The final chapter in the sands of time trilogy. One that will be missed.
The game itself is quite simple. Except for one or two situations that may get you caught, it's fairly thorough and straight forward. The enemies in this game seem to have been given a increase in brain capacity to which they can fight you intelligently and sometimes call upon reinforcements. Depending on how hard you select the settings, the game is easy. You can breeze through it quite simply, its a linear game that doesn't deny the player the right passage.
Its a fairly quick game to complete, though in some cases it can have you hanging on for what seems hours. And at times, the setup and locations can cause the game to seem like it drags on for more that it should. But most of the time, there is a scene change sufficiently enough to keep the player interested.
If you've played the previous prince of persia games and face it, there's not many people who haven't, you should fly right through the learning how to play section and into the game. Though wait, there are some new features in this that aren't in the other games. And one of them is the stealthkills. These allow you to silently do away with your opponents either one or two at a time. But if you are seen or heard, you're drawn into a normal fight with your knife. yes, you heard me right knife, this time there is no sword, other than the occasionly you pickup as a auxiliary that eventually breaks. Everything else is the same, wall running, climbing, swinging on poles, climbing them, shimmying. If you haven't played the previous games, theres some time at the start of the game for control familiarization of the controls.
The gameplay is fair, comprising of the core components of enemies, levels and puzzles the game supplies plenty of the three. Though at times it can become extremely monotonous. The bosses are fairily simple to kill, once you understand the mechanics of the game, and exploit your surrounds to your advantage, as well as your ronound time powers. The location is quite dramatic, from the lowly sewers to the rich parts of the city and even Babylon's fabled Hanging Gardens. That is probably the best part of the game besides the story and good ending. The addition of the second player that randomly pops up and allows you control his powers adds abit of difference, as does the voice inside your head.
The graphics are a benchmark for the Prince of Persia games. This one favouring above the other two for its wide range of physical features, ranging from the rooftops to the tower of babylon that gives you access to a view of the entire city. The detail on the characters too is a benchmark. Though at times their hair comes through their chest and it looks very strange, but it does add abit of comedy to the situation.
The sound very good. Very good...though at times, like the levels it can become monotonous, though the constant sounds of deaths are fun to hear they get annoying. The sound is setup to defferintiate so that it doesn't kill the player, so I gues it ain't that bad.
Overall I got what I paied for, and I'm sure you will too. Everything that makes the previous games great adds to this if not does more. If you waited for this game from it's initial production stages, you shant be disappointed.