Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

In this game you play as the Prince.... The Prince Of Persia ( his name is never revealed ) an athletic fighter new to the battlefield and must undo a mistake that would cost everyone their lives. He accidentally let the sands of time out of a giant mysterious hourglass after being tricked by the evil Viser to do so. Now he only has the help from a mystical dagger called the dagger of time and one of his palaces captured servants , Farah . He must learn to work together with her and use the dagger to his advantage but can he trust Farah who's home land was sacked by his only a few days earlier.....this game brings action/adventure/puzzle solving to a new level , not to mention a fantastic storyline , this game wasn't game of the year for nothing !

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an exciting game full of adventure.

When I was a child, my brother would let me play this every Sunday. It was very enjoyable even if I was a bit scared of the bad guys.

I think that this game is absolutely amazing and I use to play it as a child and I have just got the game again and I am playing it on my Xbox 360. I am 33% into the game on the level called 'The Baths' and I died and whenever I re spawn at the last save point, my health bar comes up and the bar that shows me how much sand I have left in my dagger comes up and then a couple of seconds after that, it will say game over for no apparent reason and I can't do anything about it and it is very frustrating as I am re spawning and then it just says game over and I cannot continue so I was wondering if someone had any ideas to help me...

I wanted to persist with this first entry in the modern Prince of Persia series, but I found in each session I dedicated to the game that the negatives outweighed the positives. The platforming, perhaps the most defining characteristic of Prince of Persia, is enjoyable all these years after The Sands of Time's release.

You'll spend at least half of your in-game time platforming, and so it's great to see that this feature has aged well. That isn't to call it easy, however. This game is surprisingly punishing in fall damage; you'd probably expect the Prince to survive larger drops than a GTA character... and you'd be wrong! I assume the developer's intention was to ensure the player took no shortcuts and completed the levels as intended. It's frustrating, but workable.

If only the combat had aged like the platforming. The Sands of Time's enemies appear out of thin air as in Final Fantasy, arriving in wave after wave with no indication ever given as to how much longer a battle will remain. When the first three enemies appeared in the most recent area I played through, I had no idea whether I'd be facing a further three, or six, or twenty. Water fountains (the game's healing stations) are generally at hand, but good luck disengaging from the combat system's auto-lock and being able to actually use them.

The final feature I'd like to draw attention to is the ability to rewind in-game. While limited by how much sand you've collected (sand serves as a kind of action-point), being able to backtrack after a fatal misstep is a huge boon to the player. Perhaps unintentionally, the rewind feature helps in compensating for the The Sands of Time's poorly-aged qualities. For example, I often attempted to jump onto a pillar or platform that wasn't, in fact, grippable. This would invariably prove fatal.

Trying to be objective, there are probably more positives than negatives in playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2022. Note at the start of my review, I said that the negatives *outweighed* the positives. The combat is so detrimental to my enjoyment of the game, I'm willing to set it aside entirely and forego the many moments of fun platforming, puzzle-cracking and exploration that I'm sure would await.

Yes, this is the first game in a three game set with the Warrior Within and the Two Thrones to follow. This one was really good, though for my money Thrones was the best. The weakest was Warrior Within. This one has the prince raiding a country for their treasure. One of these treasures is the dagger of time which is the main source of power for the prince during the game. The prince's father is killed and the sands of time unleashed as people in the kingdom are turned into sand monsters and such. The prince must navigate this world fighting the sand monsters and navigating steep cliffs and traps and such as he tries to put everything right. The dagger of time gives the prince powers too, as he can kill the sand monsters and do various things with time including rewinding it to avoid death. Speeding up time to kill enemies more quickly. See into the future to find out clues to navigate through certain ares and so forth. The best parts of the game to me were the levels where you had to do acrobatic wall runs and such to get through areas. Then other areas you had to fight...these areas were a bit more of a pain and less fun. Though the fighting became more fun once you got a certain sword as it was easier to kill the monsters. There is a lack of boss fights in this one that drag it down as I only recall the one at the end with the main villain. So incorporate the fighting and the acrobat levels a bit better and make the fights more fun and you have an even better game and for my money you have The Two Thrones.