Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
A more beautiful game I've yet to see. This game just has the jaw-dropping visuals. While most games would be content to breaking out the excellent graphics during cut-scenes and the like, Prince of Persia always looks fantastic.
You play as a recently deposed Prince and begin your journey looking for the Dagger of Time. Once you acquire it, your actual adventure (and the game's unique feature) begins. With the Dagger, you can control time. The stop time, reverse time, slow down time and a speed up time abilities all open up eventually after you gain the dagger. The power you'll use most often because of its ease and convience will be the reverse time. A baddie just hit you? No problem. Just reverse time back before you got it and then kill your enemy before he gets the chance to hit you again. Killing enemies is essential in Prince of Persia because that's how you recharge your Dagger.
Even without the Dagger, the Prince is a force to be reckoned with. He's agile, strong and quick and you'll have a blast controlling him as you run along walls, swing on curtains and poles and dodge the attacks of your enemies.
As much fun as this game is, some of the puzzles will make you go a little crazy. If you stick with it though, you'll figure them out. None of them are terribly hard.
All in all, Prince of Persia is a game that has that right mix of puzzles, action, and sweet, sweet graphics to be considered awesome.
Graphics: 12 (They deserve a 12)
Sound: 7 (alot of the music is very good. Definitely sets the mood.)
Story: 7
Enemies: 5 (The actual enemy that you're fighting rarely matters. Just that there is an enemy.)
Settings: 7
Battles: 10 (The first time you nail the reverse time power to reverse that hit you just took, and then kill every one around you without taking any damage, you'll be hooked on the fighting)
DarthSupero's Overall Score (out of 100) for Prince of Persia for multiple platforms: 82
Written: April 20th 2005
Reviewer: Musa Mack
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