14 DAY TRIAL // One of the leading developers working at Epic Games has confirmed that the company has been working on a sequel to the Xbox Live Arcade hit Shadow Complex and that they are now looking for a partner company which will help them finish the process and launch the game.
Cliff Bleszinki, who is the design director working at Epic Games, has told Gamasutra as part of a larger interview that, “Shadow Complex 2 is sitting there, it's actually largely designed, we just need to find a partner that will help us to finish it so we can bring it to market.”
It seems that development on the game started just after the first one in the series was launched but that the team at Chair working on it put it away for some time in order to have the resources needed to create Infinity Blade for the iOS powered devices from Apple.
Bleszinki says that initially Epic Games was thinking about just porting Shadow Complex to the iOS but more though revealed that it was a better idea to create a whole new game.
The developer added, “We needed a flagship product for iOS, plain and simple. And we could have ported Shadow Complex, but it would have been a lot of work and it might not have been the right fit. And then Donald Mustard suggested Punch Out!! with swords with RPG layers and we were like, 'Yes!'”
The first Shadow Complex was a side scrolling action adventure game which saw the player explore a big underground space, able to move only in two dimensions despite the fact that the game world was fully 3D.
The plot of the video game is linked to a series of novels created by known science fiction autor Orson Scott Card.
It's not clear what gameplay innovations the sequel might include.