This can feel cheap, until you realize that you can still parry these attacks as well. You’ll sometimes parry an attack only to have the enemy quickly respond with another attack, never allowing the chance to counter. While the early battles might fool you into thinking combat is merely parries followed by attacks, the second half of POP Classic proves this wrong. It’s still very tough at times, but it is enjoyable. The combat system, difficult for the wrong reasons in the original version, has been refined. This is a great help, because it’s not always easy to make it through the treacherous pathways of a full level without dying. In fact, the animations in POP Classic rival some full-price Xbox 360 titles.īeyond the graphics, Gameloft has added one checkpoint in almost every level.

The palatial backgrounds in the later stages are gorgeous and the animations are fluid. For an XBLA title, that’s a high level of quality. While most “enhanced” XBLA titles throw in some stylish explosions and call it a day, POP Classic has been fully redone to be on par with (and perhaps even better than) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The graphics are the first and most notable change. In fact, developer Gameloft has made some welcome improvements to POP. The map layout is identical to the original, but that doesn’t mean this is the exact same game. “POP Classic, priced on the high-end for XBLA titles at 800 Microsoft Points (US$10), is a faithful recreation of the title that started the franchise. (Forum topic: Which Games Would You Like To See Remade in HD?) Official Video Trailers This also means that the game is only an hour long, so don’t expect this to keep you busy for to terribly long unless you like trying to beat your old records.Īnyway, I hope both this and the upcoming high-definition remake of Super Street Fighter 2 will start a trend for more HD remakes of popular classic. This remake retains all the original levels and gameplay elements so it will remind you a lot of the original. I may not be a huge Prince of Persia fan, but I am excited to see a vintage installment of a game remade in high-quality fashion.

With the recent success of bring the Prince of Persia franchise, it isn’t a huge surprise that Ubisoft has modernized the original Prince of Persia for an XBox Live Arcade download featuring goreous 3D graphics while maintaining the original two-dimensional gameplay. Prince of Persia Classic Shows How 2D Remakes Should Be Done

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