Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands super review

Is this the sequel the Prince always deserved, or just another soulless movie cash-in?

GamesRadar+ Verdict

Pros

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    Combat is hugely improved

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    Traps and puzzles are a blast to run through

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    Interesting

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    endearing cast of characters

Cons

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    Too linear to allow much exploration

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    Boss fights are fun

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    but too simple

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    Ultim💫ately too shallow to be a "real" Prince of Persia

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When we first found out about Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, it was impossible to not be skeptical. After closing out the Sands of Time trilogy and dropping wads of cash on a flashy new reboot for the franchise, publisher Ubisoft just suddenly decided that the character was too good to let go? And this decision just happened to coincide with the featur🐠e-film adaptation of the first game?

Right.


Above: Purely coincidental!

This had “bullshit tie-in” written all over it. Still, Ubisoft repeatedly assured us (and everyone else in the gaming press) that Forgotten Sands wouldn&𒀰rsquo;t be a movie game, and that its release date was a coincidence, even though it’s hitting shelves exactly 10 days before the film’s release. Suspicious as these claims seemed, they were backed up by some slick gameplaꦆy demonstrations that gave us hope that Forgotten Sands wouldn’t be crap, even if its redesigned Prince sort of looks like what you’d get at the center of a Venn diagram made up of his old appearance, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eric Stoltz in Mask.


Above: Gross