In anticipation of the the soon-to-be released next entry, Gamertell is running a 3-part retrospective about the Prince of Persia franchise.
This third and final part of the series concentrates on the modern generation of the franchise (the upcoming game for consoles, handhelds and PC) as well as the upcoming feature film.
Part 1 of the series ran Monday (June 16, 2008) and was about the early, 2D years. Part 2 ran Wednesday (June 18, 2008) and concentrated on Ubisoft's takeover of the series.
GamingUnion.net: It's not news that the handheld scene sees a plethora and over-saturation of games that hit the market. Most of them aren't that great and the good ones are really quite far and few between. Ubisoft is easily one of the more notable publishers that constantly fart out really shoddy handheld titles, most of which are usually movie tie-ins or mere after-thoughts of the big boys on PS3 and Xbox 360.
There are some good titles, but they are far and few between. It's a shame, really.
Tenchu, despite its low Metacritic score, was a really decent game. Much better than Ubi's recent stuff.
There really is next to no good games made by Ubisoft on a portable. I checked every GBA, DS, and PSP game they've published - the best I could find were LostMagic and Tenchu. LostMagic was mediocre, but unique at least.
In fact, Ubisoft's console games are pretty bad too. Without Assassin's Creed, they basically have nothing. Last generation they had Prince of Persia and Rayman which were excellent series but now they are not quite the same. I love the Rabbids, but I'd like to see a good new Rayman game.
Bloodlines was really bad. It had the potential but I think Ubi dropped the ball with it.
It's because generally handheld games are spinoffs of console games, and spinoffs often suck the big one
I agree wholeheartedly, the spinoffs/ports are just really bad. The games that were specifically designed for handhelds, however, are usually pretty good.
It's just disappointing that they can take their premium franchises, like Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell, and butcher them so much.
The PoP games on the PSP are actually really good. The sound issues that were reported on the reviewed UMD versions aren't present on the digital versions at all.
Plus some large amount of extra content, yes. And they, like the console ones, were very good.
What's your point?
Steam's series of one day only offers continues onto its fourth day. On offer today are:
World of Goo - 75% off
EVE Online: Apocrypha - 75% off
Lucidity - 75% off
Battlefield 2: Complete Collection - 50% off
Prince of Persia and everything else Prince of Persia - 50% off
Guild Wars Trilogy - 50% off
Trackmania United Forever - 50% off
The sales really started strong, but today and yesterday's sales were a bit lackluster, to me.
Hopefully they will go all out tomorrow, if only not to be overshadowed by D2D's crazy Monday sale or whatever they are calling it.
cyber monday.
I've never seen any cyber monday deals that were as crazy as black friday deals thought.
i doubt Valve ever releases their steam sales numbers. How did you get info about the sales then?
I was not referring to the sales themselves, but the deals. The two first days had better games in my opinion. I bought 5-6 games in the two first days, I thought about buying RE5 yesterday, but decided against it since I already own it on console aswell as Borderlands (actually own it on PC and PS3), as for today, I checked the list, closed Steam, told myself I'd come back tomorrow.
Of course, this is very subjective, since I already owned many of the games that were on sale, but it does seem like the bigger games were on sale on the first day, mainly L4D2 and DAO.
2.2 - I think he just meant in reference to the titles available. I skipped out on 2 because I thought I might have had a crack at some other ones I would be more likely to play, then the last two days didn't have much at all, that I was interested in personally.
I lolled at the demo on 360, but mouse control would probably make it seem like nice interactive tetris levels.
*looks at unassembled PC parts from black friday* >_<
A look back at the history of the cult series, which is now 20 years old.
I had 'The original Prince of Persia' it was an awesome game, still want to play it today. Didn't know until now, Prince of Persia shares it's birthday with mine :D
One of the best game series's to come out in the history of gaming.
