Wall running has never been so epic.
Story: The story is basically this: The prince returns home to his father's kingdom only to find it under attack and in seriously bad condition. Who is behind all of this? Well in the previous game the Prince managed to rewind time and free a skimpily dressed preistess of time. As a result, there had been many things that had never happened and he had never done, including killing one of his old enemys and failing to save a certain princess from death. Time had been rewritten and the Prince has been partially tranform as side effect from the new events that plague his kingdom. Will the Prince save them all? Will he even be able to save himself?
This story is fairly straight forward from there, but since this game's story is based on past games there will be times where you simply don't know what is being talked about.
Graphics: Some of the special effect and action sequences are very cool, but I'm not exactly impressed beyond words. I've seen better. There are still some problems with hands and feet being temporarily sucked through walls and there has been more than one occation where I've had thrown enemys simply vanish through them and are presumed dead. There was even one occation where I threw an enemy off a roof top, but his sword stayed behind an kept fighting. Very glitchy.
Gameplay: The gameplay is also nothing very new. A glorified platformer is still with a Prince of Persia game is all about. You solve puzzles and find complicated means of climbing around the roofs of the kingdom buildings, fighting guards and occtional bosses along the way. If you ask me the Prince could probably have made things much easier on himself if he just bother to open a normal door every now and then, but, hey, if he did that we wouldn't have a Prince of Persia game now would we? The only problems I had with the gameplay we're the controlls going crazy every once in a while, sometimes the Prince would do what you directed him to do, sometimes not. More than once the camera seemed to make the movement commands get stuck or confused every once on a while. One the plus side, Princes alternate form that likes to pop up randomly when the prince goes to long without water adds some newer meaner moves to the Prince's adventure.
In comclusion this game is great if you like fast paced platform games that involve a lot of running, climbing, jumping and switch finding. For all you parent out there, this game is rated "Mature" but unless they get dizzy spell from occation spots of blood and the occational flesh wound, there's not much to worry about. I'm thinking most preteens could handel it at the very most. If you are still worried, however, ether rent and play it up to the first boss yourself as a good representation or if you can't do that you can try to find a picture of the first boss in the images section ( you can't miss him, he's the one with the missing jaw).