No god damn contest, Shadow of the Colossus is much more godly then God of War.

Shadow of the colossus was a very special game for me, so i choose it.

SotC for me, please. I could never really get into GoW; the combat mechanics are just too loose.

My first reaction was to vote for Shadow of the Colossus, but after a lot of thought, I've got to give my vote to God of War. Here's why....

Shadow of the Colossus was a damn good game, and what was there, was all amazing. Great graphics, raising-the-bar gameplay ideas that greatly impacted the industry, and an emotional tone and mood that many games have strived to reach, but few games have ever accomplished.

And let's point out something REALLY amazing -- Shadow of the Colossus is an adventure game. NOT an action adventure. If anyone tells you it is, you have my permission to slap them or submit them to lengthy diatribes about why they should feel bad. I hate how little adventuring there is in game these days. How there can't be adventure without the action. And no, fetching items in Platformers doesn't really count. And sure, Zelda games have lots and lots of action, but they have just as much or more adventure to match it. Shadow of the Colossus? Honestly, not a lot of action at all. But a fuck ton of adventure. My dream game, something I had wanted fulfilled through a controller for so many years.

So why won't I vote for it?

Shadow of the Colossus is like a term paper that's the best a teacher has ever read in all their years of teaching, yet it's 1/5th the minimum page length requirement. As amazing as it is, it's just a few scenes. Each are mostly flawless as they are unique, but that doesn't mean it deserves a better grade than someone who offered a much much larger game, filled with many more scenes that each offer the gamer more things to do. Not ground-breaking, but more complex. Much more coding involved, much more 3D design and objects to run past and interact with. Many many more all-nighters of level design and character design, etc, etc. Not to mention far more rendering and actual cinematics.

Shadow of the Colossus doesn't have to worry it got shown up though, because it's the student who you know will go on to bigger and better things. But on a 1-to-1 level, there's just more to God of War, and it offers so much more.

One more analogy to beat a dead Colossus: SotC is the best single scoop of ice cream I can ever remember having on the PS2. But God of War is an all you can eat buffet with a whole counter full of desserts. Both are worth trying, but one heavily outweighs the other.

VOTE: God of War

I choose GOD of WAR. They are gods and its great game play. This weekend I'll try to some more of God of War.
"God of War 3" is coming soon to PS3.

Shadow of the Colossus I guess.

Shadow of the Colossus is obviously the superior game. Not only did it do soo much more for the entertainment industry of games, but it also achieved so much more to move games forward as an art form. SotC had such simplistic controls, you could do so much different things with just the ability to climb, shoot arrows, swing a sword, and ride a horse.

God of War is a very good game, but it didn't really bring anything new to the table to really change the way we thought about video games. When you take it to the basics, GoW is really just a beat 'em up (hey, I never said there was anything wrong with that :P) God of War is a veerry great series, but it most definately can't hold a candle to Shadow of the Colossus.

Shadow of the Colossus all the way!

My time is worth alot to me so just because GOW gave me more to play can't keep it up with the majesty of SOTC.

I loved GOW's story, I really did, but my vote is for Colossus.

I have to go with Shadow of the Colossus. I, like Fronz, LOVE the adventure of the game.

My vote goes to Barac.... oh wait, God of War

I thought this was going to be tough, but as I scrolled down to type in my answer I knew which I was going to choose right away:

Colossus.

Shadow of the Colossus.
Contest, there is none.

Shadow of the Colossus had too many perfect moments in it. God of War and its sequel are both amazing games, but they never made me feel terrible about defeating an enemy and at the same time eager to go defeat the next. When you jump from your horse onto the 13th Colossus, and it takes to the skies as the music swells and you hold on for dear life, that is gameplay at its best.

Vote for SOTC.

Shadow of the Colossus hands down

@Rosseh: hahaha.

Man, I knew in my gut Shadow of the Colossus was gonna win, and I'm glad, but it looks like a lot of you guys skimped out on last week's bonus question! There seemed to be about the same support for God of War and SotC.

I already know what next week's bonus question will be if SotC continues with the lead: "What was your favorite Colossus?" Can't wait to see what the responses will be! Maybe I'll even give it a whole game debate after this odd-debate series ends.

Shadow of the Colossus > All

Shadow of the Colossuss =]
Its awesome... i wasnt particularly fond of Gow

God of War. It may not be wholly unique but it is a technically flawless, beautiful, exciting, and perfectly paced game.

Shadow of the Colossus is an anti tech demo for the PS2 with a lot of dull gameplay between the awesome Colossus battles.

Shadow of the Colossus by far, I'm surprised there's even any debate on this one :P

...mostly because I find the GoW series to be fairly overrated. They're good actions games I guess, but I don't see why people get excited about them.

Shadow of the Colossus hands down. Second best PS2 game behind Okami.

Not a particularly huge fan of either game,but I must give the nudge to GOW,because overall I feel it was a much more enjoyable game for the time.

Shadow of the Colossus, without a doubt

For god's sake, shadow of the colossus. Games nowadays make you fight hordes of useless enemies and henchmen. Here's a game that makes you fight what matters. A near perfect game.

God of War is a worthy contender but it didn't have an emotional impact half the size of SOTC. It was very fun. That's it.

God of War, people over look the flaws in Shadow because the game actually gives you a emotional reaction but God of War did the same thing to me and had a good game to back it up.

I could get stabbed by people here for saying that.