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Good fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is definitly one of the coolest I have played in a while. The controls are very tight and responsive and the puzzles are hard, but not so hard that it gets frustrating. My only complaint about the game is the fighting; you will play the game for a half hour without encountering a single enemy, and then upon entering a new room, be swarmed by as many as 20. However, no more than 4 ever try to fight you at once. I guess they possess the same mentality as villains in Steven Segal movies, whereby it is better to fight him one at a time, even though he is greatly outnumbered. To make matters worse, if the monsters slay your girlfriend, you have to start over. The fighting gets very repetitive, and towards the end, very difficult. What is cool about it, and I would like to see that translated into other games, is that the Prince has so many different moves to pull off. You can jump over monsters, block and counterattack, go back it time, slow things down and dive off of walls into monsters. However, after you've slayed you 500th monster, it gets old, no matter how interesting they try to make it.

Promising beginning, but a let down in the end...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me say I like the "set-up" of this game a great deal. The game is actually a story told in the first person view by the main character. The plot therein is actually fairly well thought out considering the linear type story (a fault of the genre, nothing against the play of the game).

The true problem of the game is (while beautiful) that it's just very boring. After about the third "level" the puzzels and such go from intelligent to tedius. Nothing however burdens this game like the fighting. Wave after wave of the same enemies at periodic intervals throughout the entire game. While the fight scenes probably look interesting to your friend watching you over your shoulder, they are in reality, just the same 4 buttons combos over and over and over and . . . well you get the point.

A promising start, but in the end a bit of a snoozer.

Better than Zelda

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like quest/action/rpg. this is the game for you.

Great Concept, Bad Performace

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As the newest in the series of Prince of Persia (starting with the original 1989 game), one can expect a lot from a game bearing this title. Besides, "The Prince of Persia" has been the base inspiration for many other games, books, and even movies. With all this said, as well as viewing the flashy commercials you are probably wondering whats with the review's subject line.

Well, to explain, this game is basically what you may want, or may not want. If your into fighting and want to rough up some bad guys in a game then this sadly is not the game for you. However, if solving puzzles like figuring out how to get from point "A" to point "B" when "B" is some forty feet up is your thing, then you may consider getting this game.

The plot is pretty simple. Your character has been tricked into releasing the sands of time, and these sands consume every living thing it comes in contact with and turns them into mindless entities called sand creatures (*something of a zombie, but not*). The Prince however is spared thanks to an odd dagger called the "Dagger of Time". However, the prince is not the only survivor. The daughter of the palace's ruler Farrah also survived due to another odd artifact (a medallion) and now its up to you to get both characters out of there alive.

A good 75% of the game is all about skill. Pulling off moves like running on a wall only to jump on a bar and swing to a ledge sounds impressive, however its this use of the same moves that gets boring, and eventually fustrating as your left to solve these physical riddles over and over as you are asking yourself "When do I get to slay some sand-creature scum?".

Well, when that moment finally arrives, it isnt all that great. Sorry, but combat is limited to a handfull of attacks, while at the same time the enemies seem to revive themselves after you spent a good three minutes destroying them. This brings up the fact that you cannot kill sand creatures and can only destroy them. -_-.

Don't expect much in cutscenes. While the animation is realtime (*that is if you are standing in point "A" then the cutscene shows you as being there still*), the graphics are a bit grainy. Its more toward something of THQ's Red Faction 2 or low quality people and objects, rather than the impressive styles seen in the Computer Generated Movie scenes in Namco's Soul Calibur 2.

Also this game requires time (*ironic isnt it*). It takes about 15 minutes before reaching the first save point (*that is of course adding the times taken after dying and figuring out what to do next*), and after that the puzzles may take longer to get through.

While this may be Ubi Software's strike back at platformers like Nintendo's Legend of Zelda, or Blizzard's upcomming Starcraft: Ghost, the game has very few good sides.

Those must be the innovations which are intended for use especially in all those obsticals. The first recieved is rewinding time (*up to 10 in game seconds*). While it is impressive, its a bit fustrating especially if you stop the rewind to early or end up wasting a sand tank (*power unit*) by doing the exact same thing again.(*lets see. Jump across gap, oops; fall to death, rewind time, fall again*) The other innovations are the storytelling, which is set in first person with the Prince telling what he did after all this is over. If you die (*and die you will believe me*) then the Prince will comment with a "Nonono, that didn't happen" or something along that. Another innovation is the viewpoints and the sandvisions. In this game if you bother to look around while outside, you will notice buidling portions which you will visit eventually. During the cinematic shots, everything seen in the backdrop are things you will see later on. As for sandvisions, basically its a hint, as well as a taste of things to come after saving the game. In a way it keeps the gamer into the game, while also avoiding spoilers and solutions to puzzles.

As UbiSoft continues the Prince of Persia series, it all depends on your taste of gaming. If you just want to destroy bad guys with no sense of thought to the game, then don't bother. However, if you prefer a game of some action and a lot of thinking, then consider this game.

Don't get sucked in

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: January 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. The controls are tedious. The camera could not be worse. The game is touchy. I could not say "STAY AWAY" enough. I know many found this game fun, but I have been video gaming for over 25 years now and I say this is one of the worst!!!!!

Prince of Persia: Crap of Time

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has been so hyped up. On every site I've seen it has gotten high reviews, and I couldn't wait for the awesome game. Hannukah rolls around, and I open my gift and there is Prince of Persia. I pop it in my gamecube and at first the game looked really cool. You could run off of wall, jump over people and kill them, and do all this other cool stuff. But, I saw through that. This game is the most reptitive, boring game I've ever played. All you do is jump for poll to poll, push things, pull things, I mean who wants to do that? I really don't have the time for this game. If I was abssesed, maybe it would be fun, but this game just pisses me off. Sometimes I can't even figure out where to go. Don't even waste your time with this game.

This game is so cool! Next to Zelda windwaker

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Oh man...I LOVE this game. I rented it from Hollywood video and I am so glad I did. I wasn't sure if I would like it or not because I had played it on the X-Box and I didn't like it at all. But when I played it on GC, I thought that the game was so fun! I guess it was because the GC gave us some tips on how to do this and that while X-box didn't do that. Plus the X-box controller is so hard to handle. It's too big and the controls are hard. I am going to buy this game once the price goes down. This game is so cool!!!!!!!

good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is probably one of the funnest Gamecube games I've played. It features overall pretty good graphics and excellent movie seens with a nice ending. The only complaint I have is that it is way to short. It took me 3 days to do it without a strategy guide. Overall you should buy this game if you want to play it over and over again. You should not buy it if you want it to play over a long period of time(say a couple of weeks) and still have fun playing it. It is a great game to get with lots of action and adventure and a little of romance(which it probably doesn't need).

Wonderful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

there is one word that describes this game: Wonderful

So fun! just one bad thing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I started playing like at 5 PM and at 2 AM i was at 50% of the game done!! is very cool, but they could have make it harder, i love it!! i recommend it to everyone out there!!!!!! best game everrrrrrrrrr

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