Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is the PSP and Nintendo Wii port of Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. It made use of some motion control features for the Wii version. The rest of the levels and gameplay are…
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is an adventure developed by Pipeworks Studios, released 3 April 2007 on Wii.
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 Wii only. It runs on Jade Engine. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
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, fantasy and historical. It supports multiplayer for up to 2 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is the 37th 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 65 is 5 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 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored about average for its year.
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.
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