Elika has just cleansed The Ruined Citadel of the God of Darkness' evil (via the mashing of a face button). Tall green grass, delirious butterflies, chirping birds and exuberant flowers spread across the barren, grey interior like ripples in a Garden of Eden pond. We've just finished Prince of Persia's first post tutorial level and it's been a blast. But the real fun hasn't even begun.
Now, with the land cleansed of 'The Corrupted' - the physical manifestation of Ahriman, the God of Darkness himself - the Prince and swinging side-kick Elika are free to simply enjoy themselves. And that's something we intend to do.
Full preview after the jump.
The mind behind Prince of Persia shares his family’s life story as well as his own as a videogame developer in an emotional and very personal book.
With the release of The Lost Crown this week, let's take a look at every Prince of Persia game released since the series debuted.
If you’re a gamer “of a certain age”, you may vaguely remember the moment when games went from a grueling gauntlet requiring all your skill and concentration to tackle to a casual, checkpoint-containing, cruise control-encouraging walk in the park.
I beat Jurassic Park multiple times!
Jurassic Park had no save system, so I would leave the console running while I went to school, took breaks. It's not that it's hard, it's just tedious. But I was a Jurassic Park obsessed kid (around 13 when this hit), so I would obsessively scower ever inch of the maps (both 2D and 3D) until I had them memorized.
The Star Wars trilogy, I only beat w the cheat codes.
Sounds just like me. I mapped out the indoor areas on paper, leaving the SNES on for days at a time. But I never finished the game. I collected all the raptor eggs except one. So close !
oh god, I remember beating JP on SNES and like you said, it was all in one shot.
I dunno about this list though, I beat all the Star Wars games and while some levels were tough, it was easy to get powerups and extra lives and stuff. Maybe set to the hardest settings it was tough. I also beat Contra 3, loved that game to death.
with the exception of Jurassic Park and Prince of Persia, I've beaten every other one of those. It just takes practice and time. Something I had way more of when I was younger.
this game looks friggin sweeeeeeeet.
"In this way Prince of Persia is the game Assassin's Creed should have been all along. That might seem a weird thing to say, but it's the strongest feeling we have following our hands-on time with a preview build of the PS3 version. Why? Because PoP has exhilarating, free-form acrobatic exploration that Assassin's Creed's more constrained tower climbing didn't. And for us, this is what's most exciting about the game."
I really liked Assassin's Creed, but I agree that it could have done more. Prince of Persia is starting to look better and better to me.