Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

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Summary: An Amazing Adventure
Review: The new Prince of Persia is everything that I hoped it would be. Normally, games made for consoles do not work as well on PC, but this is a perfect example of a GOOD transfer. The graphics do not suffer, the sound is excellent, and the framerate is superb.

Prince of Persia's story follows 'The Prince' through this adventure, beginning in his father's warcamp in an attempt to capture the maharaja's treasure vault. The greatest treasure of this vault is soon found by the prince; The Dagger of Time. The dagger becomes an extremely useful weapon for the Prince, allowing him to literally -rewind time- in case he falls to his doom or gets chopped in half by a trap.

After a trap laid by a treacherous vizier, the entire city and his fathers army is trapped by a large artifact known as the "Sands of Time". The Prince, with the help of the beautiful Princess Farah, must save the kingdom himself by confronting the vizier and rewinding the Sands of Time.

-The combat is fast, entertaining, and full of amazing moves and powers that the Prince gains as the game goes on.
-The puzzles in the game are always challenging but never annoying or unfair, unlike the jumping/switch puzzles that plague games like Tomb Raider.
-The story is told perfectly through a fantastic device that I wont give away; it comes together perfectly for one of the best endings I have ever had the pleasure of viewing.

All in all, from the sound, graphics, and story, this game is easily one of the most fun and pleasing adventures ever made in recent years. Some people may have gripes with the controls, but they never become a problem enough to take away from the game's integrity in the end. The problem is avoided entirely if you have a good gamepad.

Take my advice. BUY. THIS. GAME.

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Summary: Difficult to maneuver through camera angles
Review: The PC version is the one I bought so I am not sure how the game works on other boxes, but the camera angles switch so fast and unexpectedly, that the Prince gets turned around very easily. While the graphics are good, the camera gets in the way of your maneuvers, and sometimes prevents you from getting through time-sensitive traps. Also, Farah, your companion whom you are to protect along the way, seems to shoot the Prince with her bow, and generally seems to get in the way. I would not recommend the PC version of Prince of Persia Sands of Time.

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Summary: Beautiful game, with a few small flaws
Review: This game is definitely a worthy sequel to the original. The graphics are gorgeous, the controls are very easy and efficient, and the gameplay is solid. As you progress through the levels pulling off tricks to avoid traps, oftentimes you'll find yourself amazed that you were able to do such a trick.

The combat system is very fluid and amazing. The prince can flip over his enemies and attack from behind, can vault off of walls and objects to slam into them, and can even use his magical dagger to freeze time itself for his enemies.

The poor parts of the game mainly focus on tedium and the camera. While the game is gorgeous and fun to play, the combat can wear thin. Very rarely can you fight against just a few enemies, they tend to come at you four at a time, and there are frequently waves of around sixteen (Four, then four more, then four more, etc). This is fun at first, but gets very tedious later on when defeating enemies relies very much on precise timing.

The other downfall of the game is the camera itself is very difficult to control. Frequently you may end up fighting where the whole screen is obscured by a tapestry or drape, or fighting where the camera is stuck behind a column, making it combat much more difficult. The same goes for doing puzzles. Frequently you may have troubles seeing the wall you have to run up, or the bar you'll need to jump to, making many puzzles harder than they'll need to be.

All in all it's a very interesting and fun game that's hampered by a couple issues, but still an absolute blast to play!

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Summary: Great PC game! ! !
Review: This game is great in every sense of the word! Graphics, gameplay, and storyline!! I see alot of people complaining about the controls, maybe they never heard of a great litle invention called the game pad or PC controller... I mean come on people, its 2005!!! Lots of great inexpensive PC accesories out there now a days... Get with the program!!!

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Summary: Best game I've played in a long time
Review: This game is one of the most fun games I have ever played. It keeps true to the original Prince of Persia games and adds a lot of fun to it. The graphics are very good and the story line is excellent.

A lot of people complain about the controls, and I admit it's a little weird. But if you turn the mouse sensitivity way down and don't try to over control the camera, it works just fine. It is best to think of it this way: the game was designed to be a console game, and you can only use so many fingers. The camera control was designed to be changed only when you need to look around and figure out problems. The game is NOT designed to be like a first person shooter game. One way to get used to this type of control is to completely let go of the mouse, especially during the first part of the game (I call the learning period). Of course, one option is to get a gamepad and play the game (and then the controls would be completely logical). Move the player or move the camera, but avoid doing both at the same time and the game gets much easier.

The puzzles aren't too hard and are pretty obvious (at least to me) when you look at the room. The first part of the game is really easy and all of the answers are given in prompts. Like I said before, it's the learning period so you get used to the controls and know what you can do. When the camera position gets in the way of solving problems or viewing the "big" picture, there is the "landscape" view so you can see the whole room. Or for more precise viewing, there's the first person view which will help if you need to see something above you or if you're near a wall. This is one point everyone seems to miss and may be why so many complain.

I like the story line in this game more than most other games. Usually it seems that the designers make up the levels, then makes up a stupid story. Or they make a story (with bad acting), then throw in a little game play. This game has a flow, and that is incorporated into the story line.

I would say this game is for most "average" people. The die hards who want a hard puzzle that takes hours for one level, won't enjoy it. The demonic who just want to kill everyone won't like it. The puzzles aren't too hard for the people who enjoy fighting, and the fighting isn't too hard for people who enjoy thinking. It's good for younger people and older ones. Each person enjoys different games, but I love this game and recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: System Requirements Warning
Review: WARNING. Unless you already have a great graphics card in your system be prepared to spend $100 to $400 to be able to play this game. Yes, the video card requirements are listed in the fine print and they are truly required. Unlike many games, this one won't run unless you have one of the chipsets listed in the requirements. It supports a grand total of two chipsets, so really check out your system before you buy this. They won't allow a return, so your stuck. UBIsoft's tech support consisted of a 'tooooo bad'. I

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Summary: AMAZING GAME...U JUST NEED 1 TYPE OF FIGHTING SKILL TO KILL
Review: Well first of all the game is really good......graphics, sound, fight .......its a great game

MANY PEOPLE DONT LIKE TO PLAY THE GAME AS THE FIGHTING CAN BE TOUGH.......WELL THE REASON PEOPLE FEEL IT IS TOUGH IS BECAUSE THEY TRY TO USE THE VARIOUS SKILLS LIKE WALL CLIMBING AND THEN KILLING.....OR LIKE JUMPING ON TOP AND THEN KILLING.....

--------------YOU DONT NEED ANY OF THESE-----------------------
1. First of all to defeat the various enemies...just keep running around and away and when get a chance just charge and kill anyone you feel is looking away or is on the side....SIMPLE KILL........NO WALL.....NO SUMERSAULT......this way you can kill all..

2. There are parts in the game where you are standing in front of the door and get attacked once you are inside the room....TO KILL THEM----if go in and let the enemey come toward you and then go back to the door.....the enemy will not go back with you.......as soon as you see that the enemy has turned its back go and kill...follow this procedure and you will eliminate all of them without giving in any fight

Well no wonder nothing can beat a human mind.......and actually make a super AI game......how good the company may be!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: While this game might be killer on other platforms, like xbox, for the PC this game was highly disappointing. I have followed the "Prince of Persia" games since its first release (for DOS) and have been a big fan, so I do not say this without some thought.
Good: great graphics, good storyline (overall), good music
Bad: 1) movement is more than awkward - it's just plain bad, and changing the point of view with the mouse does not respond as most of today's games do (rather strange in fact); 2) there are too many movies - about one every 30 seconds; 3) this is not a "virtual world", the character is guided which way to go and deviation from this path merely stops the game until you get back on the desired route; 4) there is no way to know what my immediate goal is except for written prompts displayed on the screen - do this, do that (but why am I doing that??) - since the game is telling me what to do, and guiding me along my route, this makes for a boring game; 5) During sword fights the character's movements can be totally unpredictable - although it looks great, and my guy is doing flips and jumps all over the place, all I did was press the spacebar -- ? Can I repeat this action at will? No.

The bottom line is it is an awkward and stupid game, embellished by some truly great graphics and sound.

I had high hopes for this game but am very disappointed. If you are buying for the PC, save your money.

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Summary: Wow
Review: Whoever that guy is up above who said he got to 25% in 40 minutes is lieing, and "hitting" the guys and not dieing, again is either lieing or using some cheat or somethin retarded like that. At 25% you've already met at LEAST a big sword , and when you just "hit" them they block you every single time. This game requires skills and very good hand/eye coordination. The constant zipping around makes it very entertaining to play, although I admit the controls were hard at first, but then i hooked up my MS Sidewinder, been smooth sailing since. I'm at 81% now, and it's taken me an hour a day for the last about 3 weeks to get this far, it's not an easy game as you get farther and farther into it. The puzzels are complex in a lot of cases, and I had to frequently stop playing b/c i got so frustrated at the puzzels (which is a GOOD thing! says the developers took time and brain power to create them) This is easily the GOTY for 2003 in my book. Graphics, control (With gamepad), story, dialog, replay value, all 5 stars.

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Summary: greAt and mYsterious
Review: ya know what this game has a wonderful story.
ya ll be feeling like ya're stepin' inside an old tale;
ya'll feel kinda sorry for tyhe prince at the end of da game 4 his unexpected romantical ending.hope Farah be in POP2!