Rating: 
Summary: Wonderfully Brilliant
Review: A beautiful princess and a handsome prince thrown into an adventure, bickering all the way, to right a wrong and save a crumbling kingdom. Throw in an evil Vizier lusting for immortality, wonderfull graphics, facinating soundtrack, absolutely cool action.... shake well and u have Prince of Persia Sands of Time. A must hav for all true Gamers, prince of persia fans and not alike. Hopefully they'll come out with a sequel.
Rating: 
Summary: Frustrating
Review: Although the graphics are great, combat is somewhat difficult using the keyboard. The most frustrating part, however, is the inability to save your game after completing particularly difficult tasks or combats. You are forced to get to certain areas before quitting or lose everything and go back to the "beginning" of that level.
Rating: 
Summary: Good Game, Great Graphics, but.. Repetitive and Easy
Review: At first, I was in love with this game.
The graphics are great and plays really smooth.
(ati 9700 pro, which can be had for $190 now)The story line is interesting, he has various moves, that you have to master, various view points..etc...
You can control the camera, I think its a great addition to the game.
I see a lot of people complain about the camera, but I thought they did a great job. In MOST areas of the game you can rotate your view to whatever angle you chose.
You can zoom out, zoom in, rotate. If you feel stuck and need to see a specific place, you can just use the first person view and it lets you view what your character is seeing and look all around the screen from his point of view. This can be done in ALL places. Why 2 stars you may ask?
1 star for great sound and for great graphics.
2 stars for great control and relatively fun game play. Where it falls short:
The fights.
I mean, at first you are taking guys down, having fun learning the moves and its a little dificult. As soon as you know the4 basic combat moves, plus constant blocking, you become untouchable.
I mean, fights stop being fun 50% into the game.
(I am at 75% right now, because I stopped playing for a while cause it got monotonous)
This game would have been rated atleast 4 stars if you had to fight 'bosses' or some tough bad guys...
But no...
Except one relatively hard guy I had to fight at some point like 25% into the game, (and it was only one) I have had absolutely no trouble at all... I mean you hit attack.. jump over (most, some monsters dont let you do this) and kill them. But then you get close to a wall and jump attack off the wall and kill ANY monster (up to 75% - except the one tough guy) with a hit.
It is occassionally blocked.. but mostly you hit and they are dead.
So you fight no more than 4 guys at a time, (but you kill one and another pops up)...
basically I have never been killed in a fight.
I die A LOT more times when jumping from places or evading traps and stuff. If There was tough boss or a couple every 10% of the game or so, it would have made the fights more fun and challenging.
AS it is, you are the MAN and the other guys really stink. The puzzles are cool, some are difficult, but I havent spent more than 20 minutes on any puzzle and have solved them all up to 75% with ease.
Despite seemingly challenging, the game is too linear to make them hard.
The puzzles become VERY VERY Repetitive as does the combat. So the game goes like this:
puzzle, combat, puzzle, combat, puzzle, combat.
The puzzles vary a little, but not much. The combat does not vary. And another thing that kills this game, is that it has a virtual zero for replay value... So you go through all this monotonous puzzles and combats...
and you are going to start to play it again??
from scratch?
You know all the moves, know how to solve all the puzzles, and then you want to go through that again? I mean no multiplayer... or some sort of arena where you could test your fighting skills with other players online??
Come on... a little of imagination... There was so much going for this game..
The graphics and scenes are great, the castles, trees, banners, walls, cracks...etc.. are so well done...
It is a shame for it to have no replay value..
and though I can see some people having trouble with the puzzles, there is no way someone (if they BLOCK while fighting) will find the fighting challenging.
Need some tougher enemies!!!
Plus you have 3 super powers that kill anybody or (8 guys at once) when u use them.... If you just want to spend some 10 - 20 hours of fun, and wacking enemies and feeling impressed by all your moves and how untouchable you are in combat, plus solving some challenging puzzles, this game is good for you. If you are looking for an RPG, this is not one.
You upgrade your sword twice. (get 3 different swords).
IF you find some secret entrances you get your health bar increased by some percentages.
That is about all the RPG things it has. The rest is just hacking and solving puzzles. OVER and OVER and OVER again. IF you want replay value, look for titles like Warcraft, Unreal Torunament, things like that. That have mutliplayer and some replay value.
Rating:
Summary: Irritating
Review: Camera angles and controls are painful. You can't save your game when you want to, only at the end of the episode. Fighting enemies became repetitious and boring after a while. And you have to kill them all to proceed. Could have been a good game if it wasn't so irritating.
Rating:
Summary: Great game...definitely worth getting.
Review: Chris from UT pretty much nailed the review of this game perfectly...the camera angles do get to be a pain and sometimes seriously screw you up when you are fighting those hordes of mobs. It's pretty much this: fight tons of mobs--that eventually get rather hard--then figure out minor puzzles, which require nearly all of the amazing acrobatics your character is bestowed with. Each part (mobs--puzzles)gets pretty monotonous each in itself after a bit, mixing them more would have been better. The graphics are stunning...some of the most beautiful visuals I have seen in a game yet. The fighting is amazing...you can actually stop in the middle of fury of attacks to switch to different enemies with ease, performing a myriad of moves in the process. You can block, counter, flip, jump off walls, there are kicks, etc. Great music and ambience, as well. Overall: it's absolutely worth getting this if you are into this genre.
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Summary: Not true to the Original
Review: First, let me say I don't write many Amazon reviews. I was looking forward to this game as soon as I heard it was being released on the PC. The original is a classic because it took player control to a new level. Although this game "looks" great, the control is non existent. Any first person shooter has a much better control interface. The mouse control doesn't add anything to player control. I am 25% through the game and it has only taken me about 40 minutes. The game hints tell you exactly what to do...there's only one way to get from one room to the next. The fighting scenes are boring. I just keep hitting "attack" and I haven't died once. It feels like you are constantly playing in a training mode. The cut scenes are OK, but the music in general is repetative. I don't know if I am going to continue playing it. If you want to watch a quasi interesting movie, you might like this game. If you want cool player control in interesting puzzle situations, pass on this game.
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Summary: NO CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!
Review: How in the world can a game like this be released? It is unexceptable. You can not control your man. What may be cursor key straight ahead in one camera shot, will be left in the next...though you are still hitting the forwad cursor. Your man never stands straight, he's always at an angle and you are guessing which cursor key to hit...oops pick the wrong one and you're off the cliff. It is this insanity throughout. It is absolutley impossible to control your man and the camera angle. Decent 3rd-person role-playing games are like Star Wars Jedi Outcast or Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness. The camera should station behind your character so that you can move your mouse and cursor keys accordingly....hello? Game Developers! Every PLAY one of these games before making one and putting it out on the market and charging $45 bucks!?!? Morons.
Rating:
Summary: A Truly Exceptional Game
Review: I bought this game on a Saturday, played it until 2:00 in the morning, began again the next afternoon, and beat it that evening. For a hard-core adventure gamer like myself (who grew up playing a single Space Quest or Police Quest game for almost a year), this would normally be completely unacceptable. So, you ask, why five stars? This game, simply put, is not meant to be overly difficult. It is meant to be one of the most technically, graphically, and audibly cutting-edge games on the market... and it succeeds. In general, you play as a Prince who battles his way through the hordes of evil to find a betraying Viser in a game style very, very close to Tomb Raider. Using a plethora of amazing gymnatics to get around and a series of easy combat commands to fight that translate into the most fluid and amazing moves I've seen in a game, this game is far and above the best example of the genre I have seen. Graphically, the game consistently gives the player the feeling of being inside the Arabian Nights, fighting evil and exploring the wonders of mythical Arabia. Using a graphical technique I can't really put my finger on, the entire game feels like a dream, placing you in the story far better than almost any other game I have played. Possibly even more impressive is the games ability to make your characters gymnastics look feasable. Swinging, wall-running, and ricocheting that would be physically impossible for a normal person are animated so fludily that they appear not only possible but easy. Audibly, the game is armed with a hard rock/arabian soundtrack that is amazing. As a professional reviewer once said, the only problem with the soundtrack is that it doesn't play all the time...only during the fights. Technically...this is the part where I disagree with most people. I've noticed a lot of complaining about the camera control and character control. The fact is that I found it rather intuitive. While some of the camera angles are a little annoying, they generally only hamper your progress for about fifteen seconds...and then you move on. A delicate hand and a little patience and you can soon learn to control the camera. As for the storyline, it is about the mistake of a young Prince (who you play), and his quest to fix it. By his side is a young princess, who wields a bow and a sharp wit, but still managed to impale me with more than a few misdirected arrows before the end of the game. The ending of the game is quite good- possibly the best I've seen since Final Fantasy VIII- leaving me with a bit of a peeve...considering the nature of the Prince of Persia francise, the next game probably won't build on this one. Crud! All in all, one of the most throughly entertaining games I've ever played. If you enjoy the genre, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
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Summary: Warning: Strange Grapphics Card Requirements
Review: I had to take this game back because it wouldn't work with my graphics card, an NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX. Since this is a VERY common graphics card, I thought I'd save people a similar experience. Here's a direct copy/paste from the Readme.txt from the Prince of Persia game CD: -Minimum Configuration:
Win 98 SE/ME/2000/XP Only
DirectX 9.0b
800 MHz Pentium III, AMD Athlon or equivalent
256 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 3 or higher (excluding NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX), ATI Radeon
8500 or higher, Matrox Parhelia
DirectX 8.0 compatible sound device
1.4 GB hard drive space
Windows-compatible mouse required -Recommended Configuration:
Win 98 SE/ME/2000/XP Only
DirectX 9.0b
1.2 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon or equivalent
256 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 4 or ATI Radeon 9500
DirectX 8.0 compatible sound device
1.4 GB hard drive space
Windows-compatible mouse required Note that that Geforce 3s ARE supported. I could load the game with a GeForce 4 MX, but the extremely low framerate made it unplayable.
Rating: 
Summary: Very Good game except....
Review: I have to say this. This is a very good game. The graphics, the story, the acrobatics, everything about this game is a lot of fun, and very well done, except... the controls are TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stand it. When not fighting, the poor controls are slightly just an annoyance, but when fighting, which by the way is very cool when you're not slamming the mouse in frustration because of the controls, its bad enough to make you crazy. You think you're moving left, but you move right into a sword. You want to flip backwards, but you jump forward into a sword.
However, now that I have gotten that out, this is a worthy game of purchase. It is definitely cool. But something has to be done about the controls. I hope POP II is improved in that way.
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