SHADOW COMPLEX Setting XBLA Sales Record

Posted by Derrick Smith On August - 31 - 2009

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As if our E3 ‘09 impression of CHAIR Entertainments new action-shooter, SHADOW COMPLEX was not convincing enough. From the time we picked up the Xbox 360 controller and took SHADOW COMPLEX for a spin it was evident that CHAIR/Epic Games was definitely on to something special.

So today it is no surprise that this 3D/2D side-scroll adventure which has been induced with steroids has just set a sales record on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Kotaku writes;

Chair Entertainment’s Shadow Complex is officially the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox Live Arcade history, with 200,000 copies purchased since the game went live on August 19th.

We loved Shadow Complex, and so did you folks apparently, with stellar review scores and one-week sales so spectacular that Microsoft had to issue a celebratory press release. Multiplayer titles dominate Xbox Live Arcade, and single-player games generally don’t perform nearly as well, but Chair seems to have knocked this one out of the park.

“Congratulations to Chair Entertainment and Epic Games for creating an outstanding game,” said Scott Austin, director of digitally distributed games at Microsoft. “As the capstone title of the second annual Summer of Arcade program, “Shadow Complex” has raised the bar for downloadable games. We’re proud to offer such high-quality content on Xbox LIVE Arcade.”

Simply put, SHADOW COMPLEX is a must-buy title.