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Ubisoft has revealed a new acrobatic move for the titular character of the new Prince of Persia game.
During a demo at the Leipzig Games Convention, level designer Michael MacIntyre showed off the roof run - a move that enables the Prince to cling to ceilings and traverse them upside down. He can also grab objects hanging down from the ceiling to prolong his run.
"To wall run in the previous Prince of Persia, you would just hold down a button when near a wall and he would do it," said MacIntyre. "In this game the acrobatics are very jump-centric; you actually have to jump at a wall, and then it detects what angle you're hitting it at, and he'll run when he hits it.
"It's a similar thing with the roof run. When you come in contact with the ceiling you jump, you do the run and then you have to hit the glove button to grab any element on the roof in order to keep going. So there's a rhythm to it," he continued.
"With this new move, our level designers had all the tools they needed to create acrobatic sequences that can use pretty much every surface in the game."
There's not much else to report from the demo, seeing as the same level was shown at E3 last month. MacIntyre confirmed there will be PS3 Trophies in the game, and that they're not planning to do a downloadable demo. The Prince still sounds like he's from America, rather than, you know, Persia. Why is that?
"I think it was just accessibility," said MacIntyre. "Even in the original one he had a British accent, right? He wasn't very Persian either. It's just one of those things.
"The character doesn't even necessarily look Persian, but the Persian part is not so much him as much as just the spirit of the world," he added. Righto.
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bodypopper
21/08/08 @ 16:21
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Films have been doing it for years. Russell Crowe had an Aussie accent playing a Roman solidier in Gladiator and it didn't seem to matter to most people.
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Triggerhappytel
21/08/08 @ 16:32
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This move doesn't sound so great. It's almost as if they're running out of ideas, and now they're just going a bit OTT. I think those moves where Elika flies through the air and throws Princey do not help; they look bloody stupid.
He has a point about the original Princey having a British accent, but a character in a game set 3000 years ago having a British accent is at least a bit more feasible than having a Yankee accent. I think they should get a middle eastern actor to record the lines in English with a noticable accent; that would be a fair compromise. But they never would because the Americans wouldn't buy it and I'm certain that's Ubi's biggest market. |
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Triggerhappytel
21/08/08 @ 16:35
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@ Crash - yes I agree, from the couple of videos I've seen the dialogue it utterly abhorrent.
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JediMasterMalik
21/08/08 @ 16:40
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The thing is, a british accent seems to go well with the setting, at least more so than an american one. It happens in movies too. An english accent is far more universal than an american one. I don't know why, but it just feels that way to me.
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the_dudefather
21/08/08 @ 16:41
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They should use authentic Arabian dialects like they did in the sands of time trilogy
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ChthonicEcho
21/08/08 @ 16:47
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The thing is, a british accent seems to go well with the setting, at least more so than an american one.
Agreed. |
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hiddenranbir
21/08/08 @ 18:46
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He sounded better with a British Accent. As did Farah, who was horribly ruined in Two Thrones.
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Weren't they getting Matt Damon or someone daft to do the voiceover? MMMMAAAAAAAAAAT...actually, too easy.
"They should use authentic Arabian dialects like they did in the sands of time trilogy Persians aren't Arab, they're Persian. It's just to most westerners, they're pretty much the same. But that's the thing... maybe we prefer British to American because it's closer to home rather than authentic. Now I'd love to hear an Aussie POP. Stereotypes rule. |
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FenderMaster
21/08/08 @ 19:38
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The English accent of Sands of Time really suited the character, the new American accent is just jarring and horrible, and this is coming from an irishman
bring back the English accent Ubi...
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The British accents can be taken more seriously. For epic movies, it sounds far more authoritative and classical than some whiny yank. Suits the mood more. And no, Russel Crowe didn't have an Aussie accent in Gladiator. That was an English one, with hints of Coruscanti (Obi-Wan stylee).
People tend not to use "fake" accents in games and movies anymore because its seen as offensive and cheesy. The actor that played Altair wasn't that bad IMO, because he could at least speak Arabic. If only his English was British accented. And no to whoever said Sayid from Lost should do it. Just no. |
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ChthonicEcho
21/08/08 @ 21:24
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maybe we prefer British to American because it's closer to home rather than authentic.
As a foreigner, I can say a British accent doesn't feel out of place as much as an American one does. |
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frostcircus
22/08/08 @ 01:13
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At least the guy was honest about the accent thing. There's no bullshit in his answer.
While I wasn't happy about the dialogue, the main thing that bothered me in the gameplay clip I saw was a natural side effect of the partner system - it makes the stuff you do seem a lot less impressive. There's no surer way to cheapen an act of heroic death-defying than to have another person effortlessly copy it less than a second later. That's a serious miscalculation in design. Gorgeous, though. I do wish the Prince had actually reacted to Elika making the land pretty, but I guess that wouldn't make him cool apathy guy. |
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Doctor_What
22/08/08 @ 08:03
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The accent is annoying, but I can live with it I guess, it's the terrible script that there is no excuse for!
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SleepyMagpie
22/08/08 @ 08:22
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Of course it would sound better if he had a Queen's English british accent, not a cockney or any other one, mind you. I'm not british either, but with only a modicum of world history knowledge one would know that the British Empire was a pervasive presence in the middle-east. Even though the time of the Prince of Persia is not established (is it?) I imagine it to be set in some kind of mythical Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia setting and time. Ergo the british accent. American is just right out. And these days with brits being so popular in the states - this boggles a bit.
But Ubisoft has recently become more hellbent capitalist than any american, so that probably explains it. "Sub-Josh Whedon dialogue"? Oh please no, only Josh Whedon can pull off Josh Whedon. |
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