Xbox 360 Review  Shadow Complex  Hidden depths  Shadow Complex
starts as a cautionary tale against spelunking, with everyman
Jason Fleming quickly finding himself in a shadowy paramilitary
lair to seek out a kidnapped girlfriend who clumsily wandered
ahead. The complex's inhabitants, a high-tech band of
mercenaries working for something called the Restoration,
consider her a spy, convinced she's there to throw a spanner in
the works of their malevolent, nefarious plans to do something
ambiguously massive and undeniably evil. The moral of our story?
Don't go down weird looking holes. What follows is five hours of
unashamed homage to industry darlings Super Metroid and
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.  But we live the 3D era, and
whilst Jason is fixed to a 2D plane his enemies are more than
happy to jaunt around in their spacious extra dimension. This
means you need to aim the right stick into the screen before
pushing the right trigger to fire, but such perspective trickery
often instigates deceptively fidd