Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
The US version of the PSP port featured a lot of bonus content including bonus levels, chariot races and a multiplayer mode where two people can race to finish a level the fastest. The rest of the levels and…
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is an adventure developed by Pipeworks Studios, released 3 April 2007 on PlayStation Portable.
What Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is an adventure game developed by Pipeworks Studios and released in 2007. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game follows the same story-line as Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. However, we get some extra insight into the story during the bonus levels. Unlike in the main version, prince is indeed able to use the sand gates for teleportation across the city. Each sand gate takes to a bonus levels, making for a total of 9 bonus levels. 3 out of those 9 levels go to the exact same place which is similar to the Life Upgrade sections seen in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, each time they are visited, the prince is given a new sand power. Out of the remaining bonus levels, 3 bonus levels are directly connected to the story. It is revealed that the vizier has uncovered the secrets of the lost…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is the 36th of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. The next entry was Prince of Persia: Rival Swords in 2007. Its critic score of 60 is 10 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: Rival Swords holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords launched on 3 April 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, Persona 3 FES, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War II, Persona 3 FES, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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