Skip to main content
Join The Community
- Join our community
11
Premium Benefits
24/7
Access Available
21K+
Active Members
Commenting
Join the discussion
Exclusive Articles Coming Soon
Member-only articles
Weekly Newsletters
Weekly gaming & entertainment news
Member Badges
Earn badges as you go
Exclusive Competitions
Members-only prize draws
Curated Deals Coming Soon
Tech and gaming deals worth grabbing
GET COMMUNITY ACCESS QUICK
For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.
FIND OUT ABOUT OUR MAGAZINE
Want to subscribe to the magazine? Click the button below to find out more information.
Find out more
GET Community ACCESS QUICK

Join the GamesRadar community for quick access. Enter your email below and we'll send confirmation, and sign you up to our newsletter.

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

Background
Welcome to GamesRADAR+ Community !
Hi ,

Your membership journey starts here.

Keep exploring and earning more as a member.

MY ACCOUNT

Badge picture
Earn your first badge
Read 1 article to unlock your first badge.
Keep earning badges
Explore ways to get more involved as a member.
Latest Games News

Latest Games News

Breaking gaming news and updates

Read Now
Latest Games Reviews

Latest Games Reviews

Expert verdicts on the newest releases

Read Now

See what you’ve unlocked.

Explore your membership benefits.

Explore
Member Exclusives

Stay Ahead with GamesRadar+

Get the biggest gaming news, reviews, and releases straight to your inbox.

Explore

Sign Out
GamesRadar+ GamesRadar+
US EditionUS CA EditionCanada UK EditionUK AU EditionAustralia
Sign in
  • View Profile
  • Sign out
  • Games
    • Game Insights
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • Big Preview
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
    • Genres
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
    • Franchises
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • Insights
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
    • Computing
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
    • Accessories & Tech
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
    • Video
    • GR+ Replay - Submit Your Clips
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
  • home
  • Games
    • View Games
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • Big Preview
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • View Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • View Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • View TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • View Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • View Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • View Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • View Hardware
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • View Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • View Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
    • View Video
    • Video
    • GR+ Replay - Submit Your Clips
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
Trending
  • Crimson Desert
  • Pokopia
  • Arc Raiders
  • The Boys S5
  • Starfield
  • Submit your clips. Win prizes
Don't miss these
Mel staring head-on with one red eye in Hades 2
Hades After 300 hours, Hades 2 has me back under its spell with a console launch and secret new game mode
Steam and Valve's Gabe Newell
Xbox Xbox co-creator "vastly more excited" about Steam than Project Helix because Valve  "f*** up business"
Botw
Games Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead Gustave faces a gommage
Games After a star turn in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Charlie Cox says he's acting in another video game
XCOM 2 screenshot showing an alien brute with a plasma gun
Strategy Games 10 years later and with no XCOM 3 in sight, I'm in love with XCOM 2 now more than ever
Arc Raiders characters drinking at a bar
Third Person Shooters As Arc Raiders gets stale for some, dev says players "reaching the end of our content" are a focus
no rest for the wicked co-op
Action RPGs No Rest for the Wicked may be coming to Switch 2, judging by a now-deleted clip showing it running on Nintendo's console
Dragon's Dogma 2 Medusa
Action RPGs Dragon's Dogma 2 expansion hopes have arisen once more as fans think Capcom is teasing DLC in anniversary artwork
Balatro Joker card
Roguelike Games Balatro's big 1.1 update is still coming, LocalThunk says: "Last night I stayed up until the early hours of the morning"
Stealth operative sneaks up behind unsuspecting victim
Stealth Games Indie dev sees Ubisoft fail to bring back Splinter Cell for 13 years, says fine, I'll do it myself
Replaced screenshots from release date trailer
Platforming Games Replaced is a side-scrolling cyberpunk beat 'em up that wants to feel like a playable movie
Control Resonant
Action RPGs Control Resonant: Everything we know about Control 2
Mouse: P.I. For Hire key art featuring multiple characters like Jack Pepper
FPS Games The only thing missing from this Cuphead-meets-Doom boomer shooter is the heavy metal soundtrack
Key art for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy with Sophia standing in front of a labyrinth-style mural with a curved sword, with the GamesRadar+ Big in 2026 brand frame
Action Games Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy "changes almost everything" about the series – and its "more trained, more physical, more offensive" protagonist proves it
Haunted Chocolatier: a screenshot of a player standing in a dark house.
RPGs Haunted Chocolatier: Everything we know about the Stardew Valley creator's next game
  1. Games
  2. Action
  3. Shadow Complex

Chair promises Shadow Complex sequel, but not for iPads

News
By Matt Bradford published 15 March 2011

Touch screen controls won't work, says creative director

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Flipboard
  • Email
Share this article
Join the conversation
Follow us
Add us as a preferred source on Google
Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more


By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

You are now subscribed

Your newsletter sign-up was successful


Want to add more newsletters?

GamesRadar+

Every Friday

GamesRadar+

Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.

GTA 6 O'clock

Every Thursday

GTA 6 O'clock

Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.

Knowledge

Every Friday

Knowledge

From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.

The Setup

Every Thursday

The Setup

Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.

Switch 2 Spotlight

Every Wednesday

Switch 2 Spotlight

Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.

The Watchlist

Every Saturday

The Watchlist

Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.

SFX

Once a month

SFX

Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!


Join the club

Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards.


An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Subscribe to our newsletter

Shadow Complex on XBLA was a big win for Chair Entertainment, so it comes as zero shock that the Epic Games subsidiary studio is pumped about putting out a sequel. Confirming this, Chair's creative director Donald Mustard recently pledged that a follow-up is indeed on its way, and despite the studio's success with Infinity Blade on the iPhone and iPad, the sequel will be staying away from iOS platforms.

"Shadow Complex isn't a question of 'if', it's a question of 'when',” said Mustard in achat with Eurogamer. “Shadow Complex is our baby and we love it dearly and, y'know, we're working on some cool stuff [in general]."



Article continues below
You may like
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Gustave in a French-inspired outfit "If I told you, I'd have to kill you": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer is tight-lipped about the RPG series' future
  • Stellar Blade Stellar Blade 2 won't be revealed until it's good enough to be revealed, ShiftUp CEO says
  • Screenbound screenshot showcasing the 3D world in the background with sky and clouds and Qboy in foreground I wish I were melting my brain in Screenbound right now


Above: GamesRadar's 100% video guide for all the gold bars in Shadow Complex. Head to ourShadow Complex 100% guidefor more videos and maps

When asked whether Chair would consider releasing the Shadow Complex series for the App Store, Mustard explained that Chair was reluctant to do so for fear they would not be able to adequatelyrecreate the game's complicated control schemeon touch screens.

“I still cannot think of a way that we'd be able to bring over the precision controls [to touchscreen devices] that Shadow Complex needs to be amazing,” he said, adding, “I'm not a fan of trying to shoehorn console controls onto touch screens. They don't feel right. You just lose so much precision."

We gave Shadow Complex a9/10, and it has since received a cumulative score of88/100 on Metacritic. iGadgets or not, we're confident its sequel willfind anaudience.

Mar 14, 2011

Got a news tip? Let us know at
tips@gamesradar.com



Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

Shadow Complex review
To Samus, with love




Shadow Complex 100% guide
Passkeys, gold bars, armor upgrades, full maps - we've got them all

CATEGORIES
iPad Xbox Platforms Mobile Gaming
Matt Bradford
Social Links Navigation

Matt Bradford wrote news and features here at GamesRadar+ until 2016. Since then he's gone on to work with the Guinness World Records, acting as writer and researcher for the annual Gamer's Edition series of books, and has worked as an editor, technical writer, and voice actor. Matt is now a freelance journalist and editor, generating copy across a multitude of industries. 

Read more
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Gustave in a French-inspired outfit
RPGs "If I told you, I'd have to kill you": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer is tight-lipped about the RPG series' future
 
 
Stellar Blade
Action RPGs Stellar Blade 2 won't be revealed until it's good enough to be revealed, ShiftUp CEO says
 
 
Screenbound screenshot showcasing the 3D world in the background with sky and clouds and Qboy in foreground
Platforming Games I wish I were melting my brain in Screenbound right now
 
 
Stardew Valley character Haley, a blonde young woman with long wavy hair and bright blue eyes, against a blurred backdrop of a farm
Simulation Games Expectations for Haunted Chocolatier are "a huge struggle" for Eric Barone, who worries people expect Stardew Valley 2
 
 
Planet of Lana 2 demo screenshots
Platforming Games More alien cat action, big brain puzzles, and a "darker" story give this epic sci-fi adventure more bite than I expected
 
 
Assassin's Creed Shadows screenshot showing female protagonist Naoe
Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed Shadows features "will make their way to other games," franchise lead says
 
 
Latest in Action
The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us The Last of Us Part 3 could explore "a whole congregation" of immune survivors, according to former Naughty Dog dev
 
 
Pragmata screenshot taken on PS5
Action Games Pragmata is already one of the best-rated Capcom games on Steam, just 3% behind king of kings Resident Evil 4
 
 
007 First Light
Action Games 007: First Light's opening cinematic is here, and it just surpassed Skyfall as my favorite James Bond opening sequence
 
 
Pragmata Solar Power Plant hugh and diana looking at a globe
Action Games All Pragmata Solar Power Plant items
 
 
GTA 6
Grand Theft Auto GTA 6 is largely British-made, but UK politicans likely won't brag about it like France did for Clair Obscur, MP says
 
 
The Last of Us Part 1
The Last of Us OG Last of Us designer is still "pissed" about Naughty Dog re-doing his work for the remake
 
 
Latest in News
no rest for the wicked respec
Action RPGs After 2 years in Steam Early Access and almost 2 million copies sold, ARPG No Rest for the Wicked is "not slowing down"
 
 
A player shooting at two robots during one of the best Steam Spring Sale games, Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't hold your breath for a remaster because Bethesda lacks "the engineering knowhow"
 
 
Slay the Spire 2 classes
Roguelike Games Slay the Spire 2 avoids becoming "Sloppy Spire 2" by keeping the roguelike's roadmap light on dates
 
 
The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us The Last of Us Part 3 could explore "a whole congregation" of immune survivors, according to former Naughty Dog dev
 
 
Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 was canceled at Obsidian "because of an accounting error," says former dev
 
 
Pragmata screenshot taken on PS5
Action Games Pragmata is already one of the best-rated Capcom games on Steam, just 3% behind king of kings Resident Evil 4
 
 
LATEST ARTICLES
  1. Din Djarin and Baby Yoda sitting together in the Super Bowl TV spot for The Mandalorian and Grogu
    1
    Jon Favreau wants to "pull out all the stops" with the "level of spectacle" in The Mandalorian and Grogu to prove it's not "just the TV show" on a big screen
  2. 2
    Ahsoka season 2 is dealing with a "higher level" of Star Wars compared to the "ground-level experience" of The Mandalorian and Grogu, Jon Favreau says
  3. 3
    Spider-Noir showrunner says there are other unannounced Spider-Man variant projects in the works
  4. 4
    The original Mandalorian season 4 scripts helped set up Ahsoka season 2, but Jon Favreau had to "start from scratch" for The Mandalorian and Grogu
  5. 5
    After surprise Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 explosion, Daredevil actor Charlie Cox's next game is "in the very early stages"

GamesRadar+ is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google
  • Terms and conditions
  • Contact Future's experts
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies policy
  • Accessibility statement
  • Careers
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Review guidelines
  • Write for us

© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.

Please login or signup to comment

Please wait...