Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands first look

Brian Ambrozy 8 Mar, 2010 at 3:08pm ET Article published in Gaming

Ubisoft released a “first look” at gameplay in the upcoming “back to our roots” Prince of Persia, The Forgotten Sands

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8 Mar 2010 ~ 3:52pm CB AARRRGGHHH!! CB ANGRY!
8 Mar 2010 ~ 3:59pm CB This is some kind of joke right? Tell me it's a bad parody or an early April fools joke or something! Tell me that the people in charge of the new Prince of Persia game are not this dumb!
8 Mar 2010 ~ 4:04pm Cliff_Forster I thought it looked kinda par for the course? (except for the cell shading from the last game)

What am I missing?
8 Mar 2010 ~ 4:35pm CB Seriously?

I was excited when I saw the headline. A return to the roots of PoP would be a great thing indeed, but then I see: They think that "Sands of Time" is the 'roots' of Prince of Persia!

Seriously? Sands of Fucking Time?!

The real roots of Prince of Persia are deep in my childhood, where I spent a good part of five years trying to beat eleven levels in under 60 minutes and where the Prince was 2D and could be controlled with only five buttons.

Sands of Time was a piece of crap with the Prince's name on it. Sands of Time was trite nonsense that I picked up and played for two or three afternoons, and then never looked at again.

is where the roots of Prince of Persia lay.
8 Mar 2010 ~ 4:43pm Cliff_Forster Ahhhhh,

Yeah, there was a updated retro version on Xbox Live, I played that one, enjoyed it for what it was.

I'm feeling ya. Saying that the Sands of time is the root of the Prince of Persia franchise would be kind of like saying Sonic adventure is the genesis of Sonic the Hedgehog.

I dig...
8 Mar 2010 ~ 4:49pm CB

Cliff_Forster wrote:

Saying that the Sands of time is the root of the Prince of Persia franchise would be kind of like saying Sonic adventure is the genesis of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Exactly, and if the people in charge of new Sonic games thought that were true, real Sonic fans would cry out in anguish, just as I have done this day.
8 Mar 2010 ~ 5:08pm Koreish I liked the original PoP, but I liked sands of time too. I have no complaints with this so long as they don't have the angsty prince from Warrior Within or the slightly insane Prince from Two Thrones.