Tagged: Prince of Persia

A couple of years ago the Prince of Persia series had a bit of a reboot with a new cel-shaded look, a wise-cracking prince and a sidekick which meant you could never really die if you fell to your doom. To be honest, unlike that very sidekick, it didn’t really grab me and what I wished for was a return to the fantastic form of the original ‘remake’ of the game ‘The Sands of Time’. Thankfully Ubisoft have listened to the fans and made a next-gen game that mostly brings back the magic of the PS2 game. The Forgotten Sands...

Prince of Persia has to be one of the most remade games ever. There was the original 2D rotoscoped game that had incredibly realistic movement on 8 and 16-bit machines, a not so good 3D game, and then the highly successful and lovely Sands of Time which spawned a couple of mediocre sequels where the prince went a bit Emo. Now it’s Ubisoft Montreal’s turn to give their spin on the game and they’ve succeeded in creating a beautiful looking game which flows very nicely indeed. In a nutshell, you play the wisecracking prince who gets caught up in a...