Prince of Persia DLC dated, detailed

By Robert Purchese Published 29 January, 2009

For PS3 and Xbox 360 next month.

Ubisoft plans to unleash the first batch of Prince of Persia DLC for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 26th February.

The cost is yet to be determined, a spokesperson for the publisher told Eurogamer, and there's "no news on the PC version at the moment".

The Prince of Persia Epilogue starts directly after the conclusion of the retail Prince of Persia game. Action takes place in an undiscovered Underground Palace that the Prince and Elika need to escape from.

To help with this, each of the main characters picks up a new ability. Elika gains an Energise power that can reconstruct destroyed areas, opening up routes otherwise closed and forgotten.

The Prince, on the other hand, receives a Sprinting Clash attack that lets him charge up to and stun opponents. Unfortunately, enemies will also be able to do this.

That extra challenge ties into the increased overall difficulty of the Epilogue, which has more aggressive enemies, more taxing traps and more complicated levels. This, Ubisoft hopes, adds up to around three hours of added gameplay.

There's a couple of unlockable skins, too.

Head over to our Prince of Persia Epilogue gallery for the first screenshots.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Triggerhappytel #1 3 years ago

    Three hours? Normally I would say I hope it'll be about £3.50/400 points, but since it's Ubisoft I expect they'll charge double that.

  • sanctusmortis #2 3 years ago

    Sorry, no way. Such a poorly made game can't be fixed with a bit of DLC.

  • Vanmunt #3 3 years ago

    Oh Shit...I traded this in after I finished it as I wasn't aware of any DLC.

  • muscleblade #4 3 years ago

    I loved the game and i gladly pay 800 or 1200 MS points for this DLC. One of my favourite games in 2008.

  • Thunderbolt #5 3 years ago

    Oops sold the game a while ago plus didn't care for the ending anyway.

    For me it was a pleasant diversion but Tomb Raider was the better platformer of 2008

  • Wendelius #6 3 years ago

    I'm enjoying playing through the game. Strangely enough given the complaints, I'm not the target audience for an increased difficulty epilogue. I am enjoying the game as it is. Gives me a chance to finish it despite real life doing its best to prevent me from doing that. :)

    As for pricing, IMO, 3 and a half hours of entertainment would be good value at £3.5 or even £7. It's a decent length.

    Wendelius

  • penhalion #7 3 years ago

    Not with a ten foot barge pole!

  • asphaltcowboy #8 3 years ago

    If it's a good price, I'm in!

  • andywilkie35 #9 3 years ago

    excellent, another reason to play through it again. fantastic game that is quite rightly highly rated on metacritic

  • riz23 #10 3 years ago

    Here comes the DLC money train again. All aboard! No. Fuck off, I'll walk.

  • Doctor_What #11 3 years ago

    Full game = 7 hours. DLC = 3 hours. DLC price = 50% of full game? I bloody hope not!

  • JonFE #12 3 years ago

    I enjoyed playing through PoP during Christmas and if this DLC is sensibly priced I'll probably pick it up.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #13 3 years ago

    WILL THE GAME ALSO HAVE ITS BUGS FIXED!!

    Sorry to shout but i played through it twice just to find out it had gliched somewhere and i could not get all 1001 seeds, even tho on the map screen it said i had them all in every area and i yes i did also complete the game for the final seed.

    It was my last trophy as well that i needed for the platinum!

  • stepneg #14 3 years ago

    The game bored me senseless, bit's of it were OK but I lost interest early on and it wasn't in the same league as Tomb Raider.

  • Phattso #15 3 years ago

    I enjoyed my time with the game very much, and even went back and spent a few hours whoring for Achievements since it was so much fun.

    Can't see the DLC being less than 800 points, though, which isn't really in the ballpark for two or three hours of expanded entertainment when the same points could get you a complete XBLA game with more lasting appeal.

    Shame, but I guess enough people must pony up 800 points for DLC like this or they wouldn't keep doing it.

    /bought the Fable II DLC

    /is part of the problem

  • saku_luk #16 3 years ago

    GamesProgrammer @ thats a known glitch, altho when I got it I decided to play again since I also needed speed master.... and I beat the game with 5 deaths, 9h and all 1001 seeds collected without using guids.....sooo it doesnt take that much time :)

    Also I am sure that the glitch is just on the map screen, and 1 seed is somewhere there to take.....you would just need to revisit all locations....

    Another glitch I experienced was also with seeds, but in combo with saving your game....for example I got all the seeds in 1 location, save game...restart and what? I need 2 more seeds from that location? even tho I teleported? yep....sold the game, cant be arsed to play it with all those glitches, got platinum tho...at least it wasn't that hard :)

  • Chaote-Imagicka #17 3 years ago

    Yeah, but people also keep on ponying up the £40 for full games that are finishable in 7- 8 hours. In the context of the rrp for Prince of Persia 800 points for 2-3 hours is reasonable.

  • Jez360 #18 3 years ago

    Honestly I'm quite excited about this as I was one of the few who adored the game despite it's "lack of challenge". Between all the Fallout 3 DLC, The Lost and Damned GTA stuff and this I don't think I will even need to buy a new game until Resident Evil 5.

  • Darren #19 3 years ago

    Well my original 360 version of PoP went missing in the post before Christmas so I ended up getting a refund for it as I had to wait so long before I could report it as missing (to GAME) that the game was discounted!!! Thus, I picked it up for the PC... for £12! At that price, it's a great little game IMO, not perfect but it's really enjoyable in small doses and looks gorgeous visually, all running at a silky-smooth 60 fps at a higher resolutions than the 360 could ever manage. Worked out very well for me in the end really! :)

    I'm interested in the DLC but, obviously, only for the PC.

  • Phattso #20 3 years ago

    I hear what you're saying, Chaote-Imagicka, but I think that's a narrow point. In the first instance, it took me 15 hours to finish the game and I didn't exactly dawdle. Anyone finishing it in 8 hours is either a robot, or a saddo. ;-) For the average player games last a lot longer, I'd wager.

    Also, with the Internet stores, and especially in the run up to Christmas, nobody should be paying £40 for a game. I got Prince of Persia for £20, for example.

    And with DLC the publisher/developer is, you'd think, getting more of a cut than from retail sales (and for a lot less effort). I don't think it's too much to ask for the DLC to be more reasonably priced than it is.

    That said, and to be clear, it's the principle that I'm debating really. At the end of the day it's just a couple of quid we're talking about here. :)

  • Burkey123 #21 3 years ago

    Lovely! I absolutely adored this game and will pay for the DLC no matter what the price is.

  • gamecubeisbest #22 3 years ago

    Awful game, will not buy this.

  • Razorus #23 3 years ago

    I won't be tricked by DLC again! I fell for the Force Unleashed DLC, got excited about Fable 2 Knothole bullshit and went for it, and was slightly disappointed with Anchorage for Fallout 3. This time, I'm waiting for the review and the price before I make a decision. And didn't they say that the DLC would be "significant"?

  • Entity #24 3 years ago

    Three hours= Three supermarket beers (on offer)= £2.50
    Set it at that price Ubi and I'm in.

  • FenderMaster #25 3 years ago

    urgh.... more powers? The powers were what was wrong with the game in the first place, and they were so fucking stupid (except wall running), and two of them were exactly the same...

    If they release DLC that allows you to play through the game, with no shitty fights, no powers, and the original sands of time voice actor, then I'll buy

  • Sonic_D #26 3 years ago

    I bought PoP (£18) got half way through and then got Mirror’s Edge (£15). Completed ME first and went back to PoP. Both games are on the opposite ends of the spectrum difficultly and control wise, but both require you to do inhuman feats of aero-gameage. I enjoyed both, but also got a bit bored of both for the opposite reasons. PoP had no real challenge, while in ME you might have to a try a part over and over again until you could pass it (including the stupid kill fours guys when you could just run away bits).

    However the environments in both games were great and at the price I got em for in the crazy pre-chrimbo price slashing I have no complaints. I am looking forward to getting the DLC for both games, they better not be more than 800 points each though.
    Edited by 1 at 29/01/09 @ 16:43

  • Artemis_Matsas #27 3 years ago

    I might check this DLC if the price is right. The game itself had it's merits and it's flaws but i can say that i enjoyed it. Although i didn't really liked the "cliffhanger" ending.

  • photoboy #28 3 years ago

    I'm totally sold on this if it provides a more satisfying ending. PoP was probably my second favourite platformer last year after Mirror's Edge. If they do some PC DLC I might even buy that version too so I can play it on-the-go on my laptop (assuming it's not crippled with DRM).

  • Simian #29 3 years ago

    Played it. Traded it. Fucked off.

    /Peter Kay