One of these will be a freezing ability, so, for example, you could stop a water fountain in time so you could climb it.
It'd be boring (aka 'the same') if he just did the same things as before, so Ubisoft are giving him a load of new elemental powers to learn throughout the rest of the game. There's no messing about with contrived explanations of why you haven't got access to the time warp powers, you just do, right from the get-go. It's just not original and after seven years, more has to be expected than what Forgotten Sands provides.Īs such, he can rewind time straight away. It's an unapologetic remake of Sands of Time, a back-to-basics action/platform game that will delight any who play it. None of these points stop Forgotten Sands being a fine game. Word to any game developer out there - these are overused: please stop cramming them into your games. There are also too many of the boring big brute enemies that rush you with a charge attack, smash their heads against walls, causing them to remain concussed just long enough for you to hack at them from behind a bit. You still get locked into animations too often, causing you to take unnecessary damage, and sometimes things can degenerate into farce as you roll around frantically while your health recharges. This works well, with huge swarms of skeletons being despatched with swift sword strokes and acrobatics, but it suffers from the same problems that afflicted Rocksteady's release.
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Things aren't all the same, though Combat has been improved since Sands of Time, with a Batman: Arkham Asylum-style setup where huge numbers of enemies advance slowly forwards, while you try to chain together a fluid series of attacks, dodges and special moves (see Powers That Be). Game development should be about evolution and pushing boundaries, not just about playing it safe and chasing the easy dollar, pound or euro. Admittedly, it's inherently difficult to change such a successful concept without losing something, but to basically run away screaming from evolution like this is a bad sign for the future. The Forgotten Sands still presents you with increasingly big rooms with conveniently placed levers, poles and columns to jump between and, while the action is exceptionally fluid, you'll be intimately familiar with the concept of deja vu after only a few hours of play.
While what worked in 2003 still works now, having no actual progression, bar the ability to freeze water a bit and a more exciting combat system, isn't really good enough.Īnnoyingly, things that did work well in 2009's Prince of Persia have been stripped out like using a companion's attacks to assist you in combat or in making huge jumps, and the hub-based mission structure. Something that was missing from Prince of Persia, where your female ally would save you every time you screwed up a jump. Time can be rewound and the tension of actually being allowed to fail has returned. It's been tried, tested and found to succeed so after the relatively experimental "you can't die" approach of the last Prince of Persia, it's good to see a return to classic roots for the series. The Sands trilogy is fondly remembered, so giving the fans what they want is a sensible thing to do. In practice this means playing r Forgotten Sands is like playing a slicker Sands of Time. These events fit in the period between Sands of Time and Warrior Within, acting as if the last game didn't exist. The battle is going badly and Malik is getting desperate, and seeks the assistance of a mystical armed forced sealed deep in the bowels of his citadel. Our Prince is on his way to visit his elder brother Malik, who he discovers is being besieged in his ludicrously oversized palace city.