Prince of Persia Remake Doesn't Look Any Better in Screenshots

Sure it doesn't look that great, but I don't think it's that bad. Roughly on par with the Destroy All Humans remake. Of course, we should be expecting more from a big company like Ubisoft compared to THQ's budget releases.

I'll stay on the optimistic side of the spectrum.
I remember everyone saying the early screenshots of the N. Sane Trilogy looked horrible and the game definitely improved visually from PSX to a few months later and at release.

@Orpheus79V I agree the other screens made it look worse but i think it looks ok not fantastic but we got spoiled after the firstparty remakes i guess.

To be fair, I think people forget how bad a lot of PS2 games looked when saying things look like PS2 games.

CORRECTION: the series has been dead since 2010 when Forgotten Sands released.

... It's pointless, unwanted, and a complete waste of resources.. Unless Bluepoint are going to handle it, then all remakes should be off the table.. In fact they should be outlawed. Period.

So is this a remaster, or a remake?

@OneManDroid That’s the silliest thing I’ve heard in a while. Guess the Resi remakes, Crash and Spyro, Tony Hawk, The Twin Snakes, Pokemon Heart Gold, Metroid Zero Mission, Halo MCC, Yakuza Kiwami and Final Fantasy III/IV should have been outlawed then?

Looks like they were making a Switch exclusive and then changed their minds.

You can get all 3 "old version" on uPlay for $6. Or $40 for the "remake".

Well the only thing I remember about Prince of Persia is that wonderful end credits song. TIIIIIMMEE ONLY KNOOWWSS!!! Still this remake doesn't look good but maybe Ubisoft is giving the Indian studio time to learn the ropes, so let's give them a pass.

@Matroska it made me chuckle when they said they couldn’t tell if they were screenshots of the ps2 version. It doesn’t look current gen but definitely better than ps2.

Wow, PushSquare really hammering it to this remake. This is the third article that has trashed it. Is it really necessary?

I'm currently playing Ezio collection and it definitely looks better than a remastered early ps3 game from Ubisoft and it is probably not the same budget as ff7 remake

I've seen better looking games on the Vita

@Bentleyma- @viciousarcanum Oh yeah!

I don't mind so much for £35

SoT is a classic and deserves better, but this is possibly one that looks better in motion than in screenshots? I watched the reveal and cant help but come away a little underwhelmed.

Its a bit of a shame its not a new game, but prince of persia is prince of persia. SoT, forgotten sands and the cel shaded game were all really enjoyable

@Bluetrain7 Yes.

It's just a lazy, or incompetent remake. They seem to be the sort of developer that has very basic art or modelling with little substance so they turn up all the particles and lighting hoping it'll fill in for how lifeless and bare bones the game is.
The super low res textures on everything doesn't help either, you can count the pixels in the floor tiles.

Oh ok. I thought it was only me thinking it looks more like PS3.
Also they said something like 'we heard you wanted Sands of Time again'. No I wanted something new or a reboot but what's the point at the end of the PS4 life anyway.

@Matroska
It's the art style too though. The sequels looked more realistic.

Who remembers prince.exe -megahit shouldn't bother about graphics... 😂 I personally dust off my ps2 and Prince of Persia Trilogy. ☺️

It's a ubisoft game remaking a game in a franchise that is dead and abandoned since it got ground into a fine paste originally. This is just the peak of their ineptitude and serves and nothing more than a consolation prize when held to any kind of modern standard for remakes. Lazy only scratches the surface of this bs.

Anyone that thinks that looks like the PS2 or even the HD PS3 version can borrow my glasses. You clearly need them more than I do.

I like that it sticks closely to it's origins and actually think it looks pretty decent. The Prince model has been updated to the Forgotten Sands version and the environments are a night and day difference from the original. If they tighten up the loose combat this could be really good.

Edit: Added PC image links to show how it really looks like the original game.

https://images.gog-statics.com/157bc2e99089840249fecaeb6d83b5a3a7c8c56b3236885d870c922dece66a1f.jpg
https://images.gog-statics.com/7e076aed20116ee913554fe6a1f0e2a8dfcef6b91b045c6c0f48d933fdbb9489.jpg
https://images.gog-statics.com/4631b67edcee1e165192d9c7ab549647c469e9e41df0f50d3713d93010053236.jpg

This looks the kind of a free remaster you'd get from purchasing the new next-gen game in the series. To call this a remake is a literal insult to games like Bluepoint's Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus.

@RBMango - "To call this a remake is a literal insult to games like Bluepoint's Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus."
To be fair, those projects likely had relatively big budgets to achieve those results; here, the project being delegated to a new studio in India, and the screenshots seem to indicate that, due to the series not being that successful commercially, it wasn't given much priority, or budget. The results are pretty on par with what Ubisoft probably expected.
"This looks the kind of a free remaster..."
Maybe if the original game was a PS3 title, but that's not the case here. Having actually played the PS3 remaster, I can definitely say this is a significant step up from that, let alone the PS2 original. Sure, it's not "PS5 Demon's Souls' level, but it's still a decent upgrade over both the original release, and the PS3 remaster.

As long as the game is fun it doesn't bother me. I think they should have called it remaster though not remake.

It's a new studio, I say give them a break, as you say they haven't been given much of a budget, so it explains why it's not Resi remake visuals. Judge them on the end result.

While company like Blue Point working hard to set the high bar, Ubisoft is working on setting the low bar for the term "Remake"

With a cross gen focus, developers are getting lazy with the mentality that 4K/60fps is good enough. The truth is we have seen this kind of boost on high end pc for years now and trying to selling them on a new generation of consoles just won't work.

@nessisonett yup, sarcasm is definitely lost on you... geeeez...

It's a remaster rather than a remake tho.....

Man I wish activision has the prince of persia rights, I think they'll do better remaster/remake than this, (like crash/spyro/tony hawk remake).

If these are PS4 screenshots, this is atrociously bad.

Compare these to a launch title like Second Son and tell me these look remotely good.

@Dubbicakes it's not lazy. If you watch the video, they re-recorded the dialogue, and mocapped the game. You may not think it looks good but it's not because of laziness.

@Steel76 I agree. Maybe the cartoony art style is turning people off but the environments look fine and as long as the game play is fun, 40 bucks isn't a bad price. Having not played the original, I'm looking forward to this.

@mvhess You do realize those are bare minimum basic skills for any game developer, right? Indie games use mocap and record dialogue, it's nothing special in the slightest. It's 100% laziness.

@Dubbicakes what are you talking about. The bare minimum would've been to just upscale it to 1080p. You have to build sets for mocap, it's not just getting your face scanned. If anything, they probably didn't have a huge budget or reasonable deadline to make it AAA

@Dubbicakes Actually, nevermind, it was a stylistic choice. They had at peak 170 people working on it and it's been in development for 2-1/2 years. This according to the head of development. He said they didn't want it to look like other Ubisoft game. So, you may not like it but you can't say rebuilding the game from the ground up is lazy You can read more on wccftech

@LiamCroft PS2? That's a pretty ridiculous statement, even saying it looks like a PS3 game would be an exaggeration.

@mvhess Mocap is incredibly easy to the point that indie devs and mobile games use it constantly. 170 people and 2-1/2 years of development and it looks like a cheap mobile game. Just because you're willing to deep dive into their development and find a tiny glimmer of something special doesn't mean over 100 million others are. To the average consumer, which is the majority of people who buys games no matter the genre, looks matter and this game looks like garbage.

@Dubbicakes The camera, controls, combat, animations, and dialogue were all redone. And it was rebuilt in the Anvil engine which apparently didn't accommodate the linear nature and time bending very well.

@OneManDroid I think you need to work on your sarcasm...

@Dubbicakes but yeah, if it plays great who cares about the visual style. It actually reminds me of the civ vi art direction

@Dubbicakes well I wouldn't say fortnites graphics looks great or all those crap mobile games you're talking about that 10s of millions of people play look anything less than garbage.

@mvhess I'll agree with you that graphics don't make the game, but a poor art style will always sell less. Also, you're confusing effort with skill, just because 1+1+1+1+1=5 doesn't mean that 5 took much skill to achieve. My point is, I'm sure they've done a lot of work to make this game as a whole, but their efforts show how little skill they have at making games in general.

Yeah, I called it. It looks like a turd.

@Dubbicakes that may be true as it's a brand new studio, but I just wouldn't call them lazy. As with most studios, the first game can be a bit of a crap shoot. But if it does play good, I'll get it because I didn't play the original.

@mvhess That's why I also said or they were incompetent in my first post. They're still a Ubisoft studio so they are inherently lazy.

@Dubbicakes lol. Whatever man. You make such valid points

@mvhess Some people just see garbage for what it is.

@Orpheus79V

"Prince of Persia Remake Doesn't Look Any Better in Screenshots", Well not only it doesn't look like a 8th gen remake games, but also it's NOT a PRINCE OF PERSIA. it should be called Prince of Arab or Prince of India.

New India branch making the game, the footage shown was explicitly stated as pre- alpha footage (which is par for course for ubisoft as watchdogs legion was in alpha 4 months ago as well and that looks a lot better than it did then) sheesh everytime I see an article by pushsquare written by this guy I know I'm in for reading some ***** bad takes but this takes the cake 'bottom two images look like the ps2 game'bruh if those look like ps2 then you seriously need your eyes checked cause you must be going blind,

Actually Liam if you read the latest interview from the developers they said it was a conscious choice and it was not a result of budget or time. Frankly I think it looks fine and to suggest as you guys did earlier it looks barely better than the ps2 is just frankly hyperbolic nonsense. As long as it is as fun to play as before then I'm in. Sometimes I wonder if this is a playstation enthusiast site. It doesn't mean you can't criticize things but the way your ragging on this doesn't really seem worthwhile. It would have been nice to see some of this criticism toward TLOU 2 which profoundly deserved it. Which they can't give away right now btw. Meanwhile a game that respected it's fans Ghost of Tsushima is thriving.

Im no expert but it doesn't look all that bad, and it definitely has the feel and atmosphere that the old one has. It is going to be a huge improvement and to question weather it looks like the ps2 version means you probably no expert either!