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The Prince Of Perfection!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me tell you this game just plain out rocks! Having played my fair share of Ps2 games...this game stands far and wide as one of the best...To be honest it might be one of the funnest games Ive ever played. It starts off like a platformer type game but then some heavy combat comes into play...my girlfriend
and I split up the playing....(since I had rented it)...
we beat it in 7 days,.....she was floored by it...as I was..the graphics are far above most games....smoothe and clear...and his movements are amamzing...you never fall off ledges or die too easy...and the rewind thing is soooo cool!...Im a 37 year old gamer so its really incredible to find a game that just plays so well.
Buy this game...rent it!!! Damn I cant say enough...
you will not be let down my friend....

An incredible game that deserves a BETTER SEQUEL than it got

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

POP:SoT is a rare Masterpiece, offering the Perfection in design of characters, storyline, environment, and puzzles and challenges. Don't miss it and check it out for yourself - you'll agree that it is THE MOST beautifully rendered, magical CG world that immerses you completely. After you finish, you'll feel a withdrawal pang for leaving its lyrical and haunting beauty. I also loved the ending (which I won't give away), with its mix of heartache and hope.

Pluses: Stunning architectural designs and CG environment that rival the best you've been on Lord-Of-the-Rings movie series. In fact, the 'Climbing the Morning Tower' episode in POP is better than anything I've seen in movies. Characters move with such grace and athleticism, it's a pleasure to watch. The storyline has a great emotional power, and as you guide the Prince through the numerous sufferings, you marvel at his courage, resourcefulness, and sheer nobility. You also admire the determination of the Princess, who often stays to fight when you (the Prince) feel like running away from the scary, murderous hordes of monsters. The puzzles are laid out with such intelligence and originality, but enough hints are offered that you can finish the game without using one of those overpriced guidebooks.

Minuses: Flaws are relative minor but hugely annoying, since they often come at the most critical moments. There are important clues spoken during the cut scenes, but the conversation is very hard to hear unless you want to wake up the entire neighborhood. There is no subtitles offered - why?
The automatic camera movements make the experience very cinematic, but it often runs behind curtains, etc. during critical battle scenes, sometimes costing you Prince's life.

It saddened me to hear that 'Warrior Within' is NOT a worthy successor to 'Sands of Time', but a rushed, buggy copycat of other grim, bloody adventure games. I hoped that the storyline will continue with this Prince becoming a great king, who then faces a major crisis affecting his kingdom and rises to the occasion with the (unsolicited) help of his child prince (thus continuing the 'Prince' title). It bothers me that Ubisoft turned a genuine heroic figure and turned him into an evil-looking grungy rock star with greasy hair, a fearful yet arrogant loner who runs away from his foredained death yet enjoys exacting bloody carnage.

I will skip 'Warrior Within' and re-play the 'Sands of Time' instead. Perhaps UBI-Soft folks will come to their senses and come up with a new sequel that restores the Prince to his rightful throne, as a beloved Hero and the King.

Loved It

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, the first in the series~be sure you have good platforming skills or don't mind working on them, because platforming is a HUGE part of the game. I can't wait to play the next two games!

I love to play the same levels 100 times! Yay!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 46
Date: December 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is SOOOO fun if you are like me and love to play the same level again and again 100 times. I like to just sit and hold my PS2 controller and press the same buttons again and again even when my PS2 isn't even on, so you can imagine my joy when I got to play the fight scenes in this game and got to press the same buttons 10000 times without getting past the level! It is so fun: you make no progress for hours, then you get to start all over again the next day after turning off the PS2 without a save point. Such a good game and designed so well with people like me in mind. I wish more games were like this. The main fight scenes are like that old game Track and Field but without a point to the button pressing. You get to try and try and try to defeat enemies but you can't! And of course, not being able to make progress makes a game so much more fun. It really makes me feel like my hard earned money was well spent. It is so great. I hope the next one that comes out is "Prince of Persia: Press the Buttons" where you just stand there and get to press buttons without enemies to even fight. I would love that so much. There is nothing like pressing buttons without end.

Beware One Seriously Annoying Aspect

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All the positive comments by others are basically true but there is one TRULY annoying near-glitch in the otherwise beautifully rendered game and oh-so-smooth interface. It is the successive jumps tactic that is occasionally REQUIRED to move on to the next area. This is the run up the wall and then jumping back and forth from wall to wall. This move is disproportionately difficult from virtually any other move and can literally add hours to your game time. There is no way to really 'master' the move either because in different situations the timing requirement is different - this one thing truly hurts the gameplay and enjoyment. Everytime you hit the multi-jump area it can take an hour to get it. Or once in awhile you do it the first time - there is no rhyme or reason to the move at all. It's just a total game downer - wrecks the flow of the story and completely frustrates experienced gamers and rookies alike. My friend who'd never played before got it before I did, then could never duplicate the move and gave up.

The truly strange thing is that other seemingly complex and difficult moves are rendered quite smoothly, predictably and easy to master, but this one move being so disproportunately difficult can just ruin the game.

Good, but difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a pretty darn good game, but one thing that can't be denied is that sometimes the game can be very challenging. You may think that the ability to rewind time makes things easy, but although it is very useful, it still doesn't come in as much as you'd like it too. And plus, the battle system is very lackluster. You'll sometimes fell like you are litterally fighting unbeleivable hordes of enemies, and they never stop. With each enemy it's the same ol' hack and slash system, and you always have to stab the enemy afterwards or they come back to life. One nifty feature is the ability to run on or up walls, but still, the game is challenging. It is fun nonetheless, and if you have patience you will find yourself enjoying this title greatly!

Simply Average

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I read the overwhelming amount of glowing reviews for this game, both by Amazon members, and professional reviewers, so I thought that it would be a safe buy, a guaranteed great time. While I wasn't totally disappointed, the game failed very much to live up to the hype.

First off, the good points: the graphics are smooth and well done. The environments are detailed, and often very beautiful. The character of the Prince is a great protagonist, fun, thoughtful, and his narration of the game was a great inclusion that kept you connected to him. The ability to manipulate time via the dagger is a unique and useful ability that I enjoyed using.

Now, for what I consider the less-than-good points: While the Prince's acrobatic moves are impressive to see, and useful, you never have the ablity to learn any new ones; this creates a certain repetitiveness throughout the game's puzzles. The sound quality was horrid, and even after adjusting volume levels in the options menu, Farah and the Prince's voices were nearly impossible to hear half the time. There isn't much strategy involved in the battle scenes. As long as you guard one moment, and mash the square button the next, you're pretty much assured a victory. The camera angles were positively atrocious about 70% of the time, which made already difficult puzzles highly frustrating. The end battle was disappointingly easy, and there is virtually no replay value. No secrets to be unlocked, new skills or movies to enjoy. The only special feature besides being able to watch the credits scroll is unlocking the original Prince of Persia, a horrid game that would have best been left buried in a landfill somewhere.

Overall, the game was enjoyable enough, but, having defeated it in 10 hours, and there being no real replay value, I feel as if I wasted my money. I would definitely recommend this as a rental; it could easily be finished over the course of a weekend.

Bangin'!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay first off I LOVE the prince, he is sooooo cute. And secondly this is one of the greatest games I've ever played! The animation is excellent,the storyline is awsome and the suspence is perfect! But this is something that irritates me...It's a very challenging game, you have to be a good stradigest, or just good at figuring things out because you have to plan out how to get to one thing from another. But still even if you're looking for a game just to play I would definately recommend this. Prince of Persia is BANGIN'!!!!

The Best Game Ever...if it werent for the ENDING!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Persian Sultan is invading India and the Indian vizier is helping him, simply to become more powerful. Secretly, the vizier wants the sands of time, which are locked in a huge hourglass in the Indian king's treasure chamber. He also wants a special dagger that is the key to open the hourglass. But during the siege of the city, the Prince of Persia finds the Time dagger first and keeps it for himself, and the Sultan keeps the giant hourglass. Naturally, the vizier is not happy.

The basic premise is the vizier tricks the Prince into using the dagger to unleash the Sands of Time, which change every person in the place, including the Sultan, into some sort of sand zombie. Only the Prince, the vizier, and Farah, a captured princess whose kingdom was attacked by the Sultan, survive. The rest of the game is spent trying to undo this curse, collect the sand back into the hourglass, and kill the vizier responsible.

This game, in terms of playing, is incredible. The story is simple but I found it to be very engaging. The graphics are the best I've ever seen and the game plays out like an enchanted tale. It has fighting, puzzles, and a little computer-animated movie all in one. The developers of this game have really put a lot of work into this gem. The Prince has many acrobatic abilities - He can run on walls, vault over enemies, fight multiple opponents, and control time itself. Death in this game is not the end...simply reverse time and try again.

Although it sounds straightforward, this game can be very challenging. At first, it sounds like the ability to go back in time whenever you screw up would be too easy, but the rewind ability has a limited range and takes time to recharge. And if your dagger runs out of power, you have to start the level all over again. You can also freeze enemies with the power of time and get hints in the clairvoyant visions the Prince gets at the save points.

The environments are beautiful and richly detailed. Tapestries move as you walk past, water ripples, you hear different stepping sounds to what kind of surface you're walking on, and dust falls from the decaying walls of the huge palace that you find yourself trapped in. The palace is extremely large and has many areas to explore. The movements and interface are flawless and smooth. The music is a sort of techno heavily laden with Middle Eastern flourishes and mythical chanting vocals. Everything moves with gorgeous fluidity, most apparent when the Prince is fighting. The enemies and his female companion, Farah, look about as real as a video game can look and move with the same sort of smoothness.

The initially complex controls quickly become instinctive and the game is forgiving with the ability to rewind to fix that mistimed jump after spending 20 minutes getting up somewhere then only to miss a ladder because the camera angle changed without warning. The fights are laid out in between puzzle solving, so you don't get bored. The puzzles all involve things like jumping, pulling levers, pushing blocks, swinging from poles and dodging deadly traps.

This is perhaps the best video game I have ever played, but there is just one thing that prevents me from giving this a 10: the ending.
(Serious Spoiler ahead)
At the end, the Prince takes the dagger and finally plunges it back into the giant hourglass, recalling the Sands of Time and undoing everything that has been done...and erasing everyone's memories! It turns out that the whole game has been in the form of the prince sneaking into the Indian Palace and re-telling the girl the story because she doesn't remember. Of course, she doesn't believe him. Bummer. Then the evil vizier shows up and tells the girl that the Prince is a threat and he will deal with him. The final battle starts between the vizier and the prince, which is extremely easy considering it's the "big battle".
But that's not my problem with this game.

My problem comes AFTER you beat the vizier - afterwards, the girl admits that the vizier was evil, and that she owes the Prince her life, but says that she still doesn't believe the story the prince told her and asks him why he would tell her "childhood fairy tales". Then, just to add insult to injury, the prince tries to kiss her, and she slaps him away. He sighs, then presses the "back up" switch on the Time Dagger, backs up to the point where he kissed her, then doesn't this time. Instead, he shrugs his shoulders, tells her that the story he told her was a child-like fantasy, then leaves to go back home to Persia. When that happened, I found my face growing red with frustration as I stared at the screen.

This is it? THIS is the big finish, the big reward for our hero?! To get slapped in the face by his girlfriend, who now doesn't even remember him? In fact, no one in the entire game knows or believes what the Prince did. All that trouble, all that money spent on the game, all that fighting and jumping and reversing time, and no reward or closure.

The ending leaves you with the feeling that you did all that work for nothing. The hero does not get laid or even kissed in the end, or for that matter get any kind of prize. All you get is a slap in the face and the satisfaction of killing the man that's caused all this. That's it.

Still, despite this game having a horrible ending, if it were not for that single flaw, this would be a definite 10. By all means, Prince of Persia deserves all the hype it gets, and despite some minor flaws, they should not clash greatly with the player's enjoyment of the game.

9/10

Way 2 Good To Miss

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazingly awsome and fun. The graphic are great! Although the game has levels soo hard they make u hate the game, [once you pass that level] you keep loving it. This game is amazing! Anyone who likes adventure games, this is the game for u! I mean what else do u want? U got wall walking, fighting, a dager with powers, and even SAND(lol)! I insist you to buy this game!

Pros: Great graphics, amazing levels, great plot.
Cons: This game may be so hard sometimes, you'll hate it untill u try more than 50 times and finnally beat the level.

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