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Bargain bin fodder

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: August 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To summarize.....
If you want to play a game where it is close to impossible to control the protagonist, solve puzzles that doesnt make any sense at all to the overall story, climb walls while jumping from a ledge to pole over a crate while doing backflips - this just might be a game for you.

Add no savegame option (there are savepoints, but these are very, very far between), gameplay so linear it makes Pac Man and Space Invaders seem open-ended, and a pretty lame story - Voila, you have got Prince of Persia, The Sands if Time in a nutshell.

Some graphics were ok though,,,,,

Bargain bin fodder? Na, trashcan rather

Jan, Norway

Good Game, Great Graphics, but.. Repetitive and Easy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first, I was in love with this game.
The graphics are great and plays really smooth.
(ati 9700 pro, which can be had for $190 now)

The story line is interesting, he has various moves, that you have to master, various view points..etc...
You can control the camera, I think its a great addition to the game.
I see a lot of people complain about the camera, but I thought they did a great job. In MOST areas of the game you can rotate your view to whatever angle you chose.
You can zoom out, zoom in, rotate. If you feel stuck and need to see a specific place, you can just use the first person view and it lets you view what your character is seeing and look all around the screen from his point of view. This can be done in ALL places.

Why 2 stars you may ask?
1 star for great sound and for great graphics.
2 stars for great control and relatively fun game play.

Where it falls short:
The fights.
I mean, at first you are taking guys down, having fun learning the moves and its a little dificult. As soon as you know the4 basic combat moves, plus constant blocking, you become untouchable.
I mean, fights stop being fun 50% into the game.
(I am at 75% right now, because I stopped playing for a while cause it got monotonous)
This game would have been rated atleast 4 stars if you had to fight 'bosses' or some tough bad guys...
But no...
Except one relatively hard guy I had to fight at some point like 25% into the game, (and it was only one) I have had absolutely no trouble at all...

I mean you hit attack.. jump over (most, some monsters dont let you do this) and kill them. But then you get close to a wall and jump attack off the wall and kill ANY monster (up to 75% - except the one tough guy) with a hit.
It is occassionally blocked.. but mostly you hit and they are dead.
So you fight no more than 4 guys at a time, (but you kill one and another pops up)...
basically I have never been killed in a fight.
I die A LOT more times when jumping from places or evading traps and stuff.

If There was tough boss or a couple every 10% of the game or so, it would have made the fights more fun and challenging.
AS it is, you are the MAN and the other guys really stink.

The puzzles are cool, some are difficult, but I havent spent more than 20 minutes on any puzzle and have solved them all up to 75% with ease.
Despite seemingly challenging, the game is too linear to make them hard.
The puzzles become VERY VERY Repetitive as does the combat.

So the game goes like this:
puzzle, combat, puzzle, combat, puzzle, combat.
The puzzles vary a little, but not much. The combat does not vary.

And another thing that kills this game, is that it has a virtual zero for replay value...

So you go through all this monotonous puzzles and combats...
and you are going to start to play it again??
from scratch?
You know all the moves, know how to solve all the puzzles, and then you want to go through that again?

I mean no multiplayer... or some sort of arena where you could test your fighting skills with other players online??
Come on... a little of imagination...

There was so much going for this game..
The graphics and scenes are great, the castles, trees, banners, walls, cracks...etc.. are so well done...
It is a shame for it to have no replay value..
and though I can see some people having trouble with the puzzles, there is no way someone (if they BLOCK while fighting) will find the fighting challenging.
Need some tougher enemies!!!
Plus you have 3 super powers that kill anybody or (8 guys at once) when u use them....

If you just want to spend some 10 - 20 hours of fun, and wacking enemies and feeling impressed by all your moves and how untouchable you are in combat, plus solving some challenging puzzles, this game is good for you.

If you are looking for an RPG, this is not one.
You upgrade your sword twice. (get 3 different swords).
IF you find some secret entrances you get your health bar increased by some percentages.
That is about all the RPG things it has.

The rest is just hacking and solving puzzles. OVER and OVER and OVER again.

IF you want replay value, look for titles like Warcraft, Unreal Torunament, things like that. That have mutliplayer and some replay value.

NO CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

How in the world can a game like this be released? It is unexceptable. You can not control your man. What may be cursor key straight ahead in one camera shot, will be left in the next...though you are still hitting the forwad cursor. Your man never stands straight, he's always at an angle and you are guessing which cursor key to hit...oops pick the wrong one and you're off the cliff. It is this insanity throughout. It is absolutley impossible to control your man and the camera angle. Decent 3rd-person role-playing games are like Star Wars Jedi Outcast or Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness. The camera should station behind your character so that you can move your mouse and cursor keys accordingly....hello? Game Developers! Every PLAY one of these games before making one and putting it out on the market and charging $45 bucks!?!? Morons.

Great game...definitely worth getting.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Chris from UT pretty much nailed the review of this game perfectly...the camera angles do get to be a pain and sometimes seriously screw you up when you are fighting those hordes of mobs. It's pretty much this: fight tons of mobs--that eventually get rather hard--then figure out minor puzzles, which require nearly all of the amazing acrobatics your character is bestowed with. Each part (mobs--puzzles)gets pretty monotonous each in itself after a bit, mixing them more would have been better. The graphics are stunning...some of the most beautiful visuals I have seen in a game yet. The fighting is amazing...you can actually stop in the middle of fury of attacks to switch to different enemies with ease, performing a myriad of moves in the process. You can block, counter, flip, jump off walls, there are kicks, etc. Great music and ambience, as well. Overall: it's absolutely worth getting this if you are into this genre.

Good game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In general I liked it very much. The story is relatively good, but I think it could be better. The graphics are great, I really liked them; but the controls are complicated. The Prince is very agile and there are plenty of movements and actions he can perform. The camera, however, is sometimes complicated to handle and that will make you suffer a couple of times. I have four-button wireless mouse and I transfered much of the functions to them, but I had to switch a couple buttons depending on the situation every time. When I was fighting an enemy I switched a few functions in order to make them easier to handle. The only thing I resent is that I felt the game was a bit short. I passed it in 16 game hours. That's about a week of being playing two and a half hours dayly.

Absolutely Awesome...but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game recently and I must say that it rocks! The graphics and gameplay are cool. You'll be flying off walls, climbing on ledges, and everything else. There is one drawback which is the reason why I reated this at 3 and not 5. You are only able to use your keyboard to play this game, making it absolutely hard to perform combinations and special attacks. If you think programing a gamepad to perform as a keyboard, good luck. Tried that several ways and got nowhere. The game ignores all inputs but the keyboard and mouse. Besides that, the game has an awesome storyline. Would recomend but not for PC.

Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whoever that guy is up above who said he got to 25% in 40 minutes is lieing, and "hitting" the guys and not dieing, again is either lieing or using some cheat or somethin retarded like that. At 25% you've already met at LEAST a big sword , and when you just "hit" them they block you every single time. This game requires skills and very good hand/eye coordination. The constant zipping around makes it very entertaining to play, although I admit the controls were hard at first, but then i hooked up my MS Sidewinder, been smooth sailing since. I'm at 81% now, and it's taken me an hour a day for the last about 3 weeks to get this far, it's not an easy game as you get farther and farther into it. The puzzels are complex in a lot of cases, and I had to frequently stop playing b/c i got so frustrated at the puzzels (which is a GOOD thing! says the developers took time and brain power to create them) This is easily the GOTY for 2003 in my book. Graphics, control (With gamepad), story, dialog, replay value, all 5 stars.

Best of Prince of Persia Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Prince of Persia Sands of Time is a masterpiece of a game... For all POP fans it's a must have, as well as for those who have never played a Prince of Persia game before. The game manages to give you a fresh look while keeping the old feel of Prince of Persia games. The soundtrack is absolutely beautiful...and the graphics brilliant. The story is very intriguing and keeps you at the edge of your seat, waiting to see what will happen next and making wild guesses....the ending is truly amazing, either you'll be hugging your PC screen screaming you knew it from the start, or end up sprawled on the floor totally stunned. All in all it's a wonderfull game and well deserves all 5 stars. Gamers, buy it you won't be disappointed.

Difficult to maneuver through camera angles

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The PC version is the one I bought so I am not sure how the game works on other boxes, but the camera angles switch so fast and unexpectedly, that the Prince gets turned around very easily. While the graphics are good, the camera gets in the way of your maneuvers, and sometimes prevents you from getting through time-sensitive traps. Also, Farah, your companion whom you are to protect along the way, seems to shoot the Prince with her bow, and generally seems to get in the way. I would not recommend the PC version of Prince of Persia Sands of Time.

Very Good game except....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this. This is a very good game. The graphics, the story, the acrobatics, everything about this game is a lot of fun, and very well done, except... the controls are TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stand it. When not fighting, the poor controls are slightly just an annoyance, but when fighting, which by the way is very cool when you're not slamming the mouse in frustration because of the controls, its bad enough to make you crazy. You think you're moving left, but you move right into a sword. You want to flip backwards, but you jump forward into a sword.

However, now that I have gotten that out, this is a worthy game of purchase. It is definitely cool. But something has to be done about the controls. I hope POP II is improved in that way.

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