When this reboot was first unveiled, I was pretty excited. Didn’t know how it was going to flow or play, but I appreciated the change in art direction. After watching the demonstration below, I’m thoroughly impressed with this reboot. It really is like Prince of Persia meets Okami.
Absolutely gorgeous and I can’t wait to try it for myself.
Last night on SpikeTV, the following trailers were put up for those TV watching neanderthals. Since I missed out on them and was looking forward to watching them at a decent resolution, I picked them out and put ‘em here.
Ubidays 2008 is upon us. Quality over quantity? Or perhaps not everything was revealed yet. Anyways, I’ve gathered a few things and will continue to update this post with new tidbits as I stumble upon them.
Check out the videos, images and other tidbits below:
The upcoming Prince of Persia: Prodigy was quite the eye opener when I first learned about it. Well those screens I posted were rather small, so I found some new and larger ones on Tiscali Games.
Enjoy
I loved the first Prince of Persia for its faint hearted nature and lack of blood. It felt like Aladdin for me minus the Robin Williams Genie appearances. I’d never played a game like it before and it was just very refreshing. The sequels? Not so much. I hear the gameplay improved, but the darker tone didn’t resonate well.The new Prince of Persia looks to be a complete reboot with new art style and new direction in game design altogether. I commend this step. Not many developers/publishers would put something out like this, but I’m so pleased to see it happening.
Here’s some cropped scans from the latest Joy-pad, a French magazine, courteousy of Pro-Gamers.fr:
Time for another one of them summary posts!
Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia website has a mysterious logo being consumed by black goo. It probably has something to do with the new Prince of Persia coming. Next month’s issue of Edge Magazine will probably have the scoop. I’ve only played the original and I hear this is a reboot of the franchise and not a dark and bloody sequel.
There will be an Earthworm Jim 4 with accompanying cash-ins. (A movie and TV series). I can picture EWJ 4 as a 3D platformer much like Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank which already incorporates all of the earthworm’s basic moveset in some form or another. Thus, I’ll be very disappointed if this game falls short of the Insomniac’s quality. That’s how high (unfair) expectations works, folks.
And finally, AudioSurf is apparently coming to XBLA. Yay for the folks who cannot play it on PC, but meh for those like me who cannot play it via controller or even keyboard; mouse is the only way to go if they’re doing a mere port. It’s a shame they’re not releasing it for PSN, because motion controls may actually work better for this.
