It rather brilliantly translated the single-screen 'how do I pull this off?' style of platforming into single-room, wide-shot 'how am I supposed to get up there?' exploration, giving Prince a host of new athletic skills including wall-running, pole-swinging and the always enjoyable shimmy. PoP:SoT (an acronym which makes for an amusing bit of puerile humour) was released fifteen whole years ago for all the contemporary systems. Possibly the only piece of non-hazardous ground in the entire game.įollowing an abortive attempt to modernise the series in Prince of Persia 3D, Jordan Mechner and Ubisoft put forth a successful effort to modernise the series in a 3D Prince of Persia, subtitled The Sands of Time. Athletic to a fault, but he can't stop on a dime, can't fall an infinite distance and can't take more than an hour to finish his quest or he has to do the whole thing over again. A bloke who can jump really far, yes but a bloke nonetheless.

The Prince (of Persia), however, moves around like a real bloke. Trust me, many tried, but you just can't jump forward, turn around in mid-air while still ascending, and land on higher ground. Prior to this video game blokes - for example, Super Mario - moved with an exaggerated athleticism quite impossible to recreate outside the domain of your computerised pals. Jordan Mechner's 1989 sleeper hit Prince of Persia shocked the world with its depiction of a bloke who moves around like a real bloke.

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