"Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia ... does whatever a Prince of Persia can." Oh wait – that's the Spider-Man song. Well, it's easy to get the two characters confused, what with news out of Leipzig by way of Eurogamer that his royal majesty, the Prince of Persia, can add running along ceilings to his move repertoire.
Using this new "roof run" move, he can scamper along, grabbing hanging objects in order to keep the momentum going. According to level designer Michael MacIntyre, "When you come in contact with the ceiling you jump, you do the run, and then you have to hit the glove button to grab any element on the roof in order to keep going. So there's a rhythm to it," adding, "With this new move, our level designers had all the tools they needed to create acrobatic sequences that can use pretty much every surface in the game." Every surface? We're pretty sure there's some nasty black goo you can't touch without, you know, dying. At least that's what the video walkthrough we posted yesterday seems to show.
Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Aug 22nd 2008 7:27AM Anticrawl said
Hrm, that's fine so long as the character isn't Prince of Persia 2 meets Spider-Man 3.
Posted: Aug 22nd 2008 7:50AM (Unverified) said
I don't mind the new design, but I can't help but wish they had left him the way he was.
Posted: Aug 22nd 2008 10:25AM (Unverified) said
Posted: Aug 22nd 2008 10:25AM (Unverified) said
HOW DO I SHOT WEB?!?
Posted: Aug 22nd 2008 5:43PM (Unverified) said
This game looks amazing....but very little like Prince of Persia. A new acrobatic IP with this less realistic style would have been great.
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