Posted on: March 28, 2009

captfitz

Игр: 232 Отзывов: 7

Just solid fun

One of those games that translates a few measley clicks of a mouse or key into amazingly fluid control. It is grin-inducing sending the prince running along the wall to backflip over an enemy while simultaneously decapitating him. POP makes it just involved enough that you are totally controlling the prince, and you need to stay attentive and be on top of things, but you will never have to wrestle with the controls or do too much too fast. This is the core of the gameplay. The raw combat is similarly fun, but can become a bit more of a clickfest than the platforming portions. The graphics are charming with a dusky, mysterious Arabian Nights attitude. Very atmospheric. The story is OK by game standards, but bottom line, there is no way you won't have a whole bunch of hours of fun with Prince of Persia, and it's definitely not a rehash of any other game you've played.

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Posted on: December 20, 2013

LordTargren

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Игр: 1176 Отзывов: 12

Not quite a five-star game.

I could have loved the game, but the camera just hates me. Swiveling around at the worst possible time, combined with wonky auto-facing just makes some of the more "intense" combat scenes almost unplayable: making you attack the wrong baddie, trying to flip over instead of away from those annoying double-spear guys, and making sure you jump in the wrong direction when you're jumping away from collapsing floors... Most of the time it's not too bad, but having to do the same long fight half a dozen times or more ("Daybreak", e.g.) stops feeling fun.

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Posted on: August 27, 2021

JakobFel

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Игр: 835 Отзывов: 49

A genre re-definer

This game is truly legendary and for good reason. Without it and its sequels, the action-adventure genre would look completely different. We wouldn't have gotten the many masterpieces we've received and the spiritual successor to this franchise -- Assassin's Creed -- would not have even existed (for better or for worse). In The Sands of Time, you play as the young, athletic titular Prince of Persia as he's thrust into a story centered around a relic that controls the flow of time. Right there, within the plot, is the root of what makes this game so unique. It's not the parkour (though that's a load of fun). It's not the combat. It's not even really the plot itself. No, it's all about the time travel mechanic. Ubisoft Montreal defied expectations by making this game completely different from its predecessors, opting for what boils down to a very stylish platformer with solid combat, enjoyable puzzles and a lot of ways to fail. Where this could have introduced immense frustration at best, or downright unfair difficulty at worst, the time travel mechanic balances it all out. No matter what happens -- you misjudge a jump, get wrecked by an enemy or just run into a bug -- you almost always have a second chance to retry that moment by rewinding time. This is what makes the game so fun, unique and memorable. When you fail, the game quite literally encourages you to rewind and figure out where you went wrong. This creates a level of strategy and critical thinking that never fully takes you out of the moment or the action. This, combined with extremely solid gameplay, an intriguing plot and extremely atmospheric, dream-like world building to create a game that's not only a blast to play, but one that also still holds up extremely well today. If you enjoy games of this sort, The Sands of Time is a must-play. It's worth a lot more than what you spend on it; plus, it's always affordable even at full price, just grab it now!

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Posted on: February 7, 2023

Boomerino

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Игр: 121 Отзывов: 3

Not a game review, but a port review

Game runs on Windows 11, but needs a bit of tweaking to work properly - i.e. you need to edit an .ini file to fix the broken shadow effect, and you need to run the game through Steam to get proper controller support with mappable buttons and sticks. Other than that, yes, works fine. Maximum resolution is 1600x1200, no widescreen support, recommend using v-sync or else your GPU is gonna be spitting out thousands of frames per second.

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Posted on: April 12, 2023

WhatsaPaladin

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Игр: 652 Отзывов: 3

It plays fine, however-

It plays fine, just as it did back in day, and it looks pleasant too. But I can't recommend this game for the simple reason that I'm hard of hearing and this game lacks subtitles. I legitimately have no idea what's going on storywise because all the audio seems to be coming from a bathtub.

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