
He can also learn various magical abilities, which for the most part help with crowd control – being swarmed with many small enemies is far more common in the game than facing the hulking monsters.Ĭombat starts off a little slowly, as you get used to the somewhat clunky fighting controls, but by the end of the game you’ll be slashing through hordes of enemies with ease (granted, this is mostly because you increase in power rapidly near the end). The Prince can also jump onto the heads of enemies and stab for a one-hit kill (naturally, this does not work on the strongest foes, unless they are stunned beforehand), and can stab enemies and kill them instantly when they are lying on the ground (eventually, however, downed enemies do get up). A quick tap of Square performs a quick swipe of the sword, while holding and releasing the button unleashes a more powerful slash. The Prince is armed with a trusty sword, which can slash through enemies, and a foot which can kick enemies with Triangle, knocking the weaker ones onto their backs and temporarily stunning the stronger ones. The gameplay is split up into two categories, the first being combat.
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Perhaps, contrary to the claims of the developers, it is a movie tie-in. Malik is never referred to in any of the other games his father (who is also, of course, the Prince’s father, Shahraman) is not referred to by name, and really the only similarity between the two games is the copious amount of sand (well, it is a desert) and a Prince who looks and sounds vaguely similar. It’s not particularly clear why this game is set in the Sands of Time universe. The prince and Malik are separated, and so, with the help of a djinn named Razia, the Prince must find his brother, re-unite the two halves of the seal which will banish the sand army forever, and go back to doing whatever it is that the Prince found so important as to travel across several kilometers of desert to do. Malik decides that a good plan of action would be to unleash a massive army of sand creatures upon his enemies, and he appears genuinely shocked when he discovers that the sand creatures can’t tell friend from foe and start attacking every human in sight. The Prince’s older brother, Malik, is in fact a king, and is on the receiving end of an invasion by a foreign army.

Immediately after the events of Sands of Time, for some reason which I can’t quite grasp, the Prince goes to visit his brother, and manages to arrive in the middle of a massive war. Once again, the player controls The Prince (who is nameless, whatever that movie tells you). Forgotten Sands combines the two types of PoP to make a very enjoyable experience, the flaws of which are probably more down to a rushed release to coincide with the Sands of Time movie than anything else. By Arthur Kabrick, posted on 16 July 2010 / 6,805 ViewsĪfter the questionable design decisions of the last Prince of Persia comes a game which is supposedly much closer to the Sands of Time trilogy, as is suggested by the game’s name, and the protagonist who is actually a Persian prince, rather than a tanned American merchant.
