The learning curve is steep - far, far steeper than the Prince's original outing, and it was a while before I felt brave enough to enter the game's vast list of teen-friendly, yet invariably spectacular combos. Among all this, there's a nice woman with astounding breasts and the voice of Monica Belluci, the aforementioned evil woman with the prominent arse and a variety of vampire women who really like it when you bite back.Ĭombat lies somewhere in the deadzone between buttontapping and carefully planned swipes - which (as someone who normally regards blocking in beat 'em ups as something that happens to other people), I initially struggled with. In an effort to avoid this, the Prince sets off for an island full of cogs, gears and spinning blades where he can nip between the present and the past in an effort to stop the roots of the problem (the Sands Of Time) from ever being created. The somewhat befuddled story has it that the Prince's prior time-fiddling and death-dodging has enraged the Empress of Time, who has sent her vengeful Dahaka demon to ensure that the Prince meets a grisly fate. The nuts, bolts, jumps and spins of the old game are still here you see, they've just been put through a heavy goth filter that might take away a lot of the originality, but they certainly add a fair dollop of fun. I'm angry that something that I held so dear has been taken away from me, but the fact that the new game is actually pretty good certainly lessens my fury.
Thing is though, I actually quite like tits, arse, decapitations, combos, rock music, big monsters and slow-motion depravity - so I find myself in a bit of a pickle. To be replaced instead with tits, arse, decapitations, combos, rock music, big monsters and slow-motion depravity. Gone is the charm, gone the delightful relationship between the Prince and Farah, gone the absolute uniqueness that sold me its predecessor so utterly. Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time sold bugger all, so a bunch of overweight men in suits came up with a Powerpoint presentation that clearly had the kidz' as its focus. Jesus wept! Ladies and gentlemen, it appears we're not in Kansas anymore.īlame those marketplace realities.
Whose arse has almost entirely filled my screen with a close-up so intense that you can almost see the veins, and a leather G-string that could garrote a doormouse. He's had a hectic day and not had time to shave - that happens to us all. Five minutes into Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within, you realise that we've come quite a way since we left the posh, foolish and slightly fey youth that we left atop a minaret last year.
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