Rumor: New Prince of Persia detailed in Joypad mag

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Apr 29th 2008 at 1:30PM }

Though it's been officially announced for a Holiday 2008 release, Ubisoft's next and "next-gen" Prince of Persia hasn't been glimpsed outside of some leaked concept art (seen above). Of course, that's not a situation the internet can tolerate for very long, with alleged magazine scans of the royal wall runner already popping up on several sites. New information and images, reportedly emerging from the pages of French mag, Joypad, reveal the cel-shaded prince leaping through several stunning environments.

A loose (and unconfirmed) French translation from the NeoGAF forum indicate that our acrobatic pal has gone and done something regrettable again -- this time he's let an evil god out of its box and needs to restore the corrupted world (a la Okami) bit by bit. Quick, rewind the time! Oh, wait, that's supposedly not in the game anymore. Instead, it seems the Ubisoft Montreal team has started anew, with more open levels ("multiple paths can be taken"), a greater reliance on the environment ("Prince can slide along any walls using his glove") and fewer, more memorable bosses "inspired by" Metal Gear Solid. It's not specified whether you'll have to change wireless controller channels to defeat any of them.

Read -- NeoGAF translation (the forum is currently down)
Read -- Prince of Persia screens

Tags: Joypad, PoP, Prince-of-Persia, Prince-of-Persia-Prodigy, Rumor, Ubisoft, Ubisoft-Montreal

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Daniel @ Apr 29th 2008 1:35PM

eh, should still be fun. But, I could do without the cell shaded graphics. Looks a bit too much like SF4's art-style for me...

Bouille @ Apr 30th 2008 10:53AM

The cell-shading is for testing purposes only, cell-shaded graphics aren't as big as fully rendered models, making them much better to test out the engine. Knowing Ubisoft and what they've done graphically with Assassin's creed, it should look pretty darn good!

Daniel @ Apr 30th 2008 11:02AM

I hope you're right, Bouille. But, UBI has done some weird stuff in the past so I wouldn't put it past them.

kbomb1upc @ Apr 29th 2008 1:41PM

I've always liked the PoP series but I don't it has too much steam left after the Sands of Time. It wasn't a bad game but it wasn't that good either.

ballistic @ Apr 29th 2008 1:57PM

true the later ones were worse than the first.
but Jordan mechner (POP creator) only worked on POP:SOT.
and if the rumor is correct that jordan was the one that registered the Price of persia site and infered designer of it. I could see it be good again.

ronald.raygun @ Apr 29th 2008 2:39PM

of course you do look at your avatar!

peteH @ Apr 29th 2008 1:48PM

I like the Okami-ish visuals. Should be badass.

RDX @ Apr 29th 2008 2:11PM

Hmm...I'm a little on the fence as far as the art style goes. Looks good for sure but I'll save judgment until I 1) see the game in motion and 2) see if the style matches the tone of the game.

RDX @ Apr 29th 2008 2:12PM

But I do have to say that I dig the new prince's design.

Trev @ Apr 29th 2008 3:14PM

Sands of Time was a story being told by the prince, and it was the best of that trilogy. If they can pull off the same thing, but with artsy story book graphics, then I think they're going in the right direction.

Superstar90 @ Apr 29th 2008 2:46PM

Please no butt-metal emo prince.

Ludwig Kietzmann @ Apr 29th 2008 3:26PM

I always thought Two Thrones was the best one -- they toned down the generic rage from Warrior Within (which was still a great platformer), allowed you to skip most of the combat and even tossed in some kick-ass boss battles.

Mr.ESC @ Apr 29th 2008 4:15PM

I always wanted to play Two Thrones but I bought Rival swords instead A.K.A the Wii port and the controls are awful.I wonder why there isn't a collection set like MGS:E I would buy it just to play Two Thrones with good controls.

Mr.ESC @ Apr 29th 2008 4:13PM

I love POP series because the story and the action are always great unlike AC ¬_¬

I love POP series I hope someday we get a remake of the Shadow and the flame something like the one in the xlive would be awesome.

Daniel @ Apr 30th 2008 11:03AM

I definitely agree there! Two Thrones was the best to me. Sands of Time focused too heavily on puzzles, WW focused too heavily on fighting. Two Thrones was a perfect mix of the two to me.

Mike-453 @ Apr 30th 2008 12:23PM

Loved all three games, but not liking the cell-shaded graphics. *sad face*

t_m @ May 1st 2008 10:56PM

Sands of Time was way better than Two Thrones.

Okamii style visuals and PoP gameplay would rock. Having more possible routes through the environment would be nice too.

Taking away the "reverse time" effect is a TERRIBLE idea though. In a game with sudden death falls its the only thing that stops the game becoming annoying.

I know it'd be hard to incorporate from a storyline point of view.. but frankly they could ignore it. Its a lot less intrusive than most other gameplay elements like checkpoints and load/save... and those have no storyline justification either. (well, except in SoT ;-) )

I think every game should have a rewind time option. I don't have enough time in my life these days to waste hours replaying the same level over and over...