Prince of Persia XBLA dated

By Robert Purchese Published 6 June, 2007

Revamp next Wednesday.

Ubisoft has confirmed to Eurogamer that Prince of Persia Classic will be next Wednesday's Live Arcade download.

"It is on the 13th, on Xbox Live Arcade," a Ubisoft spokesperson told us.

Unfortunately a price is yet to be announced.

Prince of Persia Classic is a remake of the first game in the influential platform-action series. This 1989 gem by Jordan Mechner will be brought up to date by developer Gameloft, and undergo a complete graphical overhaul.

On top of the cosmetic changes, there will be a few new traps, puzzles and enemies thrown in to keep Prince veterans on their toes.

The original Prince of Persia gave players 60 minutes to rescue the Princess from her fate at the hands of the evil Vizier - either marry him, or die.

Head over to our Prince of Persia Classic gamepage for the latest trailer and screenshots.

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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 (25) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #1 5 years ago

    Cool! Methinks I'll be getting this...

    Oooh, first post. I feel like I've lost my virtual virginity
    Edited by 1 at 06/06/07 @ 16:33

  • kangarootoo #2 5 years ago

    Hey there EG staff. Both article links go to the trailer instead of trailer and screenshots.

    Looks quite nice does this. I'm always a top cynic when it comes to retro gaming, but this is certainly worth a demo download.

    Two questions.

    1. Are there checkpoints.
    2. Have they dropped the time limit.

    The original was great, but I'm not sure I can deal with an old school approach to repetition anymore.

  • Darren #3 5 years ago

    Looks excellent from the videos I've seen but I'm concerned that what was a great game back in the days of the Amiga might not be now... I'd hate to ruin a great memory so I'll have to decide whether to try it... or not. With the amount of rubbish that XBLA seems to get these days, I fear for the quality of the conversion anyway... :(

  • grazerx8 #4 5 years ago

    prince of persia, pac-man who cares.

    wheres my bomberman.

  • kangarootoo #5 5 years ago

    @Darren

    Thats always the risk with nostalgia, i.e. that it turns out to be bollox :)

    Thats why I find it safer (and more predictable on the whole) to be cynical about retro gaming overall.

  • menage #6 5 years ago

    If only it was the SNES version remix!

    Still inetersted though. Although I must confess. I din't finish any off the Ubsioft games.
    Edited by 1 at 06/06/07 @ 17:06

  • Steroyd #7 5 years ago

    Except Nintendo 16 bit snes games for some reason Nintendo Nes games on the other hand... it's less painful having a rotweiller ravaging at your bits.

  • GamesConnoisseur #8 5 years ago

    Britesparc: Congratulations hope you had a good smoke afterward?!

    Again, you dont have to buy this, if in doubt trial it out. I remember the good old amiga days with PoP, for its time it was amazing in animation and range of body movements.

    I also remember I really get so frustrated with repeated deaths, and never really got past the first 15 minutes and instead got sidetracked with other games on blue 4.5 disks.

    not sure I want to go through again the same amount of frustrations I had, If they got checkpoints on this remake, then I ll give it a go just to complete the bloody thing!

  • Eighthours #9 5 years ago

    I reckon this'll be 1200 points. Any advance on 1200?

  • peteb #10 5 years ago

    whoa i was thinking this was the actual original, this looks nice! (means it'l be 800 at least)

  • morriss #11 5 years ago

    Fanfucking tastic!!

  • RickHard #12 5 years ago

    I look forward to this one !

    Talking about retrogaming nostalgia I think this is actualy the way to go : old classics updated to today's tastes. I liked a lot Ultimate Ghost'n Goblins on PSP, Mission Impossible looks nice too.

    Indeed, the simple port of the classics are too rude. Playing Gauntlet and Double Dragnon on XBL destroyed all my sweet memories...

  • Mike1980 #13 5 years ago

    It saddens me that this was announced last month and is almost upon us, whereas SWOS was announced last year and is not :(

  • BBIAJ #14 5 years ago

    Hell, Sonic was mentioned at last year's E3, and seems to have died along with it!

  • Nikanoru #15 5 years ago

    Except Nintendo 16 bit snes games for some reason Nintendo Nes games on the other hand... it's less painful having a rotweiller ravaging at your bits.


    Really? Then you must have been playing some very bad games in your youth. Because firing up SMB3 or some other classic right now, gives me a better gaming experience than about 90% of all the tripe coming out these days.

  • pagrab #16 5 years ago

    Were there mages shooting fireballs in the original PoP? I don't remember them. And the other thing - it looks like you have more moves at your disposal - I'm rather sure that you couldn't make this kind of salto jumps.

  • smelly #17 5 years ago

    This is one of my fav games of all time.. one for me to get.

  • DrunKao #18 5 years ago

    Who the hell do this people think they are announcing a game this big only a week prior to release?!?!

    I mean come the fuck on. It's PoP for Christ's Sake. I hope we get more notice in the future.

  • smelly #19 5 years ago

    Ive been playing the original on an emulator to prepare myself.. man.. i forgot how bloody hard it was!

  • Dezm0nd #20 5 years ago

    More notice? I dont really know what you mean, how would being aware of it a week earlier make it any better?

    To be honest, the trailer has been floating about for a few weeks prior to this, maybe you should check out some other sites other than EG :)

  • Scimarad #21 5 years ago

    Might be my first XBLA purchase as long as it isn't too expensive.

  • space_ace #22 5 years ago

    great, but the animation doesn't look too good...

    and where is flashback xbla!?

  • Beano #23 5 years ago

    "great, but the animation doesn't look too good... "

    Looks fine to me :
    http://ww w.gametrailers.com/player.php?i...

  • rosemeyer1939 #24 5 years ago

    Looking very nice, but they've clearly made some serious changes to the combat, and they've subtly included some left-right scrolling.

    Fingers crossed for an upgrade that doesn't piss on my memories of the glorious Atari ST version!

  • NegativeZero #25 5 years ago

    I haven't played classic PoP since my Master System died on me over a decade ago. I'll be all over this regardless of the price.