Prince of Persia

[Goza]

Finished the new Prince of Persia (Xbox360 version) yesterday. Whole lot of fun if you are not put off by its simple gameplay and easymode (you can't die, if you miss a jump etc you are pulled back by your sidekick to the last solid platform you stood on. Basically an automatic quickload).

Unlike the abysmal "Prince of Persia: Warrior Within" the game focuses on navigating the world instead of combat, simpler and with less puzzles than "Sands of Time" thou. The game uses some kind of cel shading, so it feels like you are playing an animated Disney movie. Most of the game's fascination comes from the presentation and high production values.

4 Hubs with 5 levels each get corrupted, your job is to navigate the world to reach each level's sacred ground to cleanse it. Doing this will switch the level from corrupted to normal, which will also spawn 45 light seeds. You need to collect a certain amount of those to open up other levels. Each hub has its own boss which you will re-meet in every level (fighting those is 90% of the game's combat, there are almost no other enemies). That's kinda cool as you learn more about them while progressing. You are also semi-free to chose which level to go next.

Pros:
- awesome presentation
- nonlinear level progression
- the ending

Cons:
- some backtracking to locate more light seeds
- a bit too many quicktime events
- the prince's anime hair style and some forced dialogue jokes

[delling]

Is it worth buying as the 4th game for my Xbox?

[Goza]

...cause I am totally familiar with your taste of games and what a game is worth to you...

It was absolutely worth the download thou!

[Kawe / Dave]

It didn't get the greatest of receptions. Looks interesting, but to be honest I'll probably wait 'till it's bargain-bin price.

[Shalala]

I've completed it in about 2 nights and collected all the light seeds (there are 1001).

All i can say is that its a beautifull game, its the type where you sit, lean back on your chair take the keyboard in  your lap and just play for pure enjoyment.

As goza said there is no real dying in the game and no loading screens so you can't get to that 'OMG FUCKING BULLSHIT I MADE THE JUMP BUT THE $&@#()#*% GAME DIDNT GET THAT... AAAA NOW I GOTTA RUN BACK FOR 3MINS' etc.

It's a fun roallercoaster, they could have named it differently tho, as it doesn't really have any connections to the previous parts of the game excent the title.

For all those that liked the combat and hardness in PoP2/PoP3 - this game will seem like miserable fail in your eyes!

[Goza]

It didn't get the greatest of receptions. Looks interesting, but to be honest I'll probably wait 'till it's bargain-bin price.

80% on both Metacritic and Gamerankings isn't that shabby.
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/945943.asp?q=prince%20of%20persia
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/princeofpersia?q=prince%20of%20persia

General consensus is that it's like Assassin's Creed: Simple easy game in a beautiful wrapping. Which is true

I've completed it in about 2 nights and collected all the light seeds (there are 1001).

Gasp! I think I got 605.

[Buby]

I've completed it in about 2 nights and collected all the light seeds (there are 1001).

All i can say is that its a beautifull game, its the type where you sit, lean back on your chair take the keyboard in  your lap and just play for pure enjoyment.

As goza said there is no real dying in the game and no loading screens so you can't get to that 'OMG FUCKING BULLSHIT I MADE THE JUMP BUT THE $&@#()#*% GAME DIDNT GET THAT... AAAA NOW I GOTTA RUN BACK FOR 3MINS' etc.

It's a fun roallercoaster, they could have named it differently tho, as it doesn't really have any connections to the previous parts of the game excent the title.

For all those that liked the combat and hardness in PoP2/PoP3 - this game will seem like miserable fail in your eyes!

Agree with Bear!.. sad it is very short game :s

[Lotinja]

Been considering getting my hands on this game.

I've been a huge fan of the first Prince of Persia (The modern one) game mostly because of It's "How the hell do i get there" moments. Just sitting there, with not having a huge horde of enemies coming towards you, ables you to focus on how to progress through a huge room to get to a certain point. Wich is one of the best parts of the game.

Second game was pure shit imo, to much Zerg, thankfully the third was a compromise between the first and second (Thankfully)

Heard some negative things about it, but now i feel i should try it myself, did'nt know they went back to the original idea!

[delling]

PFft, it's all about dying in the original game, and being warped back about 15 minutes... Having to repeat the same, tricky puzzles over and over... and slipping into pits of spikes...

Happy days...

[Goza]

You played the original?

Not even I played that. And I'm...

[Lotinja]

Lets not forget the retarded jumps and the frustration of the NES lack of saving possibility, with the exception of passwords.. and well... ya... No comment needed there

I even HAVE the old Prince of Persia game!

In the closet with my NES SNES and N64 (Fanboy? WHERE!?)

[delling]

That's how the original Prince worked, Lotinja -- passwords. the NES could save on cartridges... it just wasn't how Prince worked, as I recall.

I played #1 and #2 Goza, in all their EGA and VGA glory. Or maybe it was even CGA...

[Daekesh]

The original PoP was VGA iirc.  Definitely wasn't CGA.

[Lotinja]

Yup Dell, you could save, not many games that used it though, think its something that came in during the later NES period. Was some old RPG (cant remember the name) i played on the NES, I'ts the only game I've ever seen where you could save on the NES, but ya the techonogy was there.

With NES i meant the PoP NES version. But the games back then sure were'nt mercifull...

THink there was some other horrendously (spelling) impossible game called "Gouls'n'Goblins" (or something similiar)

No saving there either, and the main story took hours to finish i belive.

[delling]

Hm, I remember lots of saving -- all the platformers. Mario, Turtles, etc.