Prince Goes Unnoticed

The producer of the Prince series Ben Mattes says that his game should have been praised more for taking creative risk. Stating: "We set out to keep a few core fundamentals but to re-imagine everything else, discarding some very well entrenched ideas not only about the brand but also about videogames in general,"

[FreestyleBarnacle]

Am I alone in not buying anything in the run up to Christmas. People have enough trouble getting anything for me before I start buying it all for myself.
Either way I for one will probably be playing this in the new year. Will that be a good form of recognition Mr. Mattes?

[InMyOpinion]

The repetitive gameplay of this game is indeed quite revolutionary.

Like with Assassin's Creed Ubisoft Montreal have created something that feels unique for the first 10 minutes and then copy+pasted it until the DVD/Blu-Ray disc was full. The only difference was that Assassin's Creed looked better(put them side to side and you'll notice that PoP's environments look desolate, lack AC's detail and have blocky wall textures as well) and actually had more varied gameplay.

I hope the team behind PoP isn't the same team that's making the next Splinter Cell.

[sunnygrg]

I, for one, believe its a nice game, although the controls could use some tweaks. Between this, R2, L4D, LBP, I am in heaven ;)

[InMyOpinion]

The jumping sequences can feel cheap since you can get the prince to do most of his spectacular moves only by pressing A and B(360 controls). I even let go of the analogue sticks sometimes.

The fighting isn't much better. Later into the game the enemies(enemy? It's always the same opponent) starts blocking all your strikes and goes in to shadow every 2 seconds, which pretty much takes away the ability to do string combos.

[yanikins111]

@Jenzo

The different states only effect the first strike.

Ive found Elika, Gauntlet, Elika, Elika, Gauntlest, Elika, Prince to be pretty sick combo.

[NaiNaiNai]

man you people are pathetic. if you dont like the game STFU. i mean really, i played this one, and i really enjoyed it, all the way to the end......twice if you want to know. the game was fun, its not different then any other game, people go, well its repetative....yea well so is every other game. MGS, halo, LBP, MARIO, everything, why, MGS kill hide. halo shoot the enemy, LBP its a platformer simple enough, same for mario. you people are pathetic. well the old prince was better. yea and you had to do the same stuff in this one,

well you cant die, yes but just like the old PoP when you fall off your set back to the last checkpoint, and trust me at the end of the game, the distance between the jump sections gets pretty long.
-nai-

[mfwahwah]

@1.5

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that there was an Opinion Police Force out there.

[NaiNaiNai]

no, its just im tired of poeple bashing a good game. and when someone comes up with a week reason like repetative its just stupid. so im going to say this

go hang yourself no one wants to hear your negative comments, or go cut yourself, but we all know you wont cause your to much of a panzy, thats why you troll.
-nai-

[The Lazy One]

Unless they were in the top tier of games, they got way overlooked. There were so many great games this holiday for all platforms.

Specifically PoP launched behind LBP and Resistance on PS3 and GoW and L4D on 360 AND CoD, far cry, mirror's edge, end war and fallout on both platforms.

Pretty much everything that wasn't fallout, CoD, or exclusive got looked over because people don't want to buy 10 games in a month. GLAD I RENT!

[Cheeseknight28]

I don't see why you hold this game up so much. I mean, it's nice for about 20 minutes, then everything runs together. I watched my friend play, and every time I glanced at the screen he seemed to be doing the exact same thing. Whether it be scaling the 100th wall, killing the 100th enemy in the same fashion, or restoring yet another chunk of land that has a mysterious lack of people, it always seemed to be the exact same thing over and over and over again. When my friend was on the map screen scanning over all the levels, I could only ask: "You have to play through the same thing that much?"

Don't even get me started on the story.
Elika: "Don't come with me, I don't want you getting involved."
Prince: "I think I'll go anyway."
Elika: "Ok, I won't ever tell you not to get involved again. Lets go heal a land where nobody even lives."

I'll probably borrow it for him, just to see if there is something else buried under the interesting graphics, but I definitely wouldn't recommend spending more than $25 on it.

On-topic: If they wanted people to notice it, they shouldn't have released it after a zillion other amazing games and right before the holidays. Either delaying it till February or releasing it in September would have gathered more sales.

[Bubble Buddy]

I saw HMV at Canada flyer that Prince of Persia's going to be $29.99 on boxing day. Same with Gears 2, LBP, SSBB. Might want to look into it.

[StephanieBBB]

It feels like a super mario sunshine/assassins creed clone but with prince of persia pasted over it, but instead of keeping all the trash mobs which gave those games alittle diversity they threw em out and replaced em with only boss fights which you kill in the exact same way every single time.

Imagine the movie dark knight if they had batman fighting the joker in the beginning and then after 15 mins they took the first fight and copy pasted it so they did the same fight all over again and 15 mins after that they did the same fight over and over again. IT WOULDN'T BE AN FRIGGING OPTION SO WHY IN THE HELL DID THEY DO IT IN THIS GAME???

Seriously my mind just explodes when I play this game because of how repetetive it is. I wish someone at ubisoft could just stand up and say "hey f*ckas we need to change our direction with this game, it's going to blow if we don't".

@NaiNaiNai

You just killed your credibility for me. What ever your saying im gonna go with the opposite from now on.

[Fishy Fingers]

pfft... Far as I'm concerned it should of been more criticism over their choice of story structure. Worst ending ever...

Nice art direction, but little else to write home about.

[InMyOpinion]

Agree. Also, I thought the dialogue was too cliché and 'Disney' to fit with the PoP theme. While the princess plays the role of prude and serious, the prince is sarcastic Mr.Duderino. It's like the story writers were afraid to take the Prince of Persia universe seriously. "Let's make it slapstick"...

Imagine playing Dead Space and have Isaac sarcastically go "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" when your in the heat of battle. The horror...

[hay]

Worst ending ever? Damn. Worse than Crysis'? Which is my personal biggest disappointment ever based on people's opinion, ratings and hype(game and ending, music was ok, Inon Zur).

[ChefDejon]

the ending gave me mixed feelings. i wouldnt say it was bad though

[Sarcasm]

Worst ending ever? I'm sorry but for me it goes to Gears of War 2. They managed to make the rest of the game more "Epic" than the ending.

[locos85]

In my opinion the award for worst ending ever goes to ..................... Fable 2's one hit wonder. That was the worst. The one hitter quitter.

[farhsa2008]

thats what happens when so many games are released during the christmas period, i think many of the games would have benefited if they were released earlier or later.

[Yipee Bog]

David Jaffe would agree as well. releasing a game with a history like this during Christmas is absurd. there should have been like a Feb. or Mar. release. people just play the other 50 games that come out at the same time.

[BoneMagnus]

This game is a rental. I'm getting more frugal with my purchases, and I don't think I'll be getting 60 bones worth out of it.

I definitely want to play it - but it doesn't seem like a "must have in my collection so I can play it again and again title."

...Maybe 18 months from now when its $12.99 used at Gamestop...

[ChampIDC]

I don't think it'll take long for this one to be cheap. It'll be getting traded in pretty frequently with lack of replay value.

[va_bank]

I officially presnt PoP team with a "Nice Try/It's the effort that counts" award. Just don't cry, OK?

[ReBurn]

It probably went unnoticed because they forgot to tell anyone it was coming out. I didn't know it had been released until I saw it in the store last weekend.

[BuckyBarnes]

I think developers should take a look at how poorly ALL the new prince of persia games sold and take a damn hint. NOBODY CARES about the prince of persia, its dull, boring, set in the sand (which makes it dull and boring), and people hold some predjudice against middle easterns after sept 11th, wether we admit it or not.

Thats what I take from the sales figures at least.

p.s. thoughts and concerns stated by me have no reflection of any truths or facts. I have nothing to support this claim, it is just a hunch. and my uncle is from Iran, my cousins are part middle eastern, so I am not racist. shut your mouths flameboys in advance.

[sugatmahanti]

It was a good game...and by eliminating 'death'...it was one smooth flow....but it became a chore collecting light seeds and killing enemies by performing same limited moves... the art direction of the game was good...but its hard to justify $60 price tag...as there is no replay value whatsoever..unless you want to collect all the light seeds...

[felidae]

the problem is that there's not enough gameplay variation and the fighting elements are totally scripted. the game is way too easy. art and sound are both fantastic.

7.5/10 in my book

[Raoh]

after my 30th light crystal i ejected the game from the console. i would have to be pretty bored to play it again.

wasnt impressed at all.

[th3james]

my friend got this for his modded xbox and played an hour of it and never touched it again. My other friend rented it and braught it over to my house, got pissed off because you couldn't die or kill dat hoe

[Yi-Long]

.... EVERY review said it was drop-dead gorgeous and a brilliant setting etc.

It's the gameplay, and the choices they made for that gameplay, that people are occasionally complaining about.
What's the fun in a game that's 'kinda' open world, but still very lineair, and where you can't die!? A game doesnt JUST need to be gorgeous and well produced, it also needs to be challenging, creative, fun to keep playing (not repetitive!), varied, etc etc.

The game really looks awesome, but from what I've read about the game, it's not a game I would want to play. Or better said: I'd like to give it a try, but I wont be spending more than 20 bucks on it as I have a hunch it wont be for me. I like my games a bit more challenging and varied (gameplay-wise), plus their have been complaints about the interaction between the bum-prince and the chick.

edit: I'd rather have a new Beyond Good and Evil, or a quality Splinter Cell game again.

[bobdog626]

They came out at the Wrong Time . The Big Game,s like Gear,s/Fable/FallOut already shot off and by the time Prince of Persia came out NOBODY CARED .

[th3james]

i don't have enough time to play all my games now. and my 360 being broke for a month didn't help

still need to play: dead space, far cry 2, saun white snowboarding, banjo, brothers in arms, cod 5, fable2, gears 2, and mercs

i am not really far in motor storm 2 either

[Yipee Bog]

get ride of/steer clear of mercs 2. that is the lamest and buggiest excuse for a game i have ever wasted my money on. took it back to best buy and said the game wasn't finished after having it for 2 days

[na2ru1]

Because it had a realistic approach to the theme of Persia. It's PERSIAN!!!! Not some....f*cking emo wonderland where you hold hands with some magic american speaking gymnast.

[Magic_The_Celt]

Well.. im getting it tommorrow :)

[vShinobi]

its a good game but compared to the other "better" games that have come out between this its hard to see The Prince as a major title sure its fun and all but its repetative, some gameplay elements seemed better on paper and the story isn't that great I think they should have stuck with the whole rewinding time thing.

[outlawlife]

honestly the game isn't very good, it is average at best

it looks cool...sometimes and other times it is like "what were they thinking"

it gets boring after a few minutes just like assassins creed

both games were over hyped and then simply under delivered

now that is my opinion and i have the right to state it, if you liked the game that is your opinion and you don't need to police mine

saying a game is repetitive is not a weak reason when in fact there is so little variation t times it feels like you've already played it

that is a very legitimate reason in my book

[Nicolator]

I like the whole art style but ... i think they took everything that made me love PoP.. i played all of em from the one of MAcs to 2thrones and i love that fact it was dark .. gritty and Extra Dark.. if i may stress... there was blood there was evil not only in the world but within the prince's soul which gave me a good reason to want to see how the story unfolds ... this gmae has none of that and .. u cant die ... i think that takes out the risk in the game play .. when u would play the old prince games u would see a series of jumps and be like.. " oh shyt i can afford to fall or else i would have to response all the way back so u would put all ur mind to get it right" this one has no risk since u know the blue white lady will save u to the last safe platform...

i will rent it thou but not a buy.. L4D .. baby!!

[DJ]

Until I saw at the store last week. There was like no advertising, no hype, nadda. I just got Mirrors Edge, so no game money until January or February.

[SprayandPreycom]

guess no one wants to be running around as a rag head these days ... who knew...