New Prince of Persia previewed Comments by Oli Welsh

Some screens would be nice...

I loved sands of time, fingers crossed.

so.... no link then?

Sounds brilliant, can't wait.

Sands of time was the only game I've really really enjoyed having played through 3 times(probably the only game I've ever played through 3 times!)

I was immeasurably dissappointed with warrior within with its crap redesign and boring goth style and childish gore.
I was supposedely the target market at the time (17 I think?!) but I really though it was the most hideous turn for the worse any sequel could have made.

* rant over

as you can see I feel strongly about it!

It's described as being more Soul Calibur than God of War.

No! No! No no no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Quick, someone think of a way to fit "cel" into "Prince of Persia" so irritating people can use it for the rest of time.

Prince of Percel?

Sounds brilliant (apart from the Soul Calibur reference - please no...).

I just hope the vision for the game design translates into reality.

You can find some screens at the following link:
http://forums.g4tv.com/thread.jspa?messa...

Amazing new look!!

looks like a REALLY nicely drawn animated film... cool :)

"Quick, someone think of a way to fit "cel" into "Prince of Persia" so irritating people can use it for the rest of time."

Princell of Pershiading?

those graphics look brilliant, i'm a fan of really stylised graphics, loved the way eternal sonata looked. lets hope that goes with old skool POP gameplay :)

I'm not sure I really like the sound of this, but kudos to Ubisoft for being brave enough to go off in a new direction rather than just buffing up the Sands of Time series and sending it out again. In this age of sequels and sameness, I'm always pleased to see major companies taking some risks.

Never mind the Merkins, I'm not sure if I like the sound of it.

Well, at least it can't be worse than the emo prince

As long as they get some decent script writers and voice actors as they had in Sands of Time (as opposed to the other two) then this game sounds fab!

Sounds good.

perfect style.go ubi!

Sounds good, looks good.

Reminded me a bit of the last shinobi game, combined with Okami and garnished with ooh, I dunno, some parsley or summat.

/always eats the garnish

Wow, Ubi are really making a go of it with the cel shading. Looks wonderful.

Thanks Rymar!

Good call with drawing a line under the SoT trilogy and starting afresh. Shame that trilogy only contained the one good game, though.

What surprises me is that a rewind hasn't become a standard feature of platformers. It just makes so much sense considering what a bastard it is to judge leaps in three dimensions. I thought it would just get adopted by everyone, they way Halo's regenerative health and two-weapon limit has for FPSes.

Reminds me of Naruto:RotN

@neilka

Princel of Percel?

Sounds like the lord of washing powders.

Sounds good, glad to see it's Ubi Montreal and they don't seem to be rawking us out this time.

Sands of Time remains one of the best games I've ever played (it has great charm) but I thought POP Warrior Within sucked so hard that it's put me off trying the third one (I have it on Xbox but I was going to force myself through the second one before starting with the third one, bad idea I think).

Cel shaded?

Sounds like it could be a big draw.

/gets coat

Fantastic news. Can't wait to hear more. The new look seems cool, kind of anime-esque. I can see they were inspired by Ninja Gaiden. The Prince is wearing a scarf and "naruto-shoes" so I'm getting the impression the gameplay will be a mix of old PoP, NG ad Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.

As long as it retains SoT's charm then I'm in.

Sounds fantastic!

I ilke the fact that, unlike many developers, they seem unafraid to acknowledge their influences. Kudos for honesty.

Ooooh oooh oooh.. WANT!!!

Wow! The article sounded nice. Okami, Twilight Princess, and SotC are 3 of my absolute favorite games of all-time, and Pop 1 and 3 in the SoT trilogy were fantastic as well, but I had slight reservations because it's such a departure for them and I wasn't sure they'd be able to handle and open-world game as well. But those screenshots are absolutely amazing! I still say Okami on the lowly ol' PS2 is still the best looking game ever made (though Bioshock and MGS4 are up there) and I've been dissapointed that developers haven't been using cel-shading on next-gen consoles. Crackdown is the only time I can remember this happening and it looked rather nice, but I wasn't all that into the more urban aesthetic. But this looks right up there with Okami. This game is right up there with RE5 and Brutal Legend as my most anticipated game of 2008.

Sounds like an absolutely fantastic idea. 5 Stars to Ubisoft for not just making another game in the same vein as the last-gen trilogy!

Please be good. Please be good. Please be good! *fingers crossed it lives up to even that small write-up*

They are no making a second Assassin's Creed, they are making a new PoP.

I really hope that's not true. I'd much rather have Assassins' Creed 2 personally. Never got into PoP, but AC was a brilliant game in my books.

[It's on the link to images]

I dislike how the Prince looks like a ninja. The big scarf is very cool, but the mask is just.. ugh.
I do love the style though, I believe they were going for the water pastel look that we saw in the Street Fighter IV trailer.

Sounds great. Especially the reduction of numbers of enemies. I loved the platforming and puzzles of SoT but the combat drove me up the wall. Repeatedly killing the same respawning enemy over and over and over before you can continue isn't fun.

"The sands of time powers have been removed due to overuse - "the concept has been so used and copied, we had to move on to something else, put it to one side""

Where else has this feature been used then? It's a shame they're not keeping it, it's one of the best additions to the platforming genre I've seen in a long time.

Personally, I think it looks more like persian art than "anime" art. I kinda like it.

Good thing it's not AC2 as well - SoT was much better executed in every aspect. I wouldn't mind them incorporating some aspects of it though :)

So let me get this straight, a new PoP game, but lacking the one thing that made the last trilogy anywhere remotely interesting, namely all the time control?

Face it, without that trick pony, the games were pretty "meh".

For the French-speaking population of Eurogamer, here are the scans with the screens/artwork in context.

Thanks Ignatius_Cheese :)

I loved sands of time and the last one the two thrones (let's just pretend warrior within didn't happen).

Edit: I'm a bit worried about the sands being missing but, I guess that's explained by the two thrones ending. I am definitely going to miss the ability to rewind from a fatal death plunge while being wiser and pre-warned that the floor falls in after 5 seconds! Surely the removal of the sands now means that we'll all be falling to our deaths with great frustration instead of rewinding.

If Ubi ever read internet threads I would suggest using a trick taken from that awful Nicolas Cage film "Next". Give the prince the ability to project himself a few seconds into the future, to try out different things. The power wouldn't be too overused, because you'd effectively have to do any projected sections twice (once as projected prince and once as real prince). Death of a projection would snap you back into the prince with a small health loss due to the shock.

...feel free to call my off the top of head idea silly people :)

The game's plot draws on a Zoroastrian myth

Any EG readers who actually know what Zoroastrianism is please raise your hand.

No link because Joypad is "one of those paper things", as one EG editor wrote relevantly a few years ago.
I like the sound of this game. Thanks for the link Ignatius_Cheese. Tu es Français ? I am French and often use variations on the word Fromage for my gaming aliases. We're silly, French people are. And we smell. And eat frogs on snails on cheese.

"Any EG readers who actually know what Zoroastrianism is please raise your hand."

*raises hand*

Looking forward to this - looks very nice.