NXT Gamer's Mike gives his views on the Prince's latest adventure and whether it really did return to its roots.
"Okay, I admit it. I was very sceptical for the release of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands – between the 2008 reboot not doing it for me and how close the game was to the Disney movie release, I just didn’t expect much. However, I was wrong. Yes, you heard right – me, wrong. I’ll give you a few minutes to understand that, I’m aware it’s not often that it happens. But seriously, if you enjoyed the Prince of Persia games prior to the 2008 release, then you’ll love The Forgotten Sands."
The mind behind Prince of Persia shares his family’s life story as well as his own as a videogame developer in an emotional and very personal book.
With the release of The Lost Crown this week, let's take a look at every Prince of Persia game released since the series debuted.
If you’re a gamer “of a certain age”, you may vaguely remember the moment when games went from a grueling gauntlet requiring all your skill and concentration to tackle to a casual, checkpoint-containing, cruise control-encouraging walk in the park.
I beat Jurassic Park multiple times!
Jurassic Park had no save system, so I would leave the console running while I went to school, took breaks. It's not that it's hard, it's just tedious. But I was a Jurassic Park obsessed kid (around 13 when this hit), so I would obsessively scower ever inch of the maps (both 2D and 3D) until I had them memorized.
The Star Wars trilogy, I only beat w the cheat codes.
Sounds just like me. I mapped out the indoor areas on paper, leaving the SNES on for days at a time. But I never finished the game. I collected all the raptor eggs except one. So close !
oh god, I remember beating JP on SNES and like you said, it was all in one shot.
I dunno about this list though, I beat all the Star Wars games and while some levels were tough, it was easy to get powerups and extra lives and stuff. Maybe set to the hardest settings it was tough. I also beat Contra 3, loved that game to death.
with the exception of Jurassic Park and Prince of Persia, I've beaten every other one of those. It just takes practice and time. Something I had way more of when I was younger.
Great review its not often that video games from Films get good review scores, the visuals looks especially good from screenshots i have seen
lol i almost returned this game day one because of the combat, then i decided to give it one more chance and the puzzles r the best in the series IMO. really fun game, and it looks insane during the final boss fight.
Should be getting this by Saturday. 8's a good score: maybe the PoP video game series has been salvaged...
That's good to hear that those that like Prince of Persia will like this game. I was excited to hear a new PoP game coming out and then the release of the movie made it seem like it wouldn't be as good, but they assured us it was separate game. So again, that's good to hear as I was a fan of that Prince of Persia and will have to pick this one up now.