11 Facts About Shadow Complex

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Shadow Complex is a platform-adventure Metroidvania video game developed by Chair Entertainment in association with Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 in 2009.

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Gameplay in Shadow Complex was inspired by Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

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3.

Shadow Complex comes across a massive underground complex manned by numerous soldiers with high-end technology.

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4.

Shadow Complex manages to follow men dragging Claire through the complex and is able to rescue her.

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5.

Shadow Complex reveals to Jason that she is with the National Security Agency, and that she was investigating the Restoration.

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6.

Chair Entertainment's creative director Donald Mustard stated that much of Shadow Complex is based around the gameplay of Super Metroid, a game he considers "the pinnacle of 2D game design".

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7.

Once Chair was ready to begin work on Shadow Complex, they approached comic book writer Peter David to create the backstory for the game that would run parallel to the events in Card's novel.

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8.

Shadow Complex has been met with positive reviews and has been nominated for or received several Game of the Year, E3, and Editor's Choice Awards.

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9.

Shadow Complex was the top selling Xbox Live Arcade game for the week within its release, and furthermore was one of the top ten played titles for all of Xbox Live.

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10.

Chair has considered a sequel to Shadow Complex, and had started working on development after the release of the first game.

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Shadow Complex opted to have part of his team create Shadow Complex Remastered, using the help of a friendly third-party studio to help port the game to the Unreal Engine 4, giving the game more realistic rendering capabilities enabled by the nature of the original game assets being developed at high resolution.

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