You know, I’m just not enjoying this as much as Sands of Time. I don’t know why. It isn’t anything specific, it’s just that there’s a load of small niggles and issues I’m having with it which together just makes it feel, well, wrong. Managed to get past the room I kept falling down holes on last time I played, only to run into the Dahaka, and then run from him. This took multiple attempts, as it’s like a speed …
Finally – an Xbox 360 game which could be considered “next-gen”. Lovely visuals, certainly the most impressive I’ve yet seen on the 360, which are (I’m told) even better in other levels of the full game. It’s fun too, even if it is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time with breasts and guns. So similar are the two games in terms of how you play them, that I pressed L to rewind time on several occassions, and the swinging-round-poles …
I’ve been gaming for a long time. This is obvious to anyone who has perused the rest of my site (the Gaming Diary and Museum both give clues to this). I’ve played a lot of games. Hundreds. Thousands, in fact. It would be naïve to assume that, having played so many games, gaming ideas are only ever used once, and so each game is an entirely unique experience. This is, of course, not true. Some things come up all the …