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3 years ago
Feature: Long before The Warrior Within
Have You Played… Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow & The Flame?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I used to have nightmares about this.
4 years ago
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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. We're 300 games into Have You Played now, and I thought I'd run out of titles I've played. As it turns out, there was a whole new seam of stuff waiting, ancient titles I played on my first PC, a humble 25MHz 486…
11 years ago
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The latest reinvention of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia was out on PC on Friday, a week after the console release, and with rumours of (the shop version) containing no DRM. Having played the PC version all the way through, here's Wot I Think.
Prince of Persia is only three weeks away, and the promotion is stepping up. A throng of videos have recently appeared, and they're below. They still leave me with my tweak of concern that the game hasn't made any real changes beyond the aesthetic. The addition of the NPC co-op buddy intrigues me, but the trailers have yet to show me what she does other…
How to while away the last few minutes of my birthday, before the Phillies begin game 5, and their inevitable triumphant victory in the World Series? Why, with Prince of Persia videos, of course. The first (below) features a really rather pleasant arty story-piece, discussing the battle between light and dark, all esoteric and confusing. The second has three members of the development team discussing…
Right, so that Mirror's Edge trailer was three weeks old, despite being posted as new by evil sites who I will now destroy, so it's gone. HAPPY? Good. So instead, below is some new footage (and by God it had better be new) of Prince of Persia. (Surely the next game should be called Prince Of Iran?) The first video is a super-emo (but nicely…
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I have a challenge, developers. I know you’re reading. I want a high profile, big budget, mainstream action game in which the player character is invincible. I believe that the next truly great game will be the one that does this. Games have come close. There have obviously been infinite lives for many. Mario, as he ages, becomes far more generous with his back-up existences…
No confirmed subtitle or, I believe, PC release as yet, but it seems likely us IBM-Compatible proles will see a visit from this console royalty. Looks sort of like God of War by way of Lineage, which worries me a little - I want big-trousered acrobatics much more than I do hacky-choppy. Still, pretty, no?
Seems Hollywood big boys are taking videogame adaptations seriously these days. First, Bioshock gets a big-name director attached to it, in the form of Gore Verbinski, and now the other driving force behind Pirates of the Caribbean, noisy uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is dumping a truckload of money on a Prince of Persia silver-screener. It's due next year and "the producer and Disney hope to turn…
Ubisoft have just announced that their Montreal studio is working on a new Prince of Persia game. Very little more is known at this point, other than someone at Ubi was on a dare to see how many times he/she could write "Prince of Persia" in the press release. A sample paragraph: "Developed by Ubisoft’s award-winning Montreal studio and the same all-star team that created…
