An Early Look At Prince of Persia

Joystiq reports that work on Ubisoft's re-imagined Prince of Persia is complete, and the game has been sent off for certification leading up to its scheduled December 2nd launch. They were able to get some hands-on time with the game, and they have nothing but praise for the controls and the combat system. Quoting: "The game walked us through several fights' worth of control tutorial until we honestly didn't have to give second thought to what button we were pressing to execute a particular move. By the time we wrapped up our play session, we were sliding between enemies' legs, tossing them into the air, calling in Elika to teleport-kick them, and thwacking away until they teetered on the edges of cliffs — just before we delivered a final blow that sending them plummeting. What was doubly impressive about the combat system was the fact that, according to Delbuquet, it continues to evolve steadily throughout the course of the game. We were already stringing together our own combos at this point; nothing felt canned."

Comments

So can we assume...

[hairyfeet]

That being from Ubisoft it will have the latest,most nastiest DRM they can possibly bake in? Because the latest versions of Safedisc and SecuROM are just too damned nasty to be allowed anywhere near my gaming PC. There are still enough PC games out there I haven't played that won't cause me to waste hours disinfecting them after playing to risk the latest Safedisc or SecuROM infection.

Re:So can we assume...

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh....You DO know that SandboxIE creates a fake registry to protect you from bugs,which I seriously doubt is going to be able to do ANYTHING for a program like SecuROM which hijacks the Windows system drivers and installs their own Ring-0 system drivers in their place. And have you ever actually TRIED to play GAMES in a vm? Since this article is about games the fact that games are lucky to get 10FPS running through a VM and VM support for high end graphics pretty much suck that is kinda important. So either option you gave is pretty much useless unless you are wanting to play something pre-1998. Sorry.