Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $5.81

Features:

• Experience betrayal and triumph in this suspense-filled action adventure
• Uncover the mysteries of exotic worlds and vast kingdoms
• Advanced physics, lighting, graphics, animations, and more
• Gravity-defying acrobatics, ferocious lighting combos, and the ability to bend time
• Control the past, future, and present in real-time for unlimited gameplay

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Not ready for the PC [Posted on 2006-08-06]
This was promoted for the consoles, where, I understand, it's supposed to be excellent. I haven't played it on a console. I play games on my computer and always have. I played the first two POP games there, as well as the original versions before them.
This game is simply not ready for the PC. It is all but unplayable. Aside from a really anoying savegame system, the ridiculous controls make playing the game all but undoable. You are bombarded with foes from all angles, these are battles which, due to the PC game's inability to let you do anything other than slash blindly away, you cannot win. Enemies come out of nowhere, they reconsitute, more and more of them appear and you're stuck waving your arms.
It ain't fun.
There's no patch to correct any of this either, you have to play the game AS IS.
At times when you have pay keen attention or get murdered, you cannot get the prince to go or do what you want, as when camera angles change suddenly, so do the keys you need to be pressing to move him around.
It is extremely aggravating and annoying.
When you die, no matter how close you are to a save point or how far you've already come with all of these ridiculous glitches, you're bounced to the beginning of the level again.
The game looks great, I stayed with it for a long time, trying to get something enjoayable out of it, but it was a complete waste of time.
Finally, in frustration, I just downloaded a batch of saved games and cycled through them, looking for snippets to play. If you've got a computer, I would avoid this at all costs.

Still sweet after 4 years [Posted on 2007-02-26]
I had this game for the Gamecube but never got the rest of the series. Now that I can't play the GC version I just decided to pick up the entire series from square one for the PC. (I figured it would just look that much better,and it seems to if memory serves me.)

The game is simply awesome all around. I won't get into to much detail but, if you like action/adventure this is a must buy.

Now, as far as the keyboard and mouse controls go, I don't think they are as bad as some claim. I admit I can see where it can be frustrating. You just don't have the same reaction/precision as playing it with an analog pad. Fighting multiple enemies while camera is rotating isn't exactly intuitive on the keyboard. Also jumping at angles can be a problem.

That said, I would play this with an analog pad, and do. :D

For the record I use my Xbox 360 pad with the game. It's functional "out the box" but I re calibrated the pad just to have things perfect.
Again the pad works just fine without doing anything to it, but to play Prince with it you might want to re calibrate it.

Hope this helps. Happy gaming.

Short game [Posted on 2007-03-08]
(This refers to the PC version of the game.)

This game is actually pretty short if you sit down and play it seriously. It's fun to watch-- he has some great moves, and he does a very slow strip tease throughout the game. No, really.

I had a lot of trouble coordinating camera movement with character movement. Direction of motion is relative to the camera, and sometimes the game takes over camera control. It can make it hard to run in a straight line (which is often necessary to avoid traps or trigger doors). And if the camera isn't at right angles with the Prince, it's easy to accidentally have him leap off into emptiness. Fortunately we have the rewind power to deal with that!

I'm looking forward to the other Prince of Persia games, but I hope they're a little longer than this one.

The prince is king! [Posted on 2007-06-05]
The prince agility and ability is dazzling and often aww-inspiring. He can run along the sides of walls, run up walls, leap, fling, swing, and perform other equally acrobatic feats with amazingly realistic human grace.

All those princely moves do is serve as a means to get you from point A to point , and figuring the right combination of moves to do so is the core of the gameplay. Playing thgough the gymnastically inclined royal palace is as much an intellectual exercice as much as a physical one, bu mostly it's just a ton of fun.

The controls, however, clearly show their console roots. The WASD/mouse system is used here and I was also able to use my gamepad.

The only weak point is the at-times overbearing combat. The prince is as adept a swordman as he is an acrobat, and watching him flip over enemies the slashing them from behind is riveting, but sometimes there's just too much combat. Enemies inundate the poor prince at times, and since they can only be killed when you've sucked the sand out of them while stunned, combat sequences can be incredibly difficult to overcome.

Finally there's the time-controlling dagger. Send the game into slow motion for bullet-time sword battles, but more importantly, if you miss a jump, you can rewind to just before the prince's untimely demise and try it again.

For anyone who likes third-person action and adventure, The Sands of Time is a must-have.

It is OK I guess [Posted on 2007-07-14]
It is challenging in parts, but just a bit too mechanical, and I want more story. Other games were move riveting and make you feel you have to play until the end, you always want to see what happens next. This Game however turns out to be more of a chore, first navigate this room, then the next room, then the next zzzzz.. On the plus side.. the graphics look good..

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