Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia is an action-adventure and platforming video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is part of the Prince of Persia franchise. The game is set in ancient Persia, with…
Prince of Persia is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 2 December 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.94 at Gamesplanet. The main story takes about 11.5 hrs to finish.
What Prince of Persia is
Prince of Persia is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2008. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Scimitar. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Prince of Persia takes place in an undefined ancient Persian city-state based heavily around the religion of Zoroastrianism. A thousand years before the events of the game take place, there was a struggle for power between the gods Ahriman and Ormazd. The outcome of the struggle was that Ormazd and his people, the Ahura, managed to imprison Ahriman and his minions, the Corrupted, in a tree. Ormazd then left the world, leaving the Ahura to make sure Ahriman remains secure. They are successful for a thousand years, at which point the Ahura started to believe that Ahriman and Ormazd were myths due to their inactivity, and most departed. Shortly before the events of the game, Ahriman is about…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series
Prince of Persia is the 41st of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. It arrived a year after Prince of Persia Classic. The next entry was Prince of Persia: The Fallen King in 2008. Its critic score of 84 is 14 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 holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 348 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.94, that works out to about $0.17 per hour of the main story, or $0.13 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended), 1 GB Windows XP/2 GB Windows Vista of RAM and 256 MB DirectX® 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (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 9GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.94 at Gamesplanet, 81% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Prince of Persia launched on 2 December 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War and Prince of Persia (2008). It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War, Prince of Persia (2008).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Prince of Persia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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