Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is an excellent game for those looking for cinematic action mixed with Crystal Maze-style problem solving. It may frustrate, especially when you keep dying trying to run across a wall, swing on a chain and jump onto a ledge all in one go, but that only makes the reward when you ace it that much sweeter.
A look back at the history of the cult series, which is now 20 years old.
I had 'The original Prince of Persia' it was an awesome game, still want to play it today. Didn't know until now, Prince of Persia shares it's birthday with mine :D
One of the best game series's to come out in the history of gaming.
On December 3, Ubisoft will be "re-launching" the Prince of Persia franchise with a new title (simply called Prince of Persia) for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC. The Nintendo DS will be getting its own little adventure as well, in the form of Prince of Persia: The Fallen King. So what about a Wii version?
"The Wii version is non-existent," Prince of Persia producer Ben Mattes told us at an event in San Francisco. "It's just not a platform that we developed this game for."
Mattes told us that since they already had a solid DS development team in place, the portable version simply made more sense.
"We knew we could do justice to a DS version," he explained, "[one] that wouldn't feel like some sort of watered down lame excuse of a port; it would really feel like its own standalone Prince of Persia property. And that was really important to us. We didn't want to do a port on the DS -- we wanted to do a standalone, unique experience that continued the overall story that this new Prince of Persia game is trying to setup."
Still, Mattes doesn't rule out a new Prince of Persia on the Wii.
"I hope that we will see another Prince of Persia game on the Wii," he said. "Because when I [produced Wii Prince of Persia title] Rival Swords, I really liked the way the Prince's movement translated to the Wii controls. I think that it's really kind of a natural fit."
Check back later today for our full interview with Mattes.
In this article, The Exploding Barrel's Chris Taylor helps gamers better understand the differences between various versions of some popular multiplatform games, and gives his recommendations on which one gamers should buy.
Games covered include: Prince of Persia 3, Psychonauts, and Resident Evil 4.
I disagree with the platform recommendation on Psychonauts.
Psychonauts is free on the PC and plays very well with a gamepad.
Mods add- Mouse support.
Better textures
Better lightning
Adds HDR
proper keyboard controls
You can use trainers
You shouldn't have to use a MOD to make a game "good". Especially Resident Evil 4, it's a great game. It was great on the Gamecube, great on the PS2 and just terrible on the PC...the PC got the bad end of a whoreport for sure but if you stack this title against it's other retail formats, in it's "retail package", there is no comparing.
Resident Evil 4 is the better choice on the Wii.The motion controls really contribute to the fun factor.
RE4 Wii Edition did what Nintendo Promised originally--Play our favorite games in new, interesting, intuitive ways.
I really like this sentence "The game was then ported over to the PS2 since it had such a huge install base of like 100 billion systems or something."
More PS2's sold than humans on earth.
i've played the wii once and i have both the GC and Ps2 versions
