Prince of Persia’s leaked remake, which appeared on a retailer’s website recently, will be announced during Ubisoft’s briefing on 10th September, journalist Jason Schreier has teased. The Bloomberg scribe was speaking as part of the Triple Click podcast, and namedropped the project directly. The French publisher has promised “big news”, with the recently renamed Immortals Fenyx Rising also set to feature.
Despite being one of the industry’s longest running brands, Ubisoft put the Prince of Persia franchise on hiatus back in 2013, after its PlayStation 3 reboot attempt failed to set cash registers alight. This new game will be the first entry in the series since the more traditional Forgotten Sands, which launched alongside the Jake Gyllenhaal movie in 2010.
[source maximumfun.org, via videogameschronicle.com]
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As much as I know it won't happen, I'd like to see a continuation of PoP 2008.
Really hope they are successful with this remake. I'll grab it day one. Would love to see the franchise make new games for the PS5
Is Ubisoft even trying to hide their announcements? Well now I can say Ubisoft, Nintendo, and a leaky pipe all have something in common.
I loved the 2008 reboot. Beautiful art design and a lovely story.
@thebakerswife unless you haven't played them in the first place. Then they're brand new experiences for you.
Nice, I hope after pop sand of time remaster ubisoft make new pop in the vein of sand of time
Warrior within...please remaster warrior within as it was the best god of war clone...c'mon stop going with the easy options..jeez..
@thebakerswife the thing is, we are old and have played most of these games in their original form.
There are billions of people who have never played them and millions who love gaming today who weren't even born when they released.
So hoped for something like the 2008 reboot! That game was magnificent and such a joy to play! My favorite PoP!!
Yeah like others here I loved the 2008 reboot. Tried sands of time but just couldn't get into it...
I loved Sands of Time, but somehow I find myself disappointed if it turns out to be that. Would really have loved a remake of 2008 and a proper sequel to finish that story. An unfinished story just gnaws at the edges of my brain. Or barring that, a whole new PoP would have been awesome.
It does seem like there's new rumours for Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell before every Ubisoft livestream.
I also would love to see a continuation of the 2008 reboot. The art-style, story and the unique “flow-type-of” gameplay blended perfectly. I really loved that game.
As long as they don't repeat the "dark and gritty" 2nd part, was it called warrior within? Loved the light and fluffy sands of time and pop 2008.
Lazy, lazy lazy.
The gaming industry becoming as lazy as the film industry due to their lack of imagination with all of these remakes.
Make a new game, not rehash an old one.
Unfortunately this will likely follow the dead open world Ubisoft formula
It's about God damn time Ubisoft.
@Woogy Such comments make zero sense. They're still making new IPs. It's not like they've stopped and are only making remakes.
Remakes make sense because they're likely to attract an audience at a low cost. They're a safe bet.
@thebakerswife They usually release these remakes to gauge interest. It's likely how Activision decided to make Crash 4, after the huge success of the collection.
@thebakerswife haha. Exactly. We don't even know if it exists
@thebakerswife and @naruball the games industry is quite unlike any other. The products, games, are so much more reliant on the technology that runs them. This does result in quite often games existing before the technology allows them too (things not quite being there to support the full vision). There's also the fact that the medium of games moves faster than any other industry, and this quite often leads to new ideas or some products being shelved before their time, rather than being further explored. There are so many good games and mechanics that have sacrificed on the alter of big budget franchises, and PoP 2008 was one of them. The free flow fighting was a year too early as Batman Arkham Asylum proved. The free flowing quick twitch wall-running and general parkour might have been a decade too early. People playing platformers at the time wanted slow methodical platforming, where you could plan your routes. PoP 2008 wanted you to start off in a direction and respond as you traversed its world. For these two reasons alone I think the concept deserves another shot. Would I prefer it to be a full new game taking those ideas further? Yeah, mainly because with these SSDs sitting in the consoles the possibilities for streaming larger "runs" and levels on the fly could take the concept in a very exciting direction... but fundamentally, I think Ubisoft gave up on the 2008 rebooted PoP way, way too early.
@SirAngry As usual you have made the point I was thinking.
@thebakerswife and @naruball I’d like to add that in many other mediums like films, literature, tv and music it is usually easy to experience older titles whether for the first time or once again. I can pick up a ten year old book or 20 year old movie pretty easily in most cases. With games, particularly on consoles, the game is often tied to hardware you might not own making experiencing older games difficult or impossible.
For me remasters are one of the current ways we are archiving games and allowing people to keep experiencing them as technology evolves.
Hopefully as we get to a more PC like architecture and XBox and PS next gen systems are more or less fully backwards compatible with the Current/previous gen this will become less prevalent.
Lastly remasters allow upscaled graphics to better show off older games that are brilliant to play but didn’t have the luxury of additional processing power to show off the creators dream fully as envisaged at the time, they now might.
@themightyant well I'm glad I can give voice to your thoughts. It's nice when you realise you aren't the only person on planet earth thinking these ways. Generally I've not had an issue with the "remaster" trend. Sure there are some bizarre examples where I don't think there's a curation or second chance argument, but the likes of Shadow of the Colossus, or indeed the Crash Trilogy do have value as a form of live curation. In an industry that discards it's past so easily and readily, without generally pushing forward as much as it claims to, I've actually found the remaster trend on the whole to be mostly acceptable, and at times welcome and gratifying. Giving old games access to newer audiences, especially seminal or niche games is laudable. I'd rather PoP 2008 be given another shot at success than a copy and paste Far Cry.
@naruball It makes absolute sense. I can't make my point any clearer using English.
The PS4 platform is riddled with lazy remakes/ remasters of games from platforms of the past.
Copying the Hollywood tradition of remaking, entirely unnecessarily, old films or films that do not need to be remade.
Just look at how many Spiderman films there's been in the past twenty years for example.
I don't like the thought of the gaming industry copying the film industry but, it's too late. It's here and happening.
I like to see more original, new games not remade games.
A perfectly valid point and an opinion I'm entitled to.
Being greedy i hope and want the whole Trilogy to be remade mainly because WW is my favourite one in the series.
@Woogy There isn't really much of a difference between a remake and a sequel that barely changes things. RE2 Remake is more different from the original than, say, Pokemon Red and Pokemon Ruby are from each other. Or Mega Man 1 and 2. Or Mario Galaxy and Galaxy 2. Or any Mario Kart after the N64 one. Let's not even get started on sports games.
@SirAngry Agreed on all counts! Definitely be nice to see PoP 2008 given another chance or the brilliant Sands of Time to be given to new and old fans alike.
It got me thinking: the recently released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1&2 does something a little different again, re-imagining the originals MOSTLY as was but with a few quality of life improvements e.g. THPS 4 controls and feature set and additional challenges etc. On top of the expected graphical bump.
How would people feel if something like Sands of Time combat was changed? It was bad then and worse now. I suppose, as usual, there would be outcry from segments of fandom for changing the original. For me if it makes it a better game i'm all in.
@themightyant good question, I guess there were quality of life improvements to both Crash Trilogy and Shadow of the Colossus, I'd also expect Demon's Souls to make some QoL changes. Personally as long as the spirit of the games are maintained I'm OK with QoL stuff, if it changes the nature of the game though, say adding guns to Demon's Souls wouldn't be cool. I think Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1&2 shows how it should be done, wasn't a big THPS fan when they were first launched, they were OK, but again got my hands on this remaster over the weekend and I really enjoyed it.
Really liked the art style of PoP 2008 did that game "flop" sales wise? I always thought it did quite well. Maybe Ubi set the target to high? Was hoping for a sequel but it never came..
They really focussed on AC after that.
Sands of Time and Warrior Within were my favorites of the Sands serie of games.
@OlosNah I think it sold roughly 2m copies, or that's what was reported on circulars inside Ubisoft at the time. I think they would have targeted sales of between 3m to 4m for a game with its budget as a bare minimum, so it wasn't a resounding success. It reviewed well though I think. I just think the market wasn't ready for some of it's ideas is all. The parkour was fluid and fast and required you to respond rather than plan, and that didn't sit well with many gamers at the time I think, although now I think gamers would be up for it.
@SirAngry
Yes it had some sort of cult following back then it was "different" than the previous PoP guess that turned some people of..
I'm curious to see what path they will take to revive the PoP brand.
Heck yes!!!!!!!! Now announce Splinter Cell in the same livestream and break the internet
Hopefully this news is true, loved the first PS2 game and what I played of 2, 3, 2008, and Forgotten Sands.
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