Posted on: October 16, 2021

WookieFightNight

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A beautiful painting that's faded a bit

Old picky gamer here and I am going to tell you that when this game first came out on consoles this would easily be a 5/5 game. I did play this game when it first released and it exceeded all my expectations at the time. Now coming back many years later to this PC port and clearly this game was not given much love by Ubisoft. To start, there is no official controller support so I was stuck with keyboard and mouse and this game clearly suffers for that, especially in combat. Next, I encountered many audio bugs where music would cut in and out and dialog would be off. I also had textures act weird with the Prince's hair flying around wildly. Lastly, I did have a few occasions where my movement and the camera angle made for some were clipping issues. Now don't misunderstand me, I still think this is a good game it just seems that this version of it has many technical problems. I will ignore combat for now and get to what makes this game still stand out after all these years. The developers of Sands of Time didn't seem to get the memo that plagues many games and instead crafted a story that is outstanding with real character development and charm. Add in some excellent voice acting and dialog and I would say that the games story is strong enough that it will stay with you long after you have finished the game. The music has a great ethnic/authentic feel to it that sets the mood and visually the game has this nice dream like/Arabian nights quality to it. The main gameplay gimmick, reversing time, actually works well in the game and you will find yourself relying on it for both puzzle solving and combat. Watching the Prince run, jump, swing and slide looks and feel great from a gameplay perspective. Now the part of the game that has aged the worse, combat. While I can appreciate the combat being simplistic however, combat is at best boring, and at worse tedious. Near the end of the game in particular were you constantly fight large numbers and in tight spaces

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Posted on: February 7, 2022

ivanaugustobd

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Spiele: 47 Rezensionen: 1

Controller not working

Xbox One controller isn't recognized only in this game

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Posted on: March 28, 2009

FatalKitsune

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Spiele: 83 Rezensionen: 9

Platforming perfection!

As one who's never played this game before I think I'm coming in to this with an unbiased opinion. Having heard all the hype over the years I finally decided to pick this up and I have to say I'm not dissapointed one bit. Sands of Time puts you in the sandals of the titular Prince of Persia. After the Prince's father uses a treacherous Vizier to help him siege a city he uncovers the Sands of Time. The Prince is tricked into unleashing the sands, which seems to begin destroying everything in sight, turning the denizens of the palace into walking abominations. It's up to the Prince to set things right. The plot is unfolded as if the Prince is telling you a story about his adventures, which is really clever because all your deaths are chalked up to his bad memory ("No, no, that's not what happened"). He's by far one of the most acrobatic protagonists you'll encounter and thanks to an easy control scheme (I recommend a gamepad) it only takes one button to jump and one to perform a special context-sensitive action like running up a wall or swinging on a pole. And it's a good thing controls are so simple because you'll be bounding from wall to wall, swinging on poles, running across walls over pits and other sorts of things. Acrobatics have a place in combat, too. The monsters in Sands of Time go down pretty easy but they always have a numerical advantage so button mashing rarely works. The Prince can use his agility to roll, dodge and even leap over his enemies to give himself an advantage. Sands of Time smoothly blends together combat and platforming and both elements make you feel extremely agile and cool. The story is engaging and the voicework (especially the Prince) is commendable. If you're a fan of platformers then this is certainly one you won't want to miss.

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Posted on: January 31, 2013

chazmonkey531

Spiele: 85 Rezensionen: 1

Please buy!

I can not do anything more but beg for everyone to play this game. Sure the combat is just passable as best but EVERYTHING else about this game is perfect. The platforming is fun. The story is wonderful. The characters are best I have ever seen in a video game. The last lines of the game sold me on how much I loved the game all those years ago and now I'm replaying it for maybe the 7th time. There is one weird and annoying puzzle late into the game but damn it, it doesn't matter. Not the longest game but one that I always come back to. Warrior Within and Two Thrones are not bad (the chariots sucked in two thrones) but this game is among the best games of the last ten years and it feels like it. The only other bad thing I can say about it is that it took attention away from Beyond Good or Evil.

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Posted on: June 4, 2014

umbilicalbungee

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Spiele: 268 Rezensionen: 8

Could have been great

This game has a lot going for it like a nice simple but fun combat system, but the camera and control mechanics with the direction keys mapping to whatever pov the camera is looking at, and the jerky camera changes make it almost unplayable.

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