Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a multi-platform video game produced by Ubisoft which was released on May 18, 2010, in North America and on May 20 in Europe. The games mark a return to the storyline…
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 18 May 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2010. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Anvil.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Prince is riding through a desert on his horse, on a quest to see his brother, Malik, and learn about leadership from him. When the Prince arrives at Malik's kingdom, he finds it under attack by an army who are attempting to breach the treasure vaults for a great power known as "Solomon's Army". The Prince charges in to the city, and tracks Malik to the treasure vaults. Here, Malik says that he is fighting a losing battle and proposes to rely on a last resort or be forced to retreat. The Prince strongly objects, but Malik releases Solomon's Army using a magical seal. Solomon's Army is an assortment of different creatures, all made of sand. The Prince and Malik both manage to obtain…
How it plays
It is played from a third person 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: The Forgotten Sands is the 50th of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. The next entry was Prince of Persia : The Forgotten Sands - Limited Collector's Edition in 2010. Its critic score of 81 is 11 points above 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: The Forgotten Sands holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Players rate it 74, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.6 GHz dual-core Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or higher recommended), 1 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista (2 GB / 4 GB recommended) of RAM and 256 MB DirectX 9.0c–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (512 MB recommended) (see supported list*). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it launched against
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands launched on 18 May 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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