Footage Of A Cancelled Prince Of Persia Game Has Been Hiding On YouTube For Eight Years

Footage of a cancelled Prince of Persia game has come to light today, but it's actually been available for years. A thread on forum ResetEra has surfaced the footage, and all indications are that it's real. The footage shows a new character model for the titular prince, who seems to have a new set of time-manipulation powers that allow him to mess with enemies and change direction in the middle of a jump.

You can watch the full video, running just over three minutes, below. It seems that the prince is using the Dagger of Time, so it might have been a reboot of the Sands of Time series.

It looks pretty impressive--but it's also worth remembering that Ubisoft is notorious for releasing early footage that looks better than the eventual release (in this case, of course, there's no way of comparing).

Considering the timeline, the game was likely in the works for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC--and it looks like it would have had some giant boss fights. Prince of Persia Redemption was never actually announced, so it's not clear why it was cancelled--although Ubisoft Montreal has been pretty busy with Assassin's Creed and Far Cry for the past decade.

The last official Prince of Persia game was 2010's Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, which went back to the Sands of Time timeline following 2008's reboot, simply titled Prince of Persia.