Games WORLD: Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Game Free Download For PC

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time, the 3D grandson of the original, is every bit as clever, as well made, as wholly entertaining and enjoyable and then some. This long in development sequel not only retains the established play mechanics and charm of its 2D predecessor, but it actually betters them and by a considerable amount. A commendable accomplishment given that the first is considered by many to be one of the greatest videogames ever created.

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time. This breathtaking 3D sequel to creator Jordan Mechner's classic titles is very faithful to its predecessors and simultaneously new and innovative in remarkably creative ways. It bears some resemblance to other outstanding adventure games such as Ico and yes, even Zelda, but mostly it's a spectacular extension -- in, fact, the evolution of the Prince of Persia franchise. It's also one of the very best titles of the year.

It was almost 15 years ago that the original Prince of Persia shipped and dazzled players. Here was a smart and stylized action adventure game during a period of relatively primitive, shallow software. This title featured elegant and challenging environmental puzzles, deadly traps, brutal swordplay and astonishing acrobatics. It had an intriguing premise, a Persian Prince on a quest to rescue his princess from the evil Vizier Jaffar and with only an hour to do it a time clock counted down to zero during the entire quest. Fun and intuitive, it defined a genre and became a classic.

The quest seems just as insurmountable from a purely gameplay perspective. Prince will travel through the entirety of the palace, a huge, hulking thing that stretches up, down, and all around. He'll use his wits, his acrobatics, and his sword, avoid traps and kill enemies, engage in high rise platforming, balance on beams and swing on poles, climb and hang, dangle and flip, shimmy and slide, run, summersault and fight, fall and rewind, slow time and… fall in love? Well, he does meet a beautiful princess along the way and an intriguing sub story unfolds. As to just what happens, our lips are sealed.

It's this phenomenal sense of freedom that surrounds movement and the way in which it can be used to interact with the wholly giant, but still linear 3D world that makes the experience so exceptional. Prince can run across a wall, reach its end, jump from it onto a ladder, slide down to a ledge, shimmy across it, leap outward onto a post and then to a pole, swing and flip outward, bounce back and forth between two structures, land swiftly on the ground and keep running, and the entire amazing sequence can be executed easily and with little practice.

Meanwhile, malfunctioned processes in other games feel smooth and intuitive in this one. Just as Lara Croft struggles to move a crate, Prince can easily push it in any direction. Just as Kain can only shimmy to the end of a corner. It's all so good that it makes almost everything else out there feel archaic and wrong.

Sometimes a game has a superb art style and other times it has pioneering technology. Very few games have both, but The Sands of Time is one of them. Again we're reminded of Ico, with its stretching architecture and saturated, hazy style, but really the game is just the perfect 3D realization of the long standing Persia franchise.

The Sands of Time drops us into a rich, vivid, detailed world engulfed by a gargantuan palace that seems to spread outward in every direction. The play locales are huge. Ubi has done a fine job of providing different locations and environments within the context of this overworld, as it were. There are underground ice caverns, water filled dungeons, vegetation engulfed courtyards, nerve breaking high rise platforms and much more, and all of them are brought to life with realistic geometry, ambient lighting, and animated interactive objects. Buildings explode, bridges collapse, and all of that good stuff.