User Rating: 5.5 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time PC
The graphics are killer-amongst the best I've seen. Unlike HALO/Combat Evolved (frame rate killing hardware hog), the game code is correctly written so PoP/SoT runs smoothly with the eye candy dialed up (you know the way it's supposed to be!). The sound is very good also, though be warned--if you like playing without the music, the voice over in the pregame cut scene introduction is embedded in the music. Music off=no voice over. The same holds true for significant portions of the rest of the game; no music=no ambient back ground sound. The good news is the music isn't that hard to like; so leave it on! Though I haven't made it far into the game yet, it's readily apparent that whatever is right about this game is overwhelmed by a constantly shifting third person camera view point/s (as in many of them). I find it curious the Game Spot reviewer/s rightly slagged Return of the King for this horrendous control fault; yet didn't really say diddly about it in respect to PoP/SoT (in fact , they gave PoP/Sot pretty good marks for this control scheme). Say what??? Because of the ever shifting camera view, sometimes forwards is backwards, sometimes vice versa, etc etc it is very difficult to control the Prince with any degree of precision. Maybe the developer will give us a fix in a patch?! PLEASE! It's a shame, because this game is so good looking, and has a better than average story (for a FPS) it begs for a fixed third person camera, and a control scheme that doesn't feel like a poorly executed port of a console game. 
