![]() ![]() ![]() Let's be more generous than reviewers of the time and say no more about it, except that it was a huge turd.Ī few years had to go by before the huge turd passed through the rectum of general memory, but in 2003, it fell to Ubisoft to take another stab at it and release Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. It was horribly-designed, with bugs up the arse (a particularly uncomfortable place for bugs) and had a terrible habit of arbitrarily killing the player with leap-of-faith gameplay and unlabelled traps in open defiance of occupational health and safety protocols. The first attempt at a 3D Prince of Persia was the predictably-named Prince of Persia 3D, technically a Tomb Raider clone in the same sense that a bucket of mushy peas and old twigs is technically food. Fast-forward a few centuries to the early days of full-3D, when executives were scrabbling around in graveyards looking for old properties to remake in big, lumpy polygons, and one chap with the stench of death about him suggested Mechner's opus. He then rotoscoped the pictures and created the timeless 2D classic Prince of Persia, the first in the subgenre of "realistic platformer" in which you can't jump more than two vertical feet and falling two storeys leaves you with your thighs poking out of your lungs. ![]() So back in the olden days, when Wolfenstein could still call itself "3D" with a straight face, a young squire named Jordan Mechner took a bunch of pictures of his younger brother running around in pajamas, because this was a simpler time before the Internet when you could still do that without someone calling the police. Since what I actually consider a good game is the eternal question that apparently keeps my correspondents up at night, and since the current state of new releases continues to be like staring into a big empty bucket made of air, I figured it was time to dribble out a few qualifying statements on the subject. So it seems I might have let slip a few controversial statements about the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy, what with phrases like "best game series of the last console generation" dribbling out of the corner of my mouth. ![]()
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