Prince of Persia like Splinter Cell, has not had a new video game from Ubisoft for some time. Now the publisher is using the old Jordan Mechner brand again and has not only announced a VR game, but also a crossover event for For Honor.
This is what developer and publisher Ubisoft introduces in the trailer embedded above, which presses directly on the nostalgia of old-established fans and begins with the same words with which Sands of Time started in 2003 and ended The Two Thrones in 2005.
It's in the PoP event
The event extends over two weeks and revolves around the new mode »Ruler of Time«. In this you hit a Dominion match with armies consisting of sand creatures on the Harbor map.
- March 12th, 2020: The prince steps out of a sand tornado at regular intervals and attacks all players.
- March 19th, 2020: The prince was infected by the sands of time and becomes the dark prince who fights with his chain of blades. In addition, the port map continues to change.
- New weapons: You can find a total of 26 new weapons by April 2nd.
- Free event pass: You can work your way through a special free Battle Pass with 30 levels and unlock outfits, emblems, ornaments and a mood effect.
- New shop items: In the in-game store you can buy skins from Ratash and the Sand Spirit, as well as a new execution.
What is Prince of Persia about?
Prince of Persia is a jump & run game from 1989, which impressed especially with the animations that were outstanding at the time and which the developer Jordan Mechner achieved with rotoscopy. Although the game was initially very difficult due to the lack of support from the publisher Broderbund, it was able to nevertheless celebrate great success in Europe and Japan
This caused imitators such as Flashback, who tried to ride on the wave of success by copying the game principle.
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The title received a revival with the remake from 2005 by Ubisoft. This picked up on the well-known game mechanics, but expanded the story and, above all, rose with the later often copied mechanics of turning back time instead of a quicksave function.
There were two successors, which also rely on the well-known ingredients of the original: acrobatics in dungeons, rapid battles and a dark prince as an opponent.
Mathias Dietrich
@ kawaraban5Stop the presses! The king … prince is back! Well, "only" as an event, but it still makes me jump in circles. Prince of Persia paved my way into gaming journalism at the time by working day and night on a fan site about the game. That Ubisoft does something to the prince again after ten years gives hope for the future.
The trailer for the For Honor Event makes me indulge in nostalgia: the prince, the sand spirit, the dark prince. All that remains to be hoped is that Ubisoft will not stiffen so much in the future from the already completed Sands of Time series, but will finally give us the long overdue successor to Prince of Persia 2008, which it still has on PC Owe DLC!
The series deserves it just because of the fresh setting of Persian mythology.