It may be a port, but hey, it's fun.
Let's get to gameplay. Your acrobatic moves are mostly controlled by buttons. So, you may be wondering where does the motion sensitive controls come into play. Well the answer is combat. The Wiimote controls the Prince's right hand weapon, and the nunchuck controls the left hand weapon. The best part is the stealth kills using the Wiimote. When you sneak behind an enemy you can start a stealth kill. A sequence will play and when the Prince's dagger flashes, you swing the Wiimote to make him attack. This can be incredibly fun on some of the tougher enemies and bosses.
Even though there is a lot of combat, the main focus is acrobatic moves and leaps. You'll be running along walls and jumping around on tight beams. Periodicly through the game you'll get transformed into an alter-ego version of the Prince. With him you'll be able to get past certain parts that would be otherwise unpassable. While running on a wall you will swing the nunchuck to swing the Dark Prince's chain whip to further extend your run by swinging on some thing. You also get some new moves involving the whip while being the Dark Prince. The downside is that you constantly get your health drained while you're the Dark Prince, and you need to kill enemies to gain it back.
The visuals aren't impressive unfortunately. There is sort of a fuzzy feeling to the graphics. The CG cutscenes are all very impressive to look at though. Ubisoft has also removed a few things to make this title T. In the original you could cut people in half and blood squirts every where, all of that good stuff. Well no cutting in half, and your enemies bleed sand now. When the Prince gets hit he bleeds a little bit though.
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is a remake of the third (and final) part of a series. If you plan on buying this make sure to catch up on your PoP story. This game also would appeal most to those who didn't play The Two Thrones the first time.