Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

THE GOOD:
~kind of original
~Great graphics
~Neat sand system

THE BAD:
~Can't choose levels
~Replay value

SUMMARY:
Once you first start this game you will be amazed at the graphics in the cut scenes, they have really brought the game to life. The game is set in Persia when it was a thriving place full of action, the perfect place to put an action game.

Though this game doesn't deliver a lot of action, the action it does deliver you will be quite pleased with, it is quite intense and you will need to focus. Well the game play is based around you jumping to the next area basically, though it is quite difficult, there are many challenges that await you, even booby traps and they'll get you if you are not concentrating, you really need to concentrate in this game to make it.

The music and sounds are excellent, as say you are walking down a corridor with your character yelling out because he took a swing at his sword, it will...

THE GOOD:
- Excellent Graphics

- Gorgeous levels - details are well thought out, rooms well planned, and the whole thing seems put together with a lot of care to the whole Persian theme.

- Superb moves - run along walls, bounce from wall to wall, leap over your enemies and slash them from behind, swing from pole to pole, and roll or flip to dodge attacks.

- Runs smooth with full detail @ 800x600 on an Nvidia FX5200 budget card.

- Music blends flawlessly with the whole Prince of Persia mythos and environment.

THE BAD:
- Some repetitiveness later in the game, fight scenes become a chore rather than an exciting change in pace.

- Not enough cutscenes to move story forward during play

- The plot is a little thin - there's no real character development or unfolding of the evil Jafar's plans.

- Sometimes the controls are unwieldy - until you master the combination of the weird camera control with the movement...

if you vowed only to buy
one PS2 game for the entire year...

BUY "PRINCE OF PERSIA: SANDS OF TIME"


picture this...

take ALL your exxxpectations for each and EVERY game
that was released this past year, and then imagine that ALL
of these exxxpectations actually came true...

and that's whut "PRINCE OF PERSIA" is...


the following instances are moments when you will
definitely say "holy phuck" or "gat dammmn" during PRINCE OF PERSIA:

(a) the first time that you run up an enemy's chest....flip over him
and then slice his ass from behind ("gat dammmn")

(b) the first time that you run 15 feet sideways along a wall,
and then jump to that edge that seemed impossible ("holy phuck")

(c) the first time that you plunge hundreds of feet to your
absolute death, but then instantly rewind time right before
your very eyes to bring your hero & humble narrator...