POP: Forgotten Sands?

[BloodyThoughts]

Yep, that's right. There is a sequel in the works for the POP series. Though, this sequel isn't for the last POP.

I first head this while reading the new issue of Game Informer magazine and was very curios when I saw it. The first clue that said it was a sequel for the Sands of Time series was when it say this:

Ubisoft recently announced that the next Prince of Persia returns the players to the Sands of Time universe, the trilogy of games that ran from 2003 to 2005.

Hmmm, well it better have the same game mechanics or else I will probably hate it...yes I would.

Luckily for gamers, it doesn't appear that The Forgotten Sands will bear the fate of so many games released beside films of the same name. Ubisoft Montreal has been working on this new installment since January 2008, even before the recent of the game series released.

So this both confirms that it is being released the same date as the new POP movie coming out, and that it is a sequel to the Sands of Time trilogy. At least I think, if so then I can't call it a trilogy any more.

Ok im not going to type more of this because the print of the report is so small I easily lose my place and it is hurting my back. So to the question, What do you think of this news?

P.S. if you have already heard of this please don't yell at me angrily, I don't like being yelled at.

EDIT: Whoops, I almost forgot mt feelings of this. I think that it could work, like I said keep the mechanics of Sands of time and were good. Also It said fun puzzles and stuff like that so that could prove to be bad or good.

 

[delet]

I've already known about this AND I DEMAND MY PRIVILEGE TO YELL!

Ahem... It's been said that this sequel will take place between Sands of Time and Warrior Within, so it'll only further complicate the story. They said they would be going back to the lovely mechanics of the original series which means fun, challenging puzzles along side combat with multiple sand zombies at once. I'm excited for the game but I know it can't do anything to save the story of PoP (Warrior Within utterly destroyed that chance, though I still regard that as the most fun of the 3 games.)

I've also heard that there will be some element-based powers in this one but as long as I get to rewind my horrible plummet from the heavens over and over again when I get bored, I think I should be satisfied.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? THIS IS SO OLD!!1

Lol, I kid. Yea, I'm excited for another PoP game...they can keep making them for the rest of time for all I care, I like the mechanics.

Just hoping this one and the new Tron game turn out to be good.

GAH! THE YELLING HURTS!

Wait, Tron game? I thought it would just be the Tron 2 movie. Now I have 2 things to buy, plus buy a movie ticket.

 

[silver wolf009]

Never cared for PoP as a series but im always up for another runny jummpy climmby adventure.

 

[The Last Nomad]

The trailer looks good, but it it doesnt look like gameplay, just pre-rendered stuff. Although, apparantly you can control the elements as well as time in this one...

I'd like to so see how the prince ran into the Dahaka in the first place though...

 

[orangeapples]

I've already known about this AND I DEMAND MY PRIVILEGE TO YELL!

Ahem... It's been said that this sequel will take place between Sands of Time and Warrior Within, so it'll only further complicate the story. They said they would be going back to the lovely mechanics of the original series which means fun, challenging puzzles along side combat with multiple sand zombies at once. I'm excited for the game but I know it can't do anything to save the story of PoP (Warrior Within utterly destroyed that chance, though I still regard that as the most fun of the 3 games.)

I've also heard that there will be some element-based powers in this one but as long as I get to rewind my horrible plummet from the heavens over and over again when I get bored, I think I should be satisfied.

I don't knwo about complicate the series, because SoT leaves us with the prince running into a jungle, and the start of WW has the prince being chased by the Dahaka (sp?) then he's on a pirate ship or something (my memory is a little fuzzy here).

I think there is some story to add.

and I didn't even realize that PoP2008 had no puzzles; just mazes... mazes that told you where to go.

 

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Oh boy, I get to teach the history of my favorite game. Lets begin. (And oh yes, there will be spoilers.)

Spoiler: Sands of Time

In the first game the aspect of time is dealt with wonderfully. The Prince finds the dagger, inserts it into the Hourglass of Time and then screws everyone else over ever, including his dad. The Prince then works to set things right by trying to retrieve the Hourglass of Time and plunging the Dagger in it to reverse things to how they were before. Along the way he meets up with Farrah who he eventually gets intimate with... only for her to promptly leave in the middle of the night with his dagger, leaving him with her Medallion of Time (It does nothing but prevents the Prince from becoming a sand zombie in the first game.) The Prince then unlocks the best sword in the game and slices through sand zombies with ease till he gets to the top of the castle where he ends up with the Dagger once more, but Farrah falls to her death. The Prince eventually makes his way back to the Hourglass of time and reverses time, allowing him to warn Farrah before his fathers' army attacks and sets in motion the events that started the game by having her hold onto the dagger. The Prince then kills the Vizier and entrusts the Dagger to Farrah while still keeping the Medallion of Time.

Spoiler: Warrior Within

Now, Warrior Within takes place several years later. Because of the Princes' use of the Dagger of Times' abilities, namely the giant time warp at the end of the game, the Dahaka's job is to kill the Prince as he has escaped his death by cheating with the Dagger of Time. In a desperate attempt to save his own life, the Prince plans on heading to the Island of Time (I hope you've found a pattern with how things are named by now) to set things right.

Now I could continue on through the rest of the story of the series but it just gets utterly screwed in Warrior Within because they made the one fatal flaw in any given time-related material: Always consider the first-time-through. Basically, the Prince was 'destined' to kill the Time Empress... In the past. That simple thought kills any stability in time or story that could have been retained and ruined the story, at least to an extent, for me.

Now, on to the reboot in 2008 (or whatever year it came out.) That game had a total of 2, maybe 3 puzzles that took me all of 15 minutes tops to figure out. I remember spending literally hours trying to figure out the original puzzles in SoT and was very disappointed by the piss-poor puzzles in the new game. The overall game was unappealing to me, sadly. I'm a true, huge fan of Prince of Persia and I gave my utmost hopes to this game but it was flawed in a few too many ways that made it simply sub par.

I can only hope this new game makes a truly triumphant return to its' roots.