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New Prince of Persia to have Live Component

Posted by Zonk on from the sand-and-princes-online dept.

IGN is running a story regarding the upcoming Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The Xbox version of the game will have downloadable content and leader boards thanks to Xbox Live. The leader boards will cover two self-contained competetive types of play: Timed Missions and an Arena. Info also available on the official site.

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  1. May I be the first to say... by kgbkgb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what?

    Is this really considered Slashdot-worthy? This is something that has been done with plenty of other non-multiplayer games.

    1. Re:May I be the first to say... by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I already used my last mod point, or I would mod you up. There's nothing really new or interesting about this story. For one, the online components just kinda bite. For another, they've been done before. For another, the game is coming out on 4 systems, and I highly doubt that the Xbox version is going to be the one most people want.

  2. Re:Good. by McKinney83 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ahh!
    I ment Friends, not voice chat.
    All friends does is tell you if your friends are online.

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  3. Not really by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's downloadable content and online rankings. There is no mode involving more than one player at a time. Which is understandable, considering the things the game does with time.

  4. OURMT by August_zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forgive my cynicism, but I've heard this "Downloadable content" shtick before.

    While a good idea in theory, with only a few exceptions, developers just don't ever deliver on that promise, and why should they? The X-box just doesn't have the user base to justify extra hours of development for things that only about a quarter of the user base is even going to bother with. The only reason I even have Live anymore is beause I forgot to cancel it, and whole my circle of friends is hardly a representative sample of gamers, of the dozen or so that bought into it at launch, I am the only one that still has an account.

    At this point printing "Downloadable Content" is akin to listing "Scene Selection" on a movie DVD as a special feature.

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    1. Re:OURMT by hollismb · · Score: 2, Informative

      Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on the game. Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, for example, had more content download (for free) than shipped with the actual game, pretty much. I guarentee that we'll be seeing many downloadable maps for Halo 2 as well. As for Prince of Persia, I'd guess there may be just a handful of these maps, not unlike Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which just had two.