Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review

Review by IGN 8.0/10 – Impressive

I’ve been a fan of the Prince of Persia franchise ever since 2003′s The Sands of Time. The combination of acrobatics and combat– along with the sweeping environments — made the Prince of Persia franchise one of my favorites from the last generation. And despite Ubisoft beating the franchise into the ground by releasing sequel after sequel each year, I still bought and played them all — though I recognized that the Prince was starting to feel more than a little tired.

But the 2008 Prince of Persia — a reimagining of the franchise that took away almost all the player’s ability to fail — showed that the Prince needed more than just a few tweaks and a short break to be exciting all over again. While some people enjoyed the ultra-forgiving, you-can’t-lose aspect of the 2008 PoP, I felt like the game had brought this aspect in at the expense of the sense of accomplishment the previous games evoked. The Prince’s adventures need to be beatable, sure, but player’s don’t need to have their hand held all the way.

Which is why I think I enjoyed the latest game, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, as much as I did. While much more than a simple rehash of previous PoP mechanics, Forgotten Sands manages to find a fine balance between reward and punishment. Combine this with some awesome new mechanics and a combat system that really comes into its own by the end of the game, and it’s easy to recommend despite the boring story and rather unpolished feel of the game’s visuals.

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Review by Eurogamer 6.0/10

If you make a mistake, rewind and try again. That’s been the implicit motto of the Prince of Persia series since 2003, but now it seems that life is imitating art as the ambivalently received 2008 reboot is unceremoniously ignored in favour of this “interquel”, squeezed in between The Sands of Time and its angsty 2004 follow-up, Warrior Within, in the official canon.

This revisionist approach is likely to appease the fans who felt the new direction was too easy, since in almost every respect The Forgotten Sands both looks and plays like The Sands of Time. That’s a good thing, clearly, since The Sands of Time remains a fine game. But it’s also a disappointment of sorts, a worrying sign of creative retreat that suggests that having had its fingers burned with criticism of the 2008 game, Ubisoft’s Montreal studio has stopped trying to find new ways to develop the series and has decided to fall back on elements that they already know will find favour with players.

The result is a game that’s easy to enjoy, but almost impossible to be passionate about. In fact everything that deserves praise is the same as it was in 2003, when the praise came not only because it was fun but also because it was fresh. The Forgotten Sands offers familiar comforts over thrilling surprises, and inevitably misses its potential because of this overly cautious approach.

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Review by Games Radar 8/10 – Great

When we first found out about Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, it was impossible to not be skeptical. After closing out the Sands of Time trilogy and dropping wads of cash on a flashy new reboot for the franchise, publisher Ubisoft just suddenly decided that the character was too good to let go? And this decision just happened to coincide with the feature-film adaptation of the first game?

Right.

This had “bullshit tie-in” written all over it. Still, Ubisoft repeatedly assured us (and everyone else in the gaming press) that Forgotten Sands wouldn’t be a movie game, and that its release date was a coincidence, even though it’s hitting shelves exactly 10 days before the film’s release. Suspicious as these claims seemed, they were backed up by some slick gameplay demonstrations that gave us hope that Forgotten Sands wouldn’t be crap, even if its redesigned Prince sort of looks like what you’d get at the center of a Venn diagram made up of his old appearance, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eric Stoltz in Mask.

Now that the game is out, there’s one burning question to be answered: Did this turn out to be a worthy sequel to the Sands of Time franchise? Or is it just a vapid rush job?

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