Prince Of Persia Is Back With Brand New Title, Out January 2024 On Switch

Oh I am here for this!

This game looks great. Excited to play it in January.

Most Ubisoft games are like having bread and water for lunch but Prince of Persia is one of those franchises people were waiting for for decades.

If this isn't good we might never see a POP game again, so hopefully...

A super polished 2D platformer from Ubisoft? Is this a dream?

So Sands of Time remake is cancelled for good then?

Erm... What's about that Prince of Persia remake that was announced a long(?) time ago?

Looks like a traditional Prince of Persia game combined with Metroid Dread or even the Strider reboot from a few years ago.

Okay, Ubisoft, I'll bite: you have my attention.

Like the new art direction and mechanics shown here. Looks like a solid title. I'm kind of surprised the release date is after the holidays though. That's curious. Is it a smaller game and they want to avoid the bigger AAA releases? Most gaming budgets are spent by then; except for like gift card money.

Reportedly, this is gonna be a 60fps title on Switch

@Vyacheslav333 Ubisoft have stated recently that the present team were taken off working on the POP: Remake (likely it wasn’t up to snuff) and it has now been moved to another dev team.

In their words it’s back in “conception phase” rather than active development. Take that to mean what you will. Essentially though the remake as we knew it has been canned and potentially started again.

On the plus, this new one looks pretty slick though.

@Vyacheslav333 Taken from the team working on it and rebooted. So it may be a while.

Music doesn’t fit the trailer. Rap doesn’t shoehorn into EVERYTHING

I am beyond excited, I'm currently playing Warrior Within on GameCube!

Hey, look at that. Ubisoft is publishing a game that I’ll actually buy.

@Zach777 I thought it worked

@Vyacheslav333 I call it the Metroid effect, where a hotly anticipated revival of a neglected series enters development hell so a 2D entry gets announced out of nowhere to keep fans happy.

Looks good. I almost didn't pay attention to it because of the music.

I can't believe Ubisoft is making a game that is not an Assassins Far Cry 92 with open world and markers and RPG elements.
Very glad tho. It looks good.

I mean I'm not complaining, it looks decent...

... But it's maybe a bit disappointing when a series has established itself with 3D games and then goes 2D (let's just ignore Metroid for a moment).

This looks like a cross between the 2D Assassin's Creed games (not that I've ever played one), and Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

The prince got a pretty bad haircut

Looks okay, I'd much prefer Sands of Time remake. Or even just re-release it

That music... 🤮 🤮

The prince himself looks ridiculous, but otherwise the gameplay looks fun.

@gcunit Metroid established itself with 2D.

Hmmm... I think I prefer the original.

@EVIL-C If you listen to the voice over in the trailer, this is not the prince but some dude who is rescuing the prince.

Looks alright but I hate the main character's design.

I like the art style. Gameplay looks promising.

I like the aesthetic (love how colorful and smooth the artstyle looks), but not a fan of the camera view...even though it pays homage to the original. Sadly I started with Sands of Time so I am used to that camera angle style. Will still get it...I just expect to die a LOT.

I never thought I'd say this, but I actually prefer the butt rock from the early 2000s PoP to this...

Crazy how I was at work today and thinking to myself "I really wish a new prince of Persia game would get made" and then pow, your wish is my command said ubisoft. I even put on that song I stand alone by Godsmack that they used in the warrior within trailers back in the day lol

I do wish it was a 3D POP game though, but I'll take what I can get

great gameplay, awful art direction

@Ryu_Niiyama @Sonicka Okay. Got it.

@DiggleDog Haha. 😄

What does PEGI-16 equate to in ESRB? I don't play Mature games, but I've always wanted to experience Prince of Persia. I know the ratings on those games can vary.

@BTB20 Ah thanks, I couldn't hear the VO when I first watched it.

I did not expect to see weird racists in a comment section about Prince of Persia of all series.

The music and character design was horrible.

@nessisonett I hear you man.
Don’t want to call it out but you can do swap out some letters of the users name and it will turn into a historical figure. 🙈

I've just seen this (I'm watching the "livestream" a few hours late). This looks incredible and I'm SO here for it. As others have said, very surprised Ubisoft are going with a 2d metroidvania, but it looks amazing. Clearly a mix of the original 2d game with the 3d games graphics style, speed and moveset and learning lessons from some of the best metroidvania titles. I'm 100% sold. (admittedly I agree some of the music was a weird thematic mismatch but I assume this was for the action hollywoodish trailer to be cut to and not representative of the music in game)

@JnFnRu

And that’s ok.

@gcunit Forgive me if I misunderstood your post but PoP started as a 2d game and has multiple 2d sidescrolling games - most notably the original in 1989 which was hugely successful and ported to almost everything, and a direct sequel in 1993 for SNES, Mac + PC. There have been many remakes and also 2d companion games for the 3d titles for portables, mobile etc since then.

Arguably, Prince of Persia was the first proper example of a "cinematic platformer" which lead to games like Another World, Flashback and Blackthorne, and also inspired the controls and movement of the original Tomb Raider games, and other "pre-analogue" tank-controlled 3d platformers. It was also probably the most notable early example of rotoscoping of live action footage to provide realistic smooth human animation for sprites in a game.

Of course, Sands of Time was revolutionary in its own way and invited many imitators, but its very much the "Metroid Prime" of the series, creating a successful 3d spin off with its own ideas. (not that it was the first 3d PoP title, but it was the first to do it "right" and become a financial and critical success)

@Rudolf What's up with your racist complaints about "Harlem's gangsters" and could a site moderator please delete that bullcrap?

Love the art direction and gameplay shown. Definitely on my wishlist.

It looks just horrible to me. Also why does every game/movie have to have “immortals”? This is not even in the wheelhouse of the original and seems like every other superhero game. I have the original in several formats and the genesis of the game is physical ability and solving puzzles. Not street fighter moves in Arabia. I will pass on this one. For anyone who feels the opposite of me I hope it ends up being a solid game.

@samuelvictor ty. That was going to be my post. Sorted.

@LikelySatan Haha glad to be of service!

This looks great! Although I really hope the music in the trailer isn’t in the game or else I’m playing this on mute.

Was a surprise. I assume like the OG ones in 2D? Or the Assassin's Creed Chronicles games however it will be closest to in execution and vibe. I mean with Flashback 2 I'd have been surprised if they wanted this Prince of Persia to still be a cinematic platformer or not with this one but I assume not? To me the Prince does look weird he looks like he belongs in a different game.

To me while it's probably a fair game to me it's clear it's a 'hold over till remake is ready'. Which is fine. The boss looked straight out of Metroid Dread though. XD I'm interested. I haven't played much Prince of Persia just the reboot and well Forgotten Sands Wii (with the SNES one on the disk from the green waterfall item).

looks like a nice game
But the Prince's design is very bad, and it's also not Persian at all, but as I said the game itself looks good, I also got Metroid Dread vibes from it
And I hate rap music in a game trailer
EDIT: I just understand that the main character in this game isn't th Prince, his design is still bad though

Looks good. Sonic and Prince of Persia both seem excellent.

The new game looks fine, but I'd be so much more interested in rereleases of either the original '89 Prince of Persia or the Sands of Time.

This looks SOOOOOOOO good! I can't wait! Day 1 purchase for me for sure!

Gameplay seems fine and the whole game seems interesting. Main character does not seems like a persian to me and the music is so awful and so out of this place!!! Come on Ubisoft!!! Make an atmosphere with persian-egyptian theme which is so good and do it modern. Not this horrible sountrack! Please add the original POP character as playable. Thanks.

Why does anyone think this music is in the game itself? It's clearly just for the trailer.

@Ninfan The price at launch? Or 6 months later? 😂

@nessisonett yes, cry racism where there isn't any.🤡
Calling the music and character design bad does not make anyone a racist.
The gameplay looks fine but I agree with most here when it comes to the ridiculous music choice and main character design.

So, new installations of iconic cinematic platformer game series looks like average metroidvania without iconic gameplay style. It's more like Immortal Fenyx Rising spin-off than Prince of Persia game.

And one moment. I see some people try to protect game with arguement: "Original games rooted from 2D!" For those people: "Do you remember what kind of game it was?" And especially why PoP gameplay was important for Video Game's History. I don't ask for making game fully like classic iterations, but "The Lost Crown" looks really like lazy product, where market manager asked to combine mechanics from some metroidvanias, and now is selling it under iconic trademark of unused for decade franchise. Even for spin-off with another main character looks lazy.

@Link-Hero to be fair, Sands of Time, and Warrior Within even more, did the same thing with the music. It's just early 2000s NuMetal instead of rap.

What’s with the Prince’s new look? He looks like a prince from another continent…. 🧐

Controversy and artistic liberty aside, the game looks like another generic Ubisoft game. I couldn’t tell if it was an Immortal Fenyix sequel or not…..

Tell me when it goes on sale 2 months after launch. I may consider the game then 😂

@graviton
My main issue with his look is the haircut, it looks too modern. Like I'm not a history buff, heck I don't even know the original prince of Persia character has hair that came from that time period but at least it looked like nobody from our time wore it. This new playable character just needs a more ancient, less modern look... Also the rap music was bad but that's all the complaints I have, the game itself looks promising.

@Polvasti Sorry if I offended someone, but I genuinely don't understand what was inappropriate or "racist" in my message. But no problem, it has already been removed. Case closed.

I've never played a PoP game, but this trailer gave me Metroid Dread vibes (the counters, cutscenes style, etc to the point I thought maybe they made the game) so I might check it out

@Rudolf
Aw, I missed all the fun stuff.
People tend to be really sensitive these days it could just be that. Don't let it deter you from being edgy or go against the grain.

@Link-Hero I hope so, but it wouldn't be the first time that trailer music doesn't even appear in the game.

@Noxide Knowing how unfortunate advertising and advertising briefs can be, if marketing decided to use rap, they likely had a very simplistic targeted audience in mind sometimes in the worst ways.

The original Prince of Persia had what resembled hair or farbtic wrap around his head…and in the box art/illustrations, a piece of fabric wrapped around his head with a piece of scarf tying in together and the top.

Think Disney’s Aladdin, flying with Princess Jasmine.

Is this because of the % Saudi Arabia now has in nintendos stock??

Feeling very conflicted about this one. But mostly off put. The action looks snappy but far too fast paced compared to previous games. The graphics look okay, but very generic. Story wise it's very moot too. Why would the prince need saving? Isn't he the hero? It feels contrived. This game feels like another bargain bin grab. I'd rather wait for The Sands of Time remake.

@Zidentia "immortals" refers to the Persian army's elite soldiers. Go watch the movie "300". Classic.

[see's protagonist's design]

Hard pass.

(c)Rap "music" and awful hair/clothing/jewelery choices aside, the gameplay looks decent enough, but I suspect that there will be a lot of anachronistic BS in the story/dialogue that will put me off.

Which is a shame because I really enjoyed the classic PoP games.

@Not_Soos : PEGI 16 and 18 are analogous to ESRB's M rating.

I mention both 16 and 18 because the ESRB hesitates to issue AO ratings (even to games that deserve them) due to the fact that consoles/stores refuse to stock them, but equivalent adult ratings in other territories are not subject to the same bizarre restriction.

Oh this looks pretty rad. Almost like Prince of Persia had a love child with the early God of War games.

He’s got a very strong English accent, which is a…choice.
Looks good tho. I’m really feeling it!