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Wii News by Tom Bramwell

19 December, 2006

Ubisoft has confirmed that March 2007 will see the release of Prince of Persia: Rival Swords for Nintendo Wii.

Like the PSP title of the same name, it's based on last year's The Two Thrones, but this time Ubi's lining up some changes specific to the Wii's remote and nunchuk control scheme.

It's not hard to imagine one used for analogue movement and the other for slashing with the dagger - something the text of Ubi's announcement alludes to.

We've also got some early screenshots for you to check out, with accompanying Wii remote graphics to illustrate how things work. A bit.

For those of you who didn't play Two Thrones, it was a bit of a return to form after the dreadful second game in the renewed POP series, and saw the prince trying to retake Babylon as he came to terms with his dark side (and his dark side came to terms with smashing people up with a spiky chain embedded in his arm).

For more on it, you can read Kristan's review of the Xbox version from last year. Watch out for more on the Wii's Rival Swords in the near future.

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lambtron
19/12/06 @ 09:16
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Arggh damn you Ubi - its a great game originally but talk about a pointless port!
Blerk
19/12/06 @ 09:19
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I actually liked Warrior Within more than Two Thrones. WW had awful music, but the game itself wasn't bad. Two Thrones had the vastly irritating Dark Prince bits and stupid chariot racing mini-games.

Sands of Time ftw!
spongebob
19/12/06 @ 09:19
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Yeah, and they could give PoP a few years to breath before putting out more sequels. The whole concept is beginning to feel like an EA yearly obligatory sports game.
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19/12/06 @ 09:20
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I actually liked Warrior Within more than Two Thrones. WW had awful music, but the game itself wasn't bad. Two Thrones had the vastly irritating Dark Prince bits and stupid chariot racing mini-games.

Sands of Time ftw!

Completely agree with all you've said. :)
lemonfist
19/12/06 @ 09:24
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Apart from Red Steel and the Rayman game, It's starting to look like Ubisoft just sees the Wii as another platform to profit from their last-gen games. Judging from Splinter Cell: DA and Far Cry Vengeance, they're not doing a good job of porting them, either :(

I even remember reading an inteview with some guy from Nintendo (I think it was actually Miyamoto, not sure ) talking about 'Wiimakes', remakes of Gamecube games, at one point. As cool as it'd be playing, say, Wind Waker with the Wii remote, I'd rather have some new games, Nintendo.
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mkreku
19/12/06 @ 09:44
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I think Ubisoft rule in many ways.. but this trend they have of re-using old levels from three different games to create a "new" game on another platform is really annoying.

I shouldn't complain though. Ubisoft is one of few publishers I respect.
alimokrane
19/12/06 @ 10:01
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For the love of God Why Ubisoft Why ????? They have been spitting out crap for the Wii (SCDA, FarCry, ...) and now they are doing the same to prince of persia ... I was expecting a brand new Prince of persia sort of setting for the Wii but it seems like that's not gonna happen . sigh...
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Carpathian
19/12/06 @ 10:13
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I think calling those "screenshots" is a little suspect.

"Concept art" or "optomistic render" at best, I'd predict - as much as I'd love to be wrong I *really* can't see the Wii doing that level of things !
kangarootoo
19/12/06 @ 11:03
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Port or no port, so long as its fun I don't see the relevance.
Blerk
19/12/06 @ 11:08
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Port or no port, so long as its fun I don't see the relevance.

Well, it would be nice if it wasn't a game we'd all played already, no?
kangarootoo
19/12/06 @ 11:15
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I've not played it.
Tomo
19/12/06 @ 11:21
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Firstly... Far Cry Vengeance isn't even out on the Wii yet, so I don't see how you can be using that as an example of Ubi's poor creative talent.

However, this constant rehashing is incredibly annoying. I was really looking forward to this being a new PoP, but I doubt I'll bother with it now unless I'm really struggling for games come March. Thanks for dashing my hopes so brilliantly Ubisoft :/
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19/12/06 @ 12:18
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wuuuuh? the controller diagrams on those screenshots make no sense at all! it's like they've just become obligatory for all wii press shots.

and while i'd like new games just as much as anyone, i've nothing against cross-platform ports per se. it's just the re-naming of said ports that kinda narks me.
Blerk
19/12/06 @ 12:19
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I've not played it.

Oh. In that case, you might like it. Aside from the stupid dark prince bits and the awful chariot races. :-)
Artemus
19/12/06 @ 13:19
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The dark prince bits would have been alright if your health wasn't constantly draining.
Blerk
19/12/06 @ 13:24
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Yes, that was the irritation. Stupid idea.
lambtron
19/12/06 @ 13:26
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I actually quite liked the Dark Prince bits. And the speed kills were good. And I had no problems with the chariot race bits - guess I am just too easily pleased ;).
haowan
19/12/06 @ 13:41
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Shoehorn alert. Those "screenshots" weren't thought out at all.

"POP on the Wii, gimme ideas people"

"Let's save cash and port TT"

"Good man, like that thinking. (Liz, promote that guy will ya?) Rod, controls?"

"Uh, we c-"

"Just get some screenshots and paste some remotes on them like we thought about it, k? Ten minutes. Let's get to work people!"
AcidSnake
19/12/06 @ 14:13
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Far Cry has been reviewed by IGN I believe...
Total mess apparently...
Santino
19/12/06 @ 14:50
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ubisoft can simply fuck off, they can get my money when they produce something worth buying and the closest they have came to releasing a Wii game i would buy was rayman raving rabbids. the least they could do would be a compilation of all 3 PoP games with new control at a budget price. fat chance i know but there is absolutely no chance in hell i'm supporting this mockery of an attempt at '3rd party support'. Ubiport would be better off slashing the number of games published in half and actually make another original title.
haowan
19/12/06 @ 16:24
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rayman - designed for wii - well received

COD3, far cry - ports, shoehorned controls - very badly received

POP TT - port, control scheme looks to be shoehorned - let's take a guess
L0cky
19/12/06 @ 17:36
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talking about 'Wiimakes'

I'm sure this was something that was referred to as 'bad'

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