Prince of Persia

It is one of the worst games I've ever played. I'd consider myself a fan since the days of the original Dos/Apple II game, but this game plain sucks. IMO Cell shaded action games look weird. As Yahtzee put it, "It looks like they drew abs on the prince with a felt tipped pen." The controls are lame. Press a button and wait for something to happen. It's hardly interactive, and its impossible to die... You just watch the same, stupid cut scene of Elika saving you whenever you fall off a ledge. The action is boring. Press a few buttons - watch a lame, drawn out, slo-mo fight scene. There's no challenge. And who came up with that wall grabbing glove? Disappointingly unrealistic. There are 20 or so levels in the game, and every one is completed the same way: head to level - cut scene - platform to boss - cut scene - kill boss - cut scene - collect a ton of useless shiny orbs. Running around, monotonously trying to collect 500 meaningless white orbs is not my idea of fun. Ever listen to Daft Punk's song Around the World? The voice-overs are embarrassing. Prince- "Anything else I need to know?" Elika- "You're an idiot" If it weren't for the sexy voices, I'd think I was listening to junior-high drama students. The Prince is unneeded, he's just a bigmouth tag-along. Elika should just ditch him and do it herself. In fact, we should be playing as Elika. She's saving the prince 80% of the time anyway. It's merely an over-hyped game that bores you with simplicity.

While there are a few cool moments in this game (there's one boss fight that involves a bit of lateral thinking with the fall mechanics that gets a star all on its own) the storyline isn't half as engaging as the original game, and the combat isn't as fun as the third. If you're a diehard completionist go for it, but if you're new to the series just pick up Sands of Time.

Everybody must play this game.

Camera and controls in this game are your enemies as in most lazy console ports. Camera is moving all the time even if you do not touch you controls. But it does not stop you as this game is created for super casual players so every mistake is corrected by your partner as deus ex machina. Do not bother if you expect any player interaction. It feels like scripted movie.

It has a good story, admitted its worse than the previous games of the franchise, but still better than most of the newly published games in terms of story and interesting characters. Also it's design is quite nice but ultimately the fighting is nott that fun because you can't die, so it gets boring.But still a good buy.