Ex-Ubisoft art director reveals canceled plans for modern Prince of Persia

@TheBrainninja

Prince of Persia 2008 was horrible. I'm a huge fan of the series, from the classic Prince of Persia to Two Thrones (and now Forgotten Sands as well), but Prince '08 was the least fun I've had with a game in years.

@Mach2
I wouldn't go that far, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the sands of time trilogy. Of course, I also didn't enjoy Forgotten Sands as much either. I really liked the characters in the reboot, but I just couldn't get as into the gameplay, and it seemed too repetitive and frustrating at times. Forgotten Sands was ok, but it was sub-par to the rest of those games. I really love the POP series, but at this point I'm not really sure what I want next.

@Mach2

Horrible? Are you insane?!?!?@?#?#?@##)U

The 2008 reboot was the only half decent Prince of Persia game since Sands of Time. They need to leave the SoT series alone. That opportunity has long sailed. They already murdered, raped and milked it entirely and IN THAT ORDER. I mean they even put Disturbed on the soundtrack for one of those games (please don't speak the names of the sequels, I have undergone several therapy sessions to forget. For me it was worse than watching Indy 4 for the first time).

I will never get reviewers and their complaints about the game being too easy. What was too easy about it. They complain there is no life system but honestly how many thousand times did you get saved by it? Yeah that's right. It was a great game, the only thing that was done wrong was the combat system. The thing that made SoT great was it's creative combat flow (outside the obvious trademark puzzles and platforming).

@Mach2

Having played all the recent-gen PoPs, I was glad that they went away from the Sands of Time arc. It was excellent, yes, but Two Thrones wrapped it up so nicely that going back to it would be (and was) awkward and foolish. I played through Forgotten Sands, and it was...okay. Its gameplay was alright (I liked that they made crowd-combat somewhat better), but I couldn't get into the story/characters at all.

The 2008 reboot at least had a sweet aesthetic to it, and I really enjoyed the characters and story. The gameplay was nice too, in a different, relaxing way. I thought it fit with the rest of the aesthetic really well, at least.

@Anticrawl

It was actually Godsmack in Warrior Within. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Shit_nobody_cares_about [NSFW, if you don't know]

@TheBrainninja WOW!!! HORRIBLE!! Thats the same as calling Halo Reach or Halo 3 or Halo ODST Horrible, the reason i point out those games is because they are all loved for different reason by different people. You are not a fan so i get it, but i have to say i played POP 2008 and POP TFS and i like the 2008 POP way better. But thats because i liked the simplicity yet fun behind it. I liked the animation and art style. The costumes that you can play with ( i love POP Classic) I can respect your opinion but i have to totally disagree with you.

That is all.

@Ziv

A game about the war on drugs? Game development is already a huge sink in funding but why make one based on the most expensive senseless war in the history of mankind.