One word. Amazing.
Full Name: Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Formats: ps2, xbox, GC, pc
Players: 1
Playing Time: 09:25:24
Pop (prince of persia) tsot (the sands of time) in a very original game. You won't find guns, cars, blood and guts in this game. So how is it great i here you ask (cause lets face it most people want a gta style game to play nowadays don't they), well you'll want this game because it is highly immersive, once you complete it you'll want to go again just so you can re-live certain times when you complete a puzzle and you jump in the air and shout !finally! Also - more about the game; you play as the Prince - the son of the ruler of persia (obviously) and you are tricked into releasing the sands of time by taking the Dagger of Time, when the Prince takes this everyone in the massive castle becomes a Sand Demon apart from the Prince, this girl called Farah and the evil magician - Jaffar. So because the Prince has done this he's got to stop it, armed with a blade and almost always outnumbered at least 10:1 he's got to have lightning skills and the ability to vault over their heads...which he can do, he can also freeze them with the dagger and once you down one you've got to finsih it by plunging the dagger into it's body. This is great fun but can be frustrating at times especially when you're low on health (you'll see why if you have/buy this game).
There are tons of puzzles in the game, these are one of the main things you will have to do, because basically each puzzle is just after you have had a run in with the sand demons. You get a brief explanation of what to do in each puzzle jsut after you complete a big battle as when you've dispatched all of the demons a light appears where you can save your game, as soon as you enter this light it will show you the puzzle ahead, and it will quickly shw you what you have to do ( but sometimes you can easily work it out yourself).
This would not be a good review if i did not tell you about the best part of the game, as soon a syou get the Dagger you can reverse time. effectively as long as you have some sand in the tanks you can never die. When you're against an emeny or if in a puzzle you fall of the edge or get slashed, you can reverse time just before this happens so you can stop it from happening. This makes the game so original.
But there are some bad points to this game... one is that its so monotonous, its like, do this puzzle, kill those demons, do another puzzle etc. thats it really. so its not very complicated. Also the dialogue is quite goofy but its not that bad.
Graphics: the environments are superb and the character models are slick, theres no fault here. 10/10
Gameplay: does get boring but its fun when you just muck around and run across walls and do backflips etc. 8/10
Sound: Sword sounds and enemies groans are good but dialogue is goofy. 9/10
Value: Its long but you wont really want to replay it but you can unlock some stuff and extras once completed. 8/10
Overall my score is 9.5/10 but it truthfuly gets 8.7/10. Pop Tsot is a very solid game with good graphics and gameplay, should not be missed by RPG/Platformer fans.