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Prince of Persia 2 On Store Shelves

Posted by Zonk on from the you-got-your-extreme-action-in-my-puzzle-game! dept.

The second game in the revival of the Prince of Persia series has made it to store shelves. Gamespot has a review available on the recently released hack and slash puzzle game. From the article: "while Warrior Within's new combat and satisfyingly long campaign improve on last year's game, the now darker tone falls somewhat flat compared to the storybook atmosphere in The Sands of Time."

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  1. Re:Mod this redundant but... by NeoChaosX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because videogames didn't exist before the Playstation. :P (kidding, kidding)

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  2. PoP Fan... but not so much of this by Scorpion265 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was actually really disappointed by this game... The combat is repetitive, and well, there is too much of it! The thing that I liked about Sands of Time was that there were so MANY cool rooms to try and navigate, and there was combat to give me a rest from the puzzle based rooms (very balanced if you ask me). Also, the 'banter' from the characters in the game during combat made my ears want to bleed.... Speaking of which, what's with the new prince, the prince from the first was a likable character, this prince seems like an angst ridden cliché... Anyone else feel this way?

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    1. Re:PoP Fan... but not so much of this by bzBetty · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Before I start, I'll admit I haven't finished this game, however I fully plan to I just like to have my games last alittle longer then one day playing (ie i limit myself to x hours and day and actually do something else for a while).

      Combat is repetitive?, are you saying it wasn't in SoT? If I remember right there were basically only a couple types of monsters in the first, meaning that you either did a wall jump attack to knock them down and kill them in a total of 2 hits, or you could counter/jump over them and kill them in maybe 3 hits?

      To be honest I got sick of how boring the fighting was in the first one, once you could counter/wall jump attack you didn't need any other skills at all.

      This new games fighting system, while not perfect is a great improvement, sure it's harder but overall it seems like a better fighting system. Something i have noticed is that they blend the fighting/jumping puzzles more which means you dont get 20+ monsters in one room then jump for a while then kill another 20+ monsters. The boss fights are another welcome addition to the game.

      Story wise I haven't decided yet, like i said I'm not finished and I know there are a few cool twists coming up (even if at least one of them was spoilt by a model loading bug). The story in the first one was actually quite simple but it was told extremely well, the prince is funny and likeable. This one seems to have a more involved story but not be told as well.

      Alot of people seem to put this game down due to the new look of the prince, am I the only one to actually like it more? well except the crap that said during battle.

      In no way am i saying this is a perfect game, the first in my opinion was alot more polished and I can't think of anyone that ran into bugs (which i certainlly cant say for this one) I think it could have done with another month or so to hopefully catch most the major problems and maybe fix a few little bits (like lack of speech during one cut scene?) but overall seems like a very good game.

  3. Re:A Case For Trying Too Hard, and Room to Breathe by Khuffie · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ya I agree. It's really sad when that happens. It happened with Jak and Daxter too. It went from a nice fun platformer to a dark gritty (and boring) GTA-like Jak 2. I don't even know what's happened with Jak 3 since I've really lost interested...It's really a shame when game companies ruin a perfectly good franchise/game to try to be more 'adult'.

    Ubisoft made some good franchises over the last couple of years, but since then seem to be content in releasing sequel after sequel. Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, their Tom Clancy games have seen multiple releases. Now, if only they'd make a sequel of the one game I'd like to delve more into...where's Beyond Good and Evil 2 dognabbit?!

  4. Re:Mod this redundant but... by NeoChaosX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nice to see someone agrees with me. When you've heard someone say that GTA3 was the first in it's series and the three was thrown in as a gimmick, or don't believe you when you say there was a Final Fantasy game on the Super Nintendo, it'll drive you crazy too.

    (And it didn't even start with the Playstation generation - there are still some people convinced that Street Fighter II was the first in it's series as well.)

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