Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is a platform game released as the sequel to 1989's Prince of Persia. Prince of Persia 2 was published for MS-DOS and ported to Macintosh, Super NES, and FM Towns –…
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is an adventure developed by Brøderbund Software, released 31 December 1993 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, DOS and FM Towns.
What Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is an adventure game developed by Brøderbund Software and released in 1993. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, DOS, FM Towns and Mac.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place eleven days after the events of the first game. During this period, the Prince was hailed as a hero who defeated the evil Jaffar. He turns down all riches and instead asks for the Princess's hand in marriage as his reward, to which the Sultan of Persia reluctantly agrees. The game begins as the Prince enters the royal courts of the palace. Before he enters, his appearance changes into that of a beggar. Nobody recognizes him, and when he attempts to speak with the Princess, a man who shares his appearance (Jaffar, who is magically disguised) emerges from the shadows, ordering him to be thrown out. With guards pursuing him, the Prince jumps through a window and flees the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is the 17th of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. It arrived a year after Prince of Persia. The next entry was Prince of Persia in 1994. Its critic score of 30 is 40 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown at 87.
How it was received
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 34 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.
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