Game Discussion of the Week: Prince of Persia

First time I saw PoP was on a school computer and I never got to play it.

The closest I ever got to playing it was playing Blackthorne/Blackhawk on the SNES, which has been described as "Prince of Persia with guns", brought to you by those guys who made some online game with orcs and humans. And it looked like this:



I might take a peek at the XBLA version of PoP sometime.

Prince of Persia brings me back memories, in fact I have a sad memory of playing PoP2 from a CD my parents gave me, and for some reason the boat at the end of the first level wasn't catchable and that turned out to be my weirdest traumatic memory (seriously, why I am sad with something like that even now?)

But the first Prince of Persia is just a great idea, and well realized too. I won't say that I never felt the game could be a bit more balanced, though, I dislike how too much of it is based on memorizing. But the combat is so memorable, the basis of it is still relevant today seeing how cult-favorite Nidhogg seems to be based on it.

As for the newer series, I only played Two Thrones. That's it, better not go on details.

Btw, Assassin's Creed should just be replaced with a Black Flag franchise.

That's your opinion. The only thing that could make it better is always having a female role playing lead. Syndicate was a big tease for me.

I haven't, I just recently found out they made one.

Not sure, I'm confused which is the new one. Is it a new Sands Of Time, or are we talking SNES Prince Of Persia? I heard there is one without the prince with some other character.

I think I heard both are Indian studios, so it is pretty impressive to see India being a player in the industry. And since you are mentioning Strider I really miss Double Helix, it is one of those studios that died at Microsoft. We could have another Killer Instinct, but so far it seems the IP is still on hold. Although I heard they are making the new Tomb Raider, but who knows.