Michael Bay (Transformers) will re-team with producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) to direct the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
"Whether you’ve never played it or haven’t touched it in a while, sit down and let the Prince tell you a tale unlike one you have never heard." - Blair at Electric Bento
I love them all. The Two Thrones is really underrated. A good mix between Sands Of Time and Warrior Within with hugely improved boss fights, better platforming and the Dark Prince but the ending was a bit weak.
Sands Of Time is probably my favourite but the more gory combat and switching back and forth between the past and the present in levels was awesome in Warrior Within. SOT and WW have very different aesthetics and atmospheres but I appreciated both of them. SOT feels more mystical and focused on relationships. WW is very Gothic and lonely. The Dahaka chases were fairly intense as well: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Edit: I forgot to say that POP 2008 is also way better than most people give it credit for. The Forgotten Sands is decent.
Personally, I'm not sure a remake would really add much to the enjoyment of those games. Their controls are perfect and they still look quite good considering their age. The HD remasters on PS3 did the job. I just want a new POP game. It's been so long. Same for Splinter Cell.
I actually remember most people hating how edgy Warrior Within was compared to the first. Never got around to playing it myself, but played the first and third ones.
Assassin's Creed is the spiritual successor to the Prince of Persia games. Ubisoft pushed out "The Forgotten Sands" in 2008 that, despite being a good game, was quickly forgotten. By then Ubisoft was fully engaged with developing the Assassin's Creed series.
I had the Forgotten Sands. Despite IGN giving that game a score higher than a 9, it remains to be a staunch example of not letting a review dictate your purchase. No matter what, you could not DIE in that game. If you jump into a hole, the girl would autmatically save you every single time.
Til this day, im still disappointed i purchased that game for $60. It's a solid 8 at best
AssCreed is very mediocre compared to PoP games. The combat is dumbed down and platforming is repetitive.
The empty open world full of "checklist" is also designed to pad out the experience.
UnSelf, sorry I meant to say that "Forgotten Sands" was released in 2010, not 2008. The 2008 Prince of Persia "reboot" of sorts was artistically beautiful and elegant but not much of a game, if it could even be called that. Absolutely no challenge whatsoever.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Over the past few weeks we have been talking a lot about video remakes. Which are great, which are bad and whether or not the industry as a whole is better off with or without them. Well today it all comes to a head as we count down the Top 10 games that we would love to see remade! Some of these are classic gems, that are still perfectly playable today while others are games that could definitely use some sprucing up to fix nagging issues that have kept them from reaching the next level but the one thing they all have in common is that we would love these classics to get a fresh coat of paint."
Call me a hypocrite, but I would love to see what MDK could do with optional duck and cover mechanics. With a risk/reward leaning your head over/around the cover whilst sniping, also minecrawlers were inspired, I'd love to see trundling interior city tanks in HD and it would need an equally epic soundtrack. MDK is one of my favourite games of all time. MDK2 was...okay.
Would I like remakes for most of those games on the list? Sure.
Do I trust any of the companies which own those IPs, to make anything even remotely worthy of the original? Not a f****n chance.
Except maybe Zelda II and Kid Icarus for obvious reasons.
says who? did you not see the sales for crash HD? we want old games which are remade/remastered done right. DMC HD collection is a straight up port of ps3 version of HD collection anf doesn't even support 4k or HDR so we don't want but than when a game like SOTC is remade by bluepoint it sold well
we just don't want old games via BC where you have outdated controls instead we want games to be remastered using betters textures, frame rate and overall smoother game. don't get me wrong i want BC as much as the next guy but not at the expense of releasing newer games. that's what MS has done just keep re releasing older games instead of investing in new IP's
and MS fans(which is you from your original comment) keep bring up SOT and PUBG sales to make their argument of having exclusives which are selling while when the sales argument is used by us sony fans we are told it's not about sales. Make up your mind because you can't use the sales argument when it favors y'all and when it's not good for you simply says sales don't matter
just like last gen it was so important for MS to release sale numbers for xbox360 to brag and now they much rather give useless stats like hours played
Old games are old games remasters or not
Sony fans are the biggest hypocrites on the Planet
Red alert or red alert 2 remakes would be amazing but they aren't going to happen as EA completely ruined the franchise. Even if EA decided to remake it, it would have microtransactions and probably have mobile construction yards or something stupid like CNC4 did.
EA ruined this franchise and its a damn shame... We won't see it ever again unless they make a mobile game out of it full of microtransaction goodness.
Check out the price of some of the original Xbox backwards compatible games.
I still have kotor and Ninja Gaiden Black on disc. And those works too. Great news. 👍🏼
@trumpwonstopcrying. Backwards compatibility meant that I was able to sell my 360 as there was no real reason to keep it anymore. Keeping your old consoles is great for those that want to, but I would rather it were a choice than a necessity to play older games. Plus for me I purchase each new console from ps4 to XB1 to Switch. Keeping older consoles as well as owning all of the newer ones takes up too much space for me.
My hope is that with the PS5 in a few years Sony get on board. Even if it is just to allow PS4 games to work on the PS5.
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Would be even better if you could just put your own owned original disk in and you know play what you already payed for.
as soon as I've finished shadow of war I'm getting kotor. imo one of the best games ever.
Even cheaper if you buy them from Goodwill. I find Kotor 1 and 2 and Jade Empire ALL.THE.TIME. and they are only 5 bucks.
If you are in the US and have GoodWills (or any second hand place) You can get xbox games for a few bucks. I am always running across KOTOR and Jade. Probably not anymore and the prices will probably shoot up.
Hell yea. Those prices mean we can get back into those OG Xbox gems sooner rather than later.
Absolutely cannot wait to see what other titles they release to BC!
Glad I still own my original games, not all of them but a few from the list already
Me too. Big fun coming. Also keeping my fat PS3 around solely because it can play my PS2 games.
fusion frenzy was our go to party game back in the day. shame it wont have online multiplayer but still epic fun
As an avid Xbox fan, this is great BUT I wish they would start putting this much effort into new exclusive AAA games. This is a fair criticism and if we keep just accepting old games and new hardware we will keep getting the same.
He's right and clearly they don't know. It seems like a cheap gimmick...we're getting slaughtered by PlayStation so let's give them old games so they are distracted and forget how unfocused we are. This bothers me because Xbox exclusives we're great back in the day. Now not so much.
As long as you know that the teams working on this aren't the ones that would be making the new games. That's what teams and departments are for.
What teams?
Phil close down most of the studios
Let's be honest, we all know that what ever games MS are making are less than Sony's. And probably less quality unless its GaaS
How? I said it is a great feature. I don't even own a Playstation, I primarily game on Xbox and PC.
@Bobafret
You are right, backward compatibility is a great value-added feature but it is only a console seller at the start of the generation. Basically, the players who kept their original games will now have the option of playing them on newer hardware with the possible chance of graphical (ie. smoothing) and/or framerate improvement.
Still, if you did not keep your old games or don't have the one you would like to play you will have to pay for them although to be fair old games can be relatively cheap to buy but be careful of disk scratching (DVD's and CD's are notorious for this especially if you buy second hand). Still if a digital remaster is available it may be the better option (do your homework) and possibly pay a few dollars more.
I agree they need to put more effort into the new.
I dont agree that putting this effort in the old is a mistake. I think the old should have been playable from the start.
Also going back to older games may not be common for the average gamer. But many hard core gamers replay older games every now and then during game droughts.
I think you mean exclusives that actually turn out to be worth buying.
But this BC topic is what we are excited about. As an Xbox fan you should appreciate the others are excited to get to play known good game on their new shiny boxes. Or do you want to be that guy?
Nope, I was merely bringing up something that bothers me, I am excited to fire up KOTOR and Crimson Skies asap.
I am sure the same team making BC available is not the same team responsible for AAA exclusives.
Seems like 23 of your xbox buddies dont agree about getting new AAA exclusives...
It takes time to develop AAA titles. They also need to find the talent, or people will just complain about average games.
Yet ps4 manages to release amazing games rapidly with no problems. Why cant MS?
He's right BUT! the reason we are in this mess is because at the start of this gen MS was spending big cash to bring us exclusives and great content in general, while Sony shoveled indies, iphone class games, and remakes at us non stop for three years. Sony got a pass for this, and "won" every E3 in the media during that time despite giving us crap. During this time Xbox was delivering at great expense and still being outsold and ripped in the media and by gamers, for not having 1080p on every game. My guess is MS decided to do things Sony's way and save some cash. Dump remakes and old games on us and call it a cherry. Deliver only one MAYBE two triple A's a year. Whats good for the goose I guess...
Why are you stating the truth? You should ignore that and praise microsoft for being absolutely shite. da x is going to revolutionise gaming. Haven't you heard?
Next year has a solid lineup assuming no more delays. We should be getting state of decay 2, sea of thieves , crapdown 3 plus a new Ori. Then also i am still assuming there will be a new halo. By Nov 2018 Halo 5 will be 3 years old. So 6 is due at the end of 2018. That is 4 excellent exclusives and 1 other that can only improve.
A few surprises are also possible, but not guaranteed.
Well... I'm sure there will be plenty of flashy CGI.
Mihcael Bay's films are so full of plotholes...
Well, it can't be worse than Uwe Boll... is it? Maybe wishful thinking...
All I can think about is:
"I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor... I miss you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot, girl!"