Unfairly punished for getting them wrong. The stop-start-run-die gameplay of old has been replaced with a far more thought-provoking experience, in which you are faced with a set of puzzles and given time to think about how to overcome them and, more importantly, are never Ubisoft Montreal, the development team behind The Sands Of Time, very obviously made a few important decisions before starting work on this title, for this is a platform game unlike any other.

Despite our onginal trepidation, it's looking genuinely brilliant, with all of the elements that made the onginal great and none of the hair-tearing frustration. reinvented Prince Of Persia is nearing completion. just when we all thought the series was dead and buried, and a new. It says a lot for the playability of the game that despite all this it still earned a place in the all-time greatest platform game hall of fame.įast-forward to 2003. One poorly timed platform leap, one failed runjump or unblocked sword attack, and it was game over, a disappointing splat noise the only reward for your gargantuan efforts. Not just bloody tough, it also had a punishing time limit in which you had to complete the thing, and you couldn’t even save in some levels. The most frustrating game experiences ever. While POP is quite rightly recognised as one of the best platform games of all time, it is also less fondly remembered as one of clearly, you have never played the ongmal Prince Of Persia.

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