It's 2007. I'm 15 years old. All I've ever heard from Rockstar was GTA and even if RDR was about to drop 3 years later, I wouldn't be able to play it until 2020 when I finally got my hands on a PS3. Back then Ubisoft was one of the greatest developers out there. I had found out about gems such as Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, XIII and TMNT. But nothing that could scratch that western itch I've always had ever since I first saw Tombstone. Nothing except for Ubisoft's Call Of Juarez. I remember it being harder than it is now. Loading times are horrible, gameplay has aged, but everything else about it is just as I remember it. Running and gunning down bandits as a pissed off preacher reciting BIble verses feels just as badass as it did back then. I wish they still made games with soul like this one.
Despite it being pretty dated in terms of controls, invisible walls, glitches and issues with frame rate and resolution, the game itself was the best parkour that ever existed in games. None of Ubisoft's later titles could hold a candle to this trilogy and the first one has amazing puzzles, fights, level design and story. The saying goes "X walked so Y can run", but in this case Prince of Persia soared so that Assassin's Creed could trip over itself. Just going back to this, I'm smiling, but it's not held by nostalgia alone. It truly was a revolutionary game that still holds up and playing it is as fun as it ever was.
