The Idea Guy Blogeth... » prince of persia http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog An Idealabs Interactive weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:42:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Time keeps on slipping… http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/time-keeps-on-slipping/ http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/time-keeps-on-slipping/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:04:55 +0000 Idea Guy http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/?p=241 Ubisoft finally relents, and returns to the storyline that made the Prince a house-hold name!

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands will be realeased alongside the Sands of Time movie next year. (More posts on that here and here.)

Check out the website here. Now, doesn’t that look like our good ol’ Warrior Within Prince?

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Jordan Mechner wrote the screenplay, while Jerry Bruckheimer’s directing the movie, with a buffed-up Jake Gyllenhaal’s prancing about as the Prince (who, finally has a name – Dastan – meaning trickster in Persian).

The movie is based on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time video-game. However, from the videos released till date, the Prince looks more like the one from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (way cooler dude).

Hmm… Wonder how much and what kind of platforming Jake had to perform.

Nice to see a Hollywood heavy-weight directing the movie. At least there’s a chance of a successful outcome, unlike results like Far Cry (the new movie by Uwe Boll).

Speaking of Uwe Boll, not many know that back in 2006, he challenged five of his harshest critics to a boxing match! To qualify, critics had to have written two extremely negative reviews about Boll, in the previous year.

The fights took took place in Spain and Vancouver, and Boll won all five matches!

Here’s a video of one of the matches:

What a way to settle scores!

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People have hated it. People have loved it. And people have even posted articles/opinions, without ever having played the game!

For some of us fans, even if we have a love-hate relationship with PoP 2008, we’ll play the Epilogue DLC… just because!

Having said that, if you’re a PC gamer, then you know about this post:

Unfortunately for business reasons we won’t be seeing any PoP DLC appear. Sorry guys!

Made in early February by a Ubisoft employee, on the Ubisoft forums, it was kinda heart-breaking.

It’s unlikely that a PC gamer would buy a console simply to play a DLC package of a game. S/he could borrow a friend’s console, or could search YouTube to find video walkthroughs: Click here

Whatever it is that s/he’d do, s/he’d experience the Epilogue DLC and come away with some impressions:

  • Linear game-play!
  • No light seeds – but you can collect …err… Frescos?
  • Detailed, dark, dreary, dank and depressing environs
  • No fertility landscaping!
  • Tighter timing on the platforming
  • New power plate that creates timed sections
  • Wash, rinse and repeat combat with Elika’s daddy, the Warrior, the Hunter, and corrupted soldiers

Jordan Mechner and PoP Team… will you never return to the Prince of Persia series?

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