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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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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