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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.

System Requirements Warning

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

WARNING. Unless you already have a great graphics card in your system be prepared to spend $100 to $400 to be able to play this game. Yes, the video card requirements are listed in the fine print and they are truly required. Unlike many games, this one won't run unless you have one of the chipsets listed in the requirements. It supports a grand total of two chipsets, so really check out your system before you buy this. They won't allow a return, so your stuck. UBIsoft's tech support consisted of a 'tooooo bad'. I

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.

Prince of Presia Sands of Time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 21
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

POP is a waste of money POP offers nothing special, nothing unique nothing new it has a stupid story line If you like games that tamper with time get Max Payne 1 or 2

Not ready for the PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This was promoted for the consoles, where, I understand, it's supposed to be excellent. I haven't played it on a console. I play games on my computer and always have. I played the first two POP games there, as well as the original versions before them.
This game is simply not ready for the PC. It is all but unplayable. Aside from a really anoying savegame system, the ridiculous controls make playing the game all but undoable. You are bombarded with foes from all angles, these are battles which, due to the PC game's inability to let you do anything other than slash blindly away, you cannot win. Enemies come out of nowhere, they reconsitute, more and more of them appear and you're stuck waving your arms.
It ain't fun.
There's no patch to correct any of this either, you have to play the game AS IS.
At times when you have pay keen attention or get murdered, you cannot get the prince to go or do what you want, as when camera angles change suddenly, so do the keys you need to be pressing to move him around.
It is extremely aggravating and annoying.
When you die, no matter how close you are to a save point or how far you've already come with all of these ridiculous glitches, you're bounced to the beginning of the level again.
The game looks great, I stayed with it for a long time, trying to get something enjoayable out of it, but it was a complete waste of time.
Finally, in frustration, I just downloaded a batch of saved games and cycled through them, looking for snippets to play. If you've got a computer, I would avoid this at all costs.

Not very fun, and not very original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 30
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Karateka and Prince of Persia were the two games I grew up on. More than any other arcade-style games, I can vividly remember these two games and how much fun they were. This is one of the reasons I was so disapointed with "Sands of Time."

I was really impressed wiht this game when I first played it. Except it was called "Tomb Raider" bck then. And that's all this is, Tomb Raider with a slight face lift. The storyline is basically the same: run around ancient places doing flips and sommersaults, and avoiding trips. That's EXACTLY what you do in Prince of Persia. The only difference is that youfight more NPCs. This actually detracts from PoP because the combat system is so weak. Gameplay on the PC is very awkward and difficult. Instead of space bar causing you to jump, it causes you to sommersault. For anyone with experience playing FPS or basically ANY game, the space bar should be reserved for jumping. But as I said, the combat is very weak. You can't run from monsters, and you can't really do many special attacks. Besides what the game may say, most of the attacks are the same, they just look different. I dreadedthe combat system because it was so boring. I just hit random keys until the guys died.

Special save points. UNlike Tomb Raider, this game has pre-set save points, which means you're pretty much forced to get to a certain area before you quit, or you lose everything you did. Some may like this feature, I found it annoying. If the game had been challenging AND fun I wouldnt have minded it, but having to redo everything was just a pain.

Lastly, the absolute worst thing about this game is the movement. Unlikle other games, the moue does not control your character, it controls the camera angle. This makes for some VERY disorienting game play. Long-time gamers will have a lot to get used to if they pick up this game. What's more, many times I found myself thrown into angles thta made it almost impossible to play or see where I was going. Several times the camera would go into a wall and no amount of moving the mouse would get a better shot. I just had to restart. That is the main reason this game is inferior to Tomb Raider. While this game might work on the PS2, it ports over to PC very poorly.

If you have never played Tomb Raider, you may find "Sands of Time" exciting. But considering when it came out, it should have had much better graphics, an easier skill set, and a better storyline. I'll have more fun playing the original Prince of Persia rom than this.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While this game might be killer on other platforms, like xbox, for the PC this game was highly disappointing. I have followed the "Prince of Persia" games since its first release (for DOS) and have been a big fan, so I do not say this without some thought.
Good: great graphics, good storyline (overall), good music
Bad: 1) movement is more than awkward - it's just plain bad, and changing the point of view with the mouse does not respond as most of today's games do (rather strange in fact); 2) there are too many movies - about one every 30 seconds; 3) this is not a "virtual world", the character is guided which way to go and deviation from this path merely stops the game until you get back on the desired route; 4) there is no way to know what my immediate goal is except for written prompts displayed on the screen - do this, do that (but why am I doing that??) - since the game is telling me what to do, and guiding me along my route, this makes for a boring game; 5) During sword fights the character's movements can be totally unpredictable - although it looks great, and my guy is doing flips and jumps all over the place, all I did was press the spacebar -- ? Can I repeat this action at will? No.

The bottom line is it is an awkward and stupid game, embellished by some truly great graphics and sound.

I had high hopes for this game but am very disappointed. If you are buying for the PC, save your money.

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.

Not true to the Original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First, let me say I don't write many Amazon reviews. I was looking forward to this game as soon as I heard it was being released on the PC. The original is a classic because it took player control to a new level. Although this game "looks" great, the control is non existent. Any first person shooter has a much better control interface. The mouse control doesn't add anything to player control.

I am 25% through the game and it has only taken me about 40 minutes. The game hints tell you exactly what to do...there's only one way to get from one room to the next. The fighting scenes are boring. I just keep hitting "attack" and I haven't died once.

It feels like you are constantly playing in a training mode. The cut scenes are OK, but the music in general is repetative.

I don't know if I am going to continue playing it.

If you want to watch a quasi interesting movie, you might like this game. If you want cool player control in interesting puzzle situations, pass on this game.

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