Exploring these newly accessible areas earns you new tools that in turn open up more and more of the huge complex. Soon, you'll come across some climbing gear and a pistol, which grants you access to higher ledges and certain vents. At first, you'll only be able to illuminate dark corners with your flashlight. In classic Super Metroid fashion, Shadow Complex blocks access to different areas based on which tools you currently have in your possession. And since the day's activities originally included a little bit of cave exploration, you aren't exactly equipped for a fight. Of course, you can't just walk into an underground lair and ask the terrorists politely to please stop ruining your date. Once Jason's date is taken captive, it's time to put on your hero suit and save the girl. The setting quickly changes to a tranquil date in the woods as you take on the role of Jason Flemming, an unlikely hero thrust into the midst of a fight he never asked to be a part of.Д¬lick here to watch the Shadow Complex video review. The game starts with the opening salvos of this plan as you bear witness to the Vice President's assassination.

In it, a radical left-wing militia is plotting to overthrow the US government and send the country into a second civil war. Shadow Complex is set in the world of Empire, a novel by Orson Scott Card. This massive action game, designed in the style of Super Metroid or Castlevania, is one of the best games of the summer. In this case, the price tag is completely justified. At 1200 Microsoft points (US $15), Shadow Complex pushes the upper boundaries of what most would expect to pay for a Live Arcade game. If this is the direction the Xbox Live Arcade is going in, bring it on. Now that I've explored every nook and cranny of this massive Xbox Live Arcade game and saved the day multiple times, I still want to play it.

From the moment I was first shown Shadow Complex, I knew that I wanted to play it.

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