Quick Look: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

this game has 3 out of 5 written all over it. To get when its on the cheap side

" I'd have rather seen the continuation of PoP 2008, it had a much more interesting look than anything I've seen in this game. "

Not that this is realistic to begin with, but when time freezes, the water cannot part for you to pass through, making it 'solid'. So yes, if you could stop time you could totally climb water.

BRAD DIDN'T DIE!!!

the game actually is better than I expected. Won't get it now, but possibly at a later time.

In every movie/game when time freezes, stuff freezes as well. I'd argue that that's not time stopping, because time is simply a measurement. It's stopping movement of everything except for yourself. Stopping time simply doesn't make sense.
 
That's also why we'll never have time machines. It's a concept that doesn't hold water. What's done is done, and the future comes on its own.

Actually, if you want to get technical, messing with time WOULD make water solid. I believe, if I remember middle school science, freezing is just slowing the molecules down, solidifying the liquid. Freezing time would have the same effect.

Wow so you have to PRESS A BUTTON for the contrived puzzle bits to appear? How fresh. 
 
This game looks so mediocre it hurts.

rofl how he just walked through those spikes, no special moves or anything :P

The problem I see is this game uses the same prefab tools for environment maneuvering over and over.  water_spraying_sideways.mesh, water_spraying_down.mesh, tapestry_to_slow_you.mesh, pot1.mesh, barrel1.mesh.  It's like the gargoyles in Batman AA
 
A better artistic vision would encompass all the same mobility around more interesting level design.  If other 3rd person action/platformers can do it, so can Ubisoft.
 
Hell, even some custom dynamic lighting and/or shadows would make this look and feel a hell of a lot better.  This game has some real PS2-era lightmaps.  (this is the flatness Ryan talks about)

Cool QL. Was wondering about this game

the rats!

Gross

I wonder if it explains how he became emo in the 2nd game. Ryan is wrong, water frozen in time would be solid.  Anything frozen in time would be solid.  The molecules would cease to move and seem solid to a person outside of the time stoppage effect.
 
Breaking stuff to get the little globes looks very God of War-ish.

The Prince looks like a retarded child of Orlando Bloom and Ellen Barkin.

It's good they are back in the Sands of Time series, the 2008 game was probably one of the biggest wastes of money in the biz. Hooray for ass jokes (Ubisoft, seriously, hiring Nolan North to do Drake in your game does not guarantee instant profit), bad combat and complete lack of a story (the awful ending and the even worse "conclusion" in the Epilogue DLC where Elika pulls a Cartman)? Yeah, probably not.

Though I gotta say - the concept feels dated and this game doesn't seem to refresh it enough. The Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones are all perfectly playable today, but it really makes more sense to replay those games than pay up 60$ for something I already had thrice, more than 5 years ago.

I always figured the prince having a british accent had to do with him being nobility. 
 
Anyways, this looks just like what I wanted, gameplay wise, I'll look forward to playing it.

I understand what Prince of Persia is supposed to be and how it is supposed to play, but the whole water-spouts-from-nothing-to-nowhere-for-nothing and repeating the same looking rooms over and over  screams lazy game design.  Makes me sad.

I had a nightmare the other day. There was a game designer in it. He was frantically running away from a giant paint-box, flailing in agony.

ick... doesn't look too fun. I would rather see a new installment with the new (Nolan North) prince. That story still hasn't concluded.

A perfect example of boring, lazy and uninspired game design.

i just realized no dual wielding you cant take enemy weapons, I wonder if you can do that wall run and backflip into a slash..

*yawn*

Wow, he looks dumb.

Jeez, Ubisoft really can't get it right when it comes to the Prince.

Hey Ryan, how do you know slowing down time doesn't make Water solid? Have you tried it? :)

Prince looks Nier levels of ugly, sand monster (first enemies in QL) look neat.  

 
Now quick like a bunny, fire that ancient interior decorator with a catapult.

I was a little worried about the game but this QL seems to change that.  It looks like classic PoP which I've been wanting.  Too bad Red Dead and Alan Wake are coming out.

I fucking hate that they are not continuing pop 08

hard to get any excitement for this game when it is released the same day as Red Dead and Alan Wake.

Honestly I think you could make water solid by messing with time. Freeze time all together and water wouldn't be able to move out of your way so it would basically be solid.

this looks SO boring... wow 
it's probably because Red Dead Redemption spoiled me too much though.

Everything about this seems so cookie cutter and generic. Consider me uninterested.

Mediocre? Perhaps.
It still looks like a fairly entertaining rental romp to me.

This is Uncharted territory, indeed, Brad.

Looks like they're playing it pretty safe. This looks almost exactly as I remember the original Sands Of Time game, just smoother.

As someone who bought every PoP game thus far, I am avoiding this. Just doesn't look fun, and how the hell did they fuck up the Prince's face?

I really hope the puzzles and traversal become a bit more complex. The puzzles in this quick look seem pretty simple, mindless, and boring.

I've always suspended my disbelief about the superhuman acrobatics the prince pulls off, but something about being able to run up walls after having already jumped to them doesn't sit with me. Like when he ran up that waterfall, jumped across to the other one and then kept running up? If he could do that, why not just run all the way up to begin with? Why climb on ledges at all if he can just continually run up walls?

looks quite boring

I kept thinking that all those gushing fountains would make a perfect setting for some babylonian-style hanging gardens chockful of exotic, colourful vegetation. against the brownness of it all. well maybe that changes later on...

I dont like what Ubisoft has been doing to their games in the last 3 or 4 years. Oh well 
I will just continue to stay away from them
 
After thought: What would happen if you solidify the waterfall while standing inside of it?

" Jeez, Ubisoft really can't get it right when it comes to the Prince. "

Doesn't look bad, but I preferred the 2008 reworking a lot more. Wish Ubisoft hadn't ditched it. 

I wish we'd gotten to see the other 3 powers. Still, good quick look.

Just wanted to say that heat is technically the vibration of particles so one could say that the state of water could be decided by time powers.

It looks fun, but the freeze water thing just seems like a dumb gimmick and just a way for them to give you a power other than time.  Also, his face.  Oh god his face.
 
It seems very "gamey" in a way that I haven't seen much since the PS2-era.  Like they were talking about, the puzzles just don't make sense in the environment.  Maybe it's just me but the fact that this is a game is very apparent, nothing seems well integrated into the environment.  
 
Either way, I definitely want to play this some time, whether it be by renting it or buying it later on when it's cheaper.

Man, this game looks pretty darn good.
 
The animation is pretty impressive too, and the combat looked mashy but satisfying.
 
I should pick this up!

Is this a sandbox game :P