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Prince of Persia Flash game is better than you think

by Justin McElroy on May 12th 2010 5:00PM

For all the vitriol we hurl at Wii shovelware and farming-centric Facebook games, we often forget the class of electronic entertainment most deserving of scorn: The Flash promotional game. No, not a game promoting The Flash (honestly, dude could use some love right now) but rather those diminutive, ugly trifles that litter official sites of movies and (in some cases) fast food restaurants.

So understand that when we say, "This Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Flash game is actually kind of good!" it comes from people who expect the worst from this particular breed. That said ... it is kind of good, right? In an overly complicated Canabalt sort of way?

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Tags: browser-based, flash, prince-of-persia, prince-of-persia-the-forgotten-sands, promotional, ubisoft

Reader Comments (20)

Jesus christ Prince, if you stopped for 5 seconds then you wouldn't be running into all these damned spontaneous bonfires that people precariously place on their rooftops

Exactly. It's a little too fast paced for something like that. Why can't we just move forward by hitting the right arrow? If we could, it would be a lot more fun.

I kind of like the controls and auto-run. Makes the game controls a lot simpler....... until you start adding stuff like the Dash with X or the slash with Space... god knows what other mechanics later.

But yeah, the core of Up to Jump, down to Rewind was rather nice. The spacebar wasn't event too bad. I think it's really when they added the X I was getting overwhelmed.

X was fine. C is where I started having trouble. So I kept tapping rewind to give myself time to switch to the correct spell.

I'm hoping the movie is better than the flash game

Can it be better than Game and Watch God of War?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/535548

That was totally fun for about 3 minutes.

Why couldn't this just be the original PoP (or a reasonable facsimile)? It could easily run in a browser and the gameplay is still good. Best 2D sword fighting ever.

yeah, that is pretty cool. Die at the first boss though, =)

It is an overcomplicated Canabalt, but it could just be me and my ineptitude with platformers on a keyboard.

I always thought flash games that try to be like the retail releases should be a good representation of the $60 game. So what I get from this game is you're going 100mph and can't stop and have no real control over the game.

I liked that Mirror's Edge flash game that came out when the game did. Was that by the studio or a fan because it was pretty brilliant.

It was made by Brad Bourne, who did Fancy Pants Adventures and is just a really talented Flash Developer, but I think he collaborated in some way with EA DICE. Either way, that game was great.

A Flash game starting Barry Allen would be great because you'd never die

Apparently things really kicked off at Kongregate over this game.

C'mon, it's crap. It's on rails to make it 'casual'. Considering the rich 2D platformer lineage of PoP, this gameplay is inexcusably banal. It's not like you need fancy graphics or coding to make a platformer as interesting as PoP1. At least give the player control over movement..

aaaaalways i want to beeee with you

As soon as you get dash, I realized how much of a Robot Unicorn Attack clone this was.Except they add attacking and time-travel.

Waaaaa i want the original PoP!!! Jesus it's been up for what, 7 years? http://www.gamespot.com/promos/princeofpersia-game/flash/

The vocal minority strikes again! Sounds like they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. Remake the original and they're lazy, try something new and it's 'why don't you remake the original?' Whateves, it's not the greatest game since sliced bread, but it was addicting enough for me to beat.

My favourite part? It's better than most App Store games on the Iphone and it's free on the net...Why don't you just play this on your Ipho....oooooh right. lol

It's not very good. It's pretty lousy.

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