New Prince of Persia was being shown at E3 2012 behind closed doors to British journalists

According to unconfirmed reports, the new Prince of Persia would be a new reboot of the franchise, held due to bad criticisms of The Forgotten Sands. The idea is to invest in the action, lending an air of the God of War franchise. The new game would be launched by the end of next year and was still in its early stages of development.

[user5467007]

They better bloody not

Why reboot it...they didn't even wrap up the other game, they left it on a cliff hanger in the DLC which pointed to a sequel.

Jesus Christ...

It's like watching a TV series, getting really into it and then the network canceling it when it ends on a cliff hanger....just like FlashForward

[Trenta27]

REALLY? I was just about to finally finish up that show. Damn it...

[LarVanian]

the new Prince of Persia would be a new reboot of the franchise, held due to bad criticisms of The Forgotten Sands
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WTF?? Why not just make a sequel to the 2008 game then if the rushed movie tie-in Forgotten Sands wasn't well received?

[Trenta27]

Forgotten Sands was pretty damn good. Why they are rebooting it again I don't know. Oy...

[ReservoirDog316]

Haha, honestly. It was such a creative platformer and the combat came together near the end. It goes for less than $15 nowadays and everyone should try it if they like platformers or the PS2 PoP games.

[DivineAssault]

PLEASE STOP WITH THE RUMORS ALREADY!! every1 was let down this year because of them

[srcBFMVBMTH]

"The idea is to invest in the action, lending an air of the God of War franchise."

Like how Dante's Inferno failed to do so miserably? Please for the love of God, let it play/feel similar to the original trilogy. TSOT, WW, and, TT. One of the best trilogies I ever played. Almost up there with GOW for me. Just keep Prince of Persia as Prince of Persia. No need strip it of it's identity. If they're going to do that it might as well be a new IP.

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Yeah i also feel like that was one of the best trilogies. I like how every game took a different approach. TSOS you had to parry. WW you had to run away lol. TT you could stealth your way. Basically Assassin's Creed is just the POP trilogy into one.

[Dark11]

"The idea is to invest in the action, lending an air of the God of War franchise"

it will be interesting to see how they can pull this off.

[jbiz320]

theyve rebooted this franchise 3 times since 2007.. smh

[smashman98]

Ive only counted once the 2008 one this is a rumor so it doesnt count yet

[mttrackmaster38]

WHAT!!?? If this is true I'll be so pissed! Make a sequel to POP 2008 already so we can know the real ending! I might boycott Ubisoft is they make yet another reboot.

[turgore]

Good the 2008 game was like POP-lite, and Forgotten Sands wasn't that great, and didn't feel like a AAA game.

[clevernickname]

The problem is Ubisoft can't match the magic of the "Sands of Time" and has been casting about with different themes for each successive game: "Warrior Within" went angry and amped up the combat; "Two Thrones" ended the trilogy with the split personality approach; "Prince of Persia 2008" went artsy-fartsy; and the "Forgotten Sands", while a great game in my opinion, was aptly titled.

[noctrnl13]

If this is not a continuation of the one from '08 I'm done with Prince of Persia.

[WagFanger]

Why hold it back??