The music, the footage, the overall tone, just wow. Everything about this new trailer for Prince of Persia really just makes for a blissful little experience.
The trailer showcases some of the new gameplay elements being introduced into the new Prince of Persia game. From working with your magical female partner, to the challenging enemy battles, and the purification of the world from darkness. After seeing the game in motion like this, it makes me really happy that they decided to go with this unique art direction for the game.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer and let us know what you think of it.
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the demo itself is to be presented much later tonight. I hope you guys enjoy the shit out of it because the last few weeks have been hard as hell for a few of us!
Everybody is keeping a close eye on the reactions (though mostly at other sites / forums / places). I think I'm the only one who's trolling dtoid. Up to here, comments have ranged between "the art is awesome" to "wtf cellshaded, why they made the game 2d, they're lazy". Those ones are facepalm-worthy and *really* uninformed. At least I know the whining here will most likely be legitimate. :P
Speaking of which, Ben got a kick out of that "With tasteful breasts" header from about a month ago.
Holee... wow. Gameplay looks standard for PoP, which isn't a bad thing. Art design is delicious though, loving the cel-shaded characters. Somehow they managed to make "brown" feel colourful in a world too. And I would assume this means the game will be co-opable? If so, winrar.
I like Sigur Ros, and I like Prince of Persia. But together they don't really seem like that good of a mix. Maybe it's just me, but whenever I hear that specific song, all I can think of is a snowstorm. It just doesn't jive well with what's going on. Other than that, I eagerly await this game.
I'm actually starting to get excited for this. I love the new art style, and the gameplay clips are bringing up positive memories of Sands of Time's storybook aesthetic.
Looks groovy. I got the Ico vibe too, which I think is a good thing. Love the greens and spring colored areas which is a bit of a departure from other PoP games.
I've been interested in this game since they announced it would be a brand new storyline/main character but this trailer has officially sold me on the title being incredible.
This plus Mirror's Edge will make free-running action games a whole new subgenre and I will be all the happier for it.
Game looks nice, but Sigur Ros?? One of my favorite groups. As commercial-resistant as they are, I can't believe they Ubisoft cheapen one of their songs like that. Then again, they did appear on the soundtrack to the pretentious abortion, Vanilla Sky. :(
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3:43 PM on 07.15.2008
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bonus points for sigur ros
The game looks really nice.
the demo itself is to be presented much later tonight. I hope you guys enjoy the shit out of it because the last few weeks have been hard as hell for a few of us!
Everybody is keeping a close eye on the reactions (though mostly at other sites / forums / places). I think I'm the only one who's trolling dtoid. Up to here, comments have ranged between "the art is awesome" to "wtf cellshaded, why they made the game 2d, they're lazy". Those ones are facepalm-worthy and *really* uninformed. At least I know the whining here will most likely be legitimate. :P
Speaking of which, Ben got a kick out of that "With tasteful breasts" header from about a month ago.
It looks great, and really fun. It doesn't really look Persian anymore though, but oh well, I guess. I'm sure I'll pick it up.
Ignore the haters... This game looks fantastic and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us later tonight.
And tell whoever picked the Sigur Ros music for the trailer "good job." =)
Sigur Ros sounds great here. I love my art and the way this is presented reminds me of renaissance artwork. It's very relaxing to watch.
It looks harder to produce these visuals than anything else.
haha, I remember that heading. I also remember agreeing that they are tastefully sized and did think it when I saw this trailer too.
She is beautiful, it is a shame she gets used as a baseball bat at one point!
FUCKING
WANT
That is everything I hoped for and more in the next Prince of Persia game. I'm switching back to my old avatar for this one.
As said already: DO. WANT. NOW! That was an amazing trailer and showed off WAY more then I expected.
also finally another POP game! (SOT did NOT have any direct sequels ya hear?)
This plus Mirror's Edge will make free-running action games a whole new subgenre and I will be all the happier for it.
DO SO FUCKING WANT
And the game looks good too. :O)