Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands gameplay footage revealed; game coming to PC in June

by David Hinkle on Mar 8th 2010 4:30PM

Phew, we can all relax now. According to this first gameplay footage from Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, all concerns that the new game would forgo elements of exploration and environmental puzzle-solving -- and just go all-out "Bruckheimer" -- should be allayed. Plus, The Prince totally has some Andy Gibb hair going on. That's awesome, right?

The Forgotten Sands puts our Prince in his brother's neighboring kingdom during a great conflict. As a last-ditch effort to ensure the survival of the kingdom, the two release the Sands of Time, which saves everyone ... but also unleashes dark horrors. Uh-oh.

In PoP news, Eurogamer reports the PC version will release in June, a month after the console installments (due May 18). This is nothing new for Ubisoft, as the publisher followed the same protocol with staggered releases of both Assassin's Creed games. And if waiting an extra month hasn't deterred your goal to play The Forgotten Sands on the PC, know that it will also include Ubisoft's internet-based DRM solution -- something to keep in mind.

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Yes! Ive been waiting for another PoP for the longest time!
On the Assassin's Creed engine too! I hope they stay true to what the trilogy did for the series.

Thank god the remake is getting blown to the side. This is epic. I wonder if the combat flow was brought back too?

I'm glad it's part of the original Prince of Persia trilogy and not some quickly made movie tie-in.

That Gyllenhaal, he's so hot right now.

Gyllenhaal would be another person who's a hero. The movies he's created over the years, I don't really watch them, but the fact that he's making them, I respect that.

Magnum!

Too obvious?

I hope it doesent fail like most movie games.

I don't think it's a movie game, it's a different story. It's just being released along the movie for publicity.

Now I see, this will be good just not great. Looking forward to ironman 2

It's a game movie game, get it right.

Looks fun - like a mix of Assassins Creed and the Jak and Daxter series from PS2

And maybe a little like Prince of Persia on Ps2/Xbox? Just a tiny bit...

Oh god, i'm only 17 and I feel old after this guy's comment. Have you never played a Prince of Persia before?

I love it and I'll pick it up first day, but I still wish they'd continue with the 2008 Prince's story at some point.

And if it has Ubisoft's DRM I WONT be buying it!

[As a PC Gamer]

He must have metal spikes in his boots to do all those fancy moves on ice.

There's no ice; it's just water frozen in time.

Must be connected to the internet in order to do any time manipulation.

lmao

http://i46.tinypic.com/2py18bo.jpg

Oh my...

just crapped myself from the awesome.

Sand is a bitch to get out of your hair.

Not to mention your vagina.

I don't have a vagina so I cant confirm that.

Do YOU have a vah-joo?

What the hell are you doing shoving sand into your vagina?

I'm really excited that they're going back to the Sands of Time style at least one more time, but I'm also concerned that because of the possible relation to the movie (however small it might be) it could be crap. Still, that footage was nice.

Looks like another Ubisoft game I won't be getting for the PC.

Same here. Sounds interesting but I don't really care anymore. I'll probably rent it on 360. And, as Marx says, rent is theft. So, I'll be stealing the game by not giving Ubisoft any money for it.

Oh well, it's what they wanted.

+1

I'm not going to buy anything thats uses that new DRM shit (or any absurdly inconvenient drm for that matter) Ubisoft really now has screwed PC gamers and PC gaming with that.

I hope for their own good they realize their enormous mistake sooner than later..

can those accents get any heavier?? dood at 1:22 sounded like arnold swarchenegger with herpes

Xenophobia is soooo last decade.

Although I really loved the last PoP game, I will be happy to get all of the combat moves back.

I liked the combat in the reboot. It seemed to have a lot more variety than previous iterations.

I just didn't like the fact that you could only use your sword when you were in battle. Minor complaint yes, but not having full control over your character half of the game kinda blows in my opinion.

I wonder if the Anvil engine will be used for the Wii version, and if it is, what does that mean for Ubi games on the Wii in the long run?

I think I'm the only jerk face on the Interwerbs who is upset that they're leaving the 2008 version in the dust. Oh, Smarmy Prince and Elika.. How I'll miss you!

No, I am disappointed about this too. To be honest I was never a bit fan of the sands of time trilogy, mainly because although they looked like a fun open-level parcour games, the truth was that they had very narrow paths and few alternate choices, if any, for moving through the levels. What should have felt like tremendously free games instead, imo at least, felt almost like you were stuck on rails.

The newest reboot of the franchise on the other hand I found quite enjoyable, if not a little too easy thanks to the whole "you can't really die" thing.

Yes! Exactly. And the graphics were so incredibly artistic and gorgeous. And I loved the dialog between the prince and Elika.

It was fixable, you know? They could have tweaked the 'no death' issue and maybe stepped up the combat a little bit to make it less repetitive, and saved the new series. I guess they probably did this to look more like the definitely-going-to-be-shitty movie, but it still just seems like a waste of a good reboot to me.

I liked the reboot better than SoT trilogy as well. It was more artistic and beautiful all around, the characters felt very lively (I loved the dialogues!) and the combat although repetitive offered many possibilities if only it was tweaked a little bit more. The difficulty sure could get some upping (specially during the fights - most of them I would just hit the enemy once off the edge and that was it, the bosses weren't that hard either), but I don't mind the "no death" issue, as, in the end of the day, being rescued and going back to the last checkpoint was essentially the same thing as dying.

I just loved the overall experience as much as I loved the first Uncharted (which remains as one of the best PS3 games I've played so far). It was really that good. Too bad they wasted such opportunity :/

Couldn't agree more. The water-color-esque graphics of PoP from '08 were breathtaking.

So many people get hung up on "graphics" and texture sizes and all that crap, but miss the big picture that is "art design."

I would argue that there are many games with high res textures and high poly counts that are easily trumped by "SMG Galaxy" simply because the style was so well refined. I mean, how many sci-fi "Space Marine" style shooters do we need?

Let's see some genuine creativity people!

last POP was sh*t i hope this one at least bring some of the good memories associated with POP.

Super excited! My favourite game trilogy by far! First day buy for me.

Well, that and the (future completed) Mass Effect trilogy.

If you do have a vah-joo, then would you like some making fkkk, BERSERKER!?

damn damn damn...

I give up. It keeps failing. This was meant as a reply to Anemos.

I'm psyched, but I really, really hate the new, extra-broad face they modeled for the Prince in this game. Why not just make him look like he did (facially) in the cinemas from Warrior Within/Two Thrones?

...it will not disappoint.

Red Dead Redemption moved back its release date to the same day as Prince of Persia. Decisions decisions.

Definite buy for 360.

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