Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™ Digital Deluxe Edition
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands is the next chapter in the fan-favorite Sands of Time universe. Visiting his brother’s kingdom following his adventure in Azad,
the Prince finds the royal palace under siege from a mighty army bent on its destruction. When the decision is made to use the ancient power of the Sand in a desperate gamble to save the kingdom from total annihilation,
the Prince will embark on an epic adventure in which he will learn to bear the mantle of true leadership, and discover that great power often comes with a great cost. Game features include:
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
Imagine you are on a nice trip over the sea… and suddenly you are attacked by male sexual slaves with one really hot chick leading them all… and suddenly you remembered you are hunted by guardian of the timeline called Dahaka - just big black kind of demonic dude with tentacles/Venom. Few moments later… you are a lonely loner on a lonely adventure.. alone (I STAND ALOOOONE starts playing). But not really because another hot chick is telling you what to do. You start to do all on her command because of her nice pair of ti..green eyes. So yeah you like a real gentleman in a family start to do all necessary #&@{ while she is just standing there around waiting for you. But enough of this How I met your mother tragedy origin.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within was a good experience? This game' story was great - it is conected to the first game Sands of Time but is not nessesary to play it first to have a gameplay experience - just story would make more sense? - I guess.
Why I wrote “a good experience” with question mark was because many times I put this game on hold. Sometimes it was too confusing - got lost many times. The game is sort of open world which isn’t really nessesary. Running backwards and not knowing where I had to go was a total waste of time (the map was just a picture where was a prince icon that changed location after moving a while and red cross as a mission but which way I had to move - no idea). It wouldn’t had changed a thing unless found a health upgrade secrets. Sometimes the game got too difficult. I was playing on the hardest difficutly - hoping for better game experience - I love challenges. After experiencing the difficulties I do not recommend it. It can ruin the game feel - too hard to kill the enemies. I am not sure how it is on easier difficulty but I assume it will be much more enjoyable experience. I still managed to finish the game on the hardest difficulty. But yeah - if you do play I strongly recommend to play it on easy or medium.
– Real player with 19.8 hrs in game
Marc Eckō’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
An interesting and long forgotten PS2 game.
Before I say anything, name a game in your head where you play as a graffiti artist who tags his name across everything as he makes his reputation be known to a highly oppressive government. Can you think of any besides Jet Set Radio? Well whatever the case, you have to admit that this game is really unique in that feature.
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up is a game primarily made by a guy who said gamers should get up off their butts and buy his games, where you play as a 20-something year old male named Trane who wants to tag his name everywhere across the city just for the sake of getting his name up. All while he is doing this he faces a dangerous graffiti gang called the Vandals of New Radius and an oppressive regime of “peace-keepers” called the CCK, led by the government to stop vandalism and defacement of property to build a better and cleaner way of life in the city of New Radius.
– Real player with 25.8 hrs in game
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What I liked about the game
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Loads of unlockable content.
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There are loads of side activities in the missions like bonus graffiti, legend photos, Freedom challenges, and collecting Ipod songs or upgrades, which are all optional.
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You get to select the artwork before you start a mission and as you complete missions more content will become available; you get to choose from a large range of stickers, graffiti, posters, and stencils.
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Awesome characters like Trane, Decoy and Tina.
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
“Most people think that time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you, they are wrong. Time, is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am, and why I say this. Sit down, and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.”
And thus begins the game that defined my childhood. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time feels more like a playable fairy tale than just a normal, run of the mill video game. You play as the titular Prince, a young, proud, IMPOSSIBLY AGILE warrior from Persia who, with his father’s army, ransacks an Indian Palace and seizes the legendary treasures within to gift to the Sultan of Azad: An hourglass filled with the (also titular) Sands of Time, a mystical substance that can affect the flow of time itself, and a crystal Dagger of Time that can capture and channel the Sands. Ever prideful, the Prince is tricked into releasing the Sands of Time unto Azad, twisting and corrupting those without the Sands' complementary artifacts into mindless abominations.
– Real player with 40.1 hrs in game
Before Ubisoft was only famous for glitchy open-world console ports, it was responsible for some genuinely great games. Case in point is Ubisoft’s 3D Prince of Persia trilogy, beginning with 2003’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It’s a 3D platforming game with some decent action elements, and it’s the game that saved the 3D platforming genre. I was able to run the game with no problems in Windows 10 and it runs like greased lightning - however it may take you a while to get the game running in a HD widescreen resolution because all the default resolutions are square. But that didn’t stop me from enjoying this game and it wasn’t a hard problem to overlook. I didn’t have any problems with the keyboard controls, so I believe the game is compatible with modern systems.
– Real player with 37.7 hrs in game
Prince of Persia®
| Title | Prince of Slides |
| Review | If like me you had become increasingly frustrated with the direction Ubisoft had taken with Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Warrior Within then Ubisoft Montreal’s 2008 re-imagining should serve as a reminder as to why you fell in love with the series in the first place. Where Warrior Within and The Two Thrones followed a dark and violent path full of frustratingly constricted enemy encounters and a tone gratingly out of sync with The Sands of Time , this reboot reverberates like a breath of fresh air, the kind of gust that makes you forget about the diminishing returns delivered by The Warrior Within and its sequel The Two Thrones
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– Real player with 52.4 hrs in game
My Personal Thoughts on Prince of Persia 2008 Reboot
Let me begin this review by saying I have mixed feelings with this game and if Steam had an option to give a neutral rating that’s what I would have done here.
Starting with visuals, this game looks beautiful! It could be the most beautiful game in Prince of Persia series up-to date (we’ll see how the Sands of Time Remake stacks up against this one). The art direction is great! The music is good and the calm music got stuck inside my head, great job by Inon Zur (also the composer of Fallout 3 and 4). The gameplay is solid, platforming is fluid and works smoothly. The voice acting is very charming.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
The same year, when AC Unity was released, Ubisoft gave us another Assassin’s Creed game. Rogue completes the North-American Trilogy with AC III and AC IV, and turns as well into the story of Unity.
When you start playing Rogue you could have the feeling to play Black Flag in another setting. It is located during the Seven Years War, and the character we play is Shay Patrick Cormac, a young assassin who is still learning , but also questioning if everything the assassins teach him is the truth. After he was sent on a special mission and made fatefull experience, he decides to leave the Brotherhood of Assassins and finds after that his way to the Order of the Templars. This is the first AC game in which we play a templar most of the time during the story. There aren’t any historical persons, but many other ones you already know from AC III, AC IV and Unity as well.
– Real player with 82.4 hrs in game
Did you think Black Flag was the utmost heights that Pirate vs. Ninja combat could climb to? Were you under the (foolish) impression that Ubisoft(in the head) couldn’t further refine the ship combat introduced in AC3 and then perfected in Black Flag? Did you skip this game thinking it’s just ANOTHER reskin of Black Flag?
If you answered yes to any of these questions - then you are REALLY missing out.
The first thing most players say about Rogue is that it’s shorter than Black Flag. That isn’t quite true - Black Flag was a sweeping epic spread out across several years; all leading up to AC3. Rogue is more self-contained and (dare I say it?) streamlined than Black Flag. Take a couple of weeks off from playing Black Flag - you’re likely to forget the story when you start it up again. Rogue is all-involving. The plot is a lot more personal. It does something that no other AC game has done before… and shows the story from the BAD GUY point of view. Not only that, but it does it in a way that makes YOUR character a good guy (well, as good as a guy can be when he’s a member of a top secret murder cult) while still ticking all the bad guy tropes. Best of all, it actually SHOWS the good guys (again, murder cult) the heroes - as villains without MAKING them villains. This whole story - by and large - is a series of misunderstandings. Arrogance. Mistakes and one man (the main character) trying to clean up afterwards.
– Real player with 74.3 hrs in game
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™
Utterly Forgettable
As someone who loves the Sands of Time Trilogy, I absolutely cannot recommend buying this game. Reasons why are below.
Plot: Not much of a plot. The Prince visits his brother (huh, he has a brother?) in Azad and they have boring banter. Something something, the brother unleashes an ancient army, something something, sand monsters, something something,
! brother is taken over by an evil djinn. Honestly, I took a three month hiatus from this game and when I came back wasn’t overly compelled to restart, and I still don’t feel like I missed much of the plot, as forgettable as it was. 1/10
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
I totally understand the disappointment, without Mechner looks like Ubisoft didn’t find the balance, the golden row.
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The Level Design is perfect. This is where this game really shining. It’s very enjoyable finding out all the platform elements. I think maybe a second run even better than the first. I just find it funny how all of the places nearly the same as in PoP SoT, there is a Throne Room, there is a Courtyard, Observatory, Baths, Ruins, Prison, even a Clockwork system, maybe the Library was the only thing what was missing.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
This was a huge favorite of mine back when it was originally released, so in spite of my reservations about haphazard ports, I was happy when this unadulterated version was released on Steam. As far as I could tell, it seems to be a pretty direct copy of the original. The graphics have been touched up a bit, but the gameplay, content, menus, and music all remain the same as they were a decade ago. Steam has this tagged as “partial controller support”, but aside from a few things on the menu, the whole game is controller friendly.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
This game is COOL,serious this game is GOOD. It takes the best from Sands of Time and Warrior Whithin and combines it in gamaplay and story. In a sort of meta narrative the game explores the aparent double personality of the Prince, that went from a likable talkative acrobat in SoT to an angry bloodthist warrior in WW, plus it’s a throwback to the mirror/shadow Prince from the very first 1989 game
While Warrior Whithin improved the combat , this game improves the plataforming. The Prince can do some new acrobatic tricks ,like sliding up or down between close walls, rebould on wooden plates that throw him at great distences and use it’s dagger to attach hinself in some specific mechanisms . The beloved wallrunning receives a small new feature too, now Prince can run in curved walls, extending the possibilities of this mechachinic that i consider the best in the series
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Rent’s Due: The Game
Bleh game.
i dont write reviews but i kinda had to this time.
i was glad i stopped playing before the 2 hour mark to refund it, but i fell asleep with the game on it was that boring and now have 12 hours. sadge.
it looked good, hoping it was a indie Seum or a indie platformer but it runs like shit and is shiny poop. well polished turd.
completed all the levels and was sucky, glitchy all the way through and lacking a lot. and kinda wack. played better indie platformers.
Running Girl is better.
– Real player with 58.2 hrs in game
Super fun game. I played every level on normal and will be going back for permadeath mode on another day. Lots of little hidden gems and stuff to check out and discover. If you are wondering if this is worth $2.99 I can definitely say yes this is one of the best indie games i have played in a long time. The dev is super nice and you can tell he really wants to make sure things are fixed if they don’t work. Word of advice is watch out for the lasers lol
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Assassin’s Creed™: Director’s Cut Edition
This is the first video game that I have ever played. Although there are no subtitles and it sometimes can be really hard to understand the conversations with accent, I persisted through the end, and I’m really glad that I did persist. This game brought me right into the world of the Middle East in the 11th-12th century and the hidden world of assassins by creating such a powerful and detailed construct of background story, character portraying, and environment rebuild etc. The feeling of immersion is hard to compare when so much details and information regarding one culture are well-compressed and distributed in the game. Although one may argue that the gameplay design is not very optimal (I admit that, the quests sometimes can be too repetitive), I personally still consider this game as one of the best since it is such a great introduction to the Assassin’s Creed series (probably the one with purest assassin element?).
– Real player with 76.6 hrs in game
TL;DR: Not without a couple rough corners of course, but the story overall is pretty nice, you can even see how they managed to set it up for a conveyor series from game 1!
Pacing
At times the game seems to tease the player with how much artificial slowdown there is. Occasional tip would say “Take your time”, “Moving slower will attract less suspicion”. An annoyance for some players, understandably so. Viewing the game as a sight seeing simulator with occasional fights, stealth and story it’s not that bad for couple weeks worth of chill evenings about 2-4 hours each. Climbing towers makes sense here, same as walking around a city trying to spot the collectables.
– Real player with 39.9 hrs in game